Soul Link Episode 9

Now that some one with proper encoding skills has done it...

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School Rumble 2 Episode 9

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No School Rumble next week. =(

School Rumble 2 Episode 8

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And so, it begins.

Also, thanks to gbaromster, we have a much better looking banner. Yay to him!

Soul Link Episode 8

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What's with the art this week? >_>

People take fansubbing too seriously. :o

Seriously, where's the fun if you take things TOO seriously? (Note: TOO. I take our releases seriously.).

If you aren't even enjoying it, then why are you doing it in the first place? Ah well. Bwahahaha. Is beating another team everything? Not really. What I want is to enjoy when I do my stuff, which is TLing. I smile when I TL, I laugh when I hear something funny, and frown when I can't get a phrase the way I want.

That's me enjoying my stuff. If it comes down to me TLing with the mentality of saying "WTF am I doing?", then I might as well quit, go out with my friends to drink till sunrise, something which I do every now and then.

Bwahahhaa.

*is high tonight*

Oh yeah, we still need timers. Just to state how important it is.

School Rumble 2 Episode 7

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Expect our releases to be 500% slower from now on, since CarrierZ broke his finger. >_>

And so...

WE NEED A TIMER. WE ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF A TIMER. IF YOU WANT TO HELP OUT, PLEASE, FOR GOD'S SAKE, WE NEED YOU!

Soul Link Episode 7

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Yay for CarrierZ not getting Klined this week.

Boo for me TLing with a raging erection and too much beer to handle.

Happy Mother's Day

:o

Mother's Day are SOO expensive these days. >_> My entire month's payout...GONE.

WTF.

*What I'm doing*

Yo. CarrierZ here. Your own DJ master.

Currently playing - Kotoko - Fatally - Duel Saviour OP (Full Version) (I don't have a clue about what "Duel Saviour" is for an anime series. >_>)

Anyways, I should post status here:

Soul Link: Project will continue in going standard. Release Monday/Tuesdays. Don't look at Episode one & two of our episodes, the encoding is horrible (I am not the one who encoded it!!! Haha.)

School Rumble: Might be dropped soon. Not enough staff, almost all of our staff is busy these days when the raw comes out. You who want an .avi & XviD, well, you might be fucked.
If you want the project continued, please signup for a timer or translator. Your choice.

LOVE Get CHU: Ehm, actually it's I who's slacking on that. I've a halftimed script in my hands, and everytime I feel like timing it, things pop-up and I've forgot it. Dang.

New project: (Not confirmed, but zOMG girls are hot. This will be our only "serious" project. We'll do QC's on this too. Good encodes, grammar, timing, typesetting, karaoke!)
Kanon (Or is it Canon?)

That's all for me. I'm getting all hotted up for the next coming anime's. (Still waiting for Yoroshiku's & ray=out's Air Gear!)

(About the fansubbing proccess post down there by NightFalcon, don't trust anything other than Translating & Timing, since he doesn't know anything about the other things. To be honest, he's sad at those parts.)

Well, time is 3.30am when writing this... Don't know what the fuck I'm doing but I just felt writing something for you, my dear friends.

I'm going to play some WSG (Warsong Gulch) with some friends... Then sleep at 5am.
(If you have no clue what I'm talking about, message me on IRC. >cz<~ World of Warcraft ^>})

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If (st1 = TRUE) Then
MsgBox ("This is the end of my post")
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That's your Visual Basic 6 homework for today. Don't blame me if something is wrong, it was some time ago I actually worked with this.
I think I should put an end if after the first If, but too lazy. And the whole function is ugly. That doesn't looks professional at all (does even VB look professional? Haha.)

C - ya.

School Rumble 2 Episode 6

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xvid Torrent

h264 encoding, because ALok got pissed that virtualdub did nothing when he slept. LoL.

EDIT: Xvid version released. BUT GO H264!

Oh well. Pretty good episode. Follows the manga up till chapter 124.

Which means, the next arc is to start.

=/


Anyway, there are 2 insert songs in this episode. Them singing in Engrish and all the characters talking at the same time makes it all that more difficult to identify which words they are singing. Me and Chysil trashed it out, and I hope you guys are happy with our...capture.

Also, for those who STILL (for some unknown reason), mixes us up with Your-Dad, please do take note: WE ARE 2 SEPERATE TEAMS!! YOUR MOM IS NOT YOUR DAD (unless....never mind).

Get that straight. =)

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Missing Editor's notes for Soul Link 6:

-At the start of the episode: Chysil commented that Celleria's boobs were bigger than her head. How he measures, and the question "Why is he not concentrating on the script", remains to be answered.

Hmm...forgot anything else. Bwahaha.

Remember, Chysil, I time and typeset. :D

Soul Link Episode 6

O________O

That's all I have to say. Navel DOES live up to it's name sometimes.

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How fansubbing works.

While waiting for the RAW of School Rumble 6, I was messing around some forums, and I saw something which got me...a little annoyed.

And no, it isn't about us. I'm kinda immune to such flames any more anyway. LoL. Can't please everyone anyway.

Some dude, who is a class A leecher, starts talking about how a team sucked, without any explainations at all. Usually, I don't care about such morons, but really, how unappreciative can people get sometimes? Hours of our free time (let me stress: Free time) are used to fansub so that YOU can understand and enjoy animes.

We do not expect to be paid or be worshiped for it. Hell, I don't really care that people don't say a word of thanks as well, although saying "Thank You for subbing X" means quite a bit to us.

However, please don't flame a group with no reason, or with a very poor reason like "Their fonts aren't fancy enough" or that crap.

In case you don't know, let me break down the basics of fansubbing for you.

Raw Providing: The project starts off with the RAW provider who, well, provides the RAW. Usually, he has a huge pipe so that he can download lots of RAWs at once, and select the best one available. Usually, it is one that has no artifacts or bleeds at all.
Time required: Half an hour if he can get a very good RAW. 2 hours, if the RAWs available are all rubbish.

1st Encode: Some teams ask the encoder to do a quick encode on the RAW. Suppose to make it clearer or something. Makes sense if the RAW has lots of blocks, noise, or is too dark.
Time required: 0 for a team like us who tosses everything at the final encode. 2 hours if a team really wants to do it.

Translation: The translator then translates the script, translating the signs, and if the episode has some technical terms, is supposed to look up on it. Translating the script and the signs is the easy part, especially if they don't speak weirdly. It's getting information/song translation which is tougher. Given the Japanese's liking for Engrish, it's hard to get what they are talking about, at times, correctly. Google helps a lot, but it all comes down to getting the words correctly.
Time required: 2 hours at least. Don't think anyone can do a decent script under an hour. 6 hours was my max so far for a 24 minute episode. The technical terms killed me.

Timing: Next is timing OR editing, although it's preferred that timing comes first so that the editor can have an idea of what's happening. Timing is the easist job, but it is the most tedious. It gets a lot more difficult when the team demands the timer to do precision timing, i.e. the text appears the instant the character opens her mouth, and the timing must be constant throughout. Even more time is required if you are asked to time a Karaoke, which means you need to break up the Kanji and Romanji instead of lumping them together.
Time required: An hour if you are as experienced as CarrierZ. I average 2 hours, but I know the script. Precision timing can take up to 4 hours. Timing, might even go up to 6 hours if there are enough insert songs to make both the timer and translator cry.

Editing: Basically, the guy who makes fun of the level of english which the translator has. Japanese knowledge is preferred in most teams, but not necessary required. However, you DO need a very good knowledge of english. With my fantastic level of English, Chysil usually ends up crying to sleep, since he needs to reword almost every line. A telepathic link with the translator would also be preferred, but usually impossible, since if you have that link, you will know WTF the translator is actually rambling about, and change the sentence without destroying the meaning.
Time required: Can be minutes to an hour if you are talking about speed editing (Checking general grammars, spelling mistakes). Can take up to 3 if you want to sound more "professional" and to have the line make more sense. Can get to 6 if the translator makes no sense. 12 hours if a team wants like, 5 editors to go through it.

Typesetting: The slacker of the team (usually). He's the one who gives a good font so that you can read it, and it won't be as ugly as Comic Sans (YES. COMIC SANS IS UGLY, CARRIERZ). Putting signs where they can be visible is also his job. Typesetters with karaoke effects knowledge are preferred, and some teams demands that the typesetter knows how to create karaoke effects (and not the ugly ones which I do via Aegis too. LoL. AFX is the way to go). Should have lots and lots of font in his collection, and have a good sense of colour. Yellow on white background is horrible.
Time required: Mere minutes if all he needs is to typeset the episode signs (which is the case for most animes). Can go up to 12 if the anime has lots of signs (School Rumble is a good example), needs to do a fantastic Karaoke, a logo and put in some kickass credits.

Encoding: The final part, where everything is put together. Usually, multiple encodes are required, especially if a team demands that everything be QCed. A Low quality version is usually encoded for QC, with higher versions as release candidates.
Time required: An hour for a basic encode. 24 hours if you want some sort of an encode which has lots of filters or something (I'm not an encoder. :o)

Qualty check: They are the meanest people, ever. One mistake, and someone gets whipped. Well, that's what they are for anyway. They ensure that there are no screw ups like screen bleeds (where the text stays for so long, it "bleeds" into the next scene...or something), spelling mistakes...the usual crap which you people can easily point out. ;)
Time required: An hour if there's only 1 QCer. 5 hours if there are like, 4 or 5. Then add in another hour to correct the mistake. Add in a few more hours if more mistakes are spotted later. So, anything between an hour, to 12 hours.

Minimum time required: 6.5 hours
Maximum time required: 76 hours.

Take note that this is assuming everyone is around. Like, after Translating, the script is immediately timed and so on. Usually, that won't be the case. Add in another 12-24 hours to get the clearer picture. Also note that pre-distro is not included.

So, roughly 10 hours is poured into an episode for us. Many teams will take much much more, as they have edit passes 3,4,5, QC passes 6,7,8 and RCs 2,3. And we are taking our free time to do it! That time could be spent to WoW, GW, have a date with an actual girl or...*gasp* study! If you thought, for a second, that fansubbing was anywhere near easy, you are wrong. It's fun, but exhausting and time consuming. If you don't like it, don't download it. And don't complain unless it's really unbearable, like shit TLs (if you think I suck, you have seen nothing yet. ;)), shit timings, shit encoding. But then, you should not be downloading from them anyway....

Hence, unless you can do better, don't flame the teams. They work hard enough. If you can do better, do it. We are providing it for free, and you should only complain if we charged you for it.

Thankfully, we don't. Be thankful. ;)

School Rumble 2 Episode 5

Am I the only one who cares to update this place? >_>

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Also, we need some distro in general, since we only managed to beg some BT seeders. If you wish to help out, do contact any one of the OPs/Protected OPs in the IRC.

Soul Link 5

That time of the week again. 3am for all of us. Ugh.

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