Thread: A Timming Issue
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Old 2007-05-20, 15:09   Link #2
False Dawn
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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First things first: I don't think there's such a thing as a "convention" in fansubbing.

Resolving the issue is usually done one of two ways though: either extending lead-in, lead-out (depends on the situation) or getting the editor to try to reduce the number of words in the sentence. A third, half-fix, is to make use of /N to split one long line into two short ones on the screen because it's actually quicker to read the short lines than the long line, though that works in very few situations.

Which one you decide on depends on the circumstances usually, however. After you've been timing for a while, you pick up some kind of sense of what will work in what situation, though even then, it can be difficult - especially as Japanese can be a lot more concise with their words than we can in English.
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