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Do any of you find video/audio being out of sync - on your TV, your computer, where ever - to be completely disorienting? I can't watch it. I'm in a telecon right now where the video and audio are about 2 seconds off from each other, and I had to minimize the window, so I was just listening. It's almost a panic reaction, when I can't fix it.
@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic I’ve only had this happen a few times and it’s weird and makes me uncomfortable, but thankfully it rarely happens.
What gets under my skin on a much more regular basis is when subtitles don’t match up. I have subtitles on for just about everything I can because I like having a way to double check the dialogue, but I can hear all the times they don’t quite match and it needles me. Netflix anime can be the worst because the English subs titles are (I assume) set to the Japanese dub and not the English Dub, so you get lines that are almost completely different and it drives me up the wall!
@polaris @ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic Do you mean when the subtitles don't even translate that they are actually saying?
I'll always remember an episode of "Un village français." We had to watch it with subtitles because my ex-wife doesn't speak French.
At some point there's a man standing next to a linotype machine asking about moving "la lino." The English subtitles were about moving "the linoleum." 🤦
What the hell? There's no linoleum in the scene, but there's a linotype machine. Still, they go for linoleum.
(I also doubt that French folks in France refer to linoleum as "la lino" but I could be mistaken. I'm French-Canadian.)
There was another time where someone was talking about 2 or 3 items out of a whole set, and it was turned into 2/3 in English, if I recall correctly. 2 or 3 of the set is much less than 2/3. (I don't remember how big the set was.)
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OK, but it's different. I think you need to declare war and force them to admit you're right.
That's how it's done, right?
@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic omg yes.
If it’s outta sync, if they play music with lyrics during dialogue, if it’s a clear channel top 40 song shoehorned in a scene it doesn’t fit: music/audio in media I consume can cause me to have a visceral reaction.
Glad to hear I’m not alone.
@kataklysm @flexghost @ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic
Aren't out of sync audio & subs universally upsetting?
A subtler issue: the film Iorram (Boat Song) took old voice recordings of Gaelic speaking fisher folk & paired them with English subs & new visuals of modern fishers.
But the new visuals didn't always match thematically, AND, visual scene switches/edits often followed a timing unrelated to the subs/voices. The effect was SICKENINGLY disorienting for me & another #ActuallyAutistic friend.
@kataklysm @flexghost @ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic
Also on #Subtitles & being #ActuallyAutistic :
I can be slow at processing both text & audio, but subtitles do help with the audio. Yet these days I find subtitles flash by too quickly.
When people are speaking rapidly that's fair enough; but sometimes the subs disappear too soon despite long pauses before the next line of dialogue.
It's a disability issue & an odd choice by film-makers in an era of better accessibility awareness.
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