Video subtitles are distracting and detract from the movie?
This view is very old-fashioned.
Video captioning – or the ability to set video captioning – supports & helps a large percentage of viewers.
What are the benefits of video captioning?
POOR HEARING/ DEAFNESS
Whether young or old, there are numerous spectators who have poor hearing and cannot turn up the TV to stadium volumes. Among other helpful electronic gadgets, subtitling is a great help here.
In Germany there are about 80,000 people who are deaf. That alone is reason enough to subtitle videos.
LANGUAGE
Would you like to learn a new language? Not so easy if you don’t live for a while in the country whose language you want to speak. Have you ever wondered why, for example, the Swedes, the Dutch, the Norwegians and the Finns speak such good English – and have done so since childhood?
The solution is subtitling!
The above languages are often not dubbed, so these are produced in English and with the respective subtitle language.
Which results in a very high learning effect! Of course, this works with any languages and subtitles.
If you regularly watch Spanish movies with German subtitles, you will become familiar with the Spanish language and gradually add more vocabulary and phrases to your vocabulary.
ONLINE
You are sitting in the meeting, in the cab, in the train or you are a passenger and now you don’t want to listen to the clip out loud, although the clip has your attention from the first second? Now how practical would subtitling be to be picked up and captivated by the clip in these locations as well?
Subtitling gives you the ability to watch clips anywhere without disturbing others or having to bust out your headphones.
In addition, clips on social networks often autoplay. When your smartphone is silent and the clip starts, they still catch the first words and have the opportunity to remember and save the clip for later.
ACCESSIBILITY
Logical! Subtitles reach more people than without. Subtitles give a clip more possibilities and a closeness that involves the viewer in the action.
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
What is the advantage of subtitling your clip? You will be found better online and increase your accessibility.
Accordingly, subtitling brings only advantages.
Would you like to produce and subtitle a clip?
We will be happy to advise you in a personal meeting!
