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Post #654316

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Owyn_Merrilin
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The Phantom Menace: Japanese Laserdisc Preservation - MKV Available now (Released)
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Date created
12-Aug-2013, 11:44 PM

So, I went ahead and made English soft subs for the alien dialog, editing the time code on a DVD or Blu-Ray timed .srt I grabbed from subscene.com. I'd like to spend some time tweaking it before I actually release it, but I was wondering what the best way to go about releasing it would be, or if there's even any interest. I've got a lot of stuff going on at home right now, so I can't guarantee I'll have it tweaked and out promptly, but worst case scenario I can put out what I've already got done, which is all 28 (according to the way my source file was split up) Huttese lines, just maybe off by a few hundred milliseconds here and there.

 

If anyone didn't know and was curious, the file format is just a .txt renamed to a .srt, with typed time codes showing when and how long a line of text should be on screen, which VLC and other video playback programs know what to do with. I edited it with Notepad ++, and at least in VLC, it's all clearly visible despite the Japanese hard subs without having to move it around or anything. Some of the Japanese may be rendered illegible though, if you speak the language and are reading along, but if you could do that, you wouldn't need these.

 

Also, I'm still interested in Adywan's reconstruction, if anyone can give me a tip :P

 

P.S.: In the process of doing this, I wound up watching the Tatooine scenes over and over again, and something struck me about the CGI -- specifically, how much more believable it is in this copy than in more modern versions. Not sure if it's the color timing or just the grainier video masking some of the weirdness, but there's something intangibly different about this version than the official DVD and Blu-Ray.