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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)