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French subtitles with Wi-Fi off

Generate captions with Auto Detect, translate them into French with Translate Local while Wi-Fi is off, compare both languages and export SRT or Burn In.

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  1. Localize
  2. Captions
  3. Auto Detect
  4. Translate Local
  5. Bilingual
  6. Export SRT
  7. Burn In

Subtitles without uploads. The cinemaOS Localize room transcribes and translates on your Mac. This tutorial generates English captions, translates them into French with Wi-Fi switched off, and exports the result.

Steps

  1. Open Localize, then Captions. Start with the source captions. In the recording Wi-Fi is switched off before the French translation step.
  2. Generate source captions. Choose Auto Detect to find the spoken language and generate the source captions.
  3. Review before translating. Read the words and the timing. Fix anything that is wrong now, because the translation follows the source.
  4. Translate locally. Select French, then use Translate Local to run the translation on this Mac.
  5. Compare both languages. Turn on Bilingual to see the English and French lines together.
  6. Export. Export an SRT for a separate subtitle file, or choose Burn In to render the subtitles into the picture. One scene, two languages, ready for your final review.

Notes

  • The Wi-Fi off interval covers the translation step and is recorded as evidence in the production notes. The earlier source transcription was not part of that interval.
  • Background reading: Translate subtitles locally on a Mac in the Journal.

Footage: Tears of Steel, Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0. Edited in cinemaOS for this tutorial.