What Is Involved in Captioning and Subtitling?

Subtitles of motion picture refer to non-video content such as dialogues in television, movies, and stage productions in text form, and also refer to texts processed in the post-production of film and television works. The commentary text and various texts appearing under the screen of a movie screen or TV screen, such as the film's title, cast, chanting, dialogue, and explanatory words are introduced by characters, place names, and dates are all called subtitles. Dialogue subtitles for film and television works generally appear at the bottom of the screen, while subtitles for drama works may appear on or around the stage. ^[1]

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Subtitles of motion picture refer to non-video content such as dialogues in television, movies, and stage productions in text form, and also refer to texts processed in the post-production of film and television works. The commentary text and various texts appearing under the screen of a movie screen or TV screen, such as the film's title, cast, chanting, dialogue, and explanatory words are introduced by characters, place names, and dates are all called subtitles. Dialogue subtitles for film and television works generally appear at the bottom of the screen, while subtitles for drama works may appear on or around the stage. ^[1]

Display the program's voice content in subtitles, and because many words are homophonic, only by watching the combination of subtitle text and audio, can the program content be more clear! In addition, subtitles can also be used to translate foreign language programs, so that viewers who do not understand the foreign language can both hear the original soundtrack and understand

Good subtitles must follow 5 characteristics:

1. Accuracy-There are no low-level errors such as typos in the finished product.

2. Consistency-Consistency of captions in form and presentation is important to viewers' understanding.

3. Clarity-Complete audio presentations, including speaker identification and non-talking content, must be clearly presented in subtitles.

4. Readability-The subtitles should appear for a time sufficient for the audience to read, synchronized with the audio and the subtitles do not cover the effective content of the picture itself.

5. Equality-Subtitles should fully convey the content and intent of the video material, both of which are equal.

In addition, in China, the pronunciation of languages in different regions varies greatly, and many people cannot understand Mandarin correctly. However, the differences in writing styles are not large, and most people can understand them when they see Mandarin text. Therefore, in recent Chinese film and television works, subtitles corresponding to Mandarin (or dialect) are mostly added to the program. However, due to broadcasting technology, Chinese TV programs do not support closed captions. Therefore, broadcasters cannot remove subtitles from the programs, resulting in chaotic broadcasts of programs, covering each other with subtitles, and appearing randomly when subtitles should not appear. The phenomenon is more serious.

During the opera performance, the synchronized translation of the lyrics through subtitles has now become one of the standard "hardware" of European and American opera houses. However, the comprehensive "matching" of subtitles and opera is only a short history of more than ten years, and the recently-deceased famous soprano singer was once known as the "Queen of American Opera"

The more popular subtitle formats are divided into graphic formats and text formats.

At present, our commonly used playback software has the function of adding subtitles while playing movies:

Movie subtitles

In Storm 2, as long as the name of the subtitles is the same as the name of the movie, the player will automatically recognize and load the subtitles. .hdtv.xvid-xor.en.srt. In addition, VJDirector2 software also has excellent subtitle adding functions, supporting two types of subtitle distribution methods: automatic subtitles and manual subtitles. Remotely publish subtitles: Edit and publish subtitles to VJDirector on another computer. Captions can be loaded from a file or entered manually. Fonts can be set and support a large number of font effects: 3D effects, shadows, outlines, etc.

Video storm

1. If it is Storm 1, you must:

Open Video Storm --- File --- Load subtitles, it is useless, it prompts: To load subtitles, you must change the file rendering mode and reload.

DirectShow: VMR7 or VMR9 (no conversion)

RealMedia: DirectX7 or DirectX9 or open through DirectShow

Quicktime: DirectX7 or DirectX9 rendering

ShockWare is not available

You must click on the player, click on View --- Options-Playback --- Output-

Directshow video, select Vmr9 (no rendering) **

Realmedia Video Selection DIrect9 **

Quicktime video select DIrect9 **, then click OK

At the same time, you must ensure that videos and subtitles are in one folder

Close the storm and reopen it, and then select "File" --- load the subtitles

MPlayer player

2. Excellent player software MPlayer supports mounting .utf .idx .sub .srt .smi .rt .txt .ssa .aq .jss .js .ass and other format files. Subtitles can be easily added via tools-plug-in subtitles or right-click menus.