Re: Thanks Sad and Newkate for your efforts…
[quote=”Logan”]I’ve been very interested in seeing it. I’ll try downloading it from your server (haven’t tried alt.binaries before); wish I could burn it. Hopefully my poor old ‘puter will be able to handle it (at least I have broadband).[/quote]
THat certainly helps! Both hour long episodes can be downloaded pretty darn quick with high bandwidth. Personally I would go the alt.binaries.multimedia.scifi route (that’s how me and Newkate get our fix of Angel and Buffy as they come out!). There are lots of other cool shows from as far back as the 60s and 70s that are posted for download as well as some that more obviously break copyright (ie. Animatrix).
[quote]BTW, twas a dream of mine to scout out such films, subtitle them, and distribute them over the internet, and to repertory cinemas, especially once digital projectors become more common.[/quote]
I must admit, that certainly got me too. It’s a great feeling doing something like this – especially for a film which is sooooo bloody good! It’s a crime that it’s not been subtitled before!
Unfortunately, if you aren’t professional then you always worry that you will make spelling and grammar errors etc. Eg. there is a mild swear word used in the film called ‘kyoo’. I mistyped it (kjoo) at the beginning and Newkate (the Russian speaker) thought that I was correcting her subtitling and from then on translated kyoo as kjoo. 🙂 It’s not a serious error, but a niggling one.
In the end, you get so close to the project that you end up deciding to re-do the whole thing again! Then I’m going to make a dvd version (for home use only of course) and a low-bandwidth version (small image- large subtitle text) etc. 🙂 What I’m trying to say is that it’s certainly exciting but also absolutely addictive. If it wasn’t for headgehog and the other mods keeping the site going for the last month, I don’t know what I’d have done!
If you ever need info on how to do it, the software that you need etc., tell me – its not difficult, just fiddly.