by Keith | Jul 24, 2020 | Blog, Language Learning 語文心得, Subtitling 字幕, Transcription 謄寫, Translation 翻譯
粵語是一個生動有趣、詼諧抵死的語言,很多表達方式並非書面中文可以直接傳達得出來。其中,水的應用方式亦是非常豐富,在此憑記憶細數一番。此篇記錄跟錢有關的說法。 Cantonese is a very interesting and sarcastic language. Many of its expressions can hardly have equivalent terms and phrases in written Chinese. Among others, ‘water’ (水, seoi2)...
by Keith | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog, Subtitling 字幕, Transcription 謄寫
字幕排版是一個相當兩極的工作,你可能很喜歡,也可能因為其重複工序而覺得煩躁。值得慶幸的是,字幕排版也可以很自在,若使用對的方法的話。 首先,影片必須先剪接好才謄寫字幕。先將中英文字句一句句謄寫出來,每一行的字數當作是直接上字幕的用字而且不要超過限制字數,就可以很快謄寫完畢。之後再將寫好的字句上載到字幕程式。我常常準備兩個字幕檔案也就是.ass和.srt檔案,客戶可以隨時使用。...
by Keith | Jul 3, 2020 | Blog, Translation 翻譯
Murakami’s work time arrangement is high effective; he works three hours at one go in the morning, afternoon, and evening. If my memory serves me right, I once read his works detailing his time arrangement to write his own fiction during daytime, and translate...
by Keith | Jun 26, 2020 | Blog, Translation 翻譯
村上春樹是我很欣賞的小說家,雖然後面幾部作品都沒讀了,但我還是非常欣賞他作為寫作人、翻譯家的精神與態度。村上與太太長期在日本與美國之間各居住半年,去到哪裡就堅持寫到哪裡的工作態度,可以說是對我影響深遠。 其實真正的寫作人、翻譯家不論去到哪裡,祇要有可以辦公的桌子,應當是可以馬上洋洋灑灑開始文字作業。背後的功力,當然是靠平日多讀書、多涉獵不同領域知識,下筆處理不同內容方能融會貫通。...
by Keith | Jun 19, 2020 | Blog, Editing 編輯校對, Translation 翻譯
Writing is never easy, if you are writing for a living. I am fortunate to be making a living by working on copywriting, translation, transcription, subtitling and editing. Given the variety and genre of business documents, I have to always keep reading to gain more...
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