Ask me anything about subtitling

Zagarella Maryrose wrote:

Hi Max! It's me, your fan!
I have a client who wants subtitle files in Excel format. I found a great blog page showing how to convert the SRT file to XLSX. Here's the link to the blog page, in case anyone wants it:
http://www.translationengland.com/translation-blog/how-to-export-subtitle-edit-subtitle-files-into-microsoft-excel
But I tried converting the files back to SRT and seeing if they still looked okay, and the line breaks don't work. They look like this in the subtitles || and the lines don't break at those places.
Do you know how to fix that?
Thanks in advance)

Liliane Ribas de Freitas wrote:

Hi Max
I would be so grateful if you could help me with this matter.

Are you familiar with OOONA software? I have to export an STL file and I need to choose a File Association to open it. Do you know which program/file association works better to open STL subtitle files as it's a binary format?

Liliane Ribas wrote:

I guess my question is: when I export an .SRT file from OOONA or SUbtitle Edit, for instance, it saves it automatically as a text file and I have my text files associated with Notepad to open them.

In the case of binary files like .STL, I'm not sure what file association I should use to save them on my computer and be able to send it to the client.

Liliane Ribas wrote:

I see, Max.

I want to make sure the client won't have any problems dealing with my STL file.

So I can choose to open it with Windows Media Player even if it not supports STL files, for instance?

Alessandra Corso wrote:

Dear Max and dear colleagues,
Thank you for this wonderful thread.
It is very useful for people like me who are starting their career as subtitlers.
I would like to ask you a piece of advice about transcriptions.
I thank you in advance for the time you will spend reading this message.
I am currently working with an agency for which I caption videos in the IT field, language pair Italian- Italian.
Even though Italian is my mother tongue, sometimes it had been incredibly difficult to do a proper CC, because the quality of the audio was very bad, and the speakers used neologisms and regionalisms.
I must confess that it would have been quite impossible to deliver a 99% accurate transcription without being a native speaker.
Therefore, I have decided not to transcribe in a foreign language, but to ask for a script in the source language.
A MS Word sheet in the source language is more than enough for me to carry out the task in my language pairs.
My question is: do you think is a good compromise, or am I missing many opportunities with this policy?
Dear colleagues, what are your tips to deal with very complex texts which are not in your native language?
I accept any kind of suggestions to improve my skills in transcription (software, other tips...) in order to offer a better service to my clients.
There is anyone there who only subtitles from a script?

Thank you so much for your help, your time, and your answers.

Veridiana Silva wrote:

Hello everyone!
Max, thanks for opening this topic, much appreciated.

I received an email inviting me for a project to post edit SUBTITLES.
This will involve checking the video as well and the requester is asking my per minute rate.
I am sorry if this has been asked before, I searched here before asking, but will admit not extensively because many topics that were returned to me were quite old (~2003).
What rate is usually practiced for this kind of work? There are different languages in the project, my combination is ENG>BRPT.

thank you!

Kind regards,
Veridiana