Dear all,
I'm completely new to this channel, I'm happy to have found it.
I have a question and I thought you guys might be of good advice.
I am a filmmaker. I make short films which go to festivals for 1 to 2 years, and when their festival lifecycle is over, I put them online.
I am about to put a shortfilm online. It is a very dear film to me, it has done very well in festivals. In order to have a good audience, I thought of translating it in several languages (I have about 5).
The film is originally in FRENCH, and I have subtitles in English, Spanish, Chinese, Croatian and Portuguese.
The question I was wondering is: how am I going to reach people from those countries ? How are they going to know that the film is available in their language ?
- Shall I post one file with no subtitles, and upload 5 SRT to Youtube ?
- - In that case, does Youtube automatically choose the right subtitle for the right audience ?
- - Or shall I burn in the English subs, and add the 4 other as SRT Closed Captions (so you'd have English + Spanish for exemple) -> in that case it works full screen, but when the player is on, the 2nd language subs display in front of the English subs
- - Shall I announce those languages in the description ?
- Shall I post 5 different video files with the subs burned in ?
- - In that case, do I have to make efforts to promote 5 different files (which seem pretty impossible to me)
I hope my question was clear. And I hope you can help me out, because I'm really really confused !!!
Thank you !!!!!!!!
Manu
I'm completely new to this channel, I'm happy to have found it.
I have a question and I thought you guys might be of good advice.
I am a filmmaker. I make short films which go to festivals for 1 to 2 years, and when their festival lifecycle is over, I put them online.
I am about to put a shortfilm online. It is a very dear film to me, it has done very well in festivals. In order to have a good audience, I thought of translating it in several languages (I have about 5).
The film is originally in FRENCH, and I have subtitles in English, Spanish, Chinese, Croatian and Portuguese.
The question I was wondering is: how am I going to reach people from those countries ? How are they going to know that the film is available in their language ?
- Shall I post one file with no subtitles, and upload 5 SRT to Youtube ?
- - In that case, does Youtube automatically choose the right subtitle for the right audience ?
- - Or shall I burn in the English subs, and add the 4 other as SRT Closed Captions (so you'd have English + Spanish for exemple) -> in that case it works full screen, but when the player is on, the 2nd language subs display in front of the English subs
- - Shall I announce those languages in the description ?
- Shall I post 5 different video files with the subs burned in ?
- - In that case, do I have to make efforts to promote 5 different files (which seem pretty impossible to me)
I hope my question was clear. And I hope you can help me out, because I'm really really confused !!!
Thank you !!!!!!!!
Manu
