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I wonder if the fansub community could help?

• ggchappell 13y ago
  > I wonder if the fansub community could help? I'm sure they could, but they would first need to be allowed to help. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7724124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7724124
  • lisper 13y ago
    I would be thrilled to have someone volunteer to close-caption my film. In fact, I'd even be willing to pay for it. But AFAICT it's not so easy to do. But maybe you know something I don't.
    • IvyMike 13y ago
      So I am just a guy on the internet, not an expert, but did you look into using "Amara"? It's not completely clear to me but it seems like it might be possible to get volunteers to do the transcription. They also claim to offer lower cost professional captioning services, too. http://www.amara.org/en/ http://www.amara.org/en/ If you do contact them, please consider sharing what you learn--I'm completely ignorant but willing to learn, and you might help the next guy. Good luck!
      • lisper 13y ago
        Nope, never heard of them until now. I'll look into it. Thanks!
    • ggchappell 13y ago
      Or maybe you know something I don't. But consider: captioning is really nothing more than adding a bunch of text boxes to a media file. Each box needs placement (position/size), contents (the text), and timing (start/end). Given even passable software, this would not be difficult -- though it might be quite tedious.