{"id":128,"date":"2010-04-22T23:36:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=128"},"modified":"2010-04-23T14:32:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T13:32:36","slug":"guide-to-pro-fansubbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mod16.org\/hurfdurf\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Pro Fansubbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being around the fansubbing community for a while (about five years now) has led to making a few observations here and there. A lot of groups are doing really stupid shit in really inefficient ways, so here are some guidelines to better fansubbing:<\/p>\n<h3>DON&#8217;T<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Have more than two QC&#8217;ers. If you need more the script was probably not worth doing anything with in the first place, or the QC&#8217;ers aren&#8217;t doing their job properly.<\/li>\n<li>Recruit fucking useless QC&#8217;ers who only QC and do nothing else. They should at least be able to fix simple TS problems they spot and stuff like that, or else you&#8217;ll have to wait for that lazy ass typesetter to come around again and that alone will probably delay your release by a day.<\/li>\n<li>Hardsub. Anything. For any reason. Ever. Hardsubbing is the best way to burn out encoders and delay releases forever. If you think you need hardsubs to make a good release, you&#8217;re either retarded or a TS perfectionist (they&#8217;re mostly equivalent anyway).<\/li>\n<li>Think you have to make a release &#8220;perfect&#8221;, because it won&#8217;t ever be. Small errors that do not affect the translation accuracy or the viewer&#8217;s ability to enjoy the episode don&#8217;t matter; fix them if you have the time and ability, otherwise don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Do useless things like letting the TL look over the episode a final time before release. If you can&#8217;t trust your editor and QC&#8217;ers to do shit right, why do you have them in the first place? If the TL really wants to do this, drop one of the QC&#8217;ers and let the TL QC instead.<\/li>\n<li>Recruit people who are only around for two hours a day. Fansubbing is a job for NEETs.<\/li>\n<li>Filter your encodes with slow filters. Most broadcasts are pretty shitty and you know they&#8217;re gonna fix the animation on the bluray anyway, so why waste time improving something that is going to look shitty anyway?<\/li>\n<li>Do RC&#8217;s. Since everything is softsubbed, just upload a premux and then you can just mux it server-side and release when everything is OK. Let someone with a fast connection download it and check it if you&#8217;re paranoid, but full RC&#8217;s are for faggots.<\/li>\n<li>Involve too many fags in fucking with the script (related to the &#8220;no more than two QC&#8217;ers&#8221; rule above). It usually just leads to confusion, drama and inefficiency. Each additional person you involve is an additional bottleneck that you have to wait for. TL, editor, two QC and optionally TLC (if you don&#8217;t trust your TL) is enough. Ruling by council is inefficient and so is fansubbing by council.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t let people have multiple passes at the script, either. You can create infinite QC loops if you do.<\/li>\n<li>Try to translate every fucking background sign everywhere. Nobody cares and it takes fucking forever.<\/li>\n<li>Let people block progress for more than 8 hours. If their job takes longer than that they&#8217;re really fucking slow and should be fired or skipped. You should also consider timezones when filling a position.<\/li>\n<li>DO KARAOKE, YOU RETARDED FAGGOTS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>DO<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Use transport stream raws, assuming that your encoder has a non-retarded connection and a good computer (if he doesn&#8217;t you should fire him anyway because he&#8217;s fucking useless without those two). They&#8217;re really simple to get these days, even if you only use torrents. If you use anything else, don&#8217;t bother reencoding it unless it&#8217;s 120fps or something retarded; just remux it instead.<\/li>\n<li>Temporarily replace or skip people who can&#8217;t be around to do their job. If they&#8217;re not 12 years old they shouldn&#8217;t have a problem with it.<\/li>\n<li>Recruit multi-talented people and keep a team that is as small as possible. More people means more timezone issues and more potential bottlenecks.<\/li>\n<li>Have fun. If it&#8217;s not fun, why are you doing it?<\/li>\n<li>Be lazy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being around the fansubbing community for a while (about five years now) has led to making a few observations here and there. A lot of groups are doing really stupid shit in really inefficient ways, so here are some guidelines to better fansubbing: DON&#8217;T Have more than two QC&#8217;ers. 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