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Subtitles versus what is being said
Thread poster: Anu Mukharji-Gorski
Jan Truper
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... Jan 15, 2018

Swaiyam wrote:

"Each line cannot contain more than 35 characters (i.e. any letter, symbol or space). The subtitle (formed by 2 lines) can have up to 70 characters."

Is this the generally accepted norm?


Different content generators have different norms for different output formats.

Here you can find specifications for Netflix:
https://backlothelp.netflix.com/hc/en-us/articles/219375728-English-Template-Timed-Text-Style-Guide
 
Anu Mukharji-Gorski
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wow! Jan 15, 2018

Jan Truper wrote:



Here you can find specifications for Netflix:
https://backlothelp.netflix.com/hc/en-us/articles/219375728-English-Template-Timed-Text-Style-Guide


That's a great site!

By the way, there aren't any rules against abbreviations like "I've", "They've" and suchlike, are there?
 
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