Citations:softsub

English citations of softsub

2014, Douglas Schules, “How to do things with fan subs: Media engagement as subcultural capital in anime fan subbing”, in Transformative Works and Cultures‎^[1], volume 17, →DOI, →ISSN:
Rather than producing a hardsubbed file, where the subtitles would be burned into the video stream and be impossible to edit, programs like Aegisub produce a modified text file that streams with but is not integrated into the video stream: a softsub.

2012 May, Penn Pantumsinchai, Fans turned prosumers: a case study of an online fansubbing community‎^[2], University of Hawaii at Manoa:
However, there is a risk in softsubs, because people can download the text file, edit it, and claim the subtitles as their own.
2013 October 19, Chris Fehily, Cancel Cable: How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff‎^[3], Questing Vole Press, →ISBN:
Soft subtitles, also called softsubs or closed subtitles, come as separate files that you load in tandem with the video file. Softsubs are the most common type of torrent subtitles.
2015 November 25, Elisa Perego, Silvia Bruti, Subtitling Today: Shapes and Their Meanings (Studies in Language and Translation)‎^[4], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 78:
the final product distributed can be a video file with permanently embedded subtitles (hardsubs) or a text file that users must then attach to a video file obtained from other sources (softsubs)

2001 September 29, David Watson, “Viz Video Girl Ai DVD news”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎^[5] (Usenet):
Now, this gets me. "Too expensive"? Then how can ADV Films afford to
softsub their lyrics now, and shouldn't that little cash cow known as
Pokemon have reduced the number of things that Viz find "too expensive"
quite significantly by now?
2005 July 11, Lena B Katz, “Kamichu! what happened to the sub?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎^[6] (Usenet):
Ever try reencoding a hardsubbed encode?
That should be enough reason to softsub.
2011 July 26, deadrodentyping, “Yellow Sea (korea)”, in alt.horror‎^[7] (Usenet):
Couldn't find any that timed up with the copy I have. At least not when I
tried to softsub with the aviaddsubs tool.

2011, Rayna Denison, quoting Izzy, “Anime fandom and the liminal spaces between fan creativity and piracy”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies‎^[8], volume 14, number 5, Sage Publications Sage UK: London, England, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 449–466:
I like the softsubbed mkv’s better

2016, Joseph P Wentz, “Revisiting Japan’s Gross National Cool: Exporting Japanese Animation in the International Marketplace”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[9], Liberty University:
Interestingly, although raw video for anime was limited, it was able to spread virally due to softsubbing, which saves video and subtitles separately, thus allowing for re-production by other fansubbers.