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Re: Captions/Subtitles for Music Videos

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From: Sudheer Babu
Date: Oct 8, 2020 11:53PM

This makes more sense to me now, thanks for that tweet!

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:56 PM Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> those who use captions like to talk about how they feel about music lyrics
> in memes
> https://twitter.com/kratsg/status/1310676581287899142
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, at 1:21 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> > On 06/10/2020 11:02, Sudheer Babu wrote:
> > > Just want to understand how important are the captions/subtitles for
> music
> > > videos live/pre-recorded under 1.2.2 – Captions (Pre-recorded) and
> 1.2.4 –
> > > Captions (Live).
> > > If anyone has come across such and can explain what's the ideal
> expectation
> > > here for music videos.
> >
> > The fact that it's a music video doesn't change the fact that there is
> > spoken (sung) content, and that needs captions. If it was only
> > instrumental, then yeah, you don't need captions (though ideally, you'd
> > make it clear - if it isn't already from context - that there is music
> > playing...it's acceptable to have this mentioned elsewhere in the page,
> > in the title of the video, or with a single caption "[Music]" or
> similar).
> >
> > In terms of examples...well, most youtube videos uploaded by artists
> > seem to lack explicit captions, but that's really their failing.
> > Examples of captions done right are, in essence, just the same as
> > examples of videos with appropriate captions, e.g.
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uir2MGC8g8 (just to pull out a random
> > example).
> >
> > And as for "how important" ... well, it's the difference between passing
> > and failing those particular SCs.
> >
> > P
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