Re: Why I have so much trouble hearing dialogue

On 2025-04-24 10:13 AM, suzeeq wrote:

On 4/23/2025 11:34 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJtb2YXae8
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It's complicated! Hear from a professional editor.
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 I've taken to leaving the close captions on for everything. Except for those shows where it doesn't sync.

I'll put captions on sometimes too but it amuses (and concerns) me sometimes how mistaken they are. Whoever writes them seems to just be listening to them in real time and then writing down what they think they heard rather than consulting the script or even using common sense.
I wish I could think of a concrete example but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. Nevertheless, the captions ARE wrong sometimes. Mind you, the ones done by the studio for a streamed show or theatrical movie are pretty much always right; it's more a case of AI-based captioning, like what YouTube uses, that's pretty iffy.
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Rhino