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Positioning and styling captions when speakers overlap and interrupt each other

It can be challenging to caption scenes with multiple speakers. Bottom-center caption placement is far from ideal for readers when it fails to clarify which captions belong to which speaker. Adding to the difficulty: speakers often talk quickly, interrupt each other, and overlap their speech to show collaborative support. When captions are placed underneath or […]

Chirp! Captioning BB-8 in The Force Awakens

(Warning: Spoilers throughout.) The release of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens on DVD and Blu-Ray last week gives us a welcome opportunity to take a much closer look at the closed captions. The BB-8 droid provides an instructive case study. According to the official movie script, the orange and white spherical droid […]

When a yellow subtitle meets a character from The Simpsons

In the RGB color model, pure yellow is created by adding red and green light together at full value (red 255, green 255, blue 0). On Hulu.com, the default color of the closed captions is a warm but bright yellow-gold. This color is created by allowing the red value in the red-green mix to predominate […]