*A S S FILES NOW PERMITTED ON D-ADDICTS

due to popular demand from several fansub groups, .ass files have been added to the list of permissible uploads. feel free to upload your a.s.s. version files along with your srt or ssa sub files.

(for newbies, ass files are soft subtitle files similar to srt and ssa files.)

don't thank me. MoerkJ did all the work.

to all fansubbers: thanks so much for all your hard work and effort! we hope this makes your job a little easier.

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:13 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

whooo!! thanks moerkj! (and jholic and d-a Big Smile

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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:41 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Thanks for the option guys, just PLEASE, PLEASE let us know which one you are uploading.
I'm all for making fansubber's jobs easier, just let us know which is which pls. I'll figure out how to use non-SRT files on my own. Smile

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:51 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Thanks, Moerkj!

Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:01 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

lynchmob: someone can correct me if i'm wrong, but i think vobsub recognizes both. my vobsub plays a s s files with my mpc just fine.

Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

vobsub does recongize .ass files.

.ass files is a file format used in Aegisub versus the .ssa used in SubSpace Alpha. Honestly, it makes no difference because the effects in the .ass file will not show up unless hardsubbed.

But thanks, its good to know this allowed. Though, I was under the impression it was always allowed.... DIdn't someone who was subbing 14sai no Haha offer .ass?

Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:54 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Ladymercury: I think .ass files being permitted means you're able to upload them to the forum now, not that they couldn't be used for subtitles. Massuki has been doing .ass subtitle files but they've had to upload the subtitles in a .zip file due to the previous uploading limitations. I suppose now Massuki's subtitle uploads will be .zip free Smile

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:09 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I always thought that .ass files don't show up in softsubs but actually they do. Depending on what video player you use and codecs you have installed. I have CCCP installed. The .ass tags show up using zoom player, Media Player Classic and even Windows Media Player ( not sure which version I have installed though ) on my computer so it can be done.

One more thing, if the subbers use exotic or uncommon fonts those need to be installed also to view those particular styles.

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:09 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

There is hope for Mac users when subs are only in ASS form.
MPlayer OS X will work.
Also, it is possible to convert the files on a Windows computer using Subtitles Workshop
[ http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Subtitle_Workshop.htm ]; choose "real-time" *.rt format and change extension to *.srt. OS X Leopard (not Tiger) users can then watch using the Videolan VLC pre 0.90 nightly beta builds.
Finally, next-version VLC has controls to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation -- features desperately needed on Macbooks.
But, I think it would be vastly better for subbers to offer the translations in both ASS and SRT.
Why, anyway, would someone imagine they know what typeface, font and colors will work best on somebody else's computer?

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

phlongforn's last two points are dead on. ASS is great, but only if the viewing geometry happens to be the same as that used to do the titling, and if the fonts are available.

Most ASS files have the geometry hints in the header wrong. And this makes things even worse.

When I worked on Saiyuuki with 8thSin, I was never able to see the fancy effects that we were providing!! Even after mplayer started supporting ASS, the size and placement were never right.

Please, if you're going to provide ASS subs, provide plain SRT subs as well.

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:39 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:11 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

If you need srt then you can easily convert many common subtitle formats (including ssa, ass, mdvd, smi) to srt using Subtitle Workshop.

To do so, just load the subtitle (together with the avi) into SW and save the subs as srt.

link: Download Subtitle Workshop

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:25 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0