Hello there~ It’s that time of the year again… what, Christmas? No, no… Release time!

Clannad ~After Story~

Torrent: Nyaa
Torrent (newer and more likely to be seeded): BakaBT

Video: H264 720 x 480, anamorphic 16:9, R2J source
Audio: Japanese only, stereo AAC -q 8.0 (~260 kbps), source: 2.0 LPCM
Subtitle: English (ASS), taken from Eclipse’s release, slightly retimed (styling and fonts are the same as Eclipse’s)
Warning: this release uses ordered chapters – makes sure you are (mentally) prepared for that

Eh, this encode has been  sitting on my HDD for some months now, I just couldn’t get myself to watch (I was never in the mood to watch it – and I knew that the last episodes were quite emotional). But Christmas is upon us and I thought that this would make a nice present for you guys :3 (I hope you know what would make a good present for me…).

As for the release itself – standard stuff, R2J source, subs by SS-Eclipse – they were quite easy to work with since they were basically scene timed (unlike the shitty R1 subs for Tylor, ugh, that had like a jillion sync points throughout an episode). The problem was the video – the Clannad DVDs are known for being haloed to hell and back (though, Clannad AS ones are better in that matter) – after some experimenting I opted for keeping the haloed look (I actually like it) – dehaloing meant loss of detailed backgrounds (which I love in the Clannad DVDs), some dark/grainy scenes started looking like a splotch etc. If you don’t like it, don’t download, make your own encode or tune the video with ffpmeg or avs scripts :P

As for the next release – I have absolutely no idea, I haven’t encoded anything in a long time. Whatever I do however, I would need some help with subs, because, frankly, that’s the part of this whole business that puts my off the most – retiming, adding sings, etc… ugh..
Here’s a list of projects I have R2J DVDs for and would like to do in the future:

• Initial D Fourth Stage – great anime (IMHO), there’s no decent DVD release available and boy does it deserve one – the DVD are pretty nice, they have lots of bitrate (which is great because the are lots of dark scenes in this series), they have a friggin awesome 5.1 track (that alone warrants a proper DVD version :P). One more thing: this encode is perfect to show off the possibilites of VFR MKV – since the races are in 29.97, while the everyday stuff is 23,976 which means that the old encodes are choppy/faulty in the races part.
  Needed staff member: subs provider/ripper – the only releases of this series are hardsubbed so one would have to employ SubRip or sth similar to get the subs – something I’m not willing to do :D As Blanchimont pointed out, there’s a recent soft-subbed release by Central-Anime, will have to look into this…
• Patlabor – I actually haven’t seen this series.. it’s just that I once downloaded the TV series and both OVAs and now they take up over 110GB on my HDD and would like to get rid of them :D
  Needed staff member: someone to retime the subs and add signs, etc.
• Testuwan Birdy Decode – since I did the original OVA, it would be fitting to do the TV series to, ne? The DVDs are really nice and definitely an improvement over the TV rips.
  Needed staff member: someone to retime the subs and add signs, etc. But most importantly, a translator checker – because, frankly, the available fansubs are not the best, and I’m not that confident of my Japanese skills to try to fix them myself.
• Arjuna – a series I really like, for many reasons (Yoko Kanno’s soundtrack, great story, animation, seiyuus, eh..). The DVDs are so-so, video-wise, but still an improvement over the available releases. The DVDs do however have a 5.1 track so that’s cool :3
  Needed staff member:signs, signs, signs (and retiming subs) – this series has many signs, etc which would probably benefit from some sort of typesetting.
• Tenchi OVAs – the Pioneer DVDs look friggin awesome and they have a 5.1 DTS track! Wooohoo.
  Needed staff member: nothing fancy, just subs :3
• Battle Programmer Shirase – I’m interested in this series for two reasons – one being the gorgeous DVDs (the TV rips look awful in comparison), the other is the word “programmer” in the title – I just wish they would take the topic more seriously, but I’m thankful for any exposure of us programmers ;)
  Needed staff member: same thing as with Birdy – the subs for this one are even worse though. So a translator would be even better :D
• Getsumen to Heiki Mina – the series from which this group’s name originated – need I say more?
  Needed staff member: nothing fancy, subs retiming, etc, the first episode requires SubRip since it’s hardsubbed, but the other episodes are softsubbed.
• Some more… I can’t remember right now, I’ll maybe update this list when I’ll find my external HDD with my older ISOs.

If you are interested in doing any of the series above (or know someone who does), leave a comment or drop a mail @ rabbit.force @ [that mail from Google].com

igro,
eating carrots and busy doing nothing since Haruhi knows when