Tag Manipulation Guidelines

• Using Tags
• Action Subs and TL Notes
• Basic Principles of Complex Animation

Using Tags

Use these tags to your advantage.

• Plain subtitles are fine but they can be more interesting.
• You can manipulate how the tags look depending on how the line was said. It can either be a scream, a sigh, or anything else!

Action Subs and TL Notes

Action Subs in general

Short Answer: No.

• Long Answer: This can be represented with an edit instead.
• Action Subs are *cute laugh* *sneeze* *oh look how cute she is* *brrr*
  • Unnecessarily dictates what the talent is doing; sounds and noises.

If the Action Subs are specifically mentioned by the talent

• Some action subs can be localized by the translators appropriately.
• Most action subs are left in the hands of editors.

You don’t use asterisks (*)

Laughs / www / 草

If you’re new or even experienced in subbing, I kindly advise you don’t add them and leave them to the editor instead.

TL Notes

• These are to be avoided as much as possible.
• If you do have to add it and if an image can be added, add an image instead.
• If it can be added above the text that specifically needs the note, you can add a small text above it instead. (FuriNotes)

Basic Principles of Complex Animation

• This part is only useful once you know how to manipulate tags efficiently.
• The speed of change of the tags will be dependent on how it’s timed.
  • If the change is quick and the timing is short, it’ll be intense.
  • If the change is slow and the timing is long, it’ll be relaxed.

Animated Tag Stacking

\t Tag Stacking

• 0 - Starting time (by the millisecond)
• 4900 - Ending time (by the millisecond)
• 1 - Acceleration of the animation (multiplier of 1)
  • You can stack \t tags in the same line as long as you add the appropriate starting and ending time.
  • The Numbers marked in yellow are variables and can be adjusted + it’s relative to the timed line.
    • In this case, the line is 5 seconds long (5000ms)

Move Stacking

• Line 15 is moving on the 30th of a second
• Line 16 is moving at a full second
• The final position of Line 15 is the starting position of Line 16
  • By this, since the move tag can’t be stacked in one line, we go around this by using multiple lines, creating an illusion of acceleration.

Extreme Example

• An example to represent how far and complicated you can stack tags and create something like this.
• It’s messy, I know.