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Subtitles for theatre – Create, edit and screen subtitles in theatre shows

12 points by mirap 11y ago

brudgers 11y ago
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Is there a story about its development?
- mirap 10y ago
  There is a story about solving actual pain of theatre professionals - at this point, most of them are making subtitles using PowerPoint.
- mirap 10y ago
  I've posted it there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11481783 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11481783
Nadya 10y ago
Am I misunderstanding theatre shows needing their own screen subtitles? I imagine it's subtitling a recorded performance, so no different than most video. Please correct me if I'm making a wrong assumption there... How would this compare with Aegisub [0]? It's hard to tell without any screenshots of the software. If the two are even comparable at all, it might be nice to see why I should pick this over Aegisub. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegisub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegisub
- mirap 10y ago
  Video is irrelevant there. It's not about recorded show, what matters is live subtitles for theatre show. Imagine you're director of theatre show that's made in german - you're going to france. With german actors. You need to caption the play in french. You need to translate the lines and adjust screening of french subtitles.
  - Nadya 10y ago
    Thank you for taking the time to explain it to me. It took a little bit more Google-Fu after you pointed me in the proper direction to learn about `captioned performances`. I guess I don't see nearly enough performances to not have had that be the first thing to pop in my head. :)
    - mirap 10y ago
      Right. There's also another point of subtitling theatre - support for deaf people.
  - Turing_Machine 10y ago
    Right. Opera has been using live supertitles for a long time (at least in the United States). I have to admit that I've never thought about how they were made.
cdcarter 10y ago
I would try and get both "supertitles" and "captions" in your promo copy. As someone who used to organize supertitles for Opera and captioned performances for hearing impaired patrons, those are the words I expect to see and search for.
- mirap 10y ago
  That's very good point, thank you. I'm adding "supertitles", "captions" and "surtitle".

12 points by mirap 11y ago

If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Is there a story about its development?

mirap 10y ago
There is a story about solving actual pain of theatre professionals - at this point, most of them are making subtitles using PowerPoint.
mirap 10y ago
I've posted it there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11481783 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11481783

Nadya 10y ago

Am I misunderstanding theatre shows needing their own screen subtitles? I imagine it's subtitling a recorded performance, so no different than most video. Please correct me if I'm making a wrong assumption there... How would this compare with Aegisub [0]? It's hard to tell without any screenshots of the software. If the two are even comparable at all, it might be nice to see why I should pick this over Aegisub. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegisub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegisub

mirap 10y ago
Video is irrelevant there. It's not about recorded show, what matters is live subtitles for theatre show. Imagine you're director of theatre show that's made in german - you're going to france. With german actors. You need to caption the play in french. You need to translate the lines and adjust screening of french subtitles.
- Nadya 10y ago
  Thank you for taking the time to explain it to me. It took a little bit more Google-Fu after you pointed me in the proper direction to learn about `captioned performances`. I guess I don't see nearly enough performances to not have had that be the first thing to pop in my head. :)
  - mirap 10y ago
    Right. There's also another point of subtitling theatre - support for deaf people.
- Turing_Machine 10y ago
  Right. Opera has been using live supertitles for a long time (at least in the United States). I have to admit that I've never thought about how they were made.

cdcarter 10y ago

I would try and get both "supertitles" and "captions" in your promo copy. As someone who used to organize supertitles for Opera and captioned performances for hearing impaired patrons, those are the words I expect to see and search for.

mirap 10y ago
That's very good point, thank you. I'm adding "supertitles", "captions" and "surtitle".