Re: Closed Captioning Anomalies

On Jul 31, 7:17 am, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <atropos-426E56.07271431072...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Thanatos <atro...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <ANIM8Rfsk-168F36.23545530072...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

In article
<5e222b24-c492-46f7-b48c-249f8b2b8...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 larry_scholn...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I always watch TV with Closed Captioning turned On.  I'm not deaf nor
hard of hearing.

Why?  I find that I can watch/listen at a lower volume level than with
CC Off.

And, if I miss a key word, I can look at the screen to see what I
missed.

OK, with that as background, I want to mention the phenomenon I call:
The NONVERSATION.

One character says something aloud, but it is not captioned.

The other character responds silently, and it IS captioned.


Does anyone have any idea how this phenomenon occurs?

In case it matters, I find this happening on scripted broadcast-
network shows.

There are all kinds of theories. Some of this stuff is automated; I
suspect that's the case with my mom's soap, which always misses numbers,
no matter how clearly they're said. Some of it is done by people on the
fly so they get as much as they can. None of it seems to be done very
well.

Closed-captioning is often done ahead of time based on shooting scripts
which can end up varying slightly in the final product when lines are
either cut or altered on the fly during filming.

Right, that's another method, but that usually provides fairly accurate
results or obvious mistakes, not weird ommitances.  'From script' is the
only way I've ever seen it done, but I work in shorter form stuff.

I use CC all the time, and I definitely notice the shooting script/
final version CC anomaly a lot. Often it's just that a spoken line is
a rough approximation of the script line.

But other times there are wholesale changes. What I've noticed a lot
recently is sort of the opposite of what the OP was talking about.
I've noticed that there will be lines in CC that *aren't* spoken on
screen *at all*!

It's interesting because this means the CC is giving context that
isn't necessarily on screen.

Long story short - I love CC, and will always leave it on (unless it's
obscuring something important like cast credits, etc.).
.

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