Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26435807-20151220173546/@comment-26330494-20151228101519

wow... are you still using Notepad?? You should really be using Aegisub, you can even draw into the .ass subtitle file using ASSDraw3 function in Aegisub and adjust effects etc. using some kind of coding...

'''Thanks for your hard works translating them into English! '''After release, I might take a look at your works, maybe it can make me even more understand after being watching Chinese sub for a long time. I know how painful it is to make subtitle because previously I was one-person team fansubbing and now I'm in fansub group too (didn't release English except when English subs not available, but my group is focusing AKB48 family, not LoveLive), it usually involves a whole team to work together:

Translator who translates, Typesetter who set the font type, size, colour and position of texts, Timer who do the timing of when the dialogues to appear, Encoder who mix the subtitle with video (either softsub MKV files where the subtitle is included with video and can be closed if someone doesn't want to read the subtitle (eg. practise to understand dialogue), or hardsub MP4 files where the subtitles permanently mixed with video and will always appear in video -- there's also hardsubs in MKV files that few groups released which made people confused as they should use MP4 instead, or use AVI if lower quality).

Optionally, some groups even have Kara Timer who further adjusts the timing of lyrics so that it will have karaoke timings for each syllable and Kara Effect who write the codes to make each karaoke effects (not LoveEcho! but other groups like NyaSubs etc... for English fansub, FFFansubs did this in anime BD release ) and a Proofreader to ensure the translations are good to read while the video plays and no missing subtitle lines, There's also Quality Checker to make sure the output videos can be played as expected without quality loss especially hardsubs (because some encoding programs out there decreases quality a lot)

Note that the terms might be different (some group called Encoder as Muxer or Pressurer etc) But there are also one person team or two person team fansubs... It's common in the minorities and non-English non-Chinese fansubs (eg. France, Arabic, Malay, Indonesian, Russian fansubs) but of course not all of them are one/two person team. I accidentally watched Arabic subbed LoveLive! anime and I saw the credits involved many people too (I don't understand Arabic but I can guess the reading and meaning of the credits because I did learnt Jawi in school which originates from Arabic and some of words in Malay also came from Arabic)

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What encoder did your group use for hardsub 720p?? Is it command line x264, x265 or GUI programs?? Is it MeGUI, Avidemux, HandBrake, or any other programs?? I watched many of hardsubbed LoveEcho! releases and most of them retained the quality (720p)... I've tested many programs but none of them retain quality (maybe the presets I use is wrong?) so my group is only releasing softsubs for now...

Chinese (Mandarin) is my 2nd language after Malay, before English and I can read both Simplified & Traditional Chinese (can also read some Chinese other than Mandarin, but not speak/hear), that's why I just watched LoveEcho! releases without searching for English subs, but I will watch English subs when you guys release it and share it to my friends as they don't know Chinese! :D

-- MuhdNurHidayat / Yasuyoshi Yatsuko (安喜弥津子) / Xi Daya (喜达亚)