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Finally! Man I tried looking in Audio Network myself a while ago to find it, but had no luck. I love the sound of this tune, it's exactly the kind of theme I'd want for my space truckin' in Starcitizen once that game is done in 20 years.

Wow, this did go to the fanboys pretty quick eh? Oh well, seems the majority are leaning towards 360. Heard on the bombcast today that AE is coming to that games with gold thing anyway, so at least I wouldn't have to buy the whole thing again. I was originally on the PS3. The last time I played on PS3 I was finding it kinda spotty, and I do agree that I had some issues with PSN over the years either in getting matches, or getting smooth running matches. So I'll give the 360 a shot. I played Injustice just fine on the 360 controller, but I use the analog sticks so that didn't really matter to much to me. Thanks guys!

I loved Street Fighter IV. Played it almost everyday for 2 years. With Ultra coming out it seems like a good time to get back into it. Lots of characters I need to catch up on. I'm just wondering what the most active platform would be. I love playing online against people, but I'm not exactly the next Daigo. I figure the platform that has the most people on it, would have the most variety, and perhaps more people around my level. Anyone have a good sense of where most of the SF fans have migrated to, be it XBOX, PS3, or PC?

Hey everyone. I'd like to apologize for my absence on this project for the past couple months. Things were pretty crazy here, as I had to move and start a new job and all. Finally starting to settle in and get older projects rolling again, including this one. Still no promises as to how fast I can pump these out, but I'm getting back to a more reliable schedule. First off, back to Episode 1 of the VJ Deadly Premonition ER. Once I get this one done I'll probably set up a blog page on here to host all the download links. I'll be sure to post a link in here to that page once it's up. Cheers!

@Gaff Hey thanks for the help there man. I just started that one today, so this should help me get a bit of a head start.

@Eujin Thanks man. Happy to see you like them. Which video players do you use? I've tested it with both VLC and Media Player Classic, and they both load just fine, colors and all, with a .ass file.

@Ravenlight It's not really that difficult, just time consuming. This is the first time I've done it myself. I just looked up a tutorial on youtube for how to use the program and went from there.

I imagine it's probably one person for each role, scribe (translator), timer, etc. with maybe one or two others in reserve in case someone doesn't have the time that week or something. I have no idea how much time they spend on it though. Sometimes each group has multiple teams as well, because they are doing more than one show a week. We would probably need a team of about 4-5 people if we really want to ramp this thing up to a decent pace.

@Thompson820 Thanks man. And thanks for looking them over. Always good to get a new pair of eyes on something like this, especially since mine were working at like 2 o'clock in the morning.

I'll probably try the first episode of the VJ Deadly Premonition ER next as a test to see if that one is any easier or harder. My guess is that it'll be about the same, but if my memory serves me right each episode is closer to the same length than the ups and downs of the Persona ER, and there are far less of them, which should make for a more steady pace in subbing them.

Alright guys. I finished the first episode of the Persona 4 ER as a test. It took me roughly 7 hours to complete on my own, and that's just for a 15 minute video. Granted this is my first time doing this, but that's still a good chunk of time.

There was a bit more cross talk in this episode due to the opening cinematic which made it a bit more challenging than a typical episode I would think.

@Eujin If you could let me know how well this works for you, that would be great. I used different colors for each of the guys, and put secondary speech like the cinematic stuff up top. Let me know if it's easy to read, or if you have suggestions as to how it could be improved. With the sound off, I personally had a hard time keeping up with it, with how fast the guys talk sometimes.

Knowing how much work this is going to be now, I'm certainly more inclined to tackle one of the shorter ERs first. Luckily Aegisub is a really easy program to use, and the work isn't really that hard. There's just a lot of it.

Anyway, here's the download link. Let me know what you guys think.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16704875/Subtitles/vf_persona4_01_1500.ass (It's an .ass file instead of .srt, which is what Aegisub seems to work natively in.)

I have an annual subscription to Giantbomb, and I just noticed an ad at the very bottom of a forum thread page. I double checked that I was still logged in, refreshed the page, and the ad was still there. Using Chrome on Windows 7. Nothing too invasive, but I thought I should mention it.

In regards to organization for a group of people working on this sort of thing, the way that most fansub groups seem to do it is indeed splitting up the work for each episode. For example:

A translator ( or in this case just a scribe essentially) would copy down each line with rough timing. His main concern is accurate wording.

A timer would then go through and make sure everything is timed well to when people are speaking.

A Typesetter would then apply all the necessary styles to the text, and make sure that they are placed properly over the video, and insuring there is no bad overlap.

Lastly an editor, or QA person would review the episode, and make sure there are no typos or mistakes.

I also started testing this project out on the first episode of the Persona 4 ER. It's a nice short episode so I'm planning to have it done sometime today or tomorrow. I believe we wouldn't have to do much with the game characters, if at all. Especially in the Persona ER, because all of the characters already have subtitles up on screen in their text boxes. And in the DP ER I believe the guys have subtitles on. What I would be worried about, is the amount of text that's going to end up on screen. With Vinny and Jeff talking over the characters, there is going to be a lot to keep up with moment to moment, so I'm not sure how enjoyable that would be to watch.

But all we can do is try I think, and see if this will work out. The more people who can enjoy GB content the better right?

I would love to try this. As someone who has watched the Persona 4 Endurance run an unhealthy amount of times, has some video editing and timing skills, and watches subtitled anime a lot, I feel it should be doable. I am in the middle of a move right now, but the first few episodes of the Persona 4 ER aren't too long, so that should be a decent place to start.