Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. Both are typically used as a transcription of the audio portion of a program as it occurs (either verbatim or in edited form), sometimes including descriptions of non-speech elements. Other uses have been to provide a textual alternative language translation of a presentation’s primary audio language that is usually burned-in (or “open”) to the video and unselectable. HTML5 defines subtitles as a “transcription or translation of the dialogue ..

DISTINCTION BETWEEN CLOSED AND OPEN CAPTIONING

Open Captioning involves the process of displaying text on a video that cannot be turned on or off. Usually, one can view these kinds of website videos and some promotional contents. It is called by different names like baked on, burned-in, hard-coded captions, etc. They are mostly preferred for displaying movies in cinemas. Those sorts of films will be showcasing a single type of filming. The one pro of open formatting is that you don’t require a separate file for saving and featuring.

Closed captioning, on the other hand, can be manually modified according to the need. Mostly videos televised on popular channels like Netflix, YouTube, and even the DVD players have the support system for CC. There are three good advantages of using CC. One- you can change its presentation over a video; two- you can have CC for so many file formats conveniently; last but not the least, three- even if the quality of the video is low, one will be able to interpret things from the medium through the excellent display of captions.