Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video
Completely tangential question to this awesome discussion: who even writes subtitles? It feels like a thankless job to write subtitles for rips of movies and TV shows old and new. I get that maybe they source original from, say, Netflix, but .set files existed long before Netflix, and for lots of movies not on Netflix. Writing all those tags for hearing impaired seems like a lot of work, which anyone other than the first-person movie production team would be loathe to indulge in. Yet I see a lot of subtitles which don't seem 'official'. Then there are subtitles which seem like they were written as a loose translation of the audio. Both are in English, so I don't see why they can't just transcribe what's being said. Instead, for dialogues such as "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.", the subtitle is written as "The devil tricked the world into thinking he didn't exist."