thanks to "subtitlers"

[BangTheBank]

Hi there,

only to thanks every translator for the value that his job gives to community of original language film enthusiasts and language learners. I use watching films in original language but for learning is so much enojoyable. I simply think about Network (Lumet, 1976) and other hundreds of beautiful american-english titles. Looking forward to learn French...but then you wish to learn chinese and japanese, persian and portuguese, polish and czech, corean and german. I'm going to accept my mean human being limits.

Can you talk about how to make subtitles for films? And why do you do this inestimable job?

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[scooby007]

You can talk about anything that takes your fancy here.

People do this to help others understand TV shows/movies better. People use them who may be slow or hard of hearing to follow the speech of an English movie/TV show because English may not even be their mother tongue, so if they miss the speech they can always read. This is not always the case, there are many reasons as to why people use subtitles.

[TedTheBellhop]

One big reason is being hearing impaired or deaf at all. I know many deaf people and thats the main reason for me to create or OCR subtitles. Germany has just some subtitled shows/movies in television - german movies are often without german subs (not on DVD), so hearing impaired people can't watch them.

I'm using Aegisub to create subtitles for movies. OCR with SubRip or DVDSubEdit - and time...

[arcchancellor]

Germany has just some subtitled shows/movies in television

These subs can be captured from the Teletext-Feature, if you want (but maybe you use this way already).
A lot of sites explain the workflow.

I'm using Aegisub to create subtitles for movies. OCR with SubRip or DVDSubEdit - and time...

Unfortunately Aegisub don't work error-free on my Linux-System. Therefore I use for a long time a simple Texteditor or a little Prog from the Repositories, named SubtitleEditor (what a clear significant name )

[TedTheBellhop]

These subs can be captured from the Teletext-Feature, if you want (but maybe you use this way already).

Yeah, I do that a lot! Its just that Germany does have a pretty bad subtitle coverage, so thats one motivation for me to help out in German subs.

[arcchancellor]

Yeah, I do that a lot! Its just that Germany does have a pretty bad subtitle coverage, so thats one motivation for me to help out in German subs.

It seems we have similar motivations.
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