I *hate* when captions aren't word-for-word exactly what's being spoken aloud, especially when the words are being translated. For example, if a person says something like, "son of a _____" and the caption/subtitle says "jerk" -- those don't have the same meaning!
Exactly, I hate when the person that makes the captions doesn't agree with something it's said and so they change it to make it fit with their standards. Aside changing curses and insults, I have seen things like changing what a male character says to make it look more manly (god forbid a man to be vulnerable), try to make a woman that's sexually confident to look "in love" or even trying to pass a gay character as hetero.
another reason people use captions is because of adhd/add/other processing disorders! i have a hugely slow processing speed and captions help me a lot 💛 i love you jessica
YES!! I'm so glad someone else pointed this out, I use captions for that exact reason, but didn't even realise I was doing it until someone else pointed it out to me haha
So much yes!! I don't even have any hearing problems, yet I still love CC because sometimes I can't get a word someone said or the accent threw me off & it irritates me to the moon! Having subtitles / CC on is like a comfort for me now, I'm too used to it...
I used to subtitle a series on RUclips as a volunteer and you'd be amazed at how long it can take to transcribe a video, with the appropriate syntax and extra bits needed for any audio description. The RUclipsr now pays for a service as they can afford it and they kept saying they felt a little guilty at taking advantage of me doing all that work for free.
@@maxximumb I'll be honest I had no idea how much work was involved but as someone whom does amateur video editing, that alone takes up a lot of time. RUclips needs to do more for making CC quicker and easier.
This for sure. I CC my videos for my dad, who is deaf in one ear and has partial hearing in the other, and sometimes I get frustrated with how RUclips's system is set up. The easiest for me is to have RUclips do automatic CC and then I go in and edit what it says. However, the automatic part doesn't always work. But no matter what, I do my best to get them up for him. Even if it takes longer than I'd like. :)
@@rikkipoynter Actually... you might be right and I might've just thought wrong! For some reason I thought it was Command but thinking back on the subtitles I've worked on, I can't remember if it was!
HOH here. Jokes in the captions drive me up the damn wall. Like, I didn't come to this RUclipsr's video to be subjected to a random captioner's personal stand-up night. For me, even if the actual words are captioned, but there's also some joke bit in parenthesis, cluttering up the screen, I get frustrated. Your coughing bit made a lot of sense to me, though tbh I could do without that even. I really like what TeamFourStar does on their DBZ Abridged videos. They have real BEAUTIFUL captions in the "English" portion of the captions, but there's also a "Canadian" option for people to joke around in.
Senshi Sun That’s a very fair point but sadly there’s not an option to make your own “jokes” section for captions bc captions are limited to the languages youtube lists, which includes about 3 or 4 variations of english (english, Canadian english, UK English, and i think maybe Australian English?) so they figured it was more fair to pick one of the other english options rather than a foreign language, and just chose Canadian since it was next in the list. Ideally RUclips would allow you to create new sections that you could name as you please, but that wasn’t an option when i went through and captioned all my videos
My biggest pet peeve with captions is when people will put their own little jokes in the captions or react to the speaker. For example, if the speaker goes, "I'm the King!" and in the captions the captioner puts (Sure, Mark XD) as a reaction to it. If I have captions on it's because I need to understand what's being said better, not see some random person's jokes and emotes. This is only a problem I see in community added captions, and I think you explained it in a good way. I do freelance captioning for a website and they have their particular style of captioning, but the thing I think is universal to all captions is that they should make the video accessible and understandable without changing anything. Don't censor words that aren't censored in the video, don't correct something that's "wrong" in the video, and don't make jokes that aren't in the video.
its funny, I was totally thinking of Markiplier when she started talking about people writing captions making too many jokes/only jokes like that! I remember there being one specific video of his in FNAF that I couldn't understand a lot of lines for because my auditory processing was really bad that day and the dialogue in the game was faint so I had to turn on the captions and there were the lines in them, but 90% of it was them responding to him which just made it incredibly cluttered. I agree with Jessica in the whole idea of a joke or two being okay in captions within reason (like her example) but my god was that video annoying
I didn't even know this was a thing; the jokes, until watching this video. I don't understand why anyone would do that because that would throw the timing off of the video? I watch a lot of foreign tv shows and movies, and get frustrated when the subtitles don't match when the actors on the screen are talking. I can only imagine if this happened in CC as well.
I think the jokes in the captions are a good way for creators and members of a fan community to interact with each other and bond over a shared sense of humour. With that said, it's not fun when they're in the official language captions for a language. When there are people like foreign language speakers and deaf viewers who need the captions to be able to experience the video, it's cruel to disrupt their experience with jokes. I think it would be fun to have a separate set of captions with the jokes added in and a separate set without the jokes so that everyone has equal and fair access.
Gamers appear to have a lot of trouble with their community making over-the-top jokes in the subtitles, but an example of this that I actually saw in a video and was more like what Jessica was saying here was in "Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition" from the Vlogbrothers. They have a competition in the video to see who can be 'more potato-like' and the subtitles describe the following few seconds as 'a potatoey silence'. That's not a direct description of what happened, but it makes a small joke about the silence.
Here is a handy guide for captioning published by the BBC, I found it covers most situations. www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/accessibility/subtitling_guides/online_sub_editorial_guidelines_vs1_1.pdf
In Game of thrones, there is many scenes with noise in background, people talking over each other and difficult words. In those moments, I need subtitles, because my English is not THAT good. I have no problem with hearing, but I prefer watching Game of Thrones with "English for people with hearing difficulties" subtitles over my own language or English. I might miss jokes if I use subtitles in my language and I really enjoy those little hints got with "English for people with hearing difficulties" that tell about what is important in the scene. ^_^
As a non English native speaker I watch most movies/TV shows/Internet videos with captions, if available. I could do without them pretty well but I like the feeling that I may just look down if I didn't understand or misunderstood a word. I also watch GoT definitely with subtitles because I'm used to American English pronunciation and this typical British pronunciation is sometimes confusing to me (also some actors do some weird accents that aren't even their own ones and it's part of character portrayal).
"I'm sure there will be comments below mine.." Heh, heh, heh. The bleeping the swearing in the captions but keeping it in the audio has always frustrated me because people would risk demonetization anyway because the computer will still pick it up in the audio, and even more so if it's also picked up in the auto captions the video likely already has anyway. Just makes no sense to me. Not too much of a fan of shortening things myself. This was an issue when the whole Netflix thing went down. So, for instance, shortening "hard of hearing" to "HoH" can be enough to throw a person off since the mouth and words won't match up. I'm alright with the "coughing, still coughing" but I have to draw the line at the "how are you still coughing" because it just goes right with the people who write in jokes about RUclipsrs and it's like the captioners' personal commentary, not actual transcribing or captions. #NoMoreCRAPtions
ive also found issues with shortening sentences! it can be very difficult if you arent mostly deaf or your issue is with processing rather than hearing and you hear more words than are on the screen. really throughs me off when people edit out mild stutters and transition words in the captions.
One of the things that drives me nuts the most is jokes in the captions. I agree with [coughing, still coughing] similar with you, but the jokes are horrible. I'm trying to figure out what's going on in the video! I'm not here for jokes that are generally bad anyway. I'm hard of hearing, so I can pick up most of the audio so captions either that don't match or that add things just make me more confused and take away from the videos for me. Shortening words and changing even one word in a sentence is just annoying to me. I dunno, that's my two cents.
I agree with you on the "how are you still coughing" thing. Lots of creators, even ones who don't provide captions, add little comments like this embedded onscreen in the video, so I think that would be the appropriate place to put it, not in the captions.
I’m not D/deaf or Hard of Hearing but I have some problems with cognition and processing auditory information, and tbh anything that’s even a tiny bit off from what the person is saying in the video throws me off, but obviously there’s no way to please everything. Captioners should just find a general consensus and go with that.
I have sensory processing disorder as a symptom of my autism, and I find captions really helpful! I can hear everything perfectly fine, but my brain takes a little while to understand it, so it's a lot easier if I can read the subtitles so I don't miss what's being said while trying to figure out the previous thing
My mom is deaf so I have grown up with closed captioning on anything and everything. It helped me to advance in reading and writing much more quickly than my peers growing up. Many of my friends, who do not use closed captioning on a regular basis, ask to have them turned off or say how the subtitles are annoying to them. I, however, find it hard to watch a video or movie or T.V. show without them. It helps me to understand the story that is being told. It was hard for my mom and I to go to movie theaters due to busy schedules and the closed captioned screenings only happening once a week in the middle of the day or early mornings. Subtitles should be in all movie theaters and on all videos on the internet. They should be available to everyone.
People who say the captions are annoying have clearly never tried watching something with someone who needs/relies on captions. Captions are way less annoying than having to explain every five seconds what's going on... ;) My SO (bless him) is one of those "captions are distracting" people but since auditory processing is hard for me he puts up with them.
I use subtitles 90% of the time, because it helps me stay focused on the video! I plan on getting subtitles/closed captions on ALL videos I make, when/if I do start making youtube videos.
By George, I think I've got it!!!!!!!!! I have to click on the cc icon at the bottom of the screen to get the captions to show up! (Teenagers groaning in the background.) And I changed them! Who knew? (Well, almost everyone.) I moved mine so I can see them closer to your face. I also changed the font, colors and background simply because i could! I feel so strong now! Cheers! xo
I'm not deaf or hard of hearing, but I watch everything with closed captions. It helps me understand what's going on easier. If a actor has a accent or mumbles the captions help a lot! I went to the movies recently, and the first thing I said was, "where are the captions!?!?"
As someone with OCD, I cannot stress enough how important it is to make your captions accurate to what is being said on-screen. I've literally had panic attacks over somebody writing a joke in the captions that kept me from understanding what the person was saying. I can hear just fine, but the captions help me calm down. The coughing example you showed is perfect, but please no random jokes. And also, don't start writing the captions but give up and let the auto-captioner thing do the rest. You might not think so, but it is very easy to tell the difference.
I have only now discovered that I can change the colour and font of the subtitles!! OMG!!! and i can move them on the screen!! ahaha! thankyou for sharing these and other informations! it was brilliant!
I have auditory processing disorder (APD), so while I do not have a conductive hearing loss, and the sounds still go into my ears and do everything physical right, it means that my brain will ineffectively process sound, and anything will sound like a garbled mess. Almost like someone speaking another language. If I concentrate very hard, and have lips to read to back me up, sometimes, I can easily get it. But that's rare. Most often, I rely almost fully on lipreading and/or ASL (not fluent yet, as I'm late "deafened", but I'm learning). As such, I consider myself hard of hearing, as I equate hearing to being not only the physical process of the mechanisms of the ear working, but also the processing. This makes sense, as I struggle in many of the same ways as hard of hearing individuals do, and even use CART or ASL interpreters (more than likely the second one, I can never find CART) and relay to communicate at appointments and on phone calls, respectively. Also, "hard of hearing" is much easier to say to a stranger you'll never see again who needs to understand the accommodations you require to hold a conversation, rather than explaining exactly what APD is and wasting their time. Especially once I am fluent in ASL, use it as one of my primary modes of communication, and become active in the Deaf community I only think it fair to consider myself Deaf, as I have a "hearing" (loosely defined hearing and processing) loss. This all to say, I use captions, and I agree mostly with what was said here. I'm on the fence about the jokes part, only because, while it does clearly convey what you want to convey in an unobtrusive way (and makes the viewer laugh, perhaps, while you're at it), it also adds in something that is not purely the sound going on in the video. I'm mostly fine with it, but it's a fine line that, if taken the wrong way, can almost, as Rikki said, legitimize the captioners who make too many jokes about their personal commentary on the RUclipsrs in question. One thing I think this comes down to is if it's the RUclipsr themselves captioning their videos -- like you do, and therefore no one else's personal commentary on you -- or a contributor from the community -- who comments on the RUclipsr in question, giving their own personal opinion and commentary. Again, it's a fine line, and I'm not angry or upset with those who do it. I just think it needs to be seen as that fine of a line, and realize when it's crossed. Either way, as long as it was, that's just my opinion, and I know there are so many others out there who will likely disagree with me -- from my d/Deafness to my comments on captioning -- and that's fine. Thank you so much for doing this series, Jessica -- I've been a fan for a long time now and I appreciate your videos and what else you do. Hope you and Claud are happy and doing well (I know you likely won't see this, but still...)
When you said you can change the position of the captions on screen by dragging them my jaw dropped. I'd avoided captions despite needing them because the position was always very awkward and distracting for me but now I'll be able to actually use them! Cheers!
I love this series! It is weird that I haven't seen more about how to caption videos on RUclips except for the odd video here or there. I like that this International Week of the Deaf you decided to do a how to series for those that want to learn whether they are creators or viewers. Also, I wanted to let people know that open captions can sometimes be found at live theater events such as plays and musicals. Please ask the management at these establishments to include a performance that has open captioning as it can help those that are d/Deaf or HoH but do not understand Sign Language to enjoy and understand the show more. Excited for the last video in the series! Also, Buffy is awesome.
You’re one of the FEW youtubers I know with captions on every single one of your videos and it’s so helpful to me. I’m not HoH but I have awful tinnitus and I have to pause videos frequently and wait for my ears to stop ringing because I can’t hear while it’s happening and it really disrupts my enjoyment of the video. So captions help a lot.
As somebody with sensory processing disorder, sometimes I just can’t handle hearing things, but I need the visual and mental stimulation of something (usually RUclips) captions are so useful and important. I really appreciate this video!
I'm a court reporting and captioning student, and this is excellent advice! I'm so glad you and others are making this information readily available to creators who might not be able to afford professional captioning but should still include it. Thanks for making this video, and I look forward to the rest of your series :)
I had no idea I could move my captions around! That's amazing. I prefer to look at the speaker's face while I watch, but having to read the captions at the bottom made that impossible. Now I can have my cake and eat it too. Thanks Jessica! :D
This is so important! Obviously people who are deaf or hard of hearing NEED them!!! But they're not the only ones using them, and alot of people use them! I fx almost always use them, because of my adhd. It makes it easier for me to concentrate on what they're saying! Also yaaas buffy is absolutely the best show of all times! You are completely right!
WOW!!! I can change the font on the captions! This changes everything! Thank you! Dyslexia + sanserif font = sad me. what I learned today + serif font = happy me.
You've convinced me! I am working on adding captions to all the videos on my channel now. So far I've only done the first two, but everyone has to start somewhere lol
I have an audience of mothers and I personally use captions while breastfeeding! SO I'm going to guess that other mothers are doing this too! Thanks so much for this info! Adding it to my RUclips Success Playlist!
TFS puts extra jokes in their English(Canada) captions and (clean) their plain English captions. As a hearing person I find it adds a lot to the theme of their videos and I find myself cracking up from the in-caption jokes.
Idk how to not sound creepy saying this, but you are incredibly pleasant to watch and listen to. I've learned way more than I ever have before about life with hearing disability and about quakerism and how to use hair rollers pretty much just because I like to watch you move and listen to your voice.
Hearing loss isn't the only disability that would incline someone to CC. I have ADHD and watch most things with CCs because it makes it easier for me to follow along and remember :).
SO HELPFUL!! I'm a disabled youtuber and i have a speech issue, so these videos are so helpful, any free editing software that you can insert captions in the editing process? one that has creative styles and colors not just simple and white?
You could try to do something in iMovie, fiddling with the titles and just making the size smaller to fit captions. That's what I did when I was first making videos with a MacBook and was open captioning my videos. Corel Studio... something was what I used when I had a Windows laptop. Not sure of anything else, but there might be something in a Google search.
13:35 obviously not everybody is the same, but as a dyslexic person, there is NO WAY i’d ever be able to read subtitles or captions on a video and still have any idea what was going on hahaha. i totally understand why captions are needed for some people tho, i have the opposite problem-sometimes certain text isn’t supported by my phone or computers speak feature (*cough* the self service kiosks at the post office don’t speak) and i really don’t read well at all. potentially losing my hearing is a true concern of mine since i truly won’t be able to have access to many things as my phone speaks text for me and i can’t read captions.
captions also give you a warning about jump scares by either showing a break in a characters speech (like so: spee-) or having the action sound come up a second before the actual sound. very helpful.
I just wanted to share: when I took drivers Ed many year ago, half our class consisted of deaf kids. Half the videos we watched had open captioning, and the other half had a small sign language interpreter in the corner of the video. It was very interesting. We also had the pleasure of an ASL interpreter assisting with the class.
I had no idea you could move the captions around! This is really useful for videos that have things on the bottom of the screen that the caption covers. :D
I’m a theatre teacher, I use RUclips videos all the time to help students comprehend different skills (sometimes it’s easy to describe but sometimes you need to see it in order to “get” it) I’ve had many deaf/hard of hearing students and it is always great when I find a video that has captions! I hate having to use the google captions because it is NEVER what is actually being said. I tend to type up transcripts for these students if there are no captions or poor captions. But it isn’t the same as them being able to watch the video with captions.
I had no idea you studied film studies! I'm currently at university studying that as well! This advice has been so helpful. For example, I always captioned the lyrics of covers because I didn't realise it could be a problem. I didn't get any copyright strikes yet or anything, but I felt like it's necessary for accessibility to include them. It's good to know it might be a better idea not to!
I only just discovered you could move the captions in this video! While the RUclips CC is able to be moved, you are still unable to do so on mobile. For creators in particular, I'd suggest making sure any Closed Captions made don't interfere with the bottom of the screen. My worst interactions with the CC is trying and failing to decipher both texts when overlapped. Also, creators need to stop 'improving' their script in the captions. This breaks the authenticity of the content and it becomes disingenuous. Don't control what Deaf/ HoH people get to read, don't gate-keep content. Loving the series
Another reason why some (like me!) use captions: I like to watch at double speed, but can't understand speech when it's so fast and chopped up. Captions are perfect for that!
And people with auditory processing disorder! Most of us always use captions, otherwise it can be *really* hard to have any clue what's going on! :) Woo for captions! Fantastic video :)
Thank you so much for this series! :) I read captions on everything now and it's honestly disappointing to see that big channels like Buzzfeed often just have auto-generated captions that make no sense!
I don't have any hearing loss, but I do have ADHD and chronic fatigue, which makes processing videos/audio difficult. I always use captions when possible, so I can keep track of what is happening in whatever I am watching. Also, I have a really hard time understanding what people are saying in general in films/tv for some reason, so captions are super helpful in this way as well. I drives me nuts when captions are poorly done or clearly wrong/lazily done. Like I really can't enjoy this film or tv show at all without these captions people! I can only imagine how much worse and more annoying it is for people who have hearing loss.
I always wanted to add captions and literally had no idea how I’m so thankful that you did this series I am excited to start captioning my videos and make them more accessible! Plus btvs is the greatest tv show ever made and it will never be beaten! Xx
As a hearing person I find jokes or extra info in the captions awesome and encourages me to turn them on. Video on threadbanger doing invisible inks is an example of this as the captions were done by a person not in the video and you get their commentary
I'm not sure if you mentioned it because I was brushing.my hair during the beginning so I couldn't hear well and wasn't looking at the closed captioning the whole time but! Reading subtitles/open captioning/closed captioning in your native language actually improves literacy!
I love cc and i always use it because I can't ever hear the off screen audio. Ever time there's a car engine in the distance in a scene where I wouldn't expect one and I can't even hear it. Not even with full volume. It's magical. They're also super helpful in like medical dramas because there's always a lot of noise around and sometimes the announcement tells something interesting that adds up the story which I rarely get because I just can't concentrate that well.
I’m not Deaf or HoH but I use captions all the time due to pain fog and/or (tiredness from my medicines), also I use captions for when I watching videos in Spanish (which I’m trying to learn). I learned a lot from your video, I never knew the difference between closed and open captions. Also I love your lipstick!
Jessica, THANK YOU for this video!!! I'm HOH and volunteer hours of my free time to do the CC for my favorite RUclipsrs because no one else bothers. The most obnoxiously annoying thing to me is when people put their own commentary in the CC (like, "(haha that was such a funny joke!)") It drives me nuts, so I have to disagree there. It super throws me off when what I'm hearing and what I'm reading don't match because, of course I'm prone to missing things, so I think I misheard.
Thank you for all your tips. besides writing the subtitles of my videos in Portuguese, I translate them into English too, now the inner world can learn to sew with my videos.
Lol as soon as you started talking about the CC settings i imediately paused and changed my captions (That I already had turned on, btw i can hear fine wow mind blowing) to funky colors and fonts because why not, everyone needs something exciting in their day :)
I'd love to see you do a bunch of collabs with other deaf RUclipsrs. Also, Vegard just did the speech jammer challenge, and I think it might be interesting for you and Claudia to challenge each other to it. But also talk about how these challenges can often make fun of people with disabilities, rather than raising awareness about them, starting a conversation, or laughing with people with disabilities.
Even as a hearing person, I find captions very helpful, sometimes! Often, I find myself watching people's mouths as they speak, alternating that with eye contact, to ensure that I correctly process what people say.
i’m not deaf nor particularly hard of hearing but i do struggle with mental illnesses (notably adhd/add and autism) that make processing certain sensory things (usually audio) very hard for my brain and so i usually watch everything with closed captions because otherwise i’ll just watched a video and hear everything fine but my brain never actually understood or processed any of the words, i noticed that you didn’t include people with sensory processing disorders in the list of non deaf/hard of hearing people and just wanted to let you know!!
Fantastic video Jessica! Unfortunately this is a big issue for those of us who are hard of hearing or deaf. I use captions all the time (moderate -severe although closer to severe hearing loss) and it is incredibly frustrating when 1. There are no captions available, 2. The captions that are available are completely wrong/ ridiculous/ make absolutely zero sense at all! This video is so informative and will hopefully encourage more people to take the time to create captions! As a hard of hearing person, I also use captions for when I am watching a video that I don’t want my two children to be able to hear. Or if I am watching a video late at night and do not want to disturb my husband. Captions are a big part of my You Tube experience, so thank you so much for creating this series, having an advocate educate the you tube community regarding the importance of captions means a lot!
to see you makes me happy i feel like garbo chills cold sweats headaches and im exhausted idk whats wong with me ive been like this for a long time it just got alot worse randomly
What should I do when subtitling a video in a foreign language and there's text on-screen? Say, the video is in English, with English text on-screen, and I'm subtitling in Spanish. I know in movies, they generally translate titles or other on-screen info, which generally gets a voice-over too. But in youtube videos, very often, the person will talk at the same time as the text is displayed, so captioning their dialogue AND translating the text doesn't always fit.
Buffy is also my favorite! My girlfriend has loss of hearing and uses captions all the time when we are watching TV or movies. I love that they are becoming more common!
Also a point to add as somebody who is Hard of Hearing, it is especially nice to have captions in videos when the person speaking has an accent as it is increasingly difficult to understand, even if you try to lipread.
I've had captions on all of my TVs for years now, I'm not deaf but I like to read the dialogue and I don't know I find it quite comforting having the captions there. The only annoying thing about captions is when it spoils something a second or two before it is said.
I hope I'm not too late! I don't make videos but I try to caption videos for RUclipsrs I like if they offer it. My question is this: if someone says something in a weird way, do I add that in my captions? For example, if someone emphasizes "really" in a sentence, like "I really want to go home!" would I write it as "I REALLY want to go home!" or would I leave it as "I really want to go home!" Additionally, since I feel like this is different enough, if someone drags out a "please" in "Can I please have that cookie?" would I type it as "Can I pleeaaaseee have that cookie?" or type the "please" normally? Any deaf or HoH people, please let me know!
For your first question, I think either would be acceptable. I wouldn't type the "dragged out" words like that though. It could make it harder for dyslexic folks. :-)
Thank you for telling me this now I can help my friend who is hard at hearing and last time I did this she had cried so hopefully she will love this too.❤️
When you mentioned the jokey captions, all I could think about was the captions for the webseries Carmilla - now that's a show everyone should turn captions on for, hearing or otherwise. xD
Captions are so useful! My hearing is fine (for now..), but I'm autistic and find them really helpful for my sensory processing issues. They were even more useful when I was dealing with migraines (fingers crossed they stay gone now, gotta love medication side effects).
I love captions and use them all the time, I grew up watching anime in subtitles this is just my normal I like it I miss things without them and I don't focus as much on what I am watching.
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I *hate* when captions aren't word-for-word exactly what's being spoken aloud, especially when the words are being translated. For example, if a person says something like, "son of a _____" and the caption/subtitle says "jerk" -- those don't have the same meaning!
Exactly, I hate when the person that makes the captions doesn't agree with something it's said and so they change it to make it fit with their standards. Aside changing curses and insults, I have seen things like changing what a male character says to make it look more manly (god forbid a man to be vulnerable), try to make a woman that's sexually confident to look "in love" or even trying to pass a gay character as hetero.
In my video the automatic captions misinterpreted the sound of the caption so the subtitles wrote s*x
Bruh
another reason people use captions is because of adhd/add/other processing disorders! i have a hugely slow processing speed and captions help me a lot 💛 i love you jessica
YES!! I'm so glad someone else pointed this out, I use captions for that exact reason, but didn't even realise I was doing it until someone else pointed it out to me haha
Yessssss!!! Iv have ADHD and that's mainly why I use them
Yes - I find it harder to concentrate on spoken words than I do on written words.
Every video should have subtitles CC. Everyone should have the option and opportunity to hear and understand what they're watching.
I was so expecting this to be a I got the first comment
So much yes!! I don't even have any hearing problems, yet I still love CC because sometimes I can't get a word someone said or the accent threw me off & it irritates me to the moon! Having subtitles / CC on is like a comfort for me now, I'm too used to it...
I used to subtitle a series on RUclips as a volunteer and you'd be amazed at how long it can take to transcribe a video, with the appropriate syntax and extra bits needed for any audio description.
The RUclipsr now pays for a service as they can afford it and they kept saying they felt a little guilty at taking advantage of me doing all that work for free.
@@maxximumb I'll be honest I had no idea how much work was involved but as someone whom does amateur video editing, that alone takes up a lot of time. RUclips needs to do more for making CC quicker and easier.
This for sure. I CC my videos for my dad, who is deaf in one ear and has partial hearing in the other, and sometimes I get frustrated with how RUclips's system is set up. The easiest for me is to have RUclips do automatic CC and then I go in and edit what it says. However, the automatic part doesn't always work. But no matter what, I do my best to get them up for him. Even if it takes longer than I'd like. :)
By the way, RUclips does let you break lines! Shift + Enter on the keyboard.
I was about to say that!! Or Command + Enter on a Mac.
BookLover132 Ah, that's a new one! I actually use the shift + enter on my own Mac!
@@rikkipoynter Actually... you might be right and I might've just thought wrong! For some reason I thought it was Command but thinking back on the subtitles I've worked on, I can't remember if it was!
I was just about to add this, but I'm glad a had a quick read of the comments, so I didn't look silly.
On windows it's usually control+enter. 😉
HOH here. Jokes in the captions drive me up the damn wall. Like, I didn't come to this RUclipsr's video to be subjected to a random captioner's personal stand-up night. For me, even if the actual words are captioned, but there's also some joke bit in parenthesis, cluttering up the screen, I get frustrated. Your coughing bit made a lot of sense to me, though tbh I could do without that even. I really like what TeamFourStar does on their DBZ Abridged videos. They have real BEAUTIFUL captions in the "English" portion of the captions, but there's also a "Canadian" option for people to joke around in.
What you said about the “Canadian option” is really cool!!!! Wow, other youtubers should totally hop on that.
As a Canadian, this would bother me. "Canadian English" can be an actual language setting. Just call it "jokes".
Senshi Sun That’s a very fair point but sadly there’s not an option to make your own “jokes” section for captions bc captions are limited to the languages youtube lists, which includes about 3 or 4 variations of english (english, Canadian english, UK English, and i think maybe Australian English?) so they figured it was more fair to pick one of the other english options rather than a foreign language, and just chose Canadian since it was next in the list. Ideally RUclips would allow you to create new sections that you could name as you please, but that wasn’t an option when i went through and captioned all my videos
If they use it sparingly I quite like it lol, but yeah, if they're making jokes every line it's awful
My biggest pet peeve with captions is when people will put their own little jokes in the captions or react to the speaker. For example, if the speaker goes, "I'm the King!" and in the captions the captioner puts (Sure, Mark XD) as a reaction to it. If I have captions on it's because I need to understand what's being said better, not see some random person's jokes and emotes. This is only a problem I see in community added captions, and I think you explained it in a good way. I do freelance captioning for a website and they have their particular style of captioning, but the thing I think is universal to all captions is that they should make the video accessible and understandable without changing anything. Don't censor words that aren't censored in the video, don't correct something that's "wrong" in the video, and don't make jokes that aren't in the video.
its funny, I was totally thinking of Markiplier when she started talking about people writing captions making too many jokes/only jokes like that! I remember there being one specific video of his in FNAF that I couldn't understand a lot of lines for because my auditory processing was really bad that day and the dialogue in the game was faint so I had to turn on the captions and there were the lines in them, but 90% of it was them responding to him which just made it incredibly cluttered. I agree with Jessica in the whole idea of a joke or two being okay in captions within reason (like her example) but my god was that video annoying
I didn't even know this was a thing; the jokes, until watching this video. I don't understand why anyone would do that because that would throw the timing off of the video? I watch a lot of foreign tv shows and movies, and get frustrated when the subtitles don't match when the actors on the screen are talking. I can only imagine if this happened in CC as well.
I think the jokes in the captions are a good way for creators and members of a fan community to interact with each other and bond over a shared sense of humour. With that said, it's not fun when they're in the official language captions for a language. When there are people like foreign language speakers and deaf viewers who need the captions to be able to experience the video, it's cruel to disrupt their experience with jokes. I think it would be fun to have a separate set of captions with the jokes added in and a separate set without the jokes so that everyone has equal and fair access.
Gamers appear to have a lot of trouble with their community making over-the-top jokes in the subtitles, but an example of this that I actually saw in a video and was more like what Jessica was saying here was in "Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition" from the Vlogbrothers. They have a competition in the video to see who can be 'more potato-like' and the subtitles describe the following few seconds as 'a potatoey silence'. That's not a direct description of what happened, but it makes a small joke about the silence.
The comment section exists for a reason.
I *literally* was captioning an Annika Victoria video this morning and was like 'I wish I knew best practices!' BOOM! Jessica!
Here is a handy guide for captioning published by the BBC, I found it covers most situations. www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/accessibility/subtitling_guides/online_sub_editorial_guidelines_vs1_1.pdf
Aww, I love Annika Victoria! 😍
In Game of thrones, there is many scenes with noise in background, people talking over each other and difficult words. In those moments, I need subtitles, because my English is not THAT good. I have no problem with hearing, but I prefer watching Game of Thrones with "English for people with hearing difficulties" subtitles over my own language or English. I might miss jokes if I use subtitles in my language and I really enjoy those little hints got with "English for people with hearing difficulties" that tell about what is important in the scene. ^_^
As a non English native speaker I watch most movies/TV shows/Internet videos with captions, if available. I could do without them pretty well but I like the feeling that I may just look down if I didn't understand or misunderstood a word. I also watch GoT definitely with subtitles because I'm used to American English pronunciation and this typical British pronunciation is sometimes confusing to me (also some actors do some weird accents that aren't even their own ones and it's part of character portrayal).
"I'm sure there will be comments below mine.." Heh, heh, heh.
The bleeping the swearing in the captions but keeping it in the audio has always frustrated me because people would risk demonetization anyway because the computer will still pick it up in the audio, and even more so if it's also picked up in the auto captions the video likely already has anyway. Just makes no sense to me.
Not too much of a fan of shortening things myself. This was an issue when the whole Netflix thing went down. So, for instance, shortening "hard of hearing" to "HoH" can be enough to throw a person off since the mouth and words won't match up. I'm alright with the "coughing, still coughing" but I have to draw the line at the "how are you still coughing" because it just goes right with the people who write in jokes about RUclipsrs and it's like the captioners' personal commentary, not actual transcribing or captions.
#NoMoreCRAPtions
ive also found issues with shortening sentences! it can be very difficult if you arent mostly deaf or your issue is with processing rather than hearing and you hear more words than are on the screen. really throughs me off when people edit out mild stutters and transition words in the captions.
One of the things that drives me nuts the most is jokes in the captions. I agree with [coughing, still coughing] similar with you, but the jokes are horrible. I'm trying to figure out what's going on in the video! I'm not here for jokes that are generally bad anyway. I'm hard of hearing, so I can pick up most of the audio so captions either that don't match or that add things just make me more confused and take away from the videos for me. Shortening words and changing even one word in a sentence is just annoying to me. I dunno, that's my two cents.
Andrew Parsons Ah, yeah, that would make sense. I shouldn't be surprised if our rules differ a little bit.
I agree with you on the "how are you still coughing" thing. Lots of creators, even ones who don't provide captions, add little comments like this embedded onscreen in the video, so I think that would be the appropriate place to put it, not in the captions.
I’m not D/deaf or Hard of Hearing but I have some problems with cognition and processing auditory information, and tbh anything that’s even a tiny bit off from what the person is saying in the video throws me off, but obviously there’s no way to please everything. Captioners should just find a general consensus and go with that.
I have sensory processing disorder as a symptom of my autism, and I find captions really helpful! I can hear everything perfectly fine, but my brain takes a little while to understand it, so it's a lot easier if I can read the subtitles so I don't miss what's being said while trying to figure out the previous thing
My mom is deaf so I have grown up with closed captioning on anything and everything. It helped me to advance in reading and writing much more quickly than my peers growing up. Many of my friends, who do not use closed captioning on a regular basis, ask to have them turned off or say how the subtitles are annoying to them. I, however, find it hard to watch a video or movie or T.V. show without them. It helps me to understand the story that is being told. It was hard for my mom and I to go to movie theaters due to busy schedules and the closed captioned screenings only happening once a week in the middle of the day or early mornings. Subtitles should be in all movie theaters and on all videos on the internet. They should be available to everyone.
People who say the captions are annoying have clearly never tried watching something with someone who needs/relies on captions. Captions are way less annoying than having to explain every five seconds what's going on... ;)
My SO (bless him) is one of those "captions are distracting" people but since auditory processing is hard for me he puts up with them.
I use subtitles 90% of the time, because it helps me stay focused on the video!
I plan on getting subtitles/closed captions on ALL videos I make, when/if I do start making youtube videos.
By George, I think I've got it!!!!!!!!! I have to click on the cc icon at the bottom of the screen to get the captions to show up! (Teenagers groaning in the background.) And I changed them! Who knew? (Well, almost everyone.) I moved mine so I can see them closer to your face. I also changed the font, colors and background simply because i could! I feel so strong now! Cheers! xo
I'm not deaf or hard of hearing, but I watch everything with closed captions. It helps me understand what's going on easier. If a actor has a accent or mumbles the captions help a lot! I went to the movies recently, and the first thing I said was, "where are the captions!?!?"
I just have to say that I love that the Dancing Jessica Outro is back.
I had no idea I could move the captions! And yes, as you said "try it now!" I was already moving them all over the screen :)
As someone with OCD, I cannot stress enough how important it is to make your captions accurate to what is being said on-screen. I've literally had panic attacks over somebody writing a joke in the captions that kept me from understanding what the person was saying. I can hear just fine, but the captions help me calm down. The coughing example you showed is perfect, but please no random jokes. And also, don't start writing the captions but give up and let the auto-captioner thing do the rest. You might not think so, but it is very easy to tell the difference.
I have only now discovered that I can change the colour and font of the subtitles!! OMG!!! and i can move them on the screen!! ahaha! thankyou for sharing these and other informations! it was brilliant!
I have auditory processing disorder (APD), so while I do not have a conductive hearing loss, and the sounds still go into my ears and do everything physical right, it means that my brain will ineffectively process sound, and anything will sound like a garbled mess. Almost like someone speaking another language. If I concentrate very hard, and have lips to read to back me up, sometimes, I can easily get it. But that's rare. Most often, I rely almost fully on lipreading and/or ASL (not fluent yet, as I'm late "deafened", but I'm learning).
As such, I consider myself hard of hearing, as I equate hearing to being not only the physical process of the mechanisms of the ear working, but also the processing. This makes sense, as I struggle in many of the same ways as hard of hearing individuals do, and even use CART or ASL interpreters (more than likely the second one, I can never find CART) and relay to communicate at appointments and on phone calls, respectively.
Also, "hard of hearing" is much easier to say to a stranger you'll never see again who needs to understand the accommodations you require to hold a conversation, rather than explaining exactly what APD is and wasting their time.
Especially once I am fluent in ASL, use it as one of my primary modes of communication, and become active in the Deaf community I only think it fair to consider myself Deaf, as I have a "hearing" (loosely defined hearing and processing) loss.
This all to say, I use captions, and I agree mostly with what was said here. I'm on the fence about the jokes part, only because, while it does clearly convey what you want to convey in an unobtrusive way (and makes the viewer laugh, perhaps, while you're at it), it also adds in something that is not purely the sound going on in the video. I'm mostly fine with it, but it's a fine line that, if taken the wrong way, can almost, as Rikki said, legitimize the captioners who make too many jokes about their personal commentary on the RUclipsrs in question.
One thing I think this comes down to is if it's the RUclipsr themselves captioning their videos -- like you do, and therefore no one else's personal commentary on you -- or a contributor from the community -- who comments on the RUclipsr in question, giving their own personal opinion and commentary.
Again, it's a fine line, and I'm not angry or upset with those who do it. I just think it needs to be seen as that fine of a line, and realize when it's crossed.
Either way, as long as it was, that's just my opinion, and I know there are so many others out there who will likely disagree with me -- from my d/Deafness to my comments on captioning -- and that's fine.
Thank you so much for doing this series, Jessica -- I've been a fan for a long time now and I appreciate your videos and what else you do. Hope you and Claud are happy and doing well (I know you likely won't see this, but still...)
When you said you can change the position of the captions on screen by dragging them my jaw dropped. I'd avoided captions despite needing them because the position was always very awkward and distracting for me but now I'll be able to actually use them! Cheers!
i was so shocked when you said you can move captions! i had no clue that was possible!!!
I love this series! It is weird that I haven't seen more about how to caption videos on RUclips except for the odd video here or there. I like that this International Week of the Deaf you decided to do a how to series for those that want to learn whether they are creators or viewers. Also, I wanted to let people know that open captions can sometimes be found at live theater events such as plays and musicals. Please ask the management at these establishments to include a performance that has open captioning as it can help those that are d/Deaf or HoH but do not understand Sign Language to enjoy and understand the show more. Excited for the last video in the series!
Also, Buffy is awesome.
I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer too!! ♥ I squealed when you said it's your favourite.
You’re one of the FEW youtubers I know with captions on every single one of your videos and it’s so helpful to me. I’m not HoH but I have awful tinnitus and I have to pause videos frequently and wait for my ears to stop ringing because I can’t hear while it’s happening and it really disrupts my enjoyment of the video. So captions help a lot.
As somebody with sensory processing disorder, sometimes I just can’t handle hearing things, but I need the visual and mental stimulation of something (usually RUclips) captions are so useful and important. I really appreciate this video!
This series is very helpful to me as an independent filmmaker who wants to make my films more accessible.
I can’t believe I didn’t know what “FAQ” stood for until this video. Thank you Jess
OMG that mix open and closed captions to get around the algorithm GENIUS! I love it.
This was really awesome. I loved how you addressed demonetization honestly and without shaming youtubers for being worried about money
I'm a court reporting and captioning student, and this is excellent advice! I'm so glad you and others are making this information readily available to creators who might not be able to afford professional captioning but should still include it. Thanks for making this video, and I look forward to the rest of your series :)
I had no idea I could move my captions around! That's amazing. I prefer to look at the speaker's face while I watch, but having to read the captions at the bottom made that impossible. Now I can have my cake and eat it too. Thanks Jessica! :D
I had no idea you could move captions!!! That is so helpful for videos that rely on pop-up info on the bottom of the screen!
I’m not a RUclips creator or anything, just watching the video cause her optimistic outlook and bubbly personality makes me happy
This is so important! Obviously people who are deaf or hard of hearing NEED them!!! But they're not the only ones using them, and alot of people use them! I fx almost always use them, because of my adhd. It makes it easier for me to concentrate on what they're saying!
Also yaaas buffy is absolutely the best show of all times! You are completely right!
WOW!!! I can change the font on the captions! This changes everything! Thank you!
Dyslexia + sanserif font = sad me.
what I learned today + serif font = happy me.
I love captions! I honestly don't see why anyone would make videoes without them -- they are great for everyone and anyone
You've convinced me! I am working on adding captions to all the videos on my channel now. So far I've only done the first two, but everyone has to start somewhere lol
I have an audience of mothers and I personally use captions while breastfeeding! SO I'm going to guess that other mothers are doing this too! Thanks so much for this info! Adding it to my RUclips Success Playlist!
Thank you, Jessica. You're doing us CC lovers proud !
i never knew one could move the CC!! what a trip!! thank you
TFS puts extra jokes in their English(Canada) captions and (clean) their plain English captions. As a hearing person I find it adds a lot to the theme of their videos and I find myself cracking up from the in-caption jokes.
Idk how to not sound creepy saying this, but you are incredibly pleasant to watch and listen to. I've learned way more than I ever have before about life with hearing disability and about quakerism and how to use hair rollers pretty much just because I like to watch you move and listen to your voice.
Hearing loss isn't the only disability that would incline someone to CC. I have ADHD and watch most things with CCs because it makes it easier for me to follow along and remember :).
SO HELPFUL!! I'm a disabled youtuber and i have a speech issue, so these videos are so helpful, any free editing software that you can insert captions in the editing process? one that has creative styles and colors not just simple and white?
You could try to do something in iMovie, fiddling with the titles and just making the size smaller to fit captions. That's what I did when I was first making videos with a MacBook and was open captioning my videos. Corel Studio... something was what I used when I had a Windows laptop. Not sure of anything else, but there might be something in a Google search.
13:35 obviously not everybody is the same, but as a dyslexic person, there is NO WAY i’d ever be able to read subtitles or captions on a video and still have any idea what was going on hahaha. i totally understand why captions are needed for some people tho, i have the opposite problem-sometimes certain text isn’t supported by my phone or computers speak feature (*cough* the self service kiosks at the post office don’t speak) and i really don’t read well at all. potentially losing my hearing is a true concern of mine since i truly won’t be able to have access to many things as my phone speaks text for me and i can’t read captions.
captions also give you a warning about jump scares by either showing a break in a characters speech (like so: spee-) or having the action sound come up a second before the actual sound. very helpful.
I just wanted to share: when I took drivers Ed many year ago, half our class consisted of deaf kids. Half the videos we watched had open captioning, and the other half had a small sign language interpreter in the corner of the video. It was very interesting. We also had the pleasure of an ASL interpreter assisting with the class.
I had no idea you could move the captions around! This is really useful for videos that have things on the bottom of the screen that the caption covers. :D
I’m a theatre teacher, I use RUclips videos all the time to help students comprehend different skills (sometimes it’s easy to describe but sometimes you need to see it in order to “get” it) I’ve had many deaf/hard of hearing students and it is always great when I find a video that has captions! I hate having to use the google captions because it is NEVER what is actually being said. I tend to type up transcripts for these students if there are no captions or poor captions. But it isn’t the same as them being able to watch the video with captions.
I had no idea you studied film studies! I'm currently at university studying that as well!
This advice has been so helpful. For example, I always captioned the lyrics of covers because I didn't realise it could be a problem. I didn't get any copyright strikes yet or anything, but I felt like it's necessary for accessibility to include them. It's good to know it might be a better idea not to!
I only just discovered you could move the captions in this video!
While the RUclips CC is able to be moved, you are still unable to do so on mobile. For creators in particular, I'd suggest making sure any Closed Captions made don't interfere with the bottom of the screen. My worst interactions with the CC is trying and failing to decipher both texts when overlapped.
Also, creators need to stop 'improving' their script in the captions. This breaks the authenticity of the content and it becomes disingenuous. Don't control what Deaf/ HoH people get to read, don't gate-keep content.
Loving the series
Another reason why some (like me!) use captions: I like to watch at double speed, but can't understand speech when it's so fast and chopped up. Captions are perfect for that!
And people with auditory processing disorder! Most of us always use captions, otherwise it can be *really* hard to have any clue what's going on! :)
Woo for captions! Fantastic video :)
Thank you so much for this series! :) I read captions on everything now and it's honestly disappointing to see that big channels like Buzzfeed often just have auto-generated captions that make no sense!
I don't have any hearing loss, but I do have ADHD and chronic fatigue, which makes processing videos/audio difficult. I always use captions when possible, so I can keep track of what is happening in whatever I am watching. Also, I have a really hard time understanding what people are saying in general in films/tv for some reason, so captions are super helpful in this way as well. I drives me nuts when captions are poorly done or clearly wrong/lazily done. Like I really can't enjoy this film or tv show at all without these captions people! I can only imagine how much worse and more annoying it is for people who have hearing loss.
2:04 I loved that series too.
You make me think about Rachel & Jun. Whenever Rachel swears, she covers it up with a cat's meow.
I always wanted to add captions and literally had no idea how I’m so thankful that you did this series I am excited to start captioning my videos and make them more accessible! Plus btvs is the greatest tv show ever made and it will never be beaten! Xx
OH MY GOD I LOVE BUFFY SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! I even have a tattoo from it! It is the best show ever made and no one will ever change my mind
As a hearing person I find jokes or extra info in the captions awesome and encourages me to turn them on.
Video on threadbanger doing invisible inks is an example of this as the captions were done by a person not in the video and you get their commentary
I'm not sure if you mentioned it because I was brushing.my hair during the beginning so I couldn't hear well and wasn't looking at the closed captioning the whole time but!
Reading subtitles/open captioning/closed captioning in your native language actually improves literacy!
I love cc and i always use it because I can't ever hear the off screen audio. Ever time there's a car engine in the distance in a scene where I wouldn't expect one and I can't even hear it. Not even with full volume. It's magical.
They're also super helpful in like medical dramas because there's always a lot of noise around and sometimes the announcement tells something interesting that adds up the story which I rarely get because I just can't concentrate that well.
I’m not Deaf or HoH but I use captions all the time due to pain fog and/or (tiredness from my medicines), also I use captions for when I watching videos in Spanish (which I’m trying to learn). I learned a lot from your video, I never knew the difference between closed and open captions. Also I love your lipstick!
Jessica, THANK YOU for this video!!! I'm HOH and volunteer hours of my free time to do the CC for my favorite RUclipsrs because no one else bothers. The most obnoxiously annoying thing to me is when people put their own commentary in the CC (like, "(haha that was such a funny joke!)") It drives me nuts, so I have to disagree there. It super throws me off when what I'm hearing and what I'm reading don't match because, of course I'm prone to missing things, so I think I misheard.
Thank you for all your tips. besides writing the subtitles of my videos in Portuguese, I translate them into English too, now the inner world can learn to sew with my videos.
Yay another part! I hope everyone will see these videos
Lol as soon as you started talking about the CC settings i imediately paused and changed my captions (That I already had turned on, btw i can hear fine wow mind blowing) to funky colors and fonts because why not, everyone needs something exciting in their day :)
I'd love to see you do a bunch of collabs with other deaf RUclipsrs. Also, Vegard just did the speech jammer challenge, and I think it might be interesting for you and Claudia to challenge each other to it. But also talk about how these challenges can often make fun of people with disabilities, rather than raising awareness about them, starting a conversation, or laughing with people with disabilities.
This series is so helpful. Thank you Jessica. :)
Even as a hearing person, I find captions very helpful, sometimes! Often, I find myself watching people's mouths as they speak, alternating that with eye contact, to ensure that I correctly process what people say.
i’m not deaf nor particularly hard of hearing but i do struggle with mental illnesses (notably adhd/add and autism) that make processing certain sensory things (usually audio) very hard for my brain and so i usually watch everything with closed captions because otherwise i’ll just watched a video and hear everything fine but my brain never actually understood or processed any of the words, i noticed that you didn’t include people with sensory processing disorders in the list of non deaf/hard of hearing people and just wanted to let you know!!
Same! I'm also ADD here, and captions help me focus on the video a lot. It's very very easy for me to tune out spoken dialogue without meaning to.
Same!! But autism isn't a mental illness, it's a neurodevelopmental disorder.
@@icecrystal34 yeah, same with ADHD, it's not an illness it's a fundamental difference in brain structure
Fantastic video Jessica! Unfortunately this is a big issue for those of us who are hard of hearing or deaf. I use captions all the time (moderate -severe although closer to severe hearing loss) and it is incredibly frustrating when 1. There are no captions available, 2. The captions that are available are completely wrong/ ridiculous/ make absolutely zero sense at all! This video is so informative and will hopefully encourage more people to take the time to create captions!
As a hard of hearing person, I also use captions for when I am watching a video that I don’t want my two children to be able to hear. Or if I am watching a video late at night and do not want to disturb my husband. Captions are a big part of my You Tube experience, so thank you so much for creating this series, having an advocate educate the you tube community regarding the importance of captions means a lot!
to see you makes me happy i feel like garbo chills cold sweats headaches and im exhausted idk whats wong with me ive been like this for a long time it just got alot worse randomly
you and my sister have inspired me to close-caption my videos!! I hope I did well and am always looking to improve.
This was a really informative video! Also, I love your style and sense of individuality, and your hair is soo pretty! Hope you have a great day! 💕
Thank you for such practical advice!! I sometimes captions people's videos and I've never been sure what to include. Also for my own videos
What should I do when subtitling a video in a foreign language and there's text on-screen? Say, the video is in English, with English text on-screen, and I'm subtitling in Spanish. I know in movies, they generally translate titles or other on-screen info, which generally gets a voice-over too. But in youtube videos, very often, the person will talk at the same time as the text is displayed, so captioning their dialogue AND translating the text doesn't always fit.
Buffy is also my favorite! My girlfriend has loss of hearing and uses captions all the time when we are watching TV or movies. I love that they are becoming more common!
I am just in the process of captioning a friend's video and this was very reassuring and helpful :3 Thanks!
The background noise bit reminded me of Dominic Noble’s blooper reels being mostly him yelling at outside noise.
*Oh, wow! I use captions all the time and I never even noticed you could change how they looked- thanks!
Also a point to add as somebody who is Hard of Hearing, it is especially nice to have captions in videos when the person speaking has an accent as it is increasingly difficult to understand, even if you try to lipread.
This video made me start watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer again... :D
I've had captions on all of my TVs for years now, I'm not deaf but I like to read the dialogue and I don't know I find it quite comforting having the captions there. The only annoying thing about captions is when it spoils something a second or two before it is said.
Great useful videos. Thank you! Btw, I love Buffy in our house and are rewatching the series on Hulu with my kids. It's so fun!
I hope I'm not too late! I don't make videos but I try to caption videos for RUclipsrs I like if they offer it. My question is this: if someone says something in a weird way, do I add that in my captions? For example, if someone emphasizes "really" in a sentence, like "I really want to go home!" would I write it as "I REALLY want to go home!" or would I leave it as "I really want to go home!" Additionally, since I feel like this is different enough, if someone drags out a "please" in "Can I please have that cookie?" would I type it as "Can I pleeaaaseee have that cookie?" or type the "please" normally? Any deaf or HoH people, please let me know!
For your first question, I think either would be acceptable. I wouldn't type the "dragged out" words like that though. It could make it harder for dyslexic folks. :-)
Thank you for telling me this now I can help my friend who is hard at hearing and last time I did this she had cried so hopefully she will love this too.❤️
When you mentioned the jokey captions, all I could think about was the captions for the webseries Carmilla - now that's a show everyone should turn captions on for, hearing or otherwise. xD
AHahah when you said about grabbing the subtitles and moving it around. I followed your hand. (This kinda make it more amusing, I dont know why)
Having a flare up of my condition, so seeing your video is a relaxing thing while I lie in bed.
We understand your BUFFY as we love Charmed!
These videos have been so amazing. That you so much. Now I know how to do things when I start making videos. Thank you. Take care.
Captions are so useful! My hearing is fine (for now..), but I'm autistic and find them really helpful for my sensory processing issues. They were even more useful when I was dealing with migraines (fingers crossed they stay gone now, gotta love medication side effects).
Ok so changing the captions' position BLEW MY MIND!!!! WHAT?!?!?!
Your outfit is soooo nice✨
Sorry if it’s no good English because I’m not a native speakers and I’m using captions too
I love captions and use them all the time, I grew up watching anime in subtitles this is just my normal I like it I miss things without them and I don't focus as much on what I am watching.
I dont know, but sometimes [Alt]+[Enter] gets you a new line, to write under the first line.
Yah, I hold down the shift key and enter and it does a break!
I have three incredibly loud kids. I love using CC, especially on my Netflix shows!
OMG, this is so helpful!! Thank yooooou!! 😁💖
omg I had too much fun moving the subtitles around!
In all honestly, I try to provide captions in Dutch on the videos who allow you to translate :) It is sad that not a lot of videos allow that
Bo Pauwels that’s really sweet! i don’t speak dutch or anything but it’s really commendable that you want to help more people enjoy youtube