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#562864
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Star Wars OT & 1997 Special Edition - Various Projects Info (Released)
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You_Too said:

They'd have to be SRT for us to be able to convert them to BDN+XML format, which the guy making the menu for the BD said he will need.

Okay, I can do SRT.  For each foreign language, I have both "forced" and "full" variants.  Forced is designed to work with the matching foreign dub (just crawl text and alien subs), and full is for the whole movie, to accompany the English audio.  For English, I have standard and SDH.  PM me with which versions you want and they're so small I can just e-mail them to you if you give me an address.

These are not the verbatim GOUT subs.  Most of my changes involved making subs appear onscreen longer, but you may also see other tweaks and corrections here and there, particularly some formatting differences.  Also, when I say they accompany the English audio, I mean the original surround mix, not the mono mix or later revisions.

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#562787
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Star Wars OT & 1997 Special Edition - Various Projects Info (Released)
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The PAL GOUT has subs in those languages, and they are available on the newsgroups.  However they are in graphical format so you need to OCR them, and OCR is very hit-or-miss, requiring manual correction unless you want the occasionally incomprehensible subtitle.  Also some of the GOUT subtitles are simply wrong.

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#562745
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Star Wars OT & 1997 Special Edition - Various Projects Info (Released)
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Hey DJ, if you're still interested I think we may still be able to do something.  SUP files with PGS contents definitely work on Blu Ray because I've made test discs already.  However, they might not work with all authoring software--that might be the problem.  I'm just using the free stuff: tsmuxer and multiavchd, and I haven't done any menu interactions at all, but I can definitely say it works with Blu Ray, using the remote's "Subtitle" button to switch around.

I also have "regular" subs that are traditional mostly-below-the-frame Arial subs (non-English subs have to be like this).  Also if you don't like the fonts/placement I've used, you can plug in different values and generate your own SUP files.  The workflow is pretty simple, and I designed it to be a framework anyone can use.  Basically you plug in an SRT file and out pops a nicely rendered 720p subtitle.

My project really has its own priorities and they might not mesh 100% with yours.  I'm not terribly intersted in fidelity to existing home video subs for example, and I make changes whenever it met some other goal, some as having the text onscreen slightly longer, etc.  Let me know if you're interested in any part of this, I'm flexible and would not be offended if you wanted my process but not my files, etc.

I still want those screencaps tho ;)  But I'll wait.

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#562716
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Star Wars OT & 1997 Special Edition - Various Projects Info (Released)
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I am making 720p subs in five languages to accompany your project.  Are you interested? ;)

Basically once I have some screenshots of your alien subs (once those are finalized), I'm releasing my project to the world.  If you need them before my project is released, I can arrange that too.

EDIT: The languages are: English (regular & SDH), Spanish, French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese.  And trust me, the screenshots are relevant, I'm doing something weird involving matching the English subs to the alien subs and it happens to look awesome IMO.

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#562546
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Which version/release of the Star Wars movies do you watch and why?
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Regarding fan edits, I feel much the same way about Star Wars as I do about endangered animals (let's say a cute one like a Panda).  Fan preservations, we can all probably agree, actually save the pandas.  That's all good.  I feel the same way about Lucas as I do about someone who not only plans to hunt down and kill every last panda, but to grind them up and turn them into hamburgers that don't even taste good, and sell them at a premium as "Panda Burgers".  And you don't even want to know how he recycles them and sells them back to you again a little bit later (and tasting a little worse), but let's just say the plumbing in his restaurant's bathroom isn't exactly up-to-code.

...er, where was I...

Oh yeah, fan edits.  Fan edits are like a guy who knows a lot about pandas, loves them, and has a ton of resources that could be put toward saving them.  But instead he flies to China, takes a picture of a Panda about to get shot by Lucas, and puts a LOLCATS caption on it.  The fact that I don't have to watch it is beside the point. There's just something disrespectful about it, like laughing at a funeral.

Maybe I'd feel better about fan edits once I don't actually think the films are in danger anymore.  I certainly don't care one way or another about fan edits of other films, so that's probably true.

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#562286
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Please explain "forced subs" to me
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When I am putting a subtitle track into a DVD using muxman, I see the option to mark it "forced".  What exactly tells the DVD player to display the forced subtitle?  Does it just automatically happen when the language marker of the forced track matches the language marker of the current audio track, or does it have to be selected via some menu logic?

How do you mark a subtitle as forced for HD playback?  I see no such option in tsmuxer.  Does some other software do this?  Free, preferably.

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#562238
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It's Official: George Lucas hates his fans :P
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I really like the idea of a massive coordinated showing of the Despecialized Editions in independent theatres, with voluntary donations going to support some cause nobody could possibly object to.  Follow all the private showing rules: no concessions, etc.

Then, a week into it, switch from voluntary donations to a standard admission price, with 100% of it still going toward said charity, and start serving concessions.  Whatever happens after that, from the best case to the worst case, we look good and Lucas looks like an ass.

EDIT: Convincing him is next to impossible, I agree.  But public shaming is a powerful motivator, as is the fact that I suspect this could become hugely profitable for the independent theatres.  And the large chain theatres may start asking where their audiences went, etc, etc...