Completed: | Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko |
| Resolution: | 1920×1080 |
| Audio: | FLAC, 16bit |
| Subs: | GotWoot |
| D/L: | Torrent • xdcc • md5 I really want to see your face right now. Thanks to everyone who helped us with this release, in one way or another (random order): 8thSin, janice, fnord, many many others and Sutai. |
Other stuff: | Subtitle renderer matters |
Note: this article has nothing to do with video, releases or whatever else you usually care about, I’m going to talk about typesetting. If you don’t know what it is or don’t care – stop reading right now.
As you might know, there’s the haruhichan guide to 10bit, which is apparently one of the most popular playback guides lately. It’s more or less right but there’s one problem – the author (nand) suggests you to use internal MPC-HC renderer (ISR for short) to get the most awesome 10bit playback.
After getting a couple of complains about our bakemonogatari typesetting and reading some derping about broken TS on different forums, I decided to at least explain things to nand since he seemed adequate and might want to update his guide. I joined CGi channel and showed him two test samples on which ISR used to fail.
“If you’re analpained about test cases, aspect ratios or watch anime with shitty typesetting, use a different subtitle renderer like xy-VSFilter. Be warned though, the subtitles will be very blurry as a result. I recommend waiting until it supports madVR’s overlay hooks like MPC-HC does. Alternatively, don’t use subtitles (thanks tp7 for the suggestion)”
…What? I was a bit surpised with this stupid update and figured I’ll explain things to you myself.
Completed: | Ef – a Tale of Melodies |
| Resolution: | 1920×1080, Hi10P |
| Audio: | FLAC, 16bit |
| Subs: | Menclave (from THORA release with some minor changes) |
| D/L: | Torrent • xdcc • md5 Yeah, as promised – double release. And no, I’m not gonna change the fonts or something. If you don’t like them you can remux. EDIT: if you see a fonts problem, try to install this font. It will be fixed eventually by splitters’ devs so I’m not gonna do anything. EDIT2: this problem has been fixed in LAV splitter already and reported to Haali on doom9. |
Completed: | Ef – a Tale of Memories |
| Resolution: | 1920×1080, Hi10P |
| Audio: | FLAC, 16bit |
| Subs: | Mendoi-Conclave (from THORA release with some minor changes) |
| D/L: | Torrent • xdcc • md5 Actually, today is ANE’s birthday. Please enjoy, it looks especially good in 10bit. |
Other stuff: | So I heard you want your ideal release. |
Hi. If you didn’t notice, the last 2 days Sutai (our bro from FFFpeeps, GotWoot and 9001 other groups) was hurfing a durf on #ANE channel about how bad our Bakemonogatari release is, begging me to fix it. You know that we do care (*cough*) about our stuff so I actually consider making some patches and releasing v2.
Here’s the list of changes I applied so far and all known derps in our release. If you know something that isn’t listed – comment. This post will be here for 2-3 days for this sole purpose.
EDIT: comments are now closed. I’ll probably apply all necessary changes within this month and we’ll release v2. You still can find me on IRC if you know something :important: that isn’t mentioned here.
EDIT2: I decided to play with it a little more, and now I’m working on it every time I feel like typesetting. I wouldn’t expect it to be out any time :really soon:, so feel free to bug me on IRC if you want something to be fixed. Typesetting is out of questions since I’m re-checking it all anyway. Song’s romanization should be fine too – we re-did it completely (thanks to Kien).