Re: [Avid-L2] Subtitles for documentaries going to multiple languages

I believe it usually is all presented on a single full subtitle track for those other languages. No separate "forced" track for the other language. The other languages get called out in the subtitle as they appear and change.

So in your case as an example, when the spoken language changes to English, it would look like this:

[Anglais] Oui monsieur.

then a change to Hindi would be:

[Hindi] Allons-y.

So all of the languages will appear in the full subtitle track to a French speaker and they get prefaced in the subtitle by the language spoken. This should happen on the first line for each new language.

This is how you would only have to choose FR subtitles as a French person watching your EN/Hindi spoken film.

I am only giving this information based on how I've seen it. There may not actually be a standard, but this has made sense to me.

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 1:01 PM Jef Huey via groups.io <jlhueyc2=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

I have a question about strategies for subtitles.

 

I am finishing a film that has predominately English dialogue.  There are some sections where Hindi is spoken.

The base video file has no burned in subititles. We have a Forced English subtitle file that translates the spoken Hindi into English.

 

This film is currently being streamed by Artinii. I have reached out to them with this question. I do understand that various services handle this differently which is making this challenging.

 

How should we manage various non English languages?  For example, if we make a French subtitle file which translates all dialogue (English and Hindi) into French, how does the file currently marked as "Forced" get disabled so that we do not have both English and French text on the screen when a viewer wishes to see the French subtitles?

 

Confused as this all seems to be viewing app controlled and there is not really a standard.  Or is there?

 

Thanks,

Jef

 

 

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