Background: a close friend is doing subtitling for $, usually for local film festivals. One festival often means dozens of movies to be translated and subtitled. Most people doing this are freelance translators with limited technical background.
> ffplay prints the playback time in centisecond precision to the terminal > when it is playing, so you can pause to see where in the video you are > and write the time down yourself. No, this is beyond stupid. Try this when you have dozens of hours of video to subtitle, on a deadline. You want this activity to be as streamlined as humanly possible. There's no room for philosophy here, the people doing this are already tired. The current de-facto state of the art is to hit a key to show-next/hide the subtitle while the video is playing. This can be done live while the film is being displayed at a theater, or pre-recorded (possibly with time-stretched playback). > I haven't editted a lot of subtitles, but for sound synchronization, a > waveform is extremely useful. Now this is an interesting idea and I think extending existing software with this functionality would make it somewhat more usable. Any improvement that takes away a part of the manual labor would be awesome. Using machine learning, or speech recognition, to auto-suggest subtitle timing? Hell fucking yeah, that would seriously rock. <3,K.
