Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Why translate a text when what it needs is subtitling?
Poster: Kay Denney
Post title: I agree
In a similar vein, once I had to keep asking to see the video I was translating sub-titles for.
There was one point in particular where the speaker was showing pictures and there was obviously one that spoke for itself, most likely the photo of a wrecked yacht. The speaker was naming parts of the yacht that had broken, as well as, bizarrely, a seal.
Finally, the client sent the video and I watched eagerly... but the camera was aimed only at the speaker, pointing very helpfully at the picture just out of the camera frame.
Turned out that the "seal" was in fact the name for one of the yacht's sails, transcribed with the wrong spelling, because the person who transcribed the video obviously knew nothing of yachting!
Topic: Why translate a text when what it needs is subtitling?
Poster: Kay Denney
Post title: I agree
In a similar vein, once I had to keep asking to see the video I was translating sub-titles for.
There was one point in particular where the speaker was showing pictures and there was obviously one that spoke for itself, most likely the photo of a wrecked yacht. The speaker was naming parts of the yacht that had broken, as well as, bizarrely, a seal.
Finally, the client sent the video and I watched eagerly... but the camera was aimed only at the speaker, pointing very helpfully at the picture just out of the camera frame.
Turned out that the "seal" was in fact the name for one of the yacht's sails, transcribed with the wrong spelling, because the person who transcribed the video obviously knew nothing of yachting!