Fansubber Guide and Resources

Guides

1. Timing
2. Translation
3. Styleguide
4. Glossary
5. Typesetting
6. Quality Check (QC)
7. Encoding

External Guides

1. Sub Sub Gakkou
2. Installing Whisper CPP with AI for Auto-Captioning
3. Encoding Guide using Handbrake
4. iamscum OCR Guide
5. Subarashii no Fansub OCR Guide

RAWs and Subtitles

• nyaa.si (Public torrent tracker)
• avistaz (Private torrent tracker)
• jptv.club (Private torrent tracker)

Tools

Subtitling

• Aegisub (Free, Cross-Platform)
  • Aegisub on Github
  • Aegisub Fork by wangqr
• Subtitle Edit (Free, Windows-only)

Timing and Auto-captioning

• CapCut (Free trial, Cross-Platform, Timing/Auto-captioning): Used to generate Japanese captions using AI if JP captions don’t exist
• Eleven Labs (speech to text/captions using AI) https://elevenlabs.io/speech-to-text
• Ultimate Vocal Remover: Used on audio to remove background music and sound effects for AI-generated Japanese captions.

OCRing

• PaddleOCR: Cross-Platform, Python Script

Encoding

• Handbrake