The first video I fully completed was "Automatic". It took me about 1 hour to translate the entire song, which was far shorter than the several hours I spent on my first (non uploaded) music video. Why? Probably because this was Utada's first single, and she still mostly wrote her lyrics in English before translating them into Japanese. This contributed to the ease in which I found I could understand the song, and have it make sense in translation. That said, I still had difficulty in reading some of the kanji, and looking through a dictionary to find the reading was somewhat of a pain.
When I uploaded this video to youtube, several things went wrong. As it was the first time I've ever uploaded anything to youtube, I didn't realise what quality it would be or how the subtitles would change. The video ended up being terribly blurry and small, and thus you couldn't read the subtitles at all. I had to pull the video down, hardsub the video again at a higher quality, and upload it once more.
I think this video went well, and it made me look for an alternative to the paper kanji dictionary, which I found in popjisho, and I learnt something about uploading videos to youtube.
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