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Topic: Subtitle framing adjusted independent of picture
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Frank Angel
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-20-2002 12:03 PM
I know of two home brewed subtitling methods that the theatre might be using, Both are manual, not the eligant DTS system. One, which we used once was a simple dual slide projector system with the subtitles shot on slide film. An operator simply watched the film and advanced each slide as needed. Making the slides is costly, but fairly simple to execute. The producer traveled with this film so the cost was probably amortized pretty quickly. I can't see that being cost-effective for a two or three day run. The other is the use of a computer to generate the text in a presentation program and that is then outputed to a video projector. Again, the operator must be the "synchronizer," advancing or retarding the subtitles as needed. It would seem that getting a regular print AND a subtitled print for every booking would be an extremely expensive proposition, especially just for a few shows during the week. That sounds about as unlikey as the bottom mask moving. If it is not DTS, then I would bet it is a some jerry rigged system, maybe even with some sort of tach reader that could record where each title was placed once it was manually cued by a human. Then all additional runs could be automated. I saw this type of thing once done with an audio track where a guy simply translated dialogue in Russian into a tape deck and then it was played back mixed over the soundtrack -- they used some sort of synchronizer that read a piece of white tape on the projector flywheel. As rube goldberg as this was, it worked reasonably well. Since I have no idea what was being said in Russian, I don't know how close the synch was, but the audiences seemed fairly content with it.
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