Nanoha A's planning (8)
1 Name: JJS«admin » : 2006-10-16 23:06 ID:ZrHHg77+ (Image: 400x400 png, 13 kb)
- Per-character colored subs (Magical devices will use their own font, but not a unique one for each device. It was a pain in the ass finding two for RH and Bardiche and I still don't like them.)
- Clean OP with karaoke similar to current season where its only the romaji and translation (I don't speak Japanese, let alone knowing kanji)
- Same 230mb filesize as the latter half of S1. H264 main profile + 128k AAC at 640x480 resolution. I'm working directly from the DVD's this time so video quality might even get better at the same settings.
Once the current season is out and all is wrapped up, I'll get started on preparations for S2. This time there will be a fair amount QC involved to make sure I get this right from the first episode forward. If there's something that bugged you about S1, now's the time to make yourself heard!
2 Name: Kanna@The Triad : 2006-10-17 16:29 ID:SjQzeq/y
Don't fuck up. I'm watching you. If you care about my input though, I'd rather you keep the karaoke out. Just a suggestion :P
3 Name: chefetage : 2006-10-18 05:54 ID:Ijc5BqN6
I dont know about the resolution. Are the DVDs really 640x480? I would keep the resolution 1:1 and Matroska supports this neat anamorphic feature too, if its required.
Different colors for each character sound good, but different fonts? I dont know.
Im no encoding freak but I'm a fan of the idea, if you already have the DVDs, do the best possible Rip. With coreavc and the newer ffdshow builds even h.264 HD material can be played on weaker machines so I expect the best possible encode ;)
And I dont really care about Karoke as long as it's not annoying.
Good luck with the new project. Im anticipating it :)
4 Name: JJS«admin » : 2006-10-18 12:02 ID:ZrHHg77+ (Image: 482x750 jpg, 144 kb)
lol :) I generally find karaoke annoying too, but I figured if I did it rather simply at least I wouldn't get any complaints about it not being there at all. Ideally, I'd just softsub it and people could turn it off (or make the track without the karaoke the default one) but vsfilter sucks at simple effects like highlighting in real-time.
tl;dr - we'll see.
Is there any way I can construe this post as endorsement by the Triad? :D
>>3
The DVD's are standard 720x480 in 4:3 aspect ratio so for computer display a reduction to 640x480 is necessary to maintain that 4:3 ratio.
Frankly, the idea for a different font for the devices came from that damn screenshot I keep seeing of Bardiche saying "Yes, sir" in Triad's A's. I'd really like to keep that (although I haven't found the right font yet) just because it looks like what subtitled text from a computer should be (did that make sense?). I just need something computer-y or machine-ish, nothing extravagant and difficult to read.
5 Name: Baka Hentai : 2006-10-18 16:06 ID:MaI6My9d
Fonts? What fonts? VLC doesn't do fonts.
6 Name: KanonFodder!gpY7wNhR5Q : 2006-10-23 23:28 ID:42wiwHoV
JJS, what I wanted to tell you on IRC was that I have a few fonts that are tech/computerish. I can send you some HTML previews of the packages, or I can send you the entire collections. They aren't big, under 2MB each. Contact me on IRC.
7 Name: Erhjegel : 2006-10-23 23:37 ID:6SxxSZ7L
In case it might help out, the fonts that the Intelligent devices talk in are Lucida Console, in the fansubbing of Triad's Nanoha and Nanoha A's.
At least, I'm pretty sure that it is.
8 Name: OctoberAsian : 2006-10-25 00:12 ID:p6saXF4N
I've seen 720x480 (h.264) fansubbed animes and watched them on my monitor (1280x1024). There isn't a problem seeing them in their original resolution on a monitor whose aspect ratio is 4:3. It's like watching widescreen DVDs with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. However, the only people benefitting from widescreen fansubbed animes are those with widescreen monitors though.
I wish I had a widescreen monitor. T_T
But either way will work.