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The video gets a little desynced near the end. I encoded it five times with different settings but to no avail. I think it’s something to do with using AviSynth to load the WMV source file. Oh well.

I really like the PV. :) Continue reading for the YouTube version. (Though you can’t really make out the subtitles…)

Anyway, I spent my time yesterday practising karaoke styling instead of revising physics. I rock at life. This time it’s Mirage Lullaby by YURIA, the PC-version OP of SHUFFLE!.

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Read on if you are interested in the technical stuff.

The fade-to-grey effect is really just a modified version of 6-simple-effect.lua that is included with Aegisub. I added a bunch of \fad() and \move() for the movement. I was actually going to make something funkier with spins and stuff, but it’s too time consuming and I’m too lazy to write my own Lua script to speed things up.

Comparing this to my YoakeMae OP…

One line of ro-maji in YoakeMae:

{\kf110}ikusen {\kf54}mono {\kf54}mono{\kf157}gatari {\k2} {\k6} {\kf116}tooku {\kf101}inishie {\kf110}ni

One line of ro-maji in SHUFFLE!:

{\a1\move(110,470,160,470,0,6980)\fad(100,300)}
{\r\t(1100,1500,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf24}a
{\r\t(1340,1740,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf58}na
{\r\t(1920,2320,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf47}ta
{\r\t(2390,2790,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf24}e
{\r\t(2630,3030,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf30}to
{\r\t(3330,4330,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf150}
{\r\t(4430,4830,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf60}tsu
{\r\t(5030,5430,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf47}dzu
{\r\t(5500,5900,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf48}ku
{\r\t(5980,6380,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf21}ko
{\r\t(6190,6590,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf33}no
{\r\t(6520,6920,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf67}mi
{\r\t(7190,7590,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf52}chi
{\r\t(7710,8100,\1c&H808080&
\2c&H808080&\alpha&H55&)\kf12}wo

I have never really paid much attention to the various Vobsub syntax documentations before this, but now that I have, it seems to me that it has a fricking lot of limitations (such as no overlapping of \t timings and one \move per line) and typesetters use all sorts of crazy hacks to achieve the results they want, usually involving multiple layers of the same line formatted and clipped in various manners. Of course, the smarter ones use Adobe After Effects instead… but that’s not hardcore and pure enough!

Moral of the story: Learn Lua or die when you try to manually time funky karaoke effects in microseconds.

I still suck at this whole thing and I can’t use anything more complicated than \kf and \fad(), but nevertheless it’s one of my better works if I may say so myself. :3

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FEENA FTW!

Summer Days is the sequel to School Days. The heroine of the story is Setsuna this time. Woot. The cast and setting are still the same, but the story takes place in a different timeline, one where Makoto meets Setsuna first. The promo video was released a few days ago. The game had been delayed many times and the current release date is 23rd June. The official website is here.

Now I can fail tomorrow’s math test with no regrets.

[00:25] <gara> this is level1 stalking. just idletime-monitoring.
[00:25] <gara> level2 would be connecting to random other networks to see where you are hiding.
[00:25] <gara> level3 involves figuring out people you know in real life and have them bug you. ;)
[00:26] <gara> aeh. did i say stalking? typo. was supposed to be “proactive project status update distribution”.
[00:34] <ThePaper> ok… im going to blog what you just said now D:
[00:35] <gara> there has been only one case of level3 stalking in my personal history of fansubbing, and while interactii wasnt exactly happy about it, he DID time the damn eppisode very quickly after that. ;)
[00:35] <ThePaper> T_T

Alright. That’s it. No more blogging. Time to sleep…