I’m translating English into Korean. I have a lot of Korean friends but they don’t have the time to make the whole translation for me so I’m using this site to do it automatically. Is there a way they can check and correct the subtitles on here? I can edit by myself after I apply the translation but is there a way I can send them the URL and they edit it, too?
Thanks for explaining the scenario in detail. It’s an interesting one and I can definitely see how it would help lot of uses, but is unfortunately not yet supported at the moment. The only workaround I can think of is that you can click on the “In Progress” button to download a file for editing (it contains both source and translated subtitles) and then send that to your friend via email or some other mechanism. They can then upload the file again and do the editing. Obviously, having a URL to share would be great convenient, so will definitely think about supporting it soon.
i payed for the gpt transaltion. has been done, but VTT in not standard and cannot be used in davinci resolve, format has been changed, so tried with free version as well, same problem, line numbers has been deleted
Sorry for the trouble there. As far as I know, the VTT format doesn’t include the line numbers. You can look at the sample here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebVTT
So as far as I can tell the format of the translated subtitle is correct. Do you get any error from the Davinci which tells you the format is incorrect?
BTW, I noticed that the first line of the subtitle starts at 1 hour instead of normally 0 hours? Is this intentional i.e. these are second half of a video? If not, I would suggest fixing the timeline of the subtitles. There are some online and offline editing tools which lets you change the timing of the subtitles.
answring your old answer, Davinci resolve start always wih 1:00, i do not now why, it’s it standard way.
anyway’i’m using always paid version and .srt, usually translating in italian, with deepl paragraph mode, but ther are problems, many problem with the arrangment of paragraphs in italian, it duplicate phrases, 40% of them are duplicated, it seems that is able to interpreting paragrafh to send the to the translation api, but than is un’able to reorganize in a proper manner, so i have many many many paragraphs that are very very long inside the .srt, so I changet to GPT 3.5, similar problm, even worse, becuase it loose sync
It looks like you can override the default export start time, so you can try with that.
Regarding the translation sync and splitting issues, yeah, I must admit, it’s not perfect. If you have subtitle files, where a sentence spans on more than one lines, most of the machine translation APIs have problem with that, and Chat-GPT is worse because it sometime also remove the subtitle row tags/markers making it very hard to put things back in sync.
I have been tweaking the various API parameters and the row tag markers and I recently introduced a new “Auto Line” mode for the Chat-GPT. This one tries to split translated lines back on the ratio of the words in source and translated lines with some clever logic to also detect sentence endings where possible. Again, it’s not perfect, but for subtitles where a sentence splits on multiple subtitle lines, it’s giving me much better results. I would suggest you to try these and see how it goes.
hey, if chat gpt 4 option becomes stable one day, you should make the chatgpt 3.5 option available for free.And the chatgpt4 option should remain as paid.
Yeah, I can think about that if OpenAI further reduces the cost of GPT 3.5 – which I hope will be the case when GPT 4 becomes more stable and cost effective. Then I will see if it’s feasible to make free for some small translations.
Now getting “Error Code: 6, File Size: 0” when I drop a file into the upload box – starting happening around 16:30 UK time.
also saw “Column ‘Family_Name’ cannot be null”
Like the site it has worked well since I discovered it.
Sorry for the trouble Lily! It looks like there was a temporary problem with the hosting service provider resulting in this failure. It should now be resolved. Please let me know if you still experience this or any other issues.
There is no difference in capabilities, but it’s that 16-K supports up to 4 times more tokens than GPT 3.5, and thus may translate slightly better for larger translations – as it maintains more context. It’s also of help when you want to include large Synopsis or Additional Info texts. You can read more about this here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-3-5
I assume you are using Google Translator? If yes, Google Translation web widget has a limit on the characters it can translate on a page – mainly to avoid misuse of their service. In that case I would suggest you to see if using Yandex translator helps.
Saudacoes prezado.
quero muito mesmo agradecer pela iniciativa, e muito boa e ajudou-me perfeitamente. existem filmes que so tem legendas disponiveis em ingles e com essa ferramente fantastica foi simples traduzir no meu idioma e adicionar no meu ficheiro. eu gosto de apreciar os filmes nos seus idiomas de origem e apenas ver com subtitulo. espero que futuramente desenvolvas um aplicativo de traducao de legendas para pc. parabens
I’m translating English into Korean. I have a lot of Korean friends but they don’t have the time to make the whole translation for me so I’m using this site to do it automatically. Is there a way they can check and correct the subtitles on here? I can edit by myself after I apply the translation but is there a way I can send them the URL and they edit it, too?
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for explaining the scenario in detail. It’s an interesting one and I can definitely see how it would help lot of uses, but is unfortunately not yet supported at the moment. The only workaround I can think of is that you can click on the “In Progress” button to download a file for editing (it contains both source and translated subtitles) and then send that to your friend via email or some other mechanism. They can then upload the file again and do the editing. Obviously, having a URL to share would be great convenient, so will definitely think about supporting it soon.
Regards, Akbar
i payed for the gpt transaltion. has been done, but VTT in not standard and cannot be used in davinci resolve, format has been changed, so tried with free version as well, same problem, line numbers has been deleted
Hi David,
Sorry for the trouble there. As far as I know, the VTT format doesn’t include the line numbers. You can look at the sample here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebVTT
So as far as I can tell the format of the translated subtitle is correct. Do you get any error from the Davinci which tells you the format is incorrect?
BTW, I noticed that the first line of the subtitle starts at 1 hour instead of normally 0 hours? Is this intentional i.e. these are second half of a video? If not, I would suggest fixing the timeline of the subtitles. There are some online and offline editing tools which lets you change the timing of the subtitles.
I hope this helps.
Regards, Akbar
answring your old answer, Davinci resolve start always wih 1:00, i do not now why, it’s it standard way.
anyway’i’m using always paid version and .srt, usually translating in italian, with deepl paragraph mode, but ther are problems, many problem with the arrangment of paragraphs in italian, it duplicate phrases, 40% of them are duplicated, it seems that is able to interpreting paragrafh to send the to the translation api, but than is un’able to reorganize in a proper manner, so i have many many many paragraphs that are very very long inside the .srt, so I changet to GPT 3.5, similar problm, even worse, becuase it loose sync
Hi Dave,
Thanks for getting back to me. Regarding the Davinci start timing, doing a quick search, it looks like a bug/problem with their export code:
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=117152
It looks like you can override the default export start time, so you can try with that.
Regarding the translation sync and splitting issues, yeah, I must admit, it’s not perfect. If you have subtitle files, where a sentence spans on more than one lines, most of the machine translation APIs have problem with that, and Chat-GPT is worse because it sometime also remove the subtitle row tags/markers making it very hard to put things back in sync.
I have been tweaking the various API parameters and the row tag markers and I recently introduced a new “Auto Line” mode for the Chat-GPT. This one tries to split translated lines back on the ratio of the words in source and translated lines with some clever logic to also detect sentence endings where possible. Again, it’s not perfect, but for subtitles where a sentence splits on multiple subtitle lines, it’s giving me much better results. I would suggest you to try these and see how it goes.
Regards, Akbar
hey, if chat gpt 4 option becomes stable one day, you should make the chatgpt 3.5 option available for free.And the chatgpt4 option should remain as paid.
Yeah, I can think about that if OpenAI further reduces the cost of GPT 3.5 – which I hope will be the case when GPT 4 becomes more stable and cost effective. Then I will see if it’s feasible to make free for some small translations.
Regards, Akbar
PERFECT
Thanks, It is working again, no code 6 anymore.
Kind regards,
Paul Schreinemacher
Now getting “Error Code: 6, File Size: 0” when I drop a file into the upload box – starting happening around 16:30 UK time.
also saw “Column ‘Family_Name’ cannot be null”
Like the site it has worked well since I discovered it.
Sorry for the trouble Lily! It looks like there was a temporary problem with the hosting service provider resulting in this failure. It should now be resolved. Please let me know if you still experience this or any other issues.
Regards, Akbar
Hi Akbar,
When I want to import a srt file, the site gives me a code 6 and a red cross.
What can I do; this never happened before.
kind regards, Paul Schreinemacher
What’s the difference between GPT 3.5 & GPT 3.5 – 16k?
There is no difference in capabilities, but it’s that 16-K supports up to 4 times more tokens than GPT 3.5, and thus may translate slightly better for larger translations – as it maintains more context. It’s also of help when you want to include large Synopsis or Additional Info texts. You can read more about this here:
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-3-5
I would like to know why not all text is being translated if a movie lasts longer then 3 or 4 hours?
I assume you are using Google Translator? If yes, Google Translation web widget has a limit on the characters it can translate on a page – mainly to avoid misuse of their service. In that case I would suggest you to see if using Yandex translator helps.
Regards, Akbar
Saudacoes prezado.
quero muito mesmo agradecer pela iniciativa, e muito boa e ajudou-me perfeitamente. existem filmes que so tem legendas disponiveis em ingles e com essa ferramente fantastica foi simples traduzir no meu idioma e adicionar no meu ficheiro. eu gosto de apreciar os filmes nos seus idiomas de origem e apenas ver com subtitulo. espero que futuramente desenvolvas um aplicativo de traducao de legendas para pc. parabens
Thanks for the feedback. The Desktop App is not planned in the near future, but can think about it if there is enough demand.
Regards, Akbar