Friday, January 30, 2009

Kurokami Release Notes

Since I'm out, releasing stuff publicly now, I figure I should say a little bit about my releases.

  1. I am NOT an encoder. Therefore, whatever raw I download will remain completely untouched. All I do is synchronize the English audio and pack it into an MKV. It is also for this reason that I will NOT be releasing SD/AVI/XviD/whatever else people might want. If you want the SD version of the dub, download cornbreadman's release. If you want subtitles, get Nuke-BandaiaTV's release.
  2. I lied. I actually add softsubs to the raw as well. These subtitles cover the episode names (exactly as they have been translated by Bandai) and the OP/ED.
  3. In the interest of NOT stealing as much as possible, the OP/ED subtitles were borrowed from Nuke-BandaiaTV's episode two release. I removed all their karaoke effects, because they do, in fact, belong to people who are not me. All I used were the words. Even then, I changed a couple words around where the English didn't make much sense (like "myself" to "me" in the second line of the OP).
  4. While my releases are primarily meant for dub watchers, I will leave the Japanese audio stream in the MKVs. I don't have a good rationalization for doing that, but I think I can better serve the public by providing as much material as I can, even if it's not very accessible.
  5. As a college dorm-dweller, I do not have access to torrent services. Therefore, I will not be able to release episodes via torrent. Everything I release will be uploaded to MegaUpload, whereupon anyone and everyone is free to do whatever they want with the file. Upload it to a torrent site, put it on your giant IRC archive bots, put your name on the file and say it's yours. I don't really care. All that really matters is that people who want to see Kurokami in English have that opportunity.
  6. While I did sync HD dubs of the first three episodes, they're all fairly unpolished and I doubt I'll go through the trouble of redoing them just to tack my name on 'em. Theft!'s releases are perfectly adequate if you're looking for HD dubs.
If you have any comments, suggestions, whatever, leave a comment or send me an email.

kowai [DOT] nightmare [AT] gmail [DOT] com

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