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Laser Beam

It’s been a while since we’ve done any PV releases and that’s because I wasn’t really sure what to do with it. We started doing PVs without karaoke and hardsubbed, and those kinda sucked. Then after a while we started doing karaoke. However, the earlier PVs without karaoke didn’t suck cause of the lack of karaoke, they just sucked cause of the horrid typesetting and encoding. So I decided that since we stopped doing karaoke we go back to the beginning, fix those things and we’d have some good PV subs! Perfume’s Laser Beam is the first PV that will be released like this.

You might notice that the tag on the file says “HaroSaigo”. That’s because this is a joint release with that lazy mexican bastard over at Saigoyume.com . (Not actually racism as he’s just living in Mexico and isn’t actually Mexican himself.) He finally ended up doing something and did the translation, timing and encoding for this PV. I did the typesetting so basically I did all the work anyway (Just joking of course for those of you who don’t get sarcasm).

Download it here (new link again, keeps getting removed from ddl sites so here’s the torrent)

Second MKV Test Release

As mentioned in the previous post we’re going to be re-releasing both of the Pefume Hey!x3 we subbed a while ago in mkv+embedded softsubs. The one for Love the world got released along with the previous post so it’s time for Baby Cruising Love now.

We’re also still looking for more people to join HR. (Mainly looking for translators, timers and karaoke typesetters). Read this if you’d like to join.

Baby cruising love at Hey!x3: click

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MKV Test Release

It’s 2009, we’ve got awesome stuff like MKV and embedded subs and stuff for a while now. So why are we still doing MP4 hardsubs? I couldn’t find a good answer which is why we’re going to slowly change our encoding from mp4 hardsubs to MKV embedded softsubs.

Current encoding decisions were made when MKV+embedded softsub support was still very bad on operating systems that aren’t Windows. I’m using Mac OS X myself and at the time I founded HR the only way to play MKV+embedded softsubs on there was with VLC. Which was horrible. It was obvious that I couldn’t even consider using MKV back then because of that. But now there are programs like Perian for Quicktime, Mplayer extended and the newer updates of VLC Player which make sure that they work just as fine as on Windows.  So while I feel that there was a good reason to do MP4 hardsubs when we started out, there are no longer any reasons to not support MKV.

Current hardsubbed projects will stay hardsubbed for consistency but any new project we start will be encoded in MKV+embedded softsubs. We’ll also be doing seperate softsubs for Jikou Keisatsu 2 because of the lack of HD encodes of that series (only for ep 6-9, you can find softsubs for 1-5 at d-addicts). Karaoke PVs will stay hardsubbed. We haven’t decided yet wether that will remain as  MP4 hardsubs or will become MKV hardsubs.

To show how this will work we’re going to do a re-release of the Perfume talk segments at Hey!x3 we did in MKV with embedded softsubs. For now this will only be the HD version but if there’s enough requests for an SD version encoded like that we’ll do that too. Love the world is going to be released first and then Baby cruising love will be done sometimes after that.

Love the world at Hey!x3: click

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