Fandub subs?
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005Another Otakon has passed, and with it more musings on that awfully large room they show most of the fan parodies in. For those of you who have never been, their Video 1 is about the size of an airplane hangar which serves as a massive echo chamber for everything that plays in there. Which is not too much of an issue when subtitled programming is shown, but self-defeating when something dubbed is. Someone brought to my attention a possible fix for such acoustically challenged venues: add a subtitle track to our DVDs.
I’ve never thought our DVDs needed more than chapters and menus so long as we’re not widely distributing them, but this sounds like something worth looking into. I’d need new authoring software though, otherwise I’d have to create a hard-subbed version. Of course, I think the best solution would be to have multiple screenings of the more popular dubs in one of the smaller rooms, which I think are more fun for parodies anyway.