Any suggestions

OK folks, Im am interesting in making just the subs for Long Love Letter available. I have someone translating it now. I am not interested in subtitling myself. I dont have anywhere near enough time.
Anyone want to give some advice as to how or where to go about it it would be appreciated. ;)

Eve wrote:OK folks, Im am interesting in making just the subs for Long Love Letter available. I have someone translating it now. I am not interested in subtitling myself. I dont have anywhere near enough time.
Anyone want to give some advice as to how or where to go about it it would be appreciated. ;)

Have you decided on hard subs or soft subs? Soft subs might be a little easier if you are doing it all by yourself, as you don't have to re-encode the video, or if people already have the video.

The other big part to subbing other than translation is probably the timing. It's a bit of a chore. You can use software packages (Subtitle Workshop/Sub Station Alpha?) to enter and adjust them. Sometimes you can get other timed soft subs (like Korean) and just replace the text. It's a big time saver.

And there are a bunch of subbers at d-addicts, so if you need help or want to hook up with a group to do spiffy hardsubs with karaoke and the whole shebang you might find collaborators there.
Check out the d-addicts fansubbing forum.

loris wrote:

Have you decided on hard subs or soft subs? Soft subs might be a little easier if you are doing it all by yourself, as you don't have to re-encode the video, or if people already have the video.

The other big part to subbing other than translation is probably the timing. It's a bit of a chore. You can use software packages (Subtitle Workshop/Sub Station Alpha?) to enter and adjust them. Sometimes you can get other timed soft subs (like Korean) and just replace the text. It's a big time saver.

And there are a bunch of subbers at d-addicts, so if you need help or want to hook up with a group to do spiffy hardsubs with karaoke and the whole shebang you might find collaborators there.
Check out the d-addicts fansubbing forum.

Thanx. I plan to only do softsubs. I know there is a version of Long Love Letter in raw form out there so I wanted to hook it in with that. But Ill contact the peeps at D-addicts, thanx for the reminder. I should have thought of that. :doh:

You might want to connect with the user Phoenix at d-addicts as this person already put out a version of the soft subs for the first episode. (See this thread). Hope that helps.