Subtitles for recordings
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Engelsystem
Subtitles for recordings
Useful links:
Subtitles style guide
Engelsystem
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In short:
Control chars – ()[]\*\* –: fewer are better
Content: if applicable word for word
These guidelines are the result of long discussions that included a sign language interpreter who also does subtitles and also a deaf person using subtitles. Also, I used this (german): https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/service/untertitel/Untertitel-Standards,untertitelstandards102.html
The following was our common result:
Full names are only useful when first using them. After that please use a form of abbreviation. If you use first names or family names is up to you (different might be appropriate from talk to talk), but the prinpipal is always: the shorter the better!
Constanze Kurz: welcome!
*applause*
Kurz: nice to have you here!
Frank Rieger: also a warm welcome from me, too!
Rieger: …
Laura: Hi Alice! Hi Bob!
B: Hi Laura, how're you?
A: Hi!
L: I'm fine, thanks!
- Hey, everything's fine?
- yes, how about you?
- all done and dusted
- then we'll see each other tomorrow!
“Ehm”s, stumbling or words that were said twice can be omitted, but not if they're important (e.g. for a joke)
Unfortunately there is a bug in amara which uses the * for italic. Just ignore it we will fix that with a script in the textfiles.
*applause*
*laughing*
*loud laughing*
*boo*
*disquietness*
*phone ringing*
Well, yes, thank you very much for your talk (linebreak)
*standing ovation*
in the Q&A part you can do it like that. Name at first appearence the Angel with “Angel:” or “XY Angel” if you want to specify the type of angel, questions with “Question:”, answers as “Answer:”. Later abbreviate to eather only the type of angel, e.g. “Audio:”, “Signal:”, “Herald:” or “Angel:” and abbreviate question and answer to “Q:” and “A:” for shortness.
Herald Angel: We welcome to this talk Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman,
*raging applause*
Herald: … Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
*cautios applause*
Herald: And now have fun with the talk: “How does good software look like?”
Torvalds: Good evening
*applause*
Stallmann: Evening
*applause*
Gates: Good evening
*applause*
Jobs: Evening
*applause*
Stallman: Software must be free. That's the highest principle!
Gates: And how does the programmer make a living of it? Air and love?
Torvalds: My software is used on a huge bunch of devices and programmers are paid to develop that software, when it should be used on new devices.
Jobs: And what about the UI design? Only if it looks good software is also used!
Stallman: I want to use the CLI!
Gates: To send users back to the hell of text, after they got to know graphical user interfaces …
Jobs: … which YOU stole from US! There's still a court decision pending!
Stallman: Good concepts are always copied and further developed, just like with the code.
Torvalds: That reminds me of a specific line of code that was actually copied from Linux to Windows: “if OPEN BRACKET …
Afterwards there can be a whole translation to english and german and whatever.