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Top tip, if you use VLC or some such software, they often have a compressor plug in (if the software you are using, doesn’t have one, get VLC). Compressor will take care of limiting giant explosions and other loud noises so you can have the volume set to a level where you can hear the speaking parts.
https://www.geekality.net/blog/settings-for-vlc-dynamic-range-compression
Though this is not a magic trick, I still use (English) subtitles, mainly because I’m not a native English speaker and sometimes I mishear words and such.
Whispers: Fuck. Yes. Thanks.💥 🤯 💣 🧨 💣 🤯 💥
If subtitles are so great, why aren’t there any supertitles yet?
Burn, forced, ASS… subtitles are great, but what about domtitles?
I wanted to turn them off and learned that you can’t on Chrunchyroll
Sometimes crunchyroll will play the closed captions on the closed captions track. In those cases, you have to turn subtitles off at the TV level for it to turn off, since there’s no option on crunchyroll for it.
Huhu? Like is there a problem with their interface that prevents that? Because most of my anime is CR rips and they never have hardsubs.
If a motherfucker could properly mix audio I wouldn’t need them.
If I wouldn’t have to turn the volume ALL THE WAY UP followed by ALL THE WAY DOWN because your show/movie can’t decide if we’re whispering or blowing the planet up every ten seconds, I wouldn’t need them.
They often claim you need a proper audio setup.
I have an expensive (be it old) surround sound setup. Marvel and many other modern movies suck absolute arse. Having to pause and fiddle with volume going from a barely audible conversation to deafening noise in a single scene.
Fuck that noise, audio seems optimized for smartphone speakers nowadays.
What if, hear me out, they changed the format a bit to supply 2 separate audio tracks. One for voice, one for effects. Then we could adjust it ourselves.
They kinda do that with surround. Dialogue is mostly isolated to the center speaker.
I’d vote for you
Boost your center channel and/or enable dialogue enhancer.
Won’t help with Marvel movies (their mixing sucks ass) but most others.
Kodi power.
that guy is, ttbomk, mr beast. bring out the guillotine.
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On the bright side: I don’t spoil the video myself because i read too fast
On the bad side: JESUS CHRIST I WANNA READ, MY BRAIN CAN’T BEAR YOUR SLOWNESS
*rarely the case but if i have subtitles that’s the reason, either that or the speak has a strong Bri’ish🍵 or Freedom 🦅🦅🦅 accent
I read so fast that with long subtitles I have too much time to think about me being useless
This is torture if the subtitles don’t match.
I have a soft spot for dubbed anime and always have, but in pretty much every case, the subtitles are not a transcript of the dub, they’re a translation of the original Japanese.
As a result, the feeling you get trying to watch that is not unlike going up a set of stairs and miscounting, but for every sentence.
If you want the subtitles to match the dub you have to specifically look for dubtitles or CC. But they are rather rare.
AI generated subtitles are utter garbage. Combine that with idiots who can’t be bothered to check their 60 second long video for mistakes and you basically end up with subtitles that have no reason of being there in the first place
It’s also torture if the subtitles don’t (reasonably) match for non-dubbed content.
This bothers me more with captioning for English language movies in English. They abbreviate a lot to make it easier to quickly read what is being said. Sometimes that makes perfect sense and is very useful. A lot of the time, they’re just cutting out details for no good reason.
It’s also very annoying for non-native speakers who want to listen to the original audio and have the subtitles as help when they don’t understand something:
- what was that one word I didn’t get?
- subtitles: completely different sentence (with the same meaning, OK, but different words)
I’m with you on that. Anime has to have dubtitles if I’m putting them on there. Thankfully you can find those pretty easily these days if you need to.
I prefer just listening to it in Japanese, but even knowing just basic Japanese you start seeing inaccurate translations in the subtitles too (especially with cussing).
Me when I was watching eng language films to learn the language. The hardest part was to let the subs go.
UK English is easy for me to go without subs. American English though, bunch of mumblers.
For me is the opposite, northern accents from UK are like the hard mode.
When and why did this become a thing? Half the people I know are like this
It always had been like this. Before subtitles became commonplace, we just straight up didn’t hear half of the words and suffered in solitude.
When media with optional subtitles became a thing? When my parents got a DVD player
I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJtb2YXae8
So it’s layered and complex.
[Ominous music]
[Inhuman snarls]
Probably my favorite one that I’ve seen
[speaking in a foreign language]
I love it when the show puts the foreign language subtitles in the show, and the [SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] covers up the original subtitles.
I love it when the subtitle says the name of the song playing. I’ve learned a few tunes that I enjoy this way!
[music stops]
[🎵Singing🎵]
[Uplifting music]
Sometimes the music adjectives make me laugh
If you’re gonna talk about me behind my back, I’m gonna steal your meme!
But when the sub and the audio are two different languages that you understand it’s like hearing two voices and you have to silence one of them.
I find that a lobotomy helps and then covering one eye and the ear on the same side (since the optical nerves cross) so you can follow both independently.
Peer review
You would probably benefit from a soundbar with center channel speaker.
That helps a bit but doesn’t fix studios not remixing audio properly from the theater mix to home audio where the majority of people have basic stereo. No excuse since every physical format and online service supports multiple audio streams.
I’ve got full 5.1 surround and subtitles are crucial.
Tenet. No matter how good your sound system, Nolan requires subtitles.
Not like they’ll help the movie make sense anyway.
Doesn’t matter, if the actor got heavy accent or they’re whispering, it help so much. It also doesn’t disturb the neighbours.
Some of us just can’t hear properly.
So I thought, but I’m still a remote jockey, constantly bouncing between gunshots, scene-setting music, and whispered dialogue.
anytime
any time, here.
Anytime can be used in the same places that you can use another adverb, especially whenever.
https://www.dictionary.com/articles/anytime-vs-any-time
I think anytime is correct.
People make this mistake everytime
60% of any time, it’s everytime.
