A Few Milliseconds Of 2073 publishing guide
Publishing guide for A Few Milliseconds Of 2073 — the conventions that apply to every episode. The paste-ready title, description and post copy for a given episode live on that episode's own page.
This replaced two self-contained HTML files that used to sit in the project repo. They kept going stale — at one point they listed episodes as "upload pending" months after those episodes had shipped — because nothing ever made anyone open them. A wiki page gets corrected when you visit it to copy from it.
Episode pages
Each page carries a synopsis, the cast, watch links, and a Publishing copy section with every string you paste into an upload form.
- Two of Me · New Human Language · Planet Killer · Pleistocene Park · The Mars Disaster · The Ones Who Didn't Ask · The Persistence Template
Channels
One channel per language, so each reads as a local show rather than a translated feed.
- English: @AFewMillisecondsOf2073
- Español: @UnosMilisegundosDe2073
- Français: @QuelquesMillisecondesDe2073
- 日本語: @2073NoSuMilliByo
- 中文: @2073NianDeJiHaomiao
YouTube upload settings
Identical for every video:
- Made for kids: No
- Age restriction: No
- Upload the matching
.srtas a same-language subtitle track. Always upload the sidecar — where an mp4 carries a muxed caption track YouTube does not reliably index it, and the windowed-capture renders carry none at all. - Add to the channel's series playlist.
Title format
| Language | Format |
|---|---|
| English | A Few Milliseconds of 2073 (Ep. N) — title first, for click-through |
| Español | Unos Milisegundos de 2073 (Ep. N) |
| Français | Quelques Millisecondes de 2073 (Ép. N) |
| 日本語 | 2073年のほんの数ミリ秒 — 第N話「<タイトル>」 — digit year, Japanese series name
|
| 中文 | 2073年的几毫秒（第N集） |
Known inconsistency: EN Ep 1 is live as A Few Milliseconds of 2073 — Ep. 1: "Two of Me", the early series-first draft format. Everything since uses title-first. Worth editing in Studio.
The series name always appears in the video's own language — never leave the English name in a non-English description.
- EN:
A Few Milliseconds of 2073 — a non-dystopian sci-fi short series. - JA:
非ディストピアSF短編シリーズ『2073年のほんの数ミリ秒』。
Hashtags
- EN:
#SciFi #AI #ScienceFiction #2073 #ShortFilm - JA:
#SF #AI #サイエンスフィクション #2073 #短編
Fourth wall
"Ep. N" / "第N話" is fine in titles and descriptions — that is viewer-facing metadata, outside the fiction. The hard rule only forbids a node or the Narrator saying "Episode N" on screen.
Facebook is a full second home, not a mirror. Post the full landscape episode natively, then the vertical teaser reel with a pinned comment linking back to the full FB video.
- Upload the full episode as native FB video. Caption = the full post text from the episode page.
- Copy the new FB video's URL.
- Post the teaser reel. Caption = the reel post text.
- Pin a comment on the reel = the pinned comment, pasting the FB video URL from step 2.
Do not reuse the YouTube description. Same voice, but FB-tuned: hook first (FB truncates after ~125 characters), one or two hashtags at most, and the link points at YouTube as the canonical home. The Ep 4 reel was captioned with the YouTube description verbatim — 1,023 characters opening on series boilerplate instead of a hook. Don't repeat that.
Caption debt (open)
All 21 local caption files were repaired on 2026-08-09 — full coverage to the last frame, no markup leakage. The live tracks on YouTube are still the old ones. Replacing them is a Studio upload per video and needs no re-render:
- Truncated closing narration — Eps 1–3 in Español, Français, 日本語 and 中文, plus Ep 4 Français. Between 19 and 55 seconds of each episode's ending had no subtitle. A 2026-08-01 fix restored English only.
- Markdown markers — asterisks from the scripts rendered literally (
*continuity*,**medicine**) in every English track.