How to Translate our Movie into your language
And here are the simple steps to getting it done:
1. Learn how to translate by watching the DotSub Translation Video Tutorial
2. Then Create a DotSub Account
3. Then go to Four Eyed Monsters on DotSub and select your language from the pull down and start translating to your language. If you find your language is already done, then it would be great if you can watch the whole thing and proof read the translation and then make any corrections that are needed.
Thats it! Thanks a super ton for helping with this!
Any questions just post a comment below.
And filmmakers, please, you have no reason to not make your films available in other languages. Post your anything you have online also to DotSub.com and and let your fans know your stuff is there so it can be translated and viewed and understood around the world. And keep an eye out for a future tutorial about how to then get the translated videos onto your DVD so you can sell an international region free DVD. We are still figuring that one out so if anyone has done it, get in touch.
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October 14th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
your dotsub user name:groundzero0110
your myspace link: http://www.myspace.com/andytorchine
AIM screenname: - groundzero0110
I worked on french subtitles seemed to get at least 2% done, and will try to do more.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
dotSub username: tlevine
My email address is .@gmail.com
Myspace: http://myspace.com/tlevine
Facebook: http://hs.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1374360203
Jabber: tlevine@jabber.fr
Jabber: My email address
AIM: TomKLevine
Yahoo: tomklevine
MSN Messenger: My email address
Skype: thomas.levine
I’ll be working on French and simplified Chinese.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
dotSub username: tlevine
Myspace: http://myspace.com/tlevine
Facebook: http://hs.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1374360203
Jabber: (same as email)
AIM: TomKLevine
Yahoo: tomklevine
MSN Messenger: (same as email)
Skype: thomas.levine
I’ll be working on French and simplified Chinese.
October 15th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I’ve done about 22% so far. I’ll later do some proofreading, which is a very important aspect.
October 15th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
forgot to say: I’m doing spanish.
dotsub: miljenko
MYSPACE: myspace.com/millionsofimages
October 16th, 2007 at 3:22 am
dotsub user name: psychedelicbacteria
myspace link: http://www.myspace.com/psychedelicbacteria
I’ll be working on Romanian subtitles.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:20 am
dotsub: concycantice
October 24th, 2007 at 11:21 am
forgot to say im workin on italian subtitles
and my myspace is http://www.myspace.com/italian_ragazza_girl
January 1st, 2008 at 6:42 am
My dotsub username: eastern lights
Website: http://easternlights.lithium-studios.be/
I’m working on Dutch subtitles and have 30% completed. I expect to finish it tomorrow.
Happy Newyear!
Michiel
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 am
Hey, I was checking the translation in Spanish… and its wierd, though it is indeed correctly translated, the guy or girl took the silent moments to add his or her views on life or whatever… so, I just wanted to let you know… cause its kindda distracting not having only what’s said on the movie…
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
dotsub: bandwagon83
myspace.com/cicadella
I have just started working on Brazilian portuguese!!!
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
It’s me again, I was correcting some of the translation lines in Spanish and I finally understood the problem… some lines are not properly synchronized. But I have no idea how to fix that. I guess it’s not that someone added strange sentences, but that some sentences are not where they are supposed to appear.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
It’s me again.
I was 97% completed and when I finished it and tried to save it was reset to 7%!
What is this joke? Two days of work for nothing… Can’t you guys find it in the system somewhere?
Desperate right now.
Michiel
January 7th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Hey, I’ll be translating as much of the Spanish as I can tonight. Feel free to edit what you feel is too idiomatic, but remember not to make it too idiomatic yourself, haha
Also, I’m very unaccustomed to typing in Spanish, even though that’s all I speak in my home all day, so I might leave a few punctuation errors like missing upside-down question marks, exclamation marks and such. And definitely someone needs to spell-check my stuff for the accent marks.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
hey, I’m translating to Spanish as well… and I got almost to 60% and suddenly it all dissapeared again, as it happened to Michiel Vaernewwijck. So I began once again and one half an hour later it all turned to a low percentage aaaagain…
it’s sooo frustrating!!
please, help.
thanks.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
O.k .. well on dotsub.com it says that yopur movie3 has been translated in spanish only up to 22% .. I’ll try to translate it as much as I can, hoping to do it all .. I’ll let you now later how it went. And congratulations, not so much for the movie, as for the iniciative of really moving on and making a project like this work.
January 15th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
dotsub: nisse_vsf
translated the film into Galician.
I loved the film & I’m glad to have been able to give something back
Good luck!
January 25th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Finally 100% in the Spanish translation!
Finished…
I caught what was happening when it all dissapeared…
and it could happen at any moment again, so I hope it can be saved somehow so it won’t go to nothing.
Well, it was great reading and re-typing your script to my native language.
I have enjoyed in such a way the whole project you guys have created.
Thank you for giving to the world this wonderful creation, and for giving us the opportunity of being part of it.
Hope we can still hear from you and your new creations.
Carolina D. (Seele)