In article <hckfmk$2l
...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Drew <dre
...@verizonSPAMBEGONE.net> wrote:
> Anyway, I thought I'd break this newsgroup's radio silence to point out
> something odd I noticed in the closed captions for this segment.
> Apparently, a few seconds of footage were cut from the segment after it had
> been captioned but before it aired, yet the captions were left in, so some
> "bonus" captions aired despite the lack of video to match up with them.
Assuming they're still captioning "The Tonight Show" the same way they
were back when I was involved with it in 1999 (and I don't see why they
wouldn't be), a caption file is prepared in advance from an audio feed
of the taping, and then someone is sending out that caption file live as
the show airs. A producer is supposed to call the captioners between
tape and air to say if anything was edited out, but that may not have
happened in this case (wonder if it's an issue with Conan's staff still
not having the procedure down 100% -- they used to have about 6 hours to
call with the cuts in the "Late Night," but now that's down to about 2).
It's possible to "skip over" lines in the caption file as it's being
sent out, as well as doing quick emergency edits. However, it's also
possible that the person sending out the file "zoned out" and just kept
sending. Unfortunately, I don't have my recording anymore, or I might
be able to tell the story based on the speed at which the captions were
scrolling -- there would probably be a noticeable pause if there was an
actual "oh, shit" moment.
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