Video Caption Translations Management

[WeirdSexy]

I think it's great that there are people regularly writing captions for my videos in other languages. I wish for this to continue.

However, I would like to step down from having any responsibility in the management of these captions, even the English ones really.

Someone else will need to take over this role.

I will continue to supply transcripts of my videos in plain text format.
It will be the duty of the captions manager to:

• Transform the plain text English transcripts into timed captions. YouTube has an automatic sync feature for transcripts that does a pretty good job. Of course these automatically generated timed captions could benefit greatly from some manual tweaking (this is something I have been mostly unwilling to do). There is software out there meant to assist the creation of timed captions, but I don't know anything about it.
• Post the English captions so that they are easily obtainable by translators.
• Alert translators that said English captions are available. (I have just been bumping the existing translations thread with the new captions. I would suggest to either get a mailing list going or to pm a list of willing translators each release and make sure that they get email notifications)
• Collecting translated captions, uploading them to YouTube, and making sure they display correctly.

Hopefully you all can understand.
I will probably not continue to do this for more than the next release (v0.30.0) or so.

Thank you.

[raevol]

I can't imagine how many hours you're already putting into editing and narrating these videos... it'd be great to get you some support.

[Okulo]

There is software out there meant to assist the creation of timed captions, but I don't know anything about it.

For Linux: Aegissub works wonders for me. Took me only an hour or so to translate and subtitle the first ten minutes of the first class of OpenYale's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible.

[scrawl]

Time to bump this. Any volunteers?

Here's the english captions for the new video:

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Welcome back! OpenMW version 0.32.0 has been
released. Let's have a look at what's new.

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Facial animations for NPCs, such as lip movement
and eye blinking are now fully implemented.

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If you find gameplay a little too easy, you'll
be glad to know we've added the Difficulty

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Slider to the options menu, just as in vanilla
Morrowind.

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The Light magic effect and the Command magic
effects have been implemented. This marks

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the completion of all magic effects from vanilla
Morrowind in OpenMW.

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NPCs and creatures following the player will
now engage in the player's battles. We can

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demonstrate this using the henchman Calvus
Horatius, and by summoning a few creatures.

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The combat AI for NPCs now knows how to use
spells, enchanted items, and potions.

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Creatures will have to wait until at least
the next release before being able to use

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their spells.

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The player may now create notes by double-clicking
on the local map.

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On the OpenCS side of things, we've added
resource tables. You can use them to browse

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the various assets used by the game.

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That's all we have to show for now! For more
information, please visit our website 'openmw.org'.

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Until next time, thanks for watching.