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Mark Penner Date: Mon Mar 20, 2000 8:01 am Subject: Re: Transcribing Japanese Sign Language | |
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At 06:58 03/19/2000 -0800, you wrote: > On 3/13/00, Mark Penner wrote: > >Yes! Absolutely. What I meant to say was NOT to caption them in English or > >Japanese or any other language, but in SignWriting itself. Valerie answers: > At the moment, to caption in SignWriting would mean an editor (a > person) in a TV studio would take the video frame by frame and paste > in the graphic for each sign onto the master video - can you imagine > how much work that would be?!! Way too much work!! Of course I didn't think as far as HOW it might be done--just thought it would be nice to have. Easy for ME to say! > So although "SignWriting Captioning Software" may exist someday, > right now, let's just write SignWriting ourselves with pencil and > paper, or type it on our personal computers...that is plenty!! More than enough to keep me busy, as you well know. Mark Mark Penner Tokyo, Japan |
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