How to display one line of text at a time onto an LED display

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LED captioning display

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

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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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

Michael said:
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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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

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