The Timing of the Subtitles
I love Dreaming French’s teaching method. I’m currently level 2 with around 40 hours on DF, another 40 hours of outside content, and I already see huge progress with my comprehension.
But one thing that keeps frustrating me is the subtitle timing. Many times a video has very smooth audio to subtitle sync from start to finish, but sometimes half the video's subs are out of sync. With a lot. The worst cases are when a subtitle stays on screen for barely a second before changing. I notice this a lot when subtitles are broken into chunks of only 3-4 words instead of full sentences. But even with longer sentences, the subtitles sometimes change 2-3 times before the guide has even finished speaking the first sentence. Another annoyance is that in maybe half of the videos, subtitles don’t appear right away at the start. If I refresh the page, they usually show up immediately at the correct timestamp.
Compared to this, Youtube videos have perfect subtitle timing. Even the ones with embedded subtitles added by the creator before uploading.
I’m not sure if most DF users even rely on subtitles this much since I don’t see complaints in the comments or on this subreddit. For a long time I thought the problem was my browser, computer, or internet connection, especially since I’ve only seen one comment about it on a DF video.
Has anyone else had this issue?