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So what is the actual process for translating the show? I'm not seeing a FAQ page anywhere and feel a little lost about what's even going on here 😅

Okay, I am sorry t took us so long to get back to you, your question is a bit broad and we were not sure how to answer it. First, we do have an F.A.Q, right here: https://crtranslate.tumblr.com/FAQ (bit.ly/CRT_FAQdoc for mobile users)and you might find all of your answers there.

Second, the technical how-to is pretty well developed in our translation instructions which you will find here: bit.ly/CRT_InstructionsBut while I’m here, let me get through the general system we have.Volunteer translator will translate the episodes (CR campaign 1 and/or 2; One Shots; Handbooker Helper) by working on five-minute chunks - which can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours to translate, depending on the chunk, language and proficiency of the translator.Then another translator will come in and double check the work and give pointer wherever they find it pertinent. And after that someone (ideally a third translator, native in the target language) will go through the chunk one last time making sure it all flows well and that there are no grammar or spelling errors left.This is where the translators' job ends. The CRT staff, usually the team’s supervisor, will export the translated subtitles and we’ll send them across to Critical Role or Geek&Sundry depending on the project in question.

For practicality reasons, the translation documents live on google sheets and most of the translation work is usually done directly there. But nothing forbids you to work offline and then upload your chunk onto the sheet once it is done.All the links to all the sheets are on what we call the “Master Link List”.

I hope this answers your question·s if you have any more of them and neither the instructions nor the F.A.Q answers them you can send us another ask, we’ll be quicker next time I promise, an email or contact us on social media (links to all of those are pretty much everywhere. Or even better, join our Discord where you’ll be able to discuss with the staff or other translators directly. I guarantee speedy answers there.

See you soon and happy translating.Bill.

[crtranslate]

The Contest is over and we have our winners, but first, let us go through a little leaderboard to celebrate the awesome translators who threw themselves at this challenge and made cake captions out of it.

First, in two weeks, 21 translators from 8 teams translated a cumulated 8 hours of captions on Liam’s One-Shot: The Song of the Lorelei.

Team-wise the German team leads with 125 minutes translated - or 25 5 minutes slots -, followed with the Dutch team - 105 minutes or 21 slots. And special mention to the Swedish team who arrived third with 90 minutes translated, or 18 slots, but edited 12 of these slots - which would put them largely ahead with 30 total completed slots.

On the individual level robirb (Italian) distinguished themselves by translating 15 slots on their own, closely followed by MelissaDebruyn (Dutch) with 14 slots, Melvalan (Swedish/Finnish) with 13 slots - 5 of which were editing - and Trischa (Swedish) with 12 slots - 7 of which were editing.

Because we were floored by the feat, the CRTranslate staff decided to gift four of their pins to these 3 overachievers.

A big round of internet applause to them and all the other translators who worked so hard during these two weeks.

Now, the winners of the raffle are: magivixx, artiges_kind, Matvadand, thesanne and _pqur

All 8 winners will be contacted very shortly to get the contact info Geeky Clean will need to send the pins.

For those who didn’t get the chance to compete or win their Euro Critter Pin, these and many others (UK, USA, Australian, Canadian, Pride and more) are available on Geeky Cleans store right now!

Thank you again to Geeky Clean for providing the prizes for this first CRTranslate Translating Contest. And remember, when in doubt, go for the dick joke!

[crtranslate]

IT’S MOVING DAY 

Because of you amazing #critters, we’ve gotten many new translators willing to translate #CriticalRole!  That means Slack cannot support our growing community anymore. 

So we are moving the inn to Discord to better accommodate the sheer multitude of your awesomeness. So wherever in the world you come from and whatever language you speak, we hope to see you there!

Don’t forget to introduce yourselves.

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Finding captions for your movies

You know how unfair it is that downloaded (*coughpiratedcough*) movies/tv shows are hardly ever captioned?

Here, I have the medicine for that - databases of captions for movies and TV shows:

http://subscene.com/

http://www.opensubtitles.org/

Here is how it works: Download the media of your choice. Use one of these sites to find the CC/subs that match what you just downloaded (I personally use Subscene). Put the caption file in the same folder as your media file. 

I use VLC media player, start the movie/show, go up to the menus at the top, click “Subtitle”, then “add subtitle”, then browse and find the cc/sub file and click on it and HAPPY DAYS, WE NOW HAVE THOSE COOL WORDS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND STUFF!