Youtube Caption Hilarity

[magog_83]

HAS ANYONE TRIED PUTTING YOUTUBE SUBTITLES ON OVER EPISODES OF MERLIN??

jamie15 gave me the idea from Jeeves and Wooster. I am dying over here. DYING.

Uther: There is no room for magic in my kingdom!

YT Uther: There is no room for magic and Michael Even!

....

Uther [To Morgana]: You will be with my when I greet Lady Helen.

YT Uther: you will be with my group the Indian like total aol trash.

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Morris: It's not that bright.
Arthur: Bit like you then!

Youtube: It's still not going to be like a bad bet on the other side of international cinema.

...

Arthur: Watch this then...
Youtube: Risk taking.

...

Arthur: Do I know you?
Merlin: I'm Merlin

Youtube: one night uh... on that Friday. Nitpick you called me?

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Arthur: Nor I one who could be so stupid!

Youtube: all I wanted to be fixed you could [wow this is like a window into their inner thoughts!]

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Arthur: Tell me, Merlin...

Youtube: Coming mode. [SERIOUSLY, I AM NOT KIDDING]

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Arthur: Do you know how to walk on your knees?

Youtube: accountable for the on the east coast [WTF? Way to ruin the mood, youtube]

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Dragon: [he faces many threats] from friend and foe alike.

Youtube: from friends arsonists delivery [wow it has seen the Edwin ep!]

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Dragon: Without you, there will be no Albion!

Youtube: Without you, there will be no albanian! [OMG SAVE THE ALBANIAN]

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Gwen: I'm Guinevere, I'm the lady Morgana's maid.

Youtube: I'm making fun of me.

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Merlin [in stocks to Gwen]: It was stupid.

Youtube: Thanks steve.

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Arthur: How's your knee walking coming along? Oh don't run away!

Youtube: How did you don't think any of us often but no wedding.

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Merlin: Look I've told you you're an ass, I just didn't realise you were a royal one.

Youtube: that I've told you rocks artists you're a little one.

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Arthur: I could take you apart with one blow...

Youtube: but he faced a problem of to take your calls for the Senator.

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Arthur: I warn you, I've been trained to kill since birth...

Youtube: I want, I want to thank you.

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From 'Moment of Truth'

Uther: Ealdor is in Cendred's kingdom.

Youtube: Bell bottoms and rescue.


::WIPES EYES::

Comments

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Clearly something is lost in translation, but some of these are hilarious! Does YT supply the subtitles?

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

It's a computer programme that 'captions' audio if you turn it on. It's still in beta mode apparently. AND I CAN SEE WHY.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Ok, I actually snorted. I mean, laughed out loud, when I read that bit about it being in beta mode. Still cracks me up. HILARIOUS.

[sighnomore.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling a bit stupid here but... what are youtube subtitles? o_o

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

On the bar under the video there is sometimes a little 'cc', click and select audio and it will create subtitles for whatever you are watching! Really, really, terrible made up computer programme subtitles... :D

[sighnomore.livejournal.com]

Oh awesome :D I'll definitely try that sometime soon :3

[blondielox.livejournal.com]

*skips happily off to youtube* Well, there goes my productivity for the evening... Oh no wait Bradders and Cols already stole it

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

I've found that I can disguise my addiction (sometimes) when I fold laundry while watching Merlin. Sometimes I just have to watch and do nothing but watch. Um, good luck with the productivity anyway:D

[blondielox.livejournal.com]

Hee! I actually do that - folding and ironing EVERYTHING for... ~three episodes. Ehm. XD

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

LOL! Oooh, you are good;)

[astridfire.livejournal.com]

OMG, these killed me. Still LOLing. :DD

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

They are ridiculous :D I was also using the caption function for the proposal scene in Pride and Prejudice and various bits of Doctor Who with equally hilarious results!

[jamie15.livejournal.com]

Oh HAHA! There's so much more gold that my audio transcription thingy didn't come up with :D! LOVE the Coming Mode one! And even youtube seems to know that it's high time Arthur showed some gratituted to Merlin! *nods*

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

Youtube seems to have many interesting insights into their relationship, it should do its own episode commentaries!!!

Thank you so much for telling me about this function, I will have fun FOREVER with this. Well, until they fix the glitches (boo!)

[jamie15.livejournal.com]

Boo indeed! Although to be honest, I don't think that they'll be able to completely fix it for some time to come - I just believe that if humans occasionally have trouble with deciphering what exactly is being said, computers must have even more difficulties with that. So I don't see how they'll ever get it a hundred percent right.

You're most welcome though! I'm really glad to have tipped you off on this if it provides you with this much fun :)!

(Psst - how are you getting on with your JE by the way :)?)

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I am just thinking about JE right this second! I have got to the stage now when I need to stop and WORK OUT THE REST OF THE PLOT. It's so hard though, what with magic and Merlin being a man and everyone's new MOTIVATIONS.

In an act of procrastination, I bought myself a new notepad to plan in. I don't know how people write epic fic, I really don't!

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I'm having real problems casting Bertha. The obvious is to make her Morgana, but I have wanted, from the start, to have Morgana, Morgause and Edwin as the Rivers family who take Merlin in. UGH SO DIFFICULT.

I already have Sophia, so I'm left with either keeping Bertha as Bertha (I haven't cast everyone from the show) or pairing Arthur with a totally random magic user :/

[jamie15.livejournal.com]

You don't have to tell me -.-! I'm always amazed at how people can write such wonderful, beautifully plotted and LONG O.o! fics (especially when I'm still struggling to finish that teensy Sherlock story that I started two months ago ... ah, well)!

Buying a new notepad is a good idea though! There's nothing that works better as motivation than the smell and crispness of new paper :)! ... Hm, I wonder if that sounds a bit weird ...

Love the idea of Morgana, Morgause and Edwin as the Rivers family! But I can see your problem :/. Hm ... who did you cast as Sophia? Is it Blanche Ingram? What if you cast Vivian as Blanche for example? Then you could give Bertha's part to Sophia, right? But if worst comes to worst, I think you'll be fine with keeping Bertha as Bertha - she can have magic powers in your story right?

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I made Sophia Blanche. I did think about using Vivian briefly, but I tend to use mostly series one characters and relationships so I went with Sophia.

I think you may be right about keeping Bertha as herself. I don't have to cast EVERYONE and that way I can make up her personality as I like and not have any preconceptions about her.

[jamie15.livejournal.com]

No, you certainly don't have to cast everyone - that could be very tricky too and you might end up casting characters for roles in the book that just don't fit their personality in the show (like for example, I can't really see Gaius as any of the JE characters ... Jane just didn't have a loving guardian and teacher like that ... hmmm, now that I think about it she is a bit like Morgana in that aspect ...!) - just go with your gut feeling I'd say - that's definitely the safest choice! :)

[dk323.livejournal.com]

LOL. Some of those subtitles are too funny and WTH?? too. Oh, YouTube. Clearly the caption program needs some work. :p

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I think it's may possibly not be ready for final approval yet... Just a thought ;)

[katie-andrew.livejournal.com]

Oh boy. This is.... This is. I don't even know.

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

It's hilarious :D :D And very insightful about the show (COMING MODE)

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

OMG That is wonderful. YT needs to do a little bit more work on that, I think. But funny. And useful if you don't actually want to know what's going on.

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can't even imagine what you would be thinking if you were using it for real reasons, it would be extemely confusing!!!

Methinks it still needs a TEENY bit more work doing on it...

[giecast.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA WHAT IS THIS?! It reminds me of bootleg dvds with really bad English subtitles. Laughing like mad at "coming mode." And really how did "I've been trained to kill since birth" turn into "I want to thank you"? *scratches head* Imma have to try this now. *skips off*

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I hope you found some good ones too!

The 'I want to thank you' one is just BIZARRE. It's like youtube are running a commentary on the characters, not plain old subtitles...

[a8c-sock.livejournal.com]

THIS IS HIALRIOUS.

Oh YouTube.