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Post #654549

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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
14-Aug-2013, 2:00 PM

Cool.

I wound up putting it up on Pastebin, because I can upload without an account and they theoretically won't ever delete it. When you download it, just re-name the .txt to a .srt.

The link is here:http://pastebin.com/RsJSBCPL

If anyone thinks they can improve the timings, feel free. The way I have it is functional, but the timing doesn't always line up exactly with the timing of the Japanese subs. It tends to line up pretty well with the spoken dialog, though.

 

Edit: In case that came off wrong, I'm not saying "this needs editing, finish it for me pl0x." I'm saying it's done by my standards, but it's easy enough to edit if you're not happy with it. I've already got it burned to a DVD, so I have no investment in it past this point. The DVD looks great, by the way -- I do most of my movie watching on a late model CRT, and this rip looks better on it than it did on my monitor by a long shot. Gives you an idea of how much of the weird artifacts you see on these laserdisc rips you wouldn't have seen on a period TV and player, and reinforces why the format was so amazing at the time.