The subtitles serve as training-wheels — only useful for the first few repetitions:
At first, pause the video to take in the glosses and commentary notes.
Once you’ve mastered those, focus on the text only.
Once that’s in your memory, just take in the visuals and listen. (PS the audio is from LibriVox, it isn’t me.)
I don’t really know anything about video editing etc., this is just an experiment on the iMovie app that came with my laptop.
Before I go further, if anyone has ideas on how to make this more useful (or if others have done this in a better way), please let me know. I don’t intend to publish this (it’s just an experiment in my own notes for personal consumption). Many thanks!
Pausing the video means that YouTube displays the video’s control panel, which just so happens to obscure the subtitles in their current position. If pausing is essential to using the video, I’d suggest moving the subtitles to another portion of the frame so they can be easily seen whether or not the control panel is displayed.
With such short chunks being displayed, such as conveniat, quae cura, it’s hard to keep the syntax of the clause in mind.
Personally, I’d appreciate a “pre-teaching” segment: start by displaying isolated vocabulary words – ulmus, vitis, Maecenas, etc. – over the accompanying images. Then move to presenting the continuous original text with the same images.
All great ideas, thanks! I’ll have to figure out how to move subtitles: this could take me straight out of my comfort zone in iMovie…
Yes I can put a full verse in on each screen, rather than breaking it at the caesura.
Hmmm, actually the commentary notes could move as well into a “pre-learning” video, giving more time to read and learn them. The “actual” video then wouldn’t need to be paused. That’s a good idea to break it up… Will have a think about it, thanks again!
