Translation of video subtitles of promo team

[Shinjo Park]

Hi,

I actually want to keep the .srt files as-is, because video translation has 
some different problems.

* Additional subtitles could be inserted to provide more context where there 
is no subtitle in the original language.
* Depending on the target language, the word order could be completely 
different from the original language, and a sentence could be split differently 
to optimize the reading experience. This case is hard to cover by just 
providing start and end timestamp of each subtitle.

Best,
Shinjo

2023년 8월 2일 수요일 오후 5시 38분 9초 CEST에 Johnny Jazeix 님이 쓴 글:
> Hi,
> I've been discussing with promo on how to help them translate the
> subtitles in their videos (for example
> https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/symxHCzUj9TA7LZoZagD9c).
> In order to not change the process of translators, I told them I can
> create a script that will convert the srt files (subtitle file) to po
> files. And with the StaticMessages.sh workflow, the translated
> subtitles files can be created and uploaded.
> 
> I have a few questions regarding the translation process:
> * should there be only one po file containing all the translations for
> all subtitles files, or one po file per subtitle file?
> * There could be issue with display time of texts. Basically, in the
> subtitle file, for each line, you tell when the text appears and when
> it hides. If a translated text takes more time to be read, the user
> might have to pause the video in order to read it which is a bad
> experience. To solve this potential issue, I propose to also add in
> the messages to translate the timestamp of begin and end, so
> translators can also update them if needed.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Johnny