[MacDV] Size and position of subtitles/subpictures in a DVD

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On Tue, January 3, 2006 10:07 am, Michael Winter said:
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> On Jan 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Aaron wrote:
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>> He said it was because he needed to have the words describing the
>> various interviewees in the different languages as well, and that
>> subtitles could only be in a limited area at the bottom of the screen.
>
> I can only say that I've seen subtitles at the top of the screen on a
> couple commercial DVDs when the opening credits were being displayed
> near the bottom. I have no idea how that is done though. Something
> else I've noticed is that while viewing widescreen movies on my
> regular TV, sometimes subtitles appear in the black area beneath the
> image (which I think is great), though most of the time the subtitles
> appear over the bottom part of the video. Just pointing out that
> there must be different ways of doing subtitles.

Closed captioning is a completely separate technology from simple
subtitles. It requires special hardware to encode the captions into the
video signal and isn't just a video overlay encoded into the video images.

Rich