Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles) — Page 44

For those having trouble searching at the paradoxical location, you can search for the thread title beginning with “Star Wars OOT Language Options”, or you can search for “Project Threepio”, but uncheck the box for “Search titles only”, and that should get you there too.

PM sent. Check the README for how to incorporate them into an AVCHD/NTSC DVD… you may need some help extracting the original audio/video streams from the NTSC DVD version, AVCHD should be pretty easy.

PM’s sent. Also, Usenet users rejoice! Project Threepio 9.0 can be found on alt.binaries.starwars.

PM’s sent. Yes, 9.0 incorporates LexX’s new Finnish translation, in pre-made SUP files with positioned text.

PM sent.

Hi, thank you gain for all your great work, I am so annoyed to see the crappy editions on sale… WOuld you be kind enough to send me the French, English and Japanese (normal, not hard of hearing) subtitles for all 3 movies ? (We are a bunch of multicultural friends), Thx Best and happy new year 2016 !

PM’s sent. Remember that until the final Despecialized ROTJ 2.0 comes out (soon!), the translations of the alien subtitles might not line up exactly timing-wise with the burnt-in subtitles.

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FYI, one of the things I’ve been working on is improved “matching” subtitles. The idea behind it is that preservations used to reconstruct the theatrical subtitles using close-enough fonts, but now they increasingly look much closer to theatrical than any existing font (using film scans and hand-adjusted subtitle images). Also, the subtitle patch I put together for the ROTJ DeEd 2.0 WP showed that there was a value in having a very close font match outside Project Threepio’s “matching subtitles” concept, which I’ll be the first to admit is kind of a novelty feature.

So I took the font I thought matched the theatrical fonts best, made some adjustments, and now I feel I’ve made a font that more closely approximates the theatrical look than anything we’ve had before. Not good enough to replace the real thing by any stretch, but if you can’t use the real thing for whatever reason, this is a pretty good choice if I say so myself. That said, I haven’t really tested it for doing anything other than creating Project Threepio-style subtitles, so there may be issues with it I haven’t encountered.

You can read more about it here: http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/893789

This is pretty low priority for me, so I’m not rushing out a new release of Project Threepio for it or anything. You can PM me if you’re interested.

The Death Star translation was fixed in 9.0, but I’ll include the Bantha fix in the next version – thanks!

My first test of the new matching subtitles has been pretty successful, sample below (click for full size).

Things I worked on:

• The font, which is mostly Franklin Gothic Demi Cond, but you’ll see on the lowercase “g” and the question mark that I’ve modified it to look more like the theatrical font.
• The drop shadow, which is now scripted with Perl and ImageMagick (of course, one trick pony…) to look more like the solid black drop shadow of the films than the semitransparent drop shadow generated by easySUP.
• The border, which isn’t theatrical at all but is pretty much necessary if you want to read the subtitles against a white background (think Hoth). Instead of the thin black solid outline you can see in the example in the first post, it’s a thin faint semitransparent border along the northwest edge of the letters to provide some definition – much less obtrusive IMO, but still necessary.
• The blur, which you can only really see in the larger version. I blurred up the subtitles very slightly so that they appear to be part of the film itself, rather than much sharper than the rest of the film. I think this makes it look much more seamless.

I may decide to do more things, but I’m actually very happy with how this test run looks.

Please note that none of these changes are going into the regular subtitles–just the ones that are supposed to look like the burnt-in theatrical ones. In particular, don’t panic about the blur, it’s not going anywhere else.