Forum: Subtitling
Topic: CPS settings with Aegisub
Poster: Max Deryagin
Post title: CpS = characters per second
To add to José's great reply, you can change the reading speed settings in View → Options → Interface → Character Counter.
What reading speed you should stick to depends on the target audience. From what I know, French subtitles for children's programmes, for example, should normally not exceed 10 CpS, whereas subs for regular films and programmes can go up to 14 CpS (and even 16 CpS in some cases). From my experience, subtitles that exceed 18 CpS become almost unreadable.
Topic: CPS settings with Aegisub
Poster: Max Deryagin
Post title: CpS = characters per second
To add to José's great reply, you can change the reading speed settings in View → Options → Interface → Character Counter.
What reading speed you should stick to depends on the target audience. From what I know, French subtitles for children's programmes, for example, should normally not exceed 10 CpS, whereas subs for regular films and programmes can go up to 14 CpS (and even 16 CpS in some cases). From my experience, subtitles that exceed 18 CpS become almost unreadable.