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Trip to the Netherlands

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An afternoon trip to Arnhem - and the 'Bridge too Far', a WWII battle to control this key bridge across the Rhine.   On my recent trip to the Netherlands we did training with missionaries that wanted to learn about film dubbing and subtitling.  Film dubbing is the process of keeping the music and sound effects from a film, but replacing the spoken dialog with a recordings of voices in a new language.  This is a much more complicated and time intensive process than just subtitling a film.  In a subtitled film you can keep the original soundtrack, but put subtitles of a new translation as text on the bottom of the screen.   I was sharing some of the things I did in dubbing as well as subtitling films, not only the JESUS film but more recently the File Zero series that we did with Agape Spain.  There were 12 in the class, but also 3 other people helping out with the training from their areas of expertise,  By the end of the class we had to...