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中文在下

Test videos are snippets from the source
测试的视频是从原视频截取的片段

But you might need to grasp the general idea before translating
但可能需要了解视频大意

Follow the link to the original video if possible
有条件的话请上YouTube观看原视频掌握

Some vocabulary requires extensive searching
有一些词汇需要细致的搜索

You can Google the pronunciation you’ve heard
谷歌你听到的发音

Official site of the product, review articles, be it in Chinese or English
产品官网、评测文章（中英）

as well as Urbandictionary, and Merriam-Webster are all your good friends
Urbandictionary、Merriam-Webster都是你的好伙伴

New translators often do not split a line frequently enough
新翻译很容易一句话听下去不换行

which is bad for later syncing
这对后来时间轴的工作不利

Please split lines appropriately by meaning and length
请按照意思和长度断句

No single line of caption should exceed the length of this line to avoid overflow
中文一行最长可以达到的字符个数按照新的标准样式重新测算应是三十三个

Two lines on screen for either language occupy too much space
双行会占用过大画面

and may be covered by “Danmaku”, aka “Curtain Fire” or “barrage”
并可能被弹幕遮盖

which is live comments flying on the screen
即飘过的实时评论

You can split lines after transcribing and translating
你可以在听写并翻译完以后再断句

I personally find it easier than to worry about splitting in the beginning
我个人觉得比一开始想这件事要方便些

注：屏幕上有字但音频中没有 或者你认为需要额外解释的 可用“注：”的形式写出

As for capitalization
至于大小写的话

if it is clearly one sentence spanning across several lines
如果可以确定是一个跨越多行的完整句

then only capitalize the first letter of the beginning of the sentence
那么只需要把该句首字母大写

note that if several segments connect together
如果一句话有多个意思有关联的片段话

you should NEVER capitalize more than one segment
你绝对不能大写超过两个片段

But do we always speak in full sentences?
但我们每次都会说整句么？

Sometimes we don’t
有时候不会

In that case the choice is more arbitrary
这种情况下处理方式就比较自由

The problem with extremely long sentences that
长难句之所以难

– aside from some weird, nerd-only technical jargons
除了诡异，小圈子才会用的术语

– causes trouble to understand,
造成理解困难以外

sometimes comes from poorly constructed sentences themselves.
有时还是因为 句子本身不好

subbing videos means that
做字幕就意味着

you do have to deal with clunky, improvised, ill-conceived, super long segments,
你会遇到生硬，现诌，欠考虑的超长片段

which is less of a problem for articles
文章这方面问题少

because those are carefully constructed and repeatedly edited
因为文字都是仔细构思，反复推敲的产物

However, the flipside of it is that,
但话又说回来

videos have FAR more contexts
视频的信息量多得多

– be it audio, visual, or even video descriptions and annotations
比如音频，图像，甚至视频简介和注释

Tone, inclination, pauses, graphs, environment… they’ll all help you.
感情，语调，停顿，图标，周遭环境……这些都能帮助你理解