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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:15 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

if its your own work would you want some 1 ripping you off?

say you encoded and timed, subbed, and did everything for free, would you want gingertoys to rip you off?

There is no wayl groups are going to stop trying to have illegal bootleger's sell their works

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:17 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

A logo is a great idea. If I remember correctly, the Chinese producers of Japanese dramas have a logo that pops up occasionally at the right hand corner of the screen while some of them have it there at all times.

I could help with the Chinese to English translations (since my Japanese isn't quite up to scratch yet)...but as someone mentioned, the Japanese to Chinese translations aren't always very accurate.

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:31 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well if some raw provider or fansuber want to put logo and/or do their release only in hardsub that's their choice... I can't really agree with them though...

Even with disclamer, logo and so on I am pretty sure they will continue to sell them... the one selling them might actually care less that the ppl who are watching the fansub... I mean 1 warning is ok but a logo though the whole show... exessive in my opinion.

I would personnnaly like to see more softsub... I mean you would could have:
-Ability to switch the sub on/off
-Multiple subtitle tracks
-Possibility of creating subs for existing raw
-No having to recompress the video (better quality, faster and easier), and even if you want to recompress the video not having to encode the sub in the video does help
-Corecting error/doing v2 become really easy.

Roll Eyes

And if some ppl need help on a fansub project I am willing to help Big Smile

That could only be for the timing part trough
;)

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: K subs for jdramas Post Rating: 0

whoa that was a long read Crazy

Personally I like soft subs since I could edit the font/cut/etc, but I don't mind hard subs either Laugh

I agree with tianj that if we used already timed subs it would make things much easier (although the only experience I had with that is translating a chinese dubbed movie with already time chinese subs - I guess there's no language barrier there Tongue

). However, instead of already timed chinese subs, how about timed korean subs for jdramas? Korean and Japanese language are similar in structure, and when I played the ksubs with SARS-fansubs' gokusen, it almost always matched their sub timings (except sometimes one sentence would be longer/shorter than the SARS subs timings).

I made a blog and posted the ksubs for gokusen. Feel free to use it to make the timing process easier Wink

drop me a pm if it helps so I might go find more Tongue

kjsubs blog

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:58 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hey, I'd be willing to help out with the subbing!
I can speak Chinese, English, and Japanese -- so I'd be willing to translate raws of the newly released, or older never translated dramas.
Though I have no problems w/ the language barriers, I'm not at ALL familiar with the programs used for subbing, so someone will have to clue me in about that. I mean, if it's typing out a transcript for a drama, I can do that easily enough but... I have no idea how to time it or rip audio files or anything like that!

If my help is still needed, feel free to hit me up in my mailbox!

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 7:38 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Encoding high-quality raws with bright symbols also makes it harder for poorer hard subbers to get access to raws. If you don't have the money for DVD sets, uploaded raws are pretty much your only bet.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 11:50 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Anyway I don't know about the seller things and bright logos etc... I think they won't really help; if somebody wants to sell them he can buy the DVDs and make his own nice copies. We better stop thinking about it at least for now and produce some good work for everybody.
I'm now ripping the first episode of Sore wa, Totsuzen, Arashi No You Ni...
I'll then encode the RAW and provide Japanese subtitles with it. I think the timing in Japanese subtitles are more that good. They are timed exactly on the speech and it's very easy to work with them. (Maria, Seija No Koushin & Taiyou No Kisetsu subs are exactly timed like this). I'll provide some info on how to work with it using Subtitle Workshop in the thread.
But how many people are going to work on this? Well I'll try to organize it somehow. Each willing translator will post a message telling he is doing a part of it; preferly 10-15mins so only one person will work on each part. I'll divide those down in the first post, so people know what is done and what's still untranslated. Then everybody can send me back the work and I'll compose the English subtitles. I'll then post the subtitles. Extra work can be done on editing those subtitles but for not delaying it too much this can be done even after the English subtitles are posted here. Then when a new edited version is ready will replace the original.
Each translator will be able to pick as much as they want. Even if they do 5 mins and after that they get fed up with it or they don't have time they don't have to delay the project. They can send the translation back and then somebody else in mood will pick up the rest.
I hope this way we (well you) will be able to finish an episode in less than a week. Maybe even less than that. It's just an experiment and I don't force things. Willing ones can check for the first episode with the Japanese subtitles to jump out in a few hours at the torrent's section.
Also please feel free to suggest anything here. Again this is an experiment. If it works that would be great, if it doesn't... well it's not the end of the world Roll Eyes

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

.Help I can. j drama like Love 2000, Minami kun no Koibito, Medaka, Hotman 2, Gokusen 2. and many other dramas. Tell me the name and I'll reply whether or not I can help translate it. But doing the translations fast...... pale

that I cannot do. I simply have too many other jobs to do, and sometimes laziness gets the best of me. Like right now, translating Fireboys 4 and 5 and suddenly I feel sooooo lazy, and ultimately end up here Mr. Green

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 12:47 pm Post subject: Just an idea Post Rating: 0

This is just a shot in the dark, but I was wondering if it would be beneficial to have intermediate work done for the subbing.

My Japanese is decent, but not good enough to do a full translation. But, what I could do is write out each episode's script in Japanese.

It might take out a lot of the grunt work, and make it really easy for the good translaters to transfer the script to Japanese.

Any comments?

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Okay! Willing translators may start translating here! Pre-timed and with the Japanese subtitles/script available.

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:56 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

This is only one perspective.

Hasn't anyone thought about the lowband users for whatever reason doesn't have time, bandwidth, or patience to dl and collect dramas when all they have to do is log on eBay and wait for the drama to come in the mail.

I know people who buy dramas on eBay regardless if it's hardsub, softsub, Viet dub and knows that it's available for free online.