[Electric_zax]

Hi guys. I'm from Bulgaria and I have a lot of friends that watch anime. However some of them don't know English and watch just the very few that gets subbed. The crappy part is that most of the subbers are doing the work just by themselves. For example - Naruto gets subbed in English. 5 guys get the episode, make a translation ASAP and fight who'll be the first to put it online. There are a lot of crappy mistakes in all of them. I tried to work with some of them as an editor, but they don't want this, because the result will be slower (or other reasons). So me and some of my friends want to make fansubs that are done Right! Calling Luffy "her" is not acceptable ^.^

So the question is how do we do that? There are a lot of programs out there and I'm very confused of what should I use to rip the subs out of the existing mkv file. What should I use to edit them (of course I can use Notepad, but some other sub programs checks if the length and the duration of the subs are okay)? What should I use to "integrate" them back in the mkv file?... also how can I make them from MKV into an AVI without losing much of the quality? Many players don't read the commentaries and karaoke properly. If I'm missing something I'll be glad to know.

[Slush]

D/l Aegisubs, it is your friend, use it for timing and other things.

[DR. JOHNSON]

I am also from bulgaria / i use mkv extractgui to extract the subs and then notepad - i delete the english frases and then write bulgarian in their place finally , when everything is ready , mkv merge to combine the new subfile with the video file

[Gruphy_TC]

As Slush said, Aegisub is a commonly used free program for creating subtitles ([Only registered and activated users can see links. ]), and mkvtoolnix ([Only registered and activated users can see links. ]) is a set of tools for working with mkv files, which are the most common in fansubbing. The older avi format that you mention runs well on older machines, but it limits you to hard-subs. As you probably know hard-subs are “burned” onto the video image, where soft-subs are generated on the fly and overlayed on the video as it is playing. Hard-subs are less demanding on hardware, but degrade the video image. Soft-subs can be altered by the user for whatever size font they want and –most importantly- it allows for more than one subtitle track to be included, like English and Bulgarian tracks. The mkv site can also direct you to some avi tools.

AnimeTake is a portal site –a gathering place with a lot of knowledgeable people, but you will probably find more of what you are looking for at a fan-sub site. There are a variety of types of those. Here’s a few that are more involved in creating their own translations. Find somewhere on the site to leave a note, or try their chat-box, if they have one. You might even be able to collaborate on a project with one of these groups, which is probably the best way to learn stuff:

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
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[Stefi818]

Hi, I'm also from Bulgaria and I've experienced the same thing with my friends too >.> I've been in a sub group and we used Aegisub and it helped us a lot and that's why I recommend it.

[rurikomai]

ei, tools that u might need:

mkv Extract GUI --> demux subtitle from MKV file

aegisub --> use to time subtitle

meGUI --> encoding purpose

that's all it needs

[DTryPleX]

Originally Posted by Gruphy_TC

AnimeTake is a portal site –a gathering place with a lot of knowledgeable people, but you will probably find more of what you are looking for at a fan-sub site. There are a variety of types of those. Here’s a few that are more involved in creating their own translations. Find somewhere on the site to leave a note, or try their chat-box, if they have one. You might even be able to collaborate on a project with one of these groups, which is probably the best way to learn stuff:

http://gotwoot-subs.net/
http://www.hiryuufansubs.com/
http://utw.me/

I think you're underestimating just how much of the people here are actively involved in subbing or subgroups dude >.>

[Conduit]

Originally Posted by DTryPleX

I think you're underestimating just how much of the people here are actively involved in subbing or subgroups dude >.>

Well, giving the benefit of a doubt, you have to be a AT regular for a while before you begin to realize that the fansub credits for some groups reads like a who's who of the AT forums.

[DTryPleX]

Originally Posted by Conduit

Well, giving the benefit of a doubt, you have to be a AT regular for a while before you begin to realize that the fansub credits for some groups reads like a who's who of the AT forums.

And now in English? And there's a bunch of the staff in Subsgroups as well, me, Bele and WsE f.e. are in Hiryuu. and we've got more staff spread out over groups or doing multiple groups. And that's just the staff, not the userbase.

[haitam-echegary]

to easy

eagysub from extract ass fil from episode mkv

mkc vierge to make the episode mkv without translating

megui yo encoder thee episode

and also eagysub or after efect for karyoki

and good luck