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New to subtitling / closed captions and looking for advise
Thread poster: New@Captions
New@Captions
New@Captions
Canada
May 31, 2015

Hi,

I'm interested in learning about subtitling and/or closed captioning but have no clue where to start. This forum seems like the good place to ask

Objective: doing quality control of subtitles and/or closed captions for videos

My background:
- Canadian, english spoken/written
- years of experience in software testing {QA) and some video editing

I'm reading up on ... See more
Hi,

I'm interested in learning about subtitling and/or closed captioning but have no clue where to start. This forum seems like the good place to ask

Objective: doing quality control of subtitles and/or closed captions for videos

My background:
- Canadian, english spoken/written
- years of experience in software testing {QA) and some video editing

I'm reading up on it but books about this are scarce, especailly closed captioning. This was a very interesting read: http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Subtitles-Third-Edition/dp/130066715X

How would be a good way to start? (besides downloading free subtitling apps? I've tinkered with CaptionMaker a bit)

- book suggestions?
- taking a subtitling/media course?
- subtitling short videos on freelance? (not just yet)

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jbjb
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Estonia
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Estonian to English
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competition Jun 2, 2015

The job is becoming more and more automated and western hemisphere countries will probably be left with jobs related to live captioning and respeaking. I would suggest taking a course on the automated aspects of captioning, especially respeaking (or whatever it might be replaced with), because that seems to be the future. Even the qualilty control of Indian/Philippines-made captions will probably be made as automatic as possible.
 
Bernhard Sulzer
Bernhard Sulzer  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 18:08
English to German
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More info available Jun 2, 2015

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Additional info is available in the forums. Use the search function.
Here's a sample:

http://www.proz.com/forum/, for example: how to become a subtitler

http://www.proz.com/?sp=forum&action=SearchForum&advanced=y&search_pattern=subtitling&results_start=2450

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