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| rjtrudel Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6762 days ago 36 posts - 56 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 8 04 July 2011 at 3:48pm | IP Logged |
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What i do....
Heres my method, 1. Record movies from hbo latino on my replaytv 2. Transfer movie (.mpg) to my computer (using dvarchive or WiRNS) 3. Rip the Spanish closed captioning and convert to a subtitle file using ccextractor (the transcript exactly matches the audio with perfect timing) 4. Use subtitle edit to translate subtitle file into English (this program uses goggle translate) and then combine the English and Spanish subtitles. 5. Automatically convert movie to an mp4 (for ipod/iphone) using dropfolders in conjunction with handbrake. 6. Load movie and subtitle file into iphone app using file sharing.(i use av repeater and dictplayer) 7. End result is a movie that has exact transcript with a translation. When using dictplayer i can swipe right to get to the next spoken line, and swipe left to repeat the current line. When using av repeater there is a mode where it will play each spoken line one after another. This allows for automatically skipping non spoken parts of the movie. Here is a youtube video of me using dictplayer... http://tinyurl.com/6x4qx76 Any comments/opinions/suggestions? Edited by rjtrudel on 04 July 2011 at 7:17pm 8 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Faraday Senior Member United States Joined 6053 days ago 129 posts - 256 votes Speaks: German* | Message 2 of 8 04 July 2011 at 8:02pm | IP Logged |
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That is very impressive. How long does it take you to make one such episode?
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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5604 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 8 04 July 2011 at 8:32pm | IP Logged |
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I use handbrake to rip videos to my ipad - and just doing that takes quite a while. Your
process clearly takes much longer, and your patience is admirable, but the results with bilingual subtitles sound excellent. Plus, you just introduced me to dropfolders, for which I am most grateful. Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rjtrudel Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6762 days ago 36 posts - 56 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 4 of 8 05 July 2011 at 1:16am | IP Logged |
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@splog, Really, the process is streamlined. I press one button on my replaytv, it records the show at the
time its on, when it finishes recording it automatically downloads it to a folder on my computer, dropfolders automatically senses this new file and automatically transcodes it to an iphone ready video. The closed captioning ripping takes 5 minutes and then about five more to load up on my iphone (its fast using itunes file sharing rather than syncing (which sucks). I wish tivo didnt follow the copy once flags set by hbo, because the replaytv doesnt but the replaytv is becoming obsolete. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zuneybunny Diglot Newbie United States turkishtrip.wordpres Joined 4872 days ago 32 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English, Mandarin* Studies: Spanish, Turkish | Message 5 of 8 05 July 2011 at 3:54am | IP Logged |
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I've been trying to get subtitles for a Turkish show (Ezel) that I'm watching, but there
isn't any. This is a great method IMO, but sometimes the subtitles are hard to obtain. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5153 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French | Message 6 of 8 12 July 2011 at 4:30pm | IP Logged |
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Could you explain a bit more how you create the combine the subtitles and what software you use?
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| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4823 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 7 of 8 12 July 2011 at 4:50pm | IP Logged |
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Brilliant idea!! Would definitely do that too if I had all the bits needed lol. Thanks for sharing :o) x
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| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5016 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 8 of 8 23 July 2011 at 11:11am | IP Logged |
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It sounds like a good idea, thanks for sharing.
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