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Dotsub Tips & Tricks
The OTP uses dotsub as a subtitling tool. You may find the following tips & tricks helpful.
Sound Subtitling Practices
Less is more!
- Remember that subtitle users are not necessarily good at speed reading. Check for how many seconds the text will be visible.
- You can easily do with meaningless words, such as
- actually
- you know
- I mean
- And (in the beginning of a sentence, this is usually just a meaningless connector)