Not true. There is is clearly a time penalty for making cards yourself, and it can be HUGE, which may or may not be made up in the strengthened memory and better specialisation that a handmade deck can grant. Almost all my decks are either premade, or generated through scripts from media I wish to consume.
It just depends how you want to use Anki. People are too dogmatic about the "make your own decks" thing. If there's an anime I know I want to watch without subs, it makes perfect sense for me to generate a deck of that show through subs2srs. If I want to read literature, it makes perfect sense for me to auto-generate a deck of sentences from literature. Especially since I'm often on the go, and do mt learning through Anki mobile apps. Manually entering cards is nightmarish enough on Desktop. I would tear my hair out if I were doing that on mobile.
By the way, OP, I have a deck I made of Urusei Yatsura: Movie One 'Only You', if you're interested. I made it myself and manually retimed every sub to be as close as perfect to capturing just the line of dialogue in question. I also edited the cards full of definitions and such.
Edit: Actually, I have a very good "Media" deck in Anki. It's absolutely huge, but you can have all of it if you like. It's full of subs2srs decks and some videogame stuff too.
Edit: I also second the suggestion of using Morphman while using subs2srs decks, or generated decks in general. It makes them much more efficient.
It just depends how you want to use Anki. People are too dogmatic about the "make your own decks" thing. If there's an anime I know I want to watch without subs, it makes perfect sense for me to generate a deck of that show through subs2srs. If I want to read literature, it makes perfect sense for me to auto-generate a deck of sentences from literature. Especially since I'm often on the go, and do mt learning through Anki mobile apps. Manually entering cards is nightmarish enough on Desktop. I would tear my hair out if I were doing that on mobile.
By the way, OP, I have a deck I made of Urusei Yatsura: Movie One 'Only You', if you're interested. I made it myself and manually retimed every sub to be as close as perfect to capturing just the line of dialogue in question. I also edited the cards full of definitions and such.
Edit: Actually, I have a very good "Media" deck in Anki. It's absolutely huge, but you can have all of it if you like. It's full of subs2srs decks and some videogame stuff too.
Edit: I also second the suggestion of using Morphman while using subs2srs decks, or generated decks in general. It makes them much more efficient.
Edited: 2016-03-27, 12:16 am