Work in progress

Sorry for showing up so late, again (and I hate that practically every post so far started with a similar apology). I always forget and the god-awful heat doesn’t help any.
SO, I’ll try to update the blog this weekend, so stay tuned for a few posts. Meanwhile, a short summary.

KIZUNA reached 300 releases!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *dances* YAAAAAY \o/
Finally! Though honestly, I totally forgot about it and was like: "Oh, that’s actually my 300^th video… weird!"

We also got some new H!F stuff releases – even HPFansubs participated and we got loads done!

I also started updating you guys via H!Fs Facebook page what’s going on in the Typesetting/Karaoke department. Soon, there’ll be another teaser picture ;)

We would love to see you interact with us via Facebook more often *pretty please* Or leave us a comment on our group page.

What else is there to say:

Ah yes, I had the glorious idea to clean my flat in an 88°F weather… that was stupid, but necessary.

I’ll see ya later!

NEW TLSC releases

I have to admit, I forgot. -_-''
It's been nearly 2 years since I last released something in that group and probably nearly as long I had 2 vids getting moldy for said group, too.
Since I just released some Kizuna videos and I had to look through some of my old folders again, I was shocked to actually see not only one, but two videos still sitting in that folder. OH MY GAWD!!

Well, no time like now. I released them, FINALLY!

Please check them out.
One is a AKB48 song, the other an Aqua Timez one. I love them both, so yeah, go.there.now!

Here's a link to my TLSC Subs page.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Greetings,
Tomo

Kizuna kommt zurück!

Kurzes Update für meine deutschen Leser.

Ich habe mich entschlossen wieder Videos auf kizu.de zu releasen. Fürs erste wird es wohl sehr viele H!P Videos geben, einfach weil ich sehr viele vorbereitet habe. Es sollen aber demnächst auch wieder Videos von anderen Künstlern kommen.

Ich muss leider zugeben, dass ich einige Zeit keine Lust hatte etwas Neues zu releasen, weil die Seite veraltet ist und mein Programmierer einfach keine Zeit hat etwas zu ändern. Jeder der selbst eine Webseite betreibt weiß, wie blöd es ist, wenn man seine eigenen Seiten nicht richtig verwalten kann. Mehr als Releases hinzufügen kann ich auf der Seite nicht. Keine Umfragen, keinen Kontakt außer durch Kommentare und vorallem kann ich keine Seiten updaten, außer die Release Seiten. Dazu kommt noch der Umstand, dass es bisher immer recht umständlich war Releases hochzuladen und zu veröffentlichen.
Ohne die Hilfe mehrerer Personen währe es sowieso nicht möglich, hier also ein rießiges Dankeschön an Lunix für den Webseed und Uti für die Torrentseite.
Aber auch ein Danke an alle, die an den Releases mitgearbeitet haben, angefangen bei SacredCultivator (Encoder), Lailu (Timer), skarloc (Encoder) und cYcLoNe (Editor).

Auch hier noch einmal der Verweis auf meine Newsmeldung auf Kizuna. Um Antworten wird gebeten direkt in den Kommentaren auf der Seite. Bitte nicht hier.

Ich müsste euch einmal etwas Fragen und hoffe auch auf viele Antworten.
Bisher haben wir fast alle unsere neueren Releases sowohl in h264 als auch Xvid released. Einige der bevorstehenden Releases sind auch noch in dieser Art vorbereitet. Nun, da aber meine Encoder leider nicht mehr so viel Zeit haben, wird es nur noch eine Art von Release geben. Wäre euch da Xvid oder h264 lieber? (Bisher sind wir von h264 ausgegangen, wegen kleinerer Filesize bei guter Qualität.)

Mich würde außerdem interessieren was euch lieber ist: Einige unserer Releases haben kürzlich Blu-ray Videos bekommen. Diese haben wir zum Großteil auch gemacht (wenn sich ein Encoder findet, der die restlichen auch noch machen würde, gibts die auch noch). Blu-rays bekommen ausschließlich h264/mp4 Encodes. Was mich jetzt interessiert. Wenn wir einen Blu-ray Encode von einem Video haben, wollt ihr dann auch noch die kleinere DVD Version, die ich noch rumliegen habe?

Also nochmal kurz zusammengefasst:

1. Wegen Zeitmangels die Frage, ob euch die h264 Encodes alleine reichen, oder ihr trotzdem Xvid wollt?! (ich hoffe auf h264 weil einfacher und kleiner)

2. Bei vorhandenen Blu-ray Videos (von schon vorbereiteten Videos, allerdings nicht in Zukunft) wollt ihr auch noch die DVD Version?

Um Antwort wird gebeten.

Den Anfang machen 4 Konzert Releases. Wird Zeit, dass die endlich raus kommen.
High-King - DIAMOND (BR) (eines meiner Lieblingslieder, selbst bevor es von High-King gecovert wurde);
Kamei Eri, Michishige Sayumi and Tanaka Reina - Ookii Hitomi (BR) (einer der letzten Songs von Kamei Eri vor ihrer Graduation);
Shin Minimoni - Mini. Strawberry~ Pie (BR) (niedlich, aber leider nicht ganz so toll wie das Original Minimoni);
Yaguchi Mari & Yasuda Kei - Otome no Shinrigaku (ich liebe Kei und Mari zusammen, sie klingen einfach toll).

Also bis zum nächsten Mal!

Batch BR Releases #4

Hey everyone!

Sorry to be late again with my updates! Seems like H!F released some new and shiny stuff.

First of all, we were finally able to release the Morning Musume Blu-Ray Batch. Everyone who loves MM as much as we do, check it out on our webpage or on the Hello!Online Tracker. The Batch includes:

Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~
Iroppoi Jirettai
Pepper Keibu
Nanchatte Renai
Kimagure Princess
Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai
Seishun Collection
Only you

Go Girl is a new and shiny version that we totally worked over. Everything is the same in shiny BR quality.

After we were finally done with all the Batch releases good news came to our ears – BUONO is going to also release a Blu-Ray DVD this year. YAAAAAAAY! We’ll be doing some of the Karaoke again. Unfortunately all the early stuff got done by GTO, who is now a very busy doctor in his homeland and not working anymore. That’s why we’re only going to start with the releases were I took the Buono Project (Singles #6 to #10) over. So stay tuned – we’ll probably release it in late June or early July.

Also, great news for all you Nacchi fans out there. We FINALLY were able to release her very last single. We have had the scripts for a few months now, but we didn’t have a typesetter for it. After finishing all the Batches I was desperate for a calm and soothing song, and I found it.

I hope you all enjoy it.

We’ll see each other soon!

(Nearly all the BR releases will be done in German too)

Happy Easter Update!

Hello everyone!

Sorry that I didn’t have time to update my blog lately. I do write a few tweets every week, so you can read there what I’m doing.

But just for those that don’t follow me on Twitter:

I finished working on both Opening and Ending for the Anime Brave 10. I love the effects and even posted them on my YouTube account. They seem to have garnered some interrest as I had at least 15 new follows since the day I posted it. It's amazing!!!!
I also had a bad moment when I heard I needed to fix some old Macross videos. I’ll probably do that after the Easter Weekend. I so don't look forward to it... :(

After our April Fool’s Day surprise at Hello!Fansubs I nearly finished working on all the Morning Musume BR Re-Releases. I’m glad that we’re going to be able to finish those in time of our 5^th anniversary this year.
I hope everyone will enjoy them as much as we do.

So folks, that’s it for today. I’m leaving in 15 minutes to go to my grandparents over the weekend.

I’m sure I’ll see you all back around after Easter.

Bye until then!!!

Batch BR Releases #3

Time for another one!
Today is Momoko's birthday and we present you with a big birthday present for her (and us).
Here's our painstakingly compiled BR Batch Release from all the videos we could still find.

Included this time are:
Nanchuu Koi wo Yatteruu YOU KNOW?
Waracchaou yo BOYFRIEND
Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance
Dakishimete Dakishimete
Seishun Bus Guide
Rival
Ryuusei Boy
Otakebi Boy WAO!
Tomodachi wa Tomodachi Nanda!
Heroine ni Narou ka!

We also released Tsugunaga Momo - Momo Play 2 as well as MC's and Skits from the BK Concert Tour '10 Shoka ~Umi no ie Otakebi House~ in celebration of Momo's Birthday.

We hope you'll enjoy them!
Have lots of fun with all these releases!

Batch BR Releases #2

Since I already mentioned it before, here's the information on our second Batch release.
We actually wanted to have this one for January, but things came up, a script was stubborn, and it took me forever to find the errors.
I tell you: trying to adjust scripts by other typesetters, especially if you do not write your own effects with the same program, is nerve wracking, seriously time consuming and drove me nuts.
What really made this batch release taking so long was "Haru no Arashi". It was previously done by one of our new typesetters, that came and went within 2 or 3 releases - Meyouu.
I really had no idea about template karaokes n stuff before that, but during the past 3 weeks I actually learned a lot, and also realized - it's not my program of choice!
I love you asscalc!

Anyway! This Mano Batch includes the following singles:

Otome no Inori
Hajimete no Keiken
Sekai wa Summer Party
Kono Mune no Tokimeki wo
Love & Peace = Paradise
Haru no Arashi
Onegai Dakara…

You will especially enjoy the last one "Onegai Dakara", because it was encoded in all it's 60fps splendor and looks like you can dive into the video and touch her face. I was seriously drooling over this video when I saw the encode...I think I freaked out SC quite a bit right there.

The good news with this batch is, that we still had all the scripts up until her 7th major single. We will also do her 8th and 9th single at some point - we even kept the BR raws for that and have scripts waiting - but the sad news is, that we will probably drop her after that. I didn't much enjoy her latest 2 singles and I'm not going to force them on me, or SC for that matter, since he's not the biggest fan of her anyway.

Okay, that's it for now.

The next Batch-torrent will be out early next month, if everything goes according to plan. Stay tuned!

Batch BR Releases #1

Hey there everyone!
I think I forgot to talk about a few releases that came out in the past month from H!F, so here we go.

Late last year UFA released the BLUray DVDs for most PV singles of their affiliated groups, especially Hello!Project. Since we do like us some BR quality, we, SC and I, decided that we'd release our old videos in the new and shiny BR resolution and quality. And that's what we did.
Since we do not have all the scripts to all the songs anymore (okay, honestly, we mostly still have those that I worked on personally, but not the ones that other Typesetters did) we decided to grab those videos that we still had scripts for and release them in a batch.
But since adjusting scripts can be time consuming, and we try to find any mistakes that we previously overlooked, this took us longer than we thought.

Our plan now is to release the videos in Batches according to groups (C-ute, BerryZ, Mano, Morning Musume). Since we never worked on any Smileage related videos we'll skip on those.
That said, our first Release Batch was C-ute.

The Batch Torrents includes remakes and adjusted scripts for the following Singles:

Edo no Temari Uta II
FOREVER LOVE
SHOCK!
Campus Life ~Umarete Kite Yokatta~
Aitai Lonely Christmas
Kiss me Aishiteru

The highlight in this batch was definilty "Kiss me Aishiteru" since this is a new release, that we never released previously. It is also the first finished project of one of our new typesetters. He's unfortunately kind of slow, but he is thorough, which is why it takes some time but the end product is really enjoyable.

'Nough said for today.
Please enjoy this Batch and look forward to our next one (which is Mano Erina and should be out today).

Saiunkoku

Yay!!

Yesterday morning my friend, that has been staying here for the past 3 weeks, left and I was finally able to get my apartment back to myself, which also means I was able to get some work done!
I was glad to have someone stay over, but what was first planned out as a 1-week stay turned into a 3-week stay. It was okay - we had lots of fun here, had a lot of different things to do and everyday something new to eat or had friends over - but since we couldn't be alone at all, it was also rather hard on both of us. I didn't think it would turn out this hard to be together with someone for 3 weeks. I guess I was used to being alone and getting stuff done in my own time. What made it really hard was probably that he was sleeping in my living room and I couldn't enjoy my TV, or work at whatever times I want. BUT, it's fine. I had fun, and I know I'm not going to see him for a long time now.
Oh well.

So, I was able to get one project done today. It's Saiunkoku Monogatari Opening and Ending. It turned out quite fine. I actually had everything uploaded when I decided to change something again, so I had to upload an Ending Version 2 right afterwards.
I hope my client will love it.
I guess I'll give you an update and screenshots whenever I get an okay.

So for now that's it.
I guess I'll see you all again soon!

Twitter

Hey there, everyone! Did you see the few changes I did to my page?

I haven't been doing a lot of fansubbing stuff lately. I currently have a friend staying over until he is done with his Masters, that's why I'm not really around much.
I did add Twitter to this page, so you can now follow me on Twitter and Facebook! \o/

Anyways, thanks for over 10000hits (even though the visitor numbers in the right navi bar are different) on the page. I couldn't believe the number.
Hope to have some new stuff reports for you guys soon! Until then stay healthy and creative!

Christmas & New Years releases!

Sorry everyone! I nearly forgot.

Here's what we at H!F released around Christmas and New Years. After releasing the Shige² concert performance we were up for a little surprise for you guys on the 25th, right on Christmas. We decided to release all the different versions for the second single of MM's kyuuki-members: "Only you".
I have to say it turned out quite awesome. The Font search alone took me several ours, but I think I found the best to go along with the jewelish feeling of the video as well as the effects I wanted to create. YAY for that!!
In total we released all 5 versions of this song, keeping the effects the same, but changing highlight colors to fit the background.

After that, on the 31st, we released the last of our special release spree we had prepared for our followers and friends. This time it was a concert performance from one of our favourite groups (at least from mine). It was one of the few performances those guys had and it was definitly one of the best - both voice and costume wise. We're talking about Zoku v-u-den's renedition of the V-u-den hit song: "Koisuru Angel Heart".
We kept the feather intro of the PV that was released years ago and changed some of the effects.
JUNJUN I MISS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As always we hope you enjoy our work and we'll see you back after our hiatus.
See ya!

Happy New Year!

Hey guys!

I wish you all -belatedly- a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I hope everyone is doing well and had wonderful holidays with your dear ones.

I've been at my grandparents and it was great. We didn't give out any presents this year, but that was fine. We hat lots of fun, a beautiful tree (that I get to decorate each year) and good food and company.

Now the new year started and I've got lots of job applications to write, so there probably won't be a lot of updates for the forseeable future.
I hope that will change, whenever I find a job and have a -not so erratic- scheudule.
I'm also going to update you on the last two H!F releases we put out before New Years. But I'll probably do that tomorrow.

Okay now, folks, I got to get some work done.
Until later!

Hello and Happy Holidays, everyone!

I just wanted to say that I updated my YouTube Account with new clips of karaoke effects that I've released so far. No, they are not in any particular order or sorted a certain way... I just uploaded whatever I have in my clip maker at that moment. (anime for the moment)
Since YT and copyright is bitchy I cut off most of all the video material and start somewhere inbetween lines. That way i can forgo some problems.
I have no idea how long that will work, so go take a look as long as you can!
Have fun and look forward to my next release!

Pink! Pink. Pink?

Hello there! It's time for our weekly release, right?

Well, this week we had a very pink release. Very, very pink!

This is actually back from 2009. We wanted to release it as a special to Koharu's MM Graduation (we did release her signature song: Furusato, from the same concert), but never got around to do it. After that it was part of our trainee program, but that didn't work out either. So I decided to finish it for our Christmas Special, because I know there are still Koha fans out there, even if I'm not one of them.

Either way! Really cute, very pink, and a little emotional.

Have fun with this release and look forward to next week!

There are still at least 2 vids coming out for you before New Years Eve!!!

Bring back the Old School

Hey everyone!
It's been some time. Due to the power outage in some parts of the West Coast we're pretty late in releasing these, which is why they pretty much came out back to back.
So here's what we got for you this time.

We first released this really old concert performance from the H!P '07 Wonderful Hearts Concert. This was at some point a trainee project, but we never found someone to actually work on this. As we're trying to get out the really old stuff now (and since trainees want to work on more recent stuff) and concentrate on the newer stuff later, we're pumping these Old School videos and perfs. This marks the oldest perf we've still got in our work pool.
Combines some of the most loved members into a great Melon Kinenbi song - Kousui.

Sometimes I’m really amazed at what can be found on my HDDs. In some deeply buried folder I found these nifty timings for a song that I have loved since it came out – even though I’m not a big Ishikawa fan.
This marks the 8th single by Country Musume and also the last one they released together with Ishikawa back in November 2002. (Wow, that song is really old!!!)
Unfortunately, since this project is pretty old, and due to a forum crash a few years ago, we lost the information as to who did the initial timings. So, to whoever thinks s/he worked on this for us: we’re sorry!!!!!!

Have fun and as always you can find the video were we always store them ;)

totally unrelated

On a second note: I PASSED MY DRIVERS LICENCE TEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!

*dances around* 

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone had a wonderful day yesterday with family and/or friends celebrating Thanksgiving. Or maybe you're going to do it on the weekend?
Well, for this occation we've just the right PV to go along with. A slow autumn-y PV with the lovely Mano Erina in front and smileage as background dancers. This was Mano's 4th single and it was also one of the few that we're still missing of her. Now we're only missing the latest PVs. Guess we've still got work to do!

Well enjoy and have a great evening"

Problems'n'Releases

Time for a new blog post!

Lots of stuff going on right now. Though before everything turned upside down and became the utmost chaos I was able to finish a few new PVs and concert performances. So stay tuned and check out the H!F homepage frequently. You'll see our new surprises there soon.

Also, thank you for over 500 followers on our H!F facebook group. We appreciate it!!

Unfortunately that's it for the positive part of this post.
Things happend that turned out quite bad for me. I lost my income and am now living off my saving, which aren't too big anyway.
Unless I find a job very soon it's going to be a nightmare. I'm not sure what I should do and sometimes I feel like crying. But since crying never helps you get back on your feet, I'm trying to stay positive. Not sure what's going to happen in the future.

Wish me luck!

So this is the first in our release spree that will last you until christmas. Each week we will either release a concert performance or a PV.
This was an amazing song and it was also one of the last performances that was held by the Rokkies together. If I'm not completely out of the loop Eri graduated a few weeks later.
Ookii Hitomi translates as "Big Eyes" hence the first pic in this capture where they make google eyes for Reina! haha

Stay tuned for next weeks release! And if you can leave us a comment either on the torrent, FB or on our groups Homepage ;)

Creative week

Hey everyone!
Thought I'd post a quick update on things.
I seem to have found my muse again. Finished 4 new projects in 2 days and started on my next one already. All of them are for H!F.
So my German followers should be happy too, because we're also going to have German versions of most of them.
Maybe we can actually finally catch up with SOME groups, but who knows!!

I also finished all of the important anime assignments, Tlc's and translations so far.
Next up are 2 new projects by freebooter-anime. I'm already excited about them!!!!

For now off to bed. See y'all again soon!