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Author Topic: Open-captioning John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-01-2005 01:20 PM                        quote: Frank Angel I always wondered why with all the space on 1.85 releases, they couldn't just put subtitles in the black under the picture and then if a theatre wanted to run open captioning, they could just use a longer FL lens and run it at 1.66, allowing the subtitles to project. This way they are not interfering with the image in any way. A really good idea, until you think about the likelihood that some will try to show the prints at 1.85:1, and frame up to show the subtitles, and cut off the top half of the picture.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-01-2005 11:40 PM                        Hey, regular commercial houses that don't have the correct lenses to show 1.66 subtitled foreign prints do this anyway all the time. Heck, I've seen theatres running 1.37 titles at 1.85. Alas, the world will never be rid of the dumb and the careless; figure expediency to trounce precision 1 out of 3 times.  |  IP: Logged Wolff King Morrow Master Film Handler Posts: 490 From: Denton, TX, USA Registered: Feb 2004 posted 03-02-2005 04:55 AM                        Sometimes this forum is psychic! I just recently test-ran a newly installed open caption system in one of my auditoriums. Its an overlay system from DTS, so I had to set up an interlock roller line to another screen in order to show a non-caption version at the same time.  |  IP: Logged

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