Caption timing

[treeowl]

Is it just me, or is FOX really bad at timing captions? It seems a lot of times the captions flash by so fast no one could ever read them, and they aren't even synchronized properly.

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[treeowl]

Long delayed response: I basically never watch live-captioned programs, both because live captions are horrible and because I generally prefer to read my news in the paper or online. I also never voluntarily watch Fox news. So I'm really only referring to shows where there is no excuse for bad captions.

Side notes having nothing to do with Fox:

1. If some bits of the show/film are subtitled because they're in another language, it's rather annoying to have the captionist copy the subtitles into the captions.


2. If people are speaking another language and it isn't subtitled, it's NOT OKAY to put a translation in the captions, and it's also NOT OKAY to just type something stupid like speaking in native language. If you don't know how to transcribe that language, find someone who does!