Do you guys frown on fansubs?

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Postby CaTaClYsM » Sun Jan 19, 2003 8:40 am

Zarxrax wrote:I really don't see a reason why anyone would use fansubs, unless its an EXTREMELY rare title that just doesnt hardly exist anywhere else. It's not all that hard to find raw footage. Now people will come up and tell you you shouldn't use downloaded footage at all because it sucks, but hey, if you dont tell them you used downloaded footage, then 97% of the people here wouldn't even know. Now of course dvd is better (and harder to work with), it just depends how far you're willing to go for quality.

I agree, for licenced animes RAW footage should be the norm instead of fansubs since RAW footage is not only going to better visually, but also not have SUBS.
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Postby kthulhu » Sun Jan 19, 2003 5:15 pm

CaTaClYsM wrote:but wouldnt that mean kthulu is the Devil's Advocate since he is the one defending the piracy and I'm arguing against it?


I'm not defending anything. You like to jump to conclusions a lot, apparently.

As I mentioned in another thread, North American anime distributors probably need to ramp up licensing and distribution, if digisubs cut into profits so much. The need to update or change their business model, or perish.
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Postby CaTaClYsM » Sun Jan 19, 2003 5:40 pm

so I've been arguing FOR the use of fansubs and you HAVENT? I thought I was the one saying it was bad this whole time. :? well I'm glad I got THAT little mistake cleared up.
So in other words, one part of the community is waging war on another part of the community because they take their community seriously enough to want to do so. Then they tell the powerless side to get over the loss cause it's just an online community. I'm glad people make so much sense." -- Tab
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Postby Rozard » Mon Jan 20, 2003 3:42 am

Dude, Phade's "Laws" are meant to be taken with a grain of salt :? If someone uses fansubs, Phade's not going to order the Inviso-Mod to that persons house and secretly format his hard drive or something :neutral: It's just advice to make everything look better and a little more legal, that's all. Where people really get pissed off is when someone outright rips scenes from another person's video.

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Postby Ashyukun » Mon Jan 20, 2003 7:49 am

Zarxrax wrote:I really don't see a reason why anyone would use fansubs, unless its an EXTREMELY rare title that just doesnt hardly exist anywhere else. It's not all that hard to find raw footage.


Unfortunately, for some of the videos I made when first starting out, there just doesn't seem to be any source available other than the ancient VHS fansubs I've got of them (the particlar series being Tekki wa Kaizoku! and Combustible Campus Guardress). I haven't even been able to find raw footage from Japan for these, which sucks because they're quite good shows and I'd love to be able to use them in future videos.
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Postby Lyrs » Mon Jan 20, 2003 9:05 am

i agree with using fansubs only when they are exceptionally rare.

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Postby Rozard » Mon Jan 20, 2003 11:05 am

I agree also. There are some high quality fansubs out there. Plus, if you can get in contact with someone from a fansub group, you may be able to get raw footage from them. This is always nice because it will be better quality, and no hard encoded subtitles :wink: I haven't done this myself, but I've heard other people say they have (I think iserlohn was one of them). As for the Mods....






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Postby Rain Strife » Mon Jan 20, 2003 11:23 am

I personally appreciate fansubs -- to a certain extent. i mean, if the anime isnt out in america, you can still watch it. But also, there are some "slite fansubbers" that cant seem to match the works words, sound, and picture together.
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Postby SQ » Mon Jan 20, 2003 8:39 pm

Zarxrax wrote:I really don't see a reason why anyone would use fansubs, unless its an EXTREMELY rare title that just doesnt hardly exist anywhere else.



Like Gundam X? Or Gundam ZZ?

What about Sonic Underground?(okay, that was realeased in the US, but you can hardly find ANYTHING for it)
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Postby Chao » Tue Jan 21, 2003 7:14 pm

That's because SU was crap. The best Sonic cartoon was SatAM (the one with the freedom fighters) followed by the Sonic OVA.
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Postby SQ » Tue Jan 21, 2003 9:27 pm

I personally likes SU better then all the others. Gotta love that Manic. . .

But SatAM comes next on my list of favorites.

I dunno, something about Green hedgehogs just makes me want to watch a whole series. Plus he was a drummer. Yum.
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Postby CaTaClYsM » Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:02 pm

another thing to keep in mind, since recording a television show is legal alot of people can just go and capture the shows that are being aired, removing a logo in a corner is a helluva lot easier than removing subs.
So in other words, one part of the community is waging war on another part of the community because they take their community seriously enough to want to do so. Then they tell the powerless side to get over the loss cause it's just an online community. I'm glad people make so much sense." -- Tab
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Postby CaTaClYsM » Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:03 pm

and then there is RAW footage, and a million other things, long story short, ethics aside, fansubs should be a last resort for anyone.
So in other words, one part of the community is waging war on another part of the community because they take their community seriously enough to want to do so. Then they tell the powerless side to get over the loss cause it's just an online community. I'm glad people make so much sense." -- Tab
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Postby Knowname » Tue Jan 21, 2003 11:31 pm

I liked the Sonic that was on UPN for so long... not sure if it's even anime but... the one with the chicken and stuff... anyway I haven't seen many Sonics so...
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Postby Chao » Wed Jan 22, 2003 3:16 pm

AoStH (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog) is the one you meant Knowname. It was probably the more canon of the Sonic cartoons but wasn't particually great, although the chaos emeralds four parter was done well.

SU completely ignored anything to do with Sonic, even SatAM gave Tails the odd bit of screen time, but SU had no relation to the games except for the main charecter who even then barely resmebles the canon Sonic, there's the charecter design and the speed, but everything else was wrong.

I have heard rumours that there is a movie based on SatAM in the works but I don't hold much faith in it (although it's a shame they never did a season 3 after the cliff hanger it ended on).
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