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Belly Captions
For this program, the captions were in the standard position of the bottom of the screen. Unfortunately, those closed captions block a lower-third. ________________________________________ Prior to early 2015, broadcasters were not required to reposition closed captions to avoid blocking on-screen text (nor to avoid covering people’s faces so viewers can lip-read.) In February 2015, the… Continue reading
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Does this horizontal padding between lines make my captions look gawky? JW Player 7 0 1 platform
Not sure why this is happening, but a few months ago captions posted to AWS and played on JW Player started getting positioned with this blank black space positioned between and . Perhaps coincidentally, it was around this time that JW Player had an update. <Pop1> is positioned at (x= 35% – 27.5%, y=79.33% – 5.33%) <p region=’pop1′… Continue reading
About Me
Hello there! My name is Vicki Kipp, and I am a closed caption maker. Making closed captions is time consuming and complicated, so this blog is a collection of all of the knowledge and experiences I have gained. I hope my collection of tips and tricks might help you with your closed caption work the way it has helped me!
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