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LED captioning display - 29 Jan 2008 02:17 GMT

Is there a way to display one line of text at a time onto an LED display for
hearing impaired folks in the theatre?

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Shauna Kelly - 29 Jan 2008 08:09 GMT

See http://www.surtitles.com/

Hope this helps.

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> Is there a way to display one line of text at a time onto an LED
> display for
> hearing impaired folks in the theatre?

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Michael Bednarek - 29 Jan 2008 12:27 GMT

>Is there a way to display one line of text at a time onto an LED display for
>hearing impaired folks in the theatre?

I know that here in Brisbane, Opera Queensland produces its surtitles as
PowerPoint slides. I suspect it's a rather labour-intensive process.

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Graham Mayor - 29 Jan 2008 13:55 GMT

>> Is there a way to display one line of text at a time onto an LED
>> display for hearing impaired folks in the theatre?
>
> I know that here in Brisbane, Opera Queensland produces its surtitles
> as PowerPoint slides. I suspect it's a rather labour-intensive
> process.

Maybe not - you can 'send' the document to PowerPoint from Word and each
paragraph will be assigned to a slide. You can then format the slides to
give the result you want.

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Michael Bednarek - 30 Jan 2008 03:34 GMT

>>> Is there a way to display one line of text at a time onto an LED
>>> display for hearing impaired folks in the theatre?

(I should have asked this before)
Do you already have such a LED device? How do you currently enter the
text it displays?

>> I know that here in Brisbane, Opera Queensland produces its surtitles
>> as PowerPoint slides. I suspect it's a rather labour-intensive
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>paragraph will be assigned to a slide. You can then format the slides to
>give the result you want.

That presumes that the libretto/text is available as a Word document.
Even then, the slide version in opera needs heavy editing: most sung
repetitions are omitted from the surtitles.

But the main effort surely must be to tie the projection into the
computerised cueing system for the timing.

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