Subtitles flash up so briefly that it’s impossible to read them in time.
The maximum is 86 characters consisting of at most two lines of no more than 43 characters. While we’re at it, the line in the previous screenshot is way too long, making it impossible to read it and still pay attention to what’s happening on the screen. The subtitles don’t have any line breaks, forcing your eyes to traverse the entire width of the video. (Again, YouTube’s built–in subtitling program doesn’t give you the possibility to move subtitles somewhere else.) Subtitles often overlap with already existing text. Well listen, in my previous park, we had 27 deaths, so, I want to say, better to laugh about it! My only goal in life was to see the joy on children's faces. Some examples:Īnd now, let's follow a new story of Papy Grenier. Sentences are split off into several different subtitles for no good reason.
For example, subtitles will appear or disappear a split second before or after scene changes (not that you can time subtitles very precisely using YouTube’s built–in subtitling program). The subtitles are haphazardly slapped together. This rant is about the more technical aspects of subtitling.) (Though that’s not what I want to focus on here.
Let’s take a look at the bad subtitles first:įirst of all, the translation is terrible. A bonus of this is that we now have good contrastive examples of good subtitles vs. I was so exasperated by the quality of the subtitles that I reuploaded it, and made my own subtitles.
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