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Teppei · 2008-02-14, 00:34

IMO the timer's job is to place the subs on the screen so they 1) can be read, and 2) don't cause distraction, with (1) being by far the most important. Anything else is personal preference. My personal preference is a bit of lead-in (200ms or so) and as much lead-out as I feel that sub needs to have so people can read it (and if that gets close to a scene change, then I pull it to the end of the scene). My rule of thumb is to see how fast I can read it myself and double that number. I try not to run over scene boundaries unless the at least one full word of the audio is on the other side, and then sometimes even not.

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Teppei Lost in the Vortex Join Date: Mar 2004	IMO the timer's job is to place the subs on the screen so they 1) can be read, and 2) don't cause distraction, with (1) being by far the most important. Anything else is personal preference. My personal preference is a bit of lead-in (200ms or so) and as much lead-out as I feel that sub needs to have so people can read it (and if that gets close to a scene change, then I pull it to the end of the scene). My rule of thumb is to see how fast I can read it myself and double that number. I try not to run over scene boundaries unless the at least one full word of the audio is on the other side, and then sometimes even not.