5. THE QUEEN

Five shows or movies you might have missed that stood the test of boredom and the analytics of “I might kill myself watching this” 5. PREY Not a bad movie, one might say. Some new twist to the original Predator IP (that has been butchered over and over, alien hunter style) brought us a film that wasn’t the worst thing you may have watched last year. Kudos to the overall cinematography (it looks gorgeous, #trudat).

Let’s be real: everybody hates .tiff files. And we always will 5. TIFF The name itself is presumptuous. Like it’s screaming at you in an almost empty room. Face it: .tiff files are so mundane and meaningless nobody gives a pair of Sheissen about them.

I had the pleasure of emailing Sara David Lopes, an absolute legend of the Portuguese translation and subtitling scene, so I’ll be sharing the rough cut version of our email exchange, in our beloved 3Qs format, does that sound okay to you? 1) What led you to the subtitling realm? I grew fond of languages and translation since…

UK readers are consuming more translated fiction than ever. But the process is far more sophisticated than just converting like-for-like words. We speak to those at the top of their game about the fine art of translation. “There used to be the magic number when it came to books in…

Keywords of the then, now, 2099 and beyond: privacy and security. I know nothing about them in detail, so I decided to email an expert: Hanna Bozakov, one of the craftswomen hard at work with Tutanota. If you haven’t heard about Tutanota at this point… well, you might just consider…

Let’s greet some fantastic dubbing artists and performers. I’ve stumbled upon a business card of one María Castro Couce, a quadrilingual voice over artist that (as you read) is working from Barcelona 1) When I say Yeardley Smith, Seth MacFarlane, Salvador Vidal, you say… María Catro Couce (MCC): Respect and admiration for all of them. …

Just that Intermark (or is it Reterview?!) you were looking for. This time, I reached out to a former colleague, dear friend and Digital expert Gonçalo Antunes, to talk some subs and translation. Here’s what he had to share. 1) What’s your take on European Portuguese subtitling, in general? From your childhood experience up until you could get your head around expressions, jokes, can you rate it 1 to 5? Or… would you rate it?

This is sort of Interviews meets Remarks. I’ve listened to some of Max’s content before, and then I decided to send him a few Qs. He’s a pretty busy guy, so he mostly sent me a couple of links and told me something I’ll share with you. 1) Do you think proper hardware really improves job quality and accelerates deadline response for translation? What are your top recommendations? MD: Yes, of…