Archive for December, 2015

XTRF: Advantages and Disadvantages

Tuesday, December 15th, 2015

In the last three sessions of the Localization Project Management course here at MIIS, we learned about and explored XTRF, a translation management system that can add time- and money-saving automation throughout the entire lifecycle of a project. I hope any company I work for in the future as a project ...


Subtitles: SRT or ASS? Let your CAT tool decide!

Tuesday, December 8th, 2015

There are two subtitle file types out there battling it out: SubRip Text, SRT, and Sub Station Alpha, ASS. (Yes, that is actually the abbreviation. Don't feel bad about laughing about it - even I still do sometimes.) I joined a fansubbing group a few months before I enrolled in ...