Fansubber 101

Haha, I just had a funny episode with one of our new trainees. We were trying to work out where the kinks in his latest QC where and what we wanted him to change. As we had some communication troubles due to both of us not using the same program and both of us not being native English speakers we went back and mailed us pictures, which we colored in different colors and tried to communicate the meaning of what we changed.
Now, if you actually read our dialogues that accompanied more than 15 pictures you'd laugh your ass off, but then, I'm not posting that.

So this was the pic I got from him with his latest changes for coloring, fonts and effects.

If you've got some experience with typesetting, styles and effects you'll see a few different things that didn't quite work out for this effect.
The standard settings for this effect are: x scale 100, y scale 148, border 1.5, font size 26, blur0, be0.
the things that really didn't work and had to go were the shrinking fscy scale at the beginning of the highlight transformation (he had a \fscy120 somewhere in there) as well as the blur1 that came out of nowhere (we didn’t have be or blur in the fade-in) and the border 3 (our styling had a border 1.5 outline). We also had a few color changes as his red was way too bright and actually pixilated in the QC encode.

So how do you tell someone that he needs to have the same setting both at the beginning and at the end of the highlight layer so that if you watch it as a whole it has a flowing kind of animation. Our way were colorful pictures … So if push comes to shove a correct looking script of mine is getting mauled at with neon colors and circles. ARGH! Would you know what I was trying to get across?

Thanks for putting up with me kitto ;-)

exams over

well done!!!!! to myself.
I had 2 exams today and I think I passed them both. yay for me!!
I was pretty unsure whether I would be able to pass the Laws of
Communication exam with all its politics and law paragraphs this
afternoon but was pretty sure I would pass this mornings
Wirkungsforschung exam- sorry, the English term is beyond me. I'll
look it up when I'm home.
Funny thing though - laws went a lot better :/

I hope I passed them both!!!

Add: Ooooh, just found out that there is no fancy word for Wirkungsforschung in English, but what it's basically about is a Marketing Effectiveness Research. Hope that'll do.

Back to work now!

And dang, it's so hot. The summer is going to be scorching if it's already this hot at the end of April 

Spring in Full Swing

Anime workload for the upcoming two weeks

Hey there!

Yes, I'm working on a few new project right now, though this time they're anime songs.
The new anime season started with lots of groups approaching me about ne Karaoke songs.

I actually decided to do no new shows as I don't really have time.
But I’ve still got a few new videos to do.
Here's a short list:

Naruto Shippuuden OP7+ED13 (up on mediafire)
Full Metal Alchemist - Brotherhood OP5 (up on mediafire)
Nana TV OP3 (done, coming soon)
Suzuka OP + ED1 (finishing, coming soon)
Sketchbook EP4 insert + OP2 + ED2
Daicon AMV
Ranma ½ TV Season 6 OP+ED (coming soon)

I still have some Bleach stuff flying around -.- but it's pretty old already... *sigh* and I don’t want to retime it……….

Today got an e-mail from amrayu from SARS. I’m contracted for a movie karaoke until next week.

Well then, see ya!

Oh, btw, this is going to be the next PV song I'm doing... Guess what it is!

leckaaaaaa - yummy

Wow! Today I was trying out a new receipt I invented myself... well, at least mostly. I had read about a similiar receipt years ago and today I thought I'd do it again.
It's basically a salty pancake and as a stuffing a mix of onions, red pepper and ground meat. I cooked it up with spices and made a bouillon-y sauce. Yummy!!

I'll get myself another serving... laters~

Outbreak! err... Break out!

While I'm enjoying this release in the background right now, I'm writing up this post.

Once again I want to thank everyone for their consideration and great words. I know some will never understand and others do (and yes, that was meant to be cryptic).
Since we decided to keep on working here's our next release. It was actually supposed to come out together with the releases from April 12th, but due to me being away on personal business I wasn't able to finish it in time.
So I decided to give it top priority and push it out as soon as I was back working.
So here it is now....

 
Morning Musume - 3, 2, 1 BREAKIN' OUT is the official theme song for last years Anime Expo 2009 in Los Angeles. If anyone wants to see more footage of their first and to date only concert in America, please check out H!Fs Morning Musume's America's First Landing Live (FC DVD 2010.01.26) Release.

We hope you'll love it as much as we do!
Have a nice evening, folks!

Chums!

If you can guess from which video it is you know what's going to be released somewhen within the next few hours ;) Just a little hint - it's the very end of a pretty awesome song by a group with more than 6 members. HAHA!

I do hope you'll enjoy and I'll get back to you and write a real post after I woke up. SC probably has already released it by then too.

Confirmation!

As probably a few of you guys already know

Hello!Fansubs is not going to disband

*faint cheers from the outside*

I hope this is great news to everyone that didn't already know about it.

We decided due to the huge amount of people responding and telling us that they don't want us to give up, to just release at our own leisure. We'll take our time and probably come up with a few special occations to drop a few videos on you.

This also means I'm going to post about releases again soon!

Look forward to it!

3 years and 400 releases!

Hey there everybody!

I just wanted to give a short shoutout to everyone now that we finally released our long lasting 400th project with which we are also celebrating our 3rd anniversary. It's been 3 years since the founding of Hello!Fansubs and we even managed to put out a wooping 400 releases. This is amazing!
 
This  release took us some time and even though I didn't really have a hand in it, I'm very pleased how it turned out and hope that everybody will enjoy this amazing release. It's freaking big!

I want to thank everyone that has lend us a hand over the years and I also want to thank all the fans that keep supporting us. You guys rock!

Thanks for everything.

Yours truly,
Tomo-chan

Happy Easter!

Did the Easter Bunny already run through your yard?! I hope so.
Did he leave anything behind for you?! You betcha.

Well, mine didn't but that's because I don't have a yard and I wasn't particularly good this year. HEHE!

Anyways. Hope you guys enjoyed a very well deserved holiday as I did and I'll see you again after the holidays!


On a side note. I won't be home come weekend so don't expect any lenghtly posts ;) though I might post some pictured of the birthday party I'm attending ;).

My granny told me they had snow this easter again :( poor them.

Everything comes to an end sometime...

Hello everybody. I've got sad news...
Some might already have heard or suspected: Hello!Fansubs is coming to an end.
We been trying to prevent it for the last couple of months both ever since a huge bunch of our ppl left the group is basically operating on a handful of dedicated people. We really had fun working on all those videos, performances and Making-ofs, but without the people we finally came to the descision to let it all end while everyone has a good memorie of us.

SC posted a length-ly post on our webpage. Please make sure to read that too.

Thank you everyone for all your dedication, help and friendship throughout the years and we hope you will all enjoy Hello!Project for as long as they still remain.

Thanks again!

Furusato

Time for another release right before Easter!
We finally were able to pull of our 399th release and I'm very pleased with the outcome. The performance from Kusumi Koharu-chan's Graduation is also the very song that she sang when she auditioned for Morning Musume. Fans and Friend were pretty sure that this song was going to be her last one and they proved right.
It's a soothing song about a mother and was actually one of the first singles of Morning Musume ever released back in 1999.

Kusumi Koharu - Furusato (MM Concert Tour '09 Aki ~Nine Smile~)

Have fun!

A Treat For Myself

I wanted to treat myself to something yummy today so I went shopping and found these delicious looking strawberries which I topped of with a really yummi vanilla flavoured yogurt.

Oishiii!!! And I so adore both strawberry and vanilla flavour.

Gibbs

Hello again!

Time for a new "old" release.
I don't know when I actually finished this song - probably in January or so -  but it finally was released. This song is quite old. It was first released as a single ten years ago, in 2000. Amazingly this song is still one of my favourites together with the song "Apple Song" (Ringo no Uta). I'm talking about this amazing song: Shiina Ringo - GIBBS (gibusu).

Links can be found at the HaroRanger Blog Page. Have fun and see you later!

Movies

I'm going to the movies, I'm going to the movies *singsong*

yaaaaay! It's been a while since I last went to see a movie with friends so I'm really excited to do just that in a few hours.
That's the movie it's going to be. I'll tell you more about how I thought this movie was as soon as I saw it.

mou yamete! もうヤメテ！

Lately, I've seen an increasing number of groups starting to fansub - which is fine - if not for them doing the projects I've already started on.

It's really frustrating to see other groups releasing the projects I've been painstakingly working on for days if not weeks, even though they know that H!F is still working on a lot of PVs and that we normally do most of them, even if we take a little longer to wrap them up.

I mean H!F is also looking out for other groups and try not to start or do projects that have already been done. It's so frustrating, demoralizing and I lose the interest in working on said projects.

I don't mind other groups working on the same projects in general. We already had a few of those, but at least those groups knew we were not going to release the close-up or dance versions and they used those for their own release and we still could work on the normal version.

I don't know if I even want to work on more stuff right now. We've (SC and me) been trying to pull off a few releases still even though we are considering closing H!F for good. The lack of staff and the popping up of new groups working on the same projects we work on makes that decision even more plausible.

We'll see. Maybe I'm going to do a few more vids before we close up. I don't know yet. *sigh*

addendum:
It's not like I (we) want to monopolize the H!P fansub scene, but everyone knows that fansubbing is a lot of work and that you need to put a lot of time and thought into a finished piece of work. It just stinks to have all that effort be a waste of your time if someone else puts out the same video just before yours is going online.
It's not like people don't know that we (H!F) work on most H!P releases - we definitly do all the Morning Musume, Buono! and Guardians 4 stuff and we've been telling that in a lot of posts and release notes lately - and that we've been planning on doing most Berryz stuff, too.

Oh well. I can't tell people what they should do or not do. I just want to mention that it's frustrating for everyone else and especially for me.

Sorry for the rant-post. I just had to get this off my mind.

Only You

wah. Late again. Nvm.

Here's another release we pushed out last week.
It's definitly one of my fav song of this concert.
This one is Zoku v-u-den (the new Biyuuden group with Risako, JunJun and Sayumi). This song is just awesome as as Risako rocks the deep voice and JunJun looks freaking great while rocking out with her air guitar. You just have to check this masterpiece out.
The song ONLY YOU is a Cover by the really awesome rock group BOØWY, one of my favourite bands, which makes this even better. Enjoy!

Addendum: Triple Release Spree

following those releases here are the youtube links.

Thanks to shyangel133 for uploading them!

Triple Release Spree

I'm happy to announce that we finally pulled off the 3-day Release spree we planned on short notice.

SC described it as:
Takahashi + Tanaka = ReinAi (Duet)
or
Slow + Slow = Fast
which fits perfectly!!!

We started off with the release of the H!P '09 Summer Kakumei Gannen ~Hello! Champloo~ solo performance of Takahashi Ai's Cosmos, a very nice and slow ballad followed by Tanaka Reina's Heya to Y Shirt to Watashi, also a very nice ballad about how you should not cheat on your girlfriend or else you'll regret it.

The last song to be released was todays duet by both Tanaka and Takahashi. The song's called Kioku no Meiro and is actually a song by High-King, where both girls were the lead singers in. The performance was from the MM Concert Tour '09 Aki ~Nine Smile~, a very awesome concert!I hope everyone enjoyed this - and we'll see you again soon I hope. Leave a comment when you liked the releases!

Youtube links will follow as soon as they are up.

PS: Thanks to everyone who helped on these releases!

dinner for 2

Yummy. I was thinking along getting some "salad" for dinner so I had myself mozzarella salad with sliced tomatoes, a few slices of italian prosciutto and garlic bread, together with some black oil (as we call it). It's pumpkin seed oil.
Wow, that was awesomely good.