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are these captions or subtitles?
I’m making a video that is narrated in both English and Spanish – not a choice of audio tracks, but one track with first English and then Spanish right after it. At the same time there is text on the screen in both English and Spanish that goes with the narration. Again, no choice text, both languages are there throughout the program.
My question is, what is the appropriate term for this text, “captions”, or “subtitles” or something else?
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According to Google it looks like I could use either term:
Caption: A series of words superimposed on the bottom of television or motion picture frames that communicate dialogue to the hearing-impaired or translate foreign dialogue.
Subtitle: In films and television subtitles are textual versions of the dialogue that appear onscreen.
Closed subtitle: Optionally-appearing subtitles are called “closed” subtitles. Subtitles that cannot be turned off are “open”. A film or video with open subtitles that are burned indelibly into the image is deemed to be “hardsubbed”.
Closed captions: Closed captions for the hard of hearing are related to subtitles but are quite separate, given that these captions are a transcription rather than a translation and have a different intended purpose.
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Yes, I think the terms are quite interchangeable these days.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
…, what is the appropriate term for this text,…
Babble.
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