Proxy Cafe, film subtitling and captioning

Wednesday, 19 April

Proxy Cafe, film subtitling and captioning

Short url: 

https://squ.at/r/9br2

SUBTITLING AND CAPTIONING WORKSHOP [for tecchies, activists & film-loving wordwranglers]

w19/4 (19:00): overview of all the different free tools that have emerged (and agonized) through the ages, with clues as to which one to use for what purpose. Aegisub for instance, is good for working on subtitles from scratch. Nikse.dk's Subtitle Edit is great for fine-tuning and has just added speech recognition. If you edit your own videos, kdenlive is the third Free Open Source Software (FOSS) tool we'll be looking at, among many others. Bring your laptop (+mouse, +headphones, +pendrive) if you want to dive right into it and play around with them after the presentation.

S23/4 (14:00): more of the same on Sunday, but with ideas about 'correct' language, 'faithful' translation, 'readable' lines, etc. Why are all these things in scare quotes? Because there are rules about them, of course. Mountains of rules. Impossibly contradictory rules. It's a tyranny out there, sister.

w26/4 (18:00): Filmhuis Cavia is hosting an extra session for projectionists on Wednesday 26, at 18:00, plus a little 'graduation ceremony' on the big screen.

Proxy Cafe: free software workshops. Discussing tech and politics, GNU/Linux, fixing computers and revive old laptops, free and opensource software workshops. Zapatista coffee.

The first 30 minutes are for landing in the space, despairing about forgotten chargers or headphones, minimal introductions, and running to the shop for frozen pizza (or byo veggie leftovers).

Date & Time: 

Wednesday, 19 April, 2023 - 19:00 to 22:00

Category: 

  • course/workshop
  • meeting

Price: 

  • free
  • by donation

email: 

Joe's Garage
Pretoriusstraat 43
1092 EZ Amsterdam
Netherlands

Directions: 

Train station Amsterdam Muiderpoort, 10 minutes walk --- Metro station Wibaustraat, 15 minutes walk --- Tram 19 or Bus 41, Bus/tramhalte: Oostpoort, 1 minute walk

Squat: 

Presently squatted

A place and moment where we gather to talk about computers, free and opensource software, workshops, drinks with music with frozen pizzas.

Feel free to come for a workshop, to have a chat  or a drink!

categories: 

  • course/workshop / discussion/presentation

opening times: 

Usually twice a month on Wednesdays from 18:00 till 22:00 Joe's Garage and sometimes in different locations and why not in your social space, somewhere else than Amsterdam?!

Since June 2005, Joe's Garage is an autonomous squatted political social center, a meeting place in the Transvaal neighborhood for squatters and non-squatters, subsidy free, not for profit, self-organized and entirely run by volunteers.

categories: 

  • advice/help/office hours / book shop/info shop/library / course/workshop / discussion/presentation / exhibition / film / food / (free) shop/market / meeting / music/concert / theater

opening times: 


(March 2024)
Monday: 19:00, Volkseten Vegazulu
Tuesday: 19-20:30, Kraakspreekuur Oost
Wednesday: 18:00 Esperanto Workshop or Proxy Cafe
Thursday: 19:00, Volkseten Vegazulu
Friday: 20:00 Aman molli: Practice of Modal Music
Saturday: 14-18, Give Away Shop
Sunday: 18-20, Radical Sunday School
Sunday: 20:30, Movie night
Every 2nd saturday of the month, 19:00-20:30, Joe’s Garage open assembly