2021 The sweeping restrictions have motivated fans of shows and movies that run afoul of censorship rules to subtitle them in Chinese and upload unauthorized copies online. 2021 The First Solvay Conference in Physics, in Brussels in October 1911, accomplished far less than its organizers envisioned, making Orens’s subtitle something of a mystery. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Invigorating choice to have subtitle-less Spanish comprise ~40% of dialogue. 2021 Take More Vacations is a detailed how-to book that makes good on the promise in his subtitle.Ĭaroline Ceniza-levine, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021 Does Cletus-as-Carnage yell the film’s subtitle at one point, just for extra emphasis?Īlison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021 The subtitle came in after months of waiting, and the first trailer dropped quite a while after that.Ĭhris Smith, BGR, 31 Oct. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021 Contrary to the curiosity-piquing subtitle, the authors don’t tell us much that is illuminating about how virologists actually search for the origins of new viruses. 2021 The latter appear onscreen subtitle-style, stripped of any cloyingly effortful attempts to appear overly modern. 2021 My only complaint-and it’s a small one-about Charles Foster’s Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness is the subtitle. 2021 It’s subtitle is The Woman Who Invented Street Style. It’s always insightful to get the perspectives from different people across the world so do share your thoughts and experiences for everyone to see below.Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Of all the big streamers, Amazon Prime has the least options for subtitle customization.
And is there anything else that I am missing. Let me know in the comment below whether you knew that there are differences between the two terms and which one do you use more often.
And providing captions or subtitles can play a huge part in that. The more people who can access your video, the better. This can be very confusing for someone who requires one or the other, hence why it was important for me to write this post.īut regardless of whether you use subtitles or captions, because of its primary goal of making videos accessible, there are many benefits of using them, not just for your audience but also for yourself too. For the American viewers, YouTube marks my videos as ‘CC’ (closed-captions) For the UK viewers, YouTube marks my videos as ‘Subtitles’ On the other hand, if you want complete control over the font, size and colour of the text of the screen, you are better off using open-captions.īecause of the misunderstanding between the two terms, it’s common to see many people and even major companies get confused between the two.Įven Netflix, who has some of the highest subtitles and closed captioning standards groups them under the same heading of “Subtitles”.Īnd depending on what country you are based in, YouTube will add either add a “CC” or “Subtitles” under the videos, depending on where you are viewing it from. So Netflix had it covered by captioning that scene: Netflix captioning the rainforest scene as ‘overlapping animal vocalization’ has added context to this particular scene sound effects, music, sighs, coughs, background noise, explosion, thunder, crickets chirping, etc.Īnd understanding the differences between open and closed captions can also help with that.Ī good example is when I watched ‘One Planet’ on Netflix and narrated by Sir David Attenborough, there was a particular scene overlooking the rainforest where (apparently, as I couldn’t hear it), there were various animal noises overlapping each other.
the actual video itself, as there may be occasions where certain sounds are crucial as it adds to the context of the video.īut as a very general guideline, if certain sounds are important to the users, include them alongside the speech elements too e.g.having the audience in mind and understanding their behaviour and need.But in order to make the best decisions, it’s all about Whether you choose open/closed captions or subtitles will depend on the audience that you have in mind for your video, as there are no clear answers on when you should use captions and when you should use subtitles.ĭon’t get me wrong both are important but both have their own purposes. Shall I use captions or subtitles for my videos?