[meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question

From: tett <tett_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Aug 13 18:40:40 2005
Message-ID: <000a01c5a058$07520870$6500a8c0_at_Tettenborn>

Sergey,

Thanks for all this work. It was wonderful to watch this movie and
understand the commentary.

Has given me an itch to pick up another Sikhote. ;>)

Cheers,

tett
Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sergey Vasiliev" <petrovich_at_sv-meteorites.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 3:37 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin question


> Hello List,
>
> It was a request yesterday about English subtitles for Sikhote-Alin movie.
>
> I decided to play a little bit here. So I created some subtitles for a
> part
> of the movie.
> I cut the end of the movie and kept the only part with field works.
> I want you not to judge me so much because that was my first experience
> with
> this software. I translated sentence by sentence from the voice behind the
> screen. I also used an online translator from Russian to English. It paid
> off as long as I wanted to do this job fast to see if I'm able to create
> something like that. Of course I modified sentences but not all of them
> and
> not perfect. Actually I can't modify them perfect as long as my own
> English
> is far away from perfect ;-)
> Also for some reason the software changed the size of the file (and screen
> resolution) so now the file is about 70Mb (was 56Mb) and instead of actual
> 320x240 I have 640x480.
> You can switch your player to 50% view and it will be the same quality as
> original (I guess ;-)).
> One more time: that was my first try with this software and correction of
> video files at all.
> I played for 9 hours but I can see now that I can do it! That was a fun
> for
> me yesterday!
>
> If somebody thinks that I should try more and keep translating the rest of
> the movie (some nice meteorites from great collection of Russian academy
> of
> sciences are showing on the end of it without translation) I can find some
> time later to do this. But I think that first part must be re-done to be
> more readable. If somebody has an interest to help me with this please
> send
> me your thoughts of how subtitles must be written.
>
> I will try to get the file back to the original resolution later also.
> That
> should reduce the size of the file. The file is in the same format as it
> was
> (.wmv).
>
> The movie with subtitles is ready for download here:
> http://sv-meteorites.jodoshared.com/movie/SikhoteAlin_Short.WMV
>
> Enjoy!
> Sergey
>
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Received on Sat 13 Aug 2005 06:40:37 PM PDT