soft subs vs hard subs - which do you prefer

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I prefer soft-subs too, for same reasons that others have said ! salut

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: subs Post Rating: 0

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

my vote go for Soft subtitles....

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:47 pm Post subject: Re: subs Post Rating: 0

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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I wouldn't care if the hardsubbers (and you know who you are Smile

), would make the fonts big enough (and less fancy (or send me a high def tv)). I only care when I have to physically move closer to the tv (hell I'm in my30's, late thirties but still....I have (had?) good eyesight).

Soft subs are the best due to the flexibility. Really there ought to be a way to get all of the benefits and none of the minuses, maybe a soft hardsub.....

A soft hardsub would be a separate video overlaid on top of the raw. Specifying boundaries could allow for stretching to increase fontsize. [This is basically what DVD uses now, although I beleive it is a series of pictures instead of a video stream. Six of one, half dozen of the other as far as I'm concerned). This would be as vulnerable as dvd subs are now.

I haven't paid much attention to the ebay problem, have they gotten into ripping/editing hardsubs yet. The technology exists. I would guess that they wouldn't need to. Their customers probably don't care or understand the fansub warning messages.

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

it really depends...
but i voted for soft subs because as people said they're more flexible. Sometimes the subs are not well timed (subs passes to fast or there are some timing mistakes), or have a not very easy font to read, or the font is just to small or with a terrible color and it's good to have the soft subs because we can fix or adapt the fonts to our own taste. Smile

when it comes to hardsubs, they're only good if they're well timed, with good font, size and color. But everyone has a different taste and not everyone is pleased with a sub style, so soft subs is better in this aspect because we can adapt it to our taste. Smile

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

hmm i like both but i quess i prefer hard subs... Big Smile

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hmm.... I'm finding these days that as people's encoding skills improve, I'm happy to watch the hardsubs more as. Softsubs give me too much temptation to play with them, and I'm having a hell of a time just getting my own projects caught up...

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:30 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

hmm.. i go for hardsubs! several reasons... firstly, i don't know how to edit the soft subs when there are mistakes, so it has no difference to watching hard subs for me. =/ secondly, my mp4 player can't play soft subs. T^T so whenever i'm on the go i can only watch the hardsubs. thirdly, the hardsubs have karaoke~ Big Smile

it's nice to sing along sometimes. hehehe..

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:11 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

with .avi file i prefer softsubs. But with .rmvb file i like to have it hardsubbed. The reason is until now i cannot play .rmvb file with softsub!!!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:07 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hardsubs, because it's easier for credit, despite the fact it's also easier to sell illegally.
But I also love the karaoke and the awesome effects and stuff. xD

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I prefer softsubs because you can determine yourself how the text will look like and the position of the text. You can also correct mistakes if there are any while with hardsubs you can't do anything just watch them I guess.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i prefer ANY subs... Laugh

i really appreciate the people that spent the time and translate it for people that don't speak the spoken language in the drama (aka. me!)...
but i think i prefer hardsubs... they look really nice and polished, they allow us to sing along (that's really fun!), have great timing, and some fansubs have interesting facts along with the sub (not saying that some softsubbers don't have this as well)... at the same time, i like softsubs because i can edit it myself and they come out faster...
so i think as long as subs are out, i take what i can get... Tongue