Tony Gatlif "Swing"

Elliot

CalebFSU wrote:

hahaha Eliot its a DVD!

CalebFSU, you seem really proud, and since you are why don't you do us all a favor and put up a copy of the English transcript of the movie? It would probably take you 20 minutes.

CalebFSU

hahaha yeah man, I hardly have enough time to practice transcribing solos, there's no way I am transcribing the movie.

thickpick

Here.

Elliot

Excellent! Thanks!

Dylanlawless1

oh sweet, i have the film on my hard drive without sub titles. does that file work to put them on? or how? never did it before

thickpick

Actually, that file won't work -- it's just a text file. But the one I've attached will. It's an .srt file, which is a standard format for subtitles, but the Djangobooks software wouldn't let me upload it, so I had to compress it into a .zip file. After you download and uncompress the zip file, what you need to do is create a folder (called whatever you want, but Swing would work just fine), and within that folder give the video file and the subtitle file the same name. For instance, call the video file swing.avi (assuming it's an .avi file) and the subtitle file swing.srt. Then your video will recognize the subtitles and play them along with the movie (I use VLC to do this, but I think Quicktime has the capability as well.) Let me know if you have any questions.

Ando

While you guys resolve the tech issues, I wanted to ask a larger question about Tony Gatlif in general. Has anyone here ever talked to him? What's he like in person? How's his English?

Cheers
Ando

Dylanlawless1

Great thanks for that, might be able to get people to watch it now with the subtitles.