Evzen Polenka

I have spoken to enough people to know you are way off the mark here.  This is only your experience, which is clearly limited in this field.  Perhaps you are only referring to movies or something like that... I don't really know, and it doesn't really matter.  The fact is that there is a growing need for this today and if you were still working in the industry you might start to see it.

The first feedback after release is the opposite of what you say and this comes from a user who does do a lot of work in this field:

Pavel Slama said:

So I have completed my first small job with the tool. As I expected from the demo, it was perhaps the most efficient way of doing the job there is, IMO, so overall positive and very welcome, as I said to you.

I know Pavel is only one person, and so are you.  I have a lot of time for the things you have to say as you were experienced in the industry, but this time I think you're off the mark.  But time will tell!  Certainly the webinar we held this week was the most attended webinar I have seen in my time with SDL which reinforces my opinion that there is a demand here.  It's a question now of making sure we offer the most appropriate functionality we can for specialists still working in this field.

Paul Filkin

I work in a Citrix environment, but I tried with the video file stored on the C: drive as well, same  problem. Citrix can be the source of certain problems, though. This might be one.

Since there is a convenient workaround (smaller video file size) I am not too bothered as a user.

Daniel

Sorry Paul, that was not explicit enough for me. Germans are much more blunt and they kind of expect that bluntness... 

Anyways, I am not at all surprised that you are doing some firefighting now, I would not have expected it to be otherwise. Rolling this out as an app has given you the flexibility to publish smaller updates until everything is really running smoothly.

Unlike Evzen, I am really excited about this app and the potential it has for our organization.

One thing is sure: Subtitles require a separate TM, so that the main TMs are not trashed up with sentence fragments as they are usual for subtitles. And in subtitling projects, the TM has a different function as you can't expect a lot of straight TM "hits". This is where fragment matching, concordance etc. are the main functions. And of course the Termbase, to ensure proper translation of key terms.

I think you are on the right track with this app. This is from an academic publication on subtitling:

And:

So once you are through the surf with this, I am sure it will be highly useful.

Daniel

Paul Filkin said:

The first feedback after release is the opposite of what you say and this comes from a user who does do a lot of work in this field:

The feedback always depends on the way the people were used to work so far. If one used some weird workflow like Word or Excel files, then this might be a huge improvement.
Still, I believe that even tools like Subtitle Edit provide waaay more subtitling-friendly way of work.

Unknown said:

Germans are much more blunt and they kind of expect that bluntness... 

I guess English people do too!

Hi

Worth taking a look at the updated plugins... we did a lot of work that might improve this for you in your environment too:

https://appstore.sdl.com/list/?search=subtitling