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What's the deal that subtitling I'll share my experience in this video coming up.

Hello and welcome back to the freelance verse

this week's video is about probably one of my favorite services i offer it subtitling

video content is has been in they still extremely popular especially also nowadays in

the corporate world is speak coming

a

very important tool of communication.

Because people can't go into works all right so you still need to communicate with

your employees

and instead of writing boring emails people do it now often with video content

and me being from Switzerland and multilingual country.

A lot of these videos have to be subtitled in order national languages

so i work with this comp

actually quite a lot recently

so i planned out this video and i really wanted to make sure to structure it in a way

that you can follow it easily and understand it

so i'm going to split it into different parts

i'm going to look at different aspects of subtitling

i'm going to look at the requirements to

sets that is needed to do this service

common content types i'm going to i'm going to look in to

and also the basic displaying principle of subtitling

and to finish off the video if i have enough time i hope so i will give you a quick

demonstration with the tool that i'm actually using.

To show you what i'm actually doing when i'm subtitling i think that might be

insightful

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part one the aspects of subtitling.

So before you start subtitling you really need to make sure with the clients that you

know what they actually ask from you write because the term subtitling or subtitle

the translation can come in many different forms.

Now maybe your clients simply wants a transcription so you simply want to

to type the spoken partner also the the texts part on screen

into a word file

and simply transcription right maybe that's all they need

this is usually the first step that i'm doing so i would have a video in Swiss German

or it or in German

and they asked me to do a German transcription that's usually the first step

or maybe to requests from the client goes forgive maybe they need to

as srt file or of

t t fat to a subtitle file a bit actual time coats

but you didn't need to do is after you've transcribed to find you need to spot the

subtitles

spotting is the act of

time coding to different subs so that they actually fit to the video right to do this

in a in a subtitle tool.

May be declined even needs closed captions tried to can go further.

Close capture census was originally designed for for the deaf community.

Usually in square brackets you can also

read noises on screen so

if i'm be

clapping.

And it would show

clapping on screen as what right

and then maybe the next step the last step is actually translating the subtitles

right so far we haven't done any translations so far beef only done subtitling

and now comes the aspect of subtitle translation.

But if the client actually wants me to translate the subtitles

i

most likely haven't done all the parts before because it will be in another language

if you know what i mean.

So if i if i'm doing to transcription if i'm doing the time spotting all in German.

Than the translation part ghost to

an English or French translate to so let's get into part to a little bit the

requirements and to skills that you need to to to be a subtitle to offer this as your

service

in my translation studies i specialize in multimodal communication

so we did actually subtitling we did three speaking as well i explain this a bit

further down in the video

and if you're interested in stop

i

definitely recommend to get education in audio visual communication.

Or maybe a class even you know i'm going to try to find a good class on coursera or

something and Lincoln down in into against description

because just these principles it's i'm going to get into them this in this video as

well but it's just better if you have some kind of.

Education and grasps of what's actually needed that are a lot of very good books.

I have one here actually audiovisual translation and subtitling

by hot hideous cintas and Eileen at a mile.

Very good book it's quite technical quite complicated.

If you really want to get into like

very technical parts of of subtitling you

know the first page i opened it's all about.

Time code

when to start dem exactly that they fit perfectly with everything flow.

Very insightful.

So the main things you have to learn before we can start this.

One thing of course the tools you know.

There are a lot of tools i'm going to pop

some of the screen here that you can see some

some logos to make sure you do your own research.

Usually every chance

there has to prefer tool.

My sinus cold subtitle edit now that i work with i used to work with

us our teat

it was cold

or the really try out a few and make make sure you find the one that works for you to

you can

be efficient and.

Have fun while working on it but then different clients will have often times the

their own tools that they were equipped on a on a server basis or in a browser.

But usually if it's a good client they will pay you to actually practiced actual

right and.

If you know one specific subtitle tool it's quite easy the other ones come quite

naturally to you anyways

another big thing to learn before you start subtitling is to condensate and to be

concise right do you often times you don't have enough space to actually do proper.

Normal translation of a text to in to cramp into the small little box right

because maybe especially if there are several speakers or if there are a lot of cuts

in the video or in the movie.

Or you need to be quake you need to think very quick and sometimes you might think to

yourself when you watch TV and do see the subtitle you think.

That's not really exact i don't think that's right.

To bad translation you might even think.

And it's possible that that's the case of course their seventh of bad stuff out there

but oftentimes it has to do with the limitations of subtitling rights of

thing is a classic example of notion to notion translation rather than word to word.

What it means you just take one notion and you need to transfer demeaning into

another notion

and it doesn't really matter what were to use as long as the meaning is their right

to sometimes you even need to leave stuff out.

What we need to make sure that the and ocean is to have transferred.

And of course one other major thing to learn a display principles of subtitles so

let's get into that next in order to ensure a smooth reading flow of the audience of

the subtitles there are a couple of guidelines you need to keep in mind right now.

It's important to mention that these guidelines are generic

if declined has specific guidelines they are always to be preferred they are always

more important than these generic guideline then i'm going to mentioned

but if the client doesn't have any specific guidelines you can use these once

so in general that is a maximum of two lines per frame per subtitle they can only be

two lines nevermore right

especially in Switzerland or in other countries by day are more than two national

languages.

It can be quite common to have two languages in one subtitles so when there is an

Italian movie you'd have

to top line German and the lower line French

so there you have to talk to the client but

in general if it's one language per subtitle

you have two lines

make sure these two lines are in the pyramid form so the top line should always be

shorter than the bottom the line whenever possible of course

each line of these two lines per frame

be longer than forty two characters right so in total you can have eighty four

characters for both lines

the placement of the subtitle it's usually delegated by the tulu use but ideally it

should be in the center and as low as possible of the.

Of the screen

and is there is some kind of credit rolling or some kind of text.

Then it is possible that you can shift one subtitle up to the top

but then make sure to come back again immediately after the color and different

should be easily readable the color has to pop but it shouldn't be too aggressive i

don't use pink or anything the best is to just use white either on no background or

like a black boy talks with white on top.

One subtitle should be on the screen for a minimum of one second and a maximum of

seven seconds never longer.

Otherwise

the

the reader has her at the whole thing and it's pointless to keep it there right you

can just discarded.

If the if the speakers continue to speak and it's doesn't make sense for any kind of

reason to have subtitles just let digital you can enter new speakers with little dash

symbols so whenever you have to speaker speaking in the same frame

and you need to distinguish.

Between them who says what if someone says hello and the other says hi

and they are

too close together so that

you can split them into to subtitles.

You can have them in the same but then you just add a dash before so dash ha allowed

dash high so people know that it's two different speakers

you can also use ellipses so the three dots they are usually intended to make sure to

tell the reader that this specific sentence will continue in in another sub title.

So for example if you have a caught in the video and you need to stop this subtitle

and then it's ten seconds of scenery and then it continues with the same sentence

or you would have

ellipsis into first one ended the second one to connect to.

It's really important to not split grammatical units and proper names.

So if you have an

agent props my name if you have to in the subtitle

you shouldn't have Adrian and line one and propst in line to you should always tried

to me this into one nine

the same goes with grammatical units so if you have.

And

a house.

You wouldn't split it between a and house right this this is a grammatical unity

would keep this on line one or like to just for the reading flow saying goes with

commerce after a coma you can easily split the line

but you wouldn't split line just a word before the comma.

Definitely no bold and underline in

subtitles that's another thing

you can use metallic sometimes

i usually for foreign words they use that

are for

for concepts that i'm not really clear

and the last thing you really need to consider our camera cuts right you can't

overrun a subtitle into a next cut.

You need to cut the subtitle exactly where just seen cuts.

Otherwise it doesn't make sense if you have is uptight the running into the next seen

it seems very odd for the view

so after all this technical information a little bit

more about

video types content types.

So things you will you could

typically work with our t v shows and movies of course probably you will work with

commercials

internal communication from companies

as well as external actually a company presentations to.

Is that

blocks but in video farms of flocks

and documentaries and even life shows actually that brings me to re speaking i

mentioned

earlier a little bit

re speaking is a very

specific type of subtitling because it's life right that's usually done by TV

companies so probably.

Your national broadcasting company wherever you live they have a re speaking.

The department

this is employed by the way says in-house people it's not usually freelancers.

There's someone watching the live show and actually re speaking what the commentators

saying

and a speech to text tool is automatically generating subtitles

and then the re speaker has a few seconds

to to make some changes that may be weren't.

In

transfer to a perfectly

and then it's sent to the life audience so dare to focus just not on precision not

and perfection but on.

Speed to be right you need to bring this up to

those out as quickly as possible because

if there is a goal in a football game and and like a minute later you you sent us a.

On it's irrelevant right but all the other content types i mentioned you can do for

as a freelancer for agencies direct clients

media houses as well.

Just make sure you know how long it takes for you

cause

i see so many hill postings for subtitle is that is just

ridiculous rates they pay you one

one dollar per video minute or something

and if you've never worked with subtype those who don't know what that means right to

so it sounds make okay maybe.

One dollar per minute so a sixty minute video like at sixty dollars that's quite cool

right.

But these and realized that how long it actually takes you.

Just to give you an example for me to transcribe a video

and then to to spot to spot the time codes to actually have to subtitles without any

translation yet the right

just

scrip option and time coding.

It takes about

one hour for five to seven video minutes.

So yeah if you sum this up to this sixty minutes video that i mentioned before.

Let's say six minute per for one hour so that will be for sixty minutes of video that

will take me ten hours.

And if you're getting sixty dollars for ten hours of work then you are doing

something wrong right we're looking at.

Than one four five six hundred dollars

for ten hours or other than sixty.

Or i know enough said let's see what this actually looks like when i'm working so i'm

going to cut to the workstation oh and show you didn't demonstration

so as it can see him though

here my workstation and this is subtitle edit what you can see at the moment

you have to big black square on the right side where where to video will play.

On the left side the subtitles will appear

and on the bottom to

the black line is it's went away from will play.

That's actually a really good tip if you are

figuring out with tool to use i would really recommend to use one of the that shows

away form.

Showing in a second wife this is really useful so what do you do with something to

let it you just important of video

let me just grab a video here from my.

From my own media was i take the imposter one and i just drag it overheat into the

black screen.

Down in the bottom line went away from me

i can click on click to add way form.

When i do this

and immediately.

Imports to video and it creates his way from out here

and now you can clearly see wage in his voice various volume

and why does this really useful as you can really start to start and end the

subtitles exactly where to person speaks right.

So now i can play this.

My interests nothing to be subtitled

and now i'm starting to speak.

So i know that this part here is where i'm speaking right those started exactly on

this sounds just a little bit before.

And then you click insert the insert button

and then immediately up here you see on the left side

subtitle has been created

and he'd you at the text.

So if i already has of a transcription what i would do not always

copy-paste to transcribe perversion

into here

i don't have a transcription for this video yet so.

I

can just type it hello

can you.

The back.

To the freelance.

And now you see to the subtitle turned orange on top this means that something is

not right

either it's too long in terms of character as too many characters

or actually detours nation is too short or too long.

I can now see here that single line length is forty five

and i see know before i said forty two is

Max so forty five for too long.

So i would just the.

Probably do this

hello and welcome back to the freelance verse

so now i have

eighteen and twenty seven the lines

and to duration i can now play it.

So this is exactly where it stops so at the blue line is not

exactly better stop speaking.

And i put a little bit overdone so it's actually perfect the automated subtitle they

put in is the perfect length.

China

and i will go on this would be the number two thanks so much for coming back to the

channel.

For this week.

It lasts until he used to pull it.

There

and i have to.

Split it in the me to

and then you can watch it.

Of course.

For sweet.

And that's how it's done.

Of course there's no English to English you could also have a translated know we have

a chairman subtitle

and then that's all the magic behind it and then once you're finished also during a

it's just always always save it.

The first time you save it if i just click control i said will just save it to my

desktop

the preferred format this on

srt

you can see up here actually celebrate as a

team and then you can deliver it is to client

hope you enjoyed the video and

let me know in the comments if you are thinking about getting into the subtitling

industry

i really enjoy offering the service i think it's a lot of fun

hope you enjoyed it and thanks so much for watching see you next week by by.