subtitle positioning
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J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to
uk.tech.broadcast on Sat Jan 3 13:13:04 2026
From Newsgroup: uk.tech.broadcast
Last night (or small hours of this morning) I saw something - not very
good, think it might have been NCIS Hawaii - that used a very effective subtitling trick:
Instead of the usual different colours for different people speaking, it
just moved them around, to track the person speaking: if the person
speaking was on the left, middle, or right of the screen, the subtitles
just appeared left, middle, or right. I don't mean the subtitles moved,
they just sort of centred on the person speaking.
Granted, this required two (short) lines rather more often than the norm.With widescreen now being pretty universal, I think this could be used
more: I found it very effective, and it didn't require me to remember
who was what colour.
(Since I'm using this subject heading anyway, I'll repeat my assertion
that - for news programming and similar - the _default_ position for
subtitles should nowadays be top of screen, not bottom as it started 40+
years ago. Screen layout/design, especially for news, has changed a
_lot_ since then. They _do_ put them at the top for headlines and
weather, so it _can_ be done; I think it should be the _default_.)
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