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Fansub

A Fansub (short for fan-subtitled) is a copy of a foreign movie or television show which has been subtitled by fans in their native language. It is most commonly used to refer to fan-translated anime videos that are shared amongst other fans, although it is not limited to anime and can also refer to fan-translated music videos and foreign soap operas. A fansubber is an individual involved in the process of creating a fan-subtitled video, and the process itself is known as fansubbing.

The Fansub Process

The following is an exhaustive list of the digital fansub process:

• Raw Acquisition
  • Raw cleaning
• Translating
  • Translation check (TLC)
• Timing (TI)
  • Scene timing
• Editing (ED)
  • 2nd edit
• Typesetting (TS)
  • Karaoke (kara)
  • Signs
  • Special effects
• Encoding (Enc)
  • Quality check (QC)
  • Release Candidate (RC)
  • Final Checker
• Distribution? (Distro)
  • Predistro

The order of this list may vary between groups, and not all tasks are performed. However, the major 7 steps (marked in bold) are universally undertaken in a typical digital fansubbing group.