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Doctor M

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#320565
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Song Of The South - many projects, much info & discussion thread (Released)
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I have one of that was sold through a website that I can't remember the name of.

There are no burned in subs, no menus, and a folder of cover art (that may have been added later by a 3rd party).

I don't know the origin beyond that and the quality is not terrible (mind you our new release is much better).

Btw, I haven't forgotten the subtitles. I'm about 25% of the way through fixing them, ugh, it sucks. I'll get back to them at some point.

I'm thinking perhaps we should consider a re-release that just removes the titles completely.
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#315211
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Further proof GL has lost his mind... Clone Wars
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I was worried when George took the well made Clone Wars series away from the people that made it successful.

I was unsurprised but disappointed by the kookie news that it was going to be CG only.

I thought it was bad when Lucas decided to release a theatrical animated Star Wars prequel to the upcoming TV series.

I thought he was really nuts when he described the decision to make the movie as: "You've got the whole assembly line built, and then you say, 'Hey, we can make up something.'" Make something up?!?!

Just when you think it can't get worse we get the lovely information that the series will be:
"Star Wars starring an 11-year-old girl" — that is, feisty Ahsoka, padawan apprentice to Anakin Skywalker.

Please someone take Star Wars away from this man!!!!!
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#314657
Topic
Song Of The South - many projects, much info & discussion thread (Released)
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My brains hurt.
I've tried JoeyO's subtitles which NEARLY sync retimed from 25 to 23.976. I found a couple others that NEARLY sync retimed from 29.97 to 23.976.

I'm starting to think the old transfers had different cuts on reel changes or something because this new one will not relent.

If we're going to have subs, someone ambitious is going to have to sit down and retime chunks of it until it's right.
And that's just time consuming.
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#314398
Topic
Song Of The South - many projects, much info & discussion thread (Released)
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Well..... messing around with this today, I fixed it... and I didn't.

I ripped the movie from the first VTS using DVD Decrypter, converted the subtitles to NTSC with VobSub, remuxed the movie with MuxMan and then pushed it back into the DVD with VobBlanker.

Unfortunately the timings are still off. All subtitles are early by a good 2-3 seconds (across the whole film).
Also, some lines are too long for the font size used and get cut off.

I would need to either get the original .srt file or run this through OCR software to fix it at this point. So, I'll leave it to JoeyO.

JoeyO - Beware, I noticed that the subtitles are spelled as people talk.
"Dat dare Br'er Fox. He a bad un." I hope that's not what you're seeing as misspelled.
If you want help with the subs, PM me, and I'll take care of the srt file and send a corrected version back to you.
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#314391
Topic
Song Of The South - many projects, much info & discussion thread (Released)
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If you look under Tools/Information and Errors/Information and Errors (or hit ctrl-I), it'll give you a list of problems.
This includes subtitles that are too short.
It can auto-correct them.

Be careful though, the default 'errors' that Subtitle Workshop looks for is a bit extensive and I usually disable half of them because they'd cause more damage then they'd fix.