French Subs

Juan : Aah,he said he would do the subtitles for the battletoads episode when we weren't organized yet.I think he didn't read everything we wrote here. I don't know if you should post them on youtube sunday,because nobody proofread him...
If you want,send them to my email address : [Only admins are allowed to see this link] and I'll tell you if they are good enough to be on youtube

No no, we just need to contact him. It would be a nice thing if he were in our team.

Of course,I didn't meant to exclude him .
Your solution is better

Here you have the SRT file he sent me:

[Only admins are allowed to see this link]

AVGN 74: plumbers don't wear ties timed and sync'ed!
that was a hell of episode (especially for my first SRT )

BrendaLama will proofread it, hopefully I can give it for sunday

The translation is pretty good,the timing seems okay... it has my seal of approval !

I also read coolman's episodes,and they are also pretty good in my opinion !
Maybe for this time we should send everything we did,and after that do the 5 episode limit.

What do you think ?

Salut la compagnie,

I'm a 34 year old Belgian guy (French is my mother tongue, not Dutch). I'm very good at spelling, grammar and such and I'm equally good at understanding English, having lived in Scotland and Australia for a while.

I gotta say I am fond of the Nerd's colorful language and imaginative profanity. :-)
I really like his game reviews (can't wait to watch the movie !!) and would be happy to contribute subs to help French-speakers with limited understanding of English enjoy them. :-D
I can also proofread already submitted subs.

The downside is that I kind of suck at efficiently using computer programs, not being a geek in the least ; but I'm sure with some minor guidance I'll be able to do James' tests justice.

I haven't yet read all the previously posted comments in this thread (it's 2.30 AM here and I'm going to go to bed soon). I'll get my Belgian ass back here asap tomorrow and try to familiarize myself as to how you guys are willing to proceed with regards to subbing tests... that is if I don't decide to go have a look downtown for the launch of this year's Tour de France, since I live in Liège.

A la prochaine
François

Welcome among us !
In a few words : if you have a PC,download VisualSub Sync,it's not difficult to undertstand how it works,and there are user guides online
and if you need help,just ask !

The Tour de France has begun ?! I forgot about that

"The Sky" wrote: I AM BACK FROM THE DEAD! ... FOR NOW...

Hey guys,

Here comes a long ass post .

cobaltnightsky wrote:I do agree on the concept, but are we enough to proceed like this?

So far, 5 translators are working on it. I haven't gotten news from Gaucelm, nor from Rocko (TechGuy, did you?).

I do agree on the concept, I am just wondering if we are enough to achieve this way.

First off, agreed, 100%. Quality over quantity. We need a few more people though. And... here comes the bad news.

Second, I have too much stuff to do, at the moment. Work, and family matter (cousin got a baby, family member passed away, and a few more things).

If I haven't been so busy, I would be working on the Castlevania Episodes right now. Apologizes for that.

For now, think of me as the "forum updater" and providing points of interest, as well as proofreading SRT files whether it is good or not. (I am not saying that I am the "Big Boss" here, everyone gets to do what they want, and what they can.)

On a positive note, however, the first episode of Castlevania (Episode 79) is almost done, just haven't had the time to work on it. I'll update the forum for it.

Juanako25 wrote:Since I see you guys organizing yourselves so well about when to send me your SRT files, I just thought I'd point out that I received the subs for the Battletoads episode written by a Canadian under the name Yannick Martin. Is he someone you know? Are the subs approved to be sent in this week's bundle?

Juan, can we get ahold of him? His email, preferably? Or did someone else do that already? It would be nice to get ahold of him and tell him to go back on the forum, he signed up here already.

The same with a guy named "Mariofana", he did a translation on Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. Not sure if he got ahold of Mike or Juan, but it would be nice if we could get him on board as well.

Where is Gaucelm and Rocko anyways? :O (I think Rocko had school or something, not 100% sure though.)

François C wrote:Salut la compagnie,

I'm a 34 year old Belgian guy (French is my mother tongue, not Dutch). I'm very good at spelling, grammar and such and I'm equally good at understanding English, having lived in Scotland and Australia for a while.

I gotta say I am fond of the Nerd's colorful language and imaginative profanity. :-)
I really like his game reviews (can't wait to watch the movie !!) and would be happy to contribute subs to help French-speakers with limited understanding of English enjoy them. :-D
I can also proofread already submitted subs.

The downside is that I kind of suck at efficiently using computer programs, not being a geek in the least ; but I'm sure with some minor guidance I'll be able to do James' tests justice.

I haven't yet read all the previously posted comments in this thread (it's 2.30 AM here and I'm going to go to bed soon). I'll get my Belgian ass back here asap tomorrow and try to familiarize myself as to how you guys are willing to proceed with regards to subbing tests... that is if I don't decide to go have a look downtown for the launch of this year's Tour de France, since I live in Liège.

A la prochaine
François

Welcome aboard François! As previously mentioned by coolman and BrendaLama, use VisualSub Sync for the subtitles and stuff. Just post here on what episode you are doing by looking at the list in the first post.

If you have other people who could help out, it would be greatly appreciated. (This goes out for everyone.)

Alex

PS. This goes out to Juan, but maybe we could ask Mike and/or James to make a Youtube video telling viewers that, as a community, are making translations for the rest of the AVGN community, and as well, telling viewers to "If you want to help out, join the fun.", because I am seeing that a quarter of the languages posted on this forum so far aren't getting much attention at the moment. :S, thought I'd let you know.

@TechGuy691

I just sent you a PM with Yanick's e-mail address. I take it then that I should NOT send his subtitles to Mike in tomorrow's bundle?

About what you suggest in the PD, personally I don't find it such a bad idea. I'm only concerned that we might go from one extreme to the other, that is, from being just a handful of people per language to having dozens of people wanting to help and it becoming chaotic.

Though I admit it'd be nice for the feature itself to get some publicity, as I gather lots of people still have CC switched off by default and won't even notice there are subtitles available in multiple languages.

@François: welcome on board!
for the subs, it's really not complicated, there are a few things to be aware of (not convenient and some steps to achieve but no big deal).

@TechGuy: I have finished episode 74 (plumbers don't wear ties), it's already uploaded on the shared Gdrive, you can have a look. BrendaLama already did.
Edit: I think we should write the process in the first post, once we all approved it. If people join, they could simply refer to it. I can write a tutorial for syncing videos, Coolman756 helps me on that (working with VisualSubSync) and he shared lots of valuable information for it.
Also, I took the "pitfall Harry" for translation, can you update the list ? Thanks!

@juanako: I do agree that a team made of a few people would be more efficient than a lot of them not organized: I was thinking in the overall workflow proposed by Coolman756. Not impossible, of course, but I was just wondering if we could achieve it efficiently, that's all

I do not mind doing it this way (for instance, I can proofread at work , but I can't time or sync videos, I need to be home).

I guess we are in the phase of adaptation, to know how we are going to organize. Once this solved, we will be certainly more effective.

TechGuy691 wrote:The same with a guy named "Mariofana", he did a translation on Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. Not sure if he got ahold of Mike or Juan, but it would be nice if we could get him on board as well.

Sorry, should have told you about it, I totally forgot. I contacted him 3 days ago on his YouTube channel (it's "mariofana", wasn't hard to find) telling him that we were a little bit bothered by the fact that he submitted subtitles since we already have an "official" translation team and kindly asking him that he were intending to continue, he should join us. He replied that he understands and said that he would take a look at the forums. Nothing since then.

Bonjour à tous!
I only saw the topic about subs yesterday before going to bed, so, sorry if I join the team a bit late! I'm 29, I live in Québec and I'd love to join this project because the AVGN is just so awesome, I think we all agree!
I see that a lot of people use VisualSubSync for subs and indeed, it does look easy to use, but my main question concerning that would be : do you need to download the video from youtube to use it? and if so, how do you do that?I'd like to join coolman in doing them in order and I'll go with McKids.

Also, could anyone tell me, in a nutshell (or a PM) how to send the .srt and all that? Just don't feel like browsing those 5 pages... I also already know about the subtitle conventions (35 char and 2 lines max, etc.).

Thanks for the answers and I'm real glad to join the team!

Patrick

(btw, will we have to sub the rest of cinemassacre after we're done with these?)

Hello!

Yes, you have to download the video in order to use it. I personnally use keepvid for that (it's online, all you need is Java) and download them as a mp4 file but then I have to convert them to wmv or avi because VSS doesn't support mp4, so use whatever you want.

About how to send srts: we're using Google Drive. Just send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll give you the rights to access our common folder.

As for subtitling the entire Cinemassacre filmography, yup, I'm all for that, but maybe not everyone here because it's gonna take a lot of time.

guys, just thinking of something

I think everybody wants to make clean SRT like we would like to see for a regular avi/mkv/... file.
however, the way youtube handles subtitle is different. I am not even talking about the italic or whatever, but the format itself.

for instance, I have a few sentences on 2 distinguished line because it make sens (2 caracters talking). But this is screwed up on youtube as it's displayed on a single line.

does anyone know if we should follow the "SRT way" (the clean regular way) or the "Youtube way" (one line, whatever it is) ?

I may have missed this information

so far, I did a clean SRT (32/35 caracters or 2 lines, italic, etc...) , but taking a look at the italien translations, it's not the most adapted for youtube. At least for the time being, if youtube decide to adjust this, there is no more question to be asked.

But right now, I am wondering

By the way, was this video SRT proofread??
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I don't know what you're talking about, YouTube handles srt files perfectly fine, besides from the fact that it doesn't support tags (italic, bold etc.). I even uploaded one of the episodes on my YouTube channel and added my own subtitles to see if everything was okay, it kept the exact same line disposal. As for the tags, I think we should use them as we make the subtitles, to have a "regular" version, but take these off when submitting them. So, if ever YouTube can handle those tags, we could send the "regular" version.

And no those subtitles aren't proofread, and they have major flaws, which I stated on the first page. They're made by Yannick Martin, the person who posted on the thread's first page. We need to contact him...

Do anyboby have Yannick Martin's email ? Obviously he doesn't visit the forum very often,it might be useless to end him a PM

cobaltnightsky wrote:@François: welcome on board!
for the subs, it's really not complicated, there are a few things to be aware of (not convenient and some steps to achieve but no big deal).

@TechGuy: I have finished episode 74 (plumbers don't wear ties), it's already uploaded on the shared Gdrive, you can have a look. BrendaLama already did.
Edit: I think we should write the process in the first post, once we all approved it. If people join, they could simply refer to it. I can write a tutorial for syncing videos, Coolman756 helps me on that (working with VisualSubSync) and he shared lots of valuable information for it.
Also, I took the "pitfall Harry" for translation, can you update the list ? Thanks!

@juanako: I do agree that a team made of a few people would be more efficient than a lot of them not organized: I was thinking in the overall workflow proposed by Coolman756. Not impossible, of course, but I was just wondering if we could achieve it efficiently, that's all

I do not mind doing it this way (for instance, I can proofread at work , but I can't time or sync videos, I need to be home).

I guess we are in the phase of adaptation, to know how we are going to organize. Once this solved, we will be certainly more effective.

Yeah, slight problem with that: I got locked out again, no access. :S.

I sent both of you my email (cobalt and coolman) via PM.

And, forum is updated: Plumbers is done, and Pitfall Harry is "in progress". I might provide episode links in the first post, to provide ease of access, but I don't have the time atm.

@BrendaLama, I got his email from Juan earlier this morning, he doesn't want to post it on here for "obvious reasons".

Alex

I know youtube accepts the SRT just fine, but it is slightly different from a regular SRT read from VLC, for instance

firstly, Youtube read them on a single line: that means that if you need to write on distinguished 2 lines, it's just flattened to a single one in youtube?
This might not be too troublesome, but in some cases, that can be annoying.

So I was asking to take it into consideration, or not.

Secondly, as you mentionned, Youtube does not handle (yet?) italic and bold (or others if any). So is there any points in putting italic and bold since they do not render?

That's why I was asking if we should use Youtube limitation in consideration and NOT putting 2 distinguished lines and Italic/bold, or if youtube will fix that so we can use clean SRT nicely as VLC would do with a regular .srt?

@Alex: thanks for the update. What do you mean for "obvious reason"? Did he already send his SRT for Battletoads, visible right now? I am not very happy with the SRT

cobaltnightsky wrote: @Alex: thanks for the update. What do you mean for "obvious reason"? Did he already send his SRT for Battletoads, visible right now? I am not very happy with the SRT

Juan would rather not post the email on here, for privacy reasons, that is what I meant. I'll send you three the emails. (cobalt, coolman, and BrendaLama)

Sorry for the confusion!

Alex

ah, ok
sorry, tired, bunch of things to do. No worries, I have all these emails address

By the way coolman, sorry if I was not clear, I am overburden nowadays (talking about my work, not the SRT project) and very tired

Okay, I'll check it out

(By the way,has anybody proofread the srt of the episode 9 I did yesterday ? )

I wish you courage if you are all tired

BrendaLama wrote:Okay, I'll check it out

(By the way,has anybody proofread the srt of the episode 9 I did yesterday ? )

I wish you courage if you are all tired

Wait, you did Episode 9?

*looks back*

Shit, I missed that post

Forum updated.

Alex

BrendaLama wrote:Okay, I'll check it out

(By the way,has anybody proofread the srt of the episode 9 I did yesterday ? )

I wish you courage if you are all tired

I'm about to do it

EDIT: ok, done, I will send you an e-mail in a couple of minutes