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All filesharing starts with one generous person. Out of those 400 leechers will be a couple of guys who will seed and most likely redistribute the bittorrent and video file to other bittorrent websites. So, I'm not overly concerned about initial distribution. ****************** Try RapTor for easy, free rapidshare downloading. Rapidshare is only slow if your internet connection is slow.. ***************************** I posted all the direct rapidshare links on the my Feb.7/09 post above (15 parts, HJSplit) and you can also go to the remastered SDF TV series folder on iMacross4. This rapidshare folder is where I'll be putting all the rest of the remastered subtitled SDF TV episodes on rapidshare and Gubaba will getting the bittorrents initally seeded. . Also, you can see the beginning of this thread for Chad Dunham's Macross Fan Edits folder, where he'll be upgrading many Macross videos soon enough. If you snag a copy of the Macross Special off bittorrent or rapidshare, then by all means pass it around through other channels: irc, edonkey, etc.

Happy Macross Launch Day! February 7, 2009: The Complete Macross Translation Project has begun! subtitled SDF Macross Special is now on bittorent at Nyaatorrents Seeding 1:1 would be appreciated. The latest Mega Macross Bittorrent Collection news can be found on Gubaba's blog website: galaxynetwork.blogspot.com remastered SDF Macross TV episode 1.mkv is almost ready, too. Then. we'll probably have episode 2 .mkv ready in the next 2 weeks. So, every two weeks a subtitled remastered sdf tv episode is the schedule we'll try to keep. Then there's all the other Macross stuff that Gubaba has in store for sharing on bittorrent throughout this year!

see above for new Macross Special rapidshare weblinks. It's a keeper.

A lot of progress has been made in getting the .ass subtitle file muxed properly into the sdf remastered sdf tv .mkv video files. To mux in the .ass into the remastered .mkv, I had to just add in the .mkv without demuxing the audio and video and then add in the .ass subtitle file. No more problems with video frame per second being off. Thanks OptimusX! Then I figured out why Zoom player was not displaying the subtitles properly on subtitled .mkv. Thanks Zoom player forums! It's vsfilter/directvobsub! I have to open vsfilter settings: "general", always load. Now the subtitles in the mkv appear in Zoom player and Media player Classic!! Gubaba is just looking over episode 1 retimed subtitles that I sent him. I forgot to add in "super dimension fortress" in the title card for episode 1. Macross Special can now be uploaded with the .ass subtitle file and it'll work fine. I have a lot of uploading to do.

remastered SDF TV UPDATE: Macross Special .mkv has been take down due to a video glitch with MKVtoolnix. The video Frames per Second were not encoded properly with MKVtoolnix due to the video being 23.98 fps and not exactly 24 fps. The audio and video were slightly off. I'm re-encoding a new Macross Special .mkv with Handbrake and uploading asap. I'll see if Handbrake video encoding software can merge in the .ass subtitle files as well. That would keep everything properly sync'd up. Episode 1 subtitles and remastered sdf tv episode 1.mkv have been retimed and sent to Gubaba for approval. I have episode 2 and 3 subtitles on hand, but I agree with Gubaba that 1 episode every 2 weeks seems to be the right speed. boinger

Super Space Fortress Macross Answers: I bought a SSF Macross vhs tape of the full Hong Kong english dub from Amazon.com and transferred the vhs onto dvd. Then I had to do some audio filtering because the vhs audio had some background hiss and pops: audacity audio sofware and then in later dvd versions SoundSoap sound filter was used. Additional audio was used from the perfect ediiton dyrl dvd and Macross soundtracks to fill out the sometimes hollow sounding vhs audio. DAPDX said okay to me using their commentary, but it needed retiming/editing/filtering. The video used was from the remastered DYRL DVD and the remastered FlashBack 2012. I didn't notice that there was a name change for the edited DYRL: Clash of the Bionoids, so I just used both titles in this fan edit project. I suppose if somebody wants to edit out the violent parts and call it Clash of the Bionoids Restored, then that's up to them. I worked on this fan edit for over a year before there were video editors that could handle .avc video files, so xvid .avi files were the standard that I used. .h264 / .avc is a video format that I'm just getting used to this month. Handbrake video encoding software is working fine for me and you'll be seeing more macross fan edit releases in the .h264, .mkv format. Xvid avi are still more compatible to most media players and computers, though. Rapidshare has been the most dependable download site that I know of. Demonoid is closed to most people unless you have an invitaion. asiandvdclub.org is only for full dvds. Mediafire and MegaUpload are just not convenient or as affordable for me, especially when I have 95 GB of Macross files on iMacross4. I have been perpetually seeding on MiniNova for over a year and most people don't bother seeding, but they are vocal about me seeding. ********************** Chad Dunham is working on a couple of Macross fan edits. I will be posting his fan edits initially as .mkv/.h264/.avc videos with subitles. DVD versions could follow after. 1. remastered SDF tv special edition The Macross Special episode had video improvements over the rest of the grainy remastered sdf tv seris. Chad has been using an avisynth file he picked up from originaltrilogy.com forum and producing really nice results 2. perfect edition dyrl remastered the test file on the first page of this thread speaks for itself. 3. DHE DYRL special edition remastered DYRL Chad **** Gubaba and I are putting subtitles to the remastered SDF TV series. He fixes up the english translation and I get the rest done. I'm waiting to see how Chad's Perfect Edition DYRL turns out and then I'll use that video for the DHE DYRL Extended Edition. I hope that answers a few questions.

Real life kept me busy for the last month or so from finishing up the DHE extended DYRL that I had planned. In the meantime, Gubaba and I picked up the discounted SDF memorial DVD set from cdjapan. And now we're planning to put together the whole remastered SDF TV series as .mkv videos with Gubaba updating the translations. So, I spent some time getting the translation timed to the Macross Special and then coloring and positioning the subtitles with Aegisub. So, the Macross Special is posted on imacross4 and will be posted as a bittorrent by Gubaba in the next week or so. Then Chad Dunham, who has sent me a DVD copy of his DHE DYRL special edition, pointed me out this Handbrake video encoding software. So, it took me a week to get the hang of handbrake for video encoding the remastered SDF TV episodes and next the BD Macross Zero episodes. This week, I'll be finally getting back to subtitling the DHE DYRL extended edition and timing out the remastered SDF TV episode 1. I hope so. I updated the Macross Fan Edit project list in the first post to reflect the upcoming projects. *** I have been requested a couple of times for anime sound fx. But, I don't really have any. If you have a good selection of anime sound fx and you would like to share, then I could keep a copy of anime sound fx in the imacross4 fan edits folder for any future fan editors.

I like it! The acting is a little flat and I couldn't figure out what everybody was saying. But, that could be fixed up by re-doing the audio with better voice actors and a more coherent script. Loved the walking tanks!

I'm re doing the 1920 x 1080 BD Macross Zero .mkv episodes encoded by QTS into video edit-able 1920 x 1080 xvid avi videos with Handbrake software. I've been getting excellent results with video encoding the remastered SDF tv series so far with Handbrake. I'll send over a copy of the HD M Zero episodes to Hikuro once I finished encoding and uploading. Keep plugging along Hikuro and we'll keep watching you and your team's work!

Sounds pretty good to me. It reminds me of a calm before the storm kind of music. Now you just need some orchestral epic mecha fighting music.

It works! Hurray!! Cool motion DVD menu! I'm not sure why the aspect ratio of the movies are squeezed, but I can set videolan player as 4:3 and it works fine. Xvid codec is a little better than DivX for video quality. Would you be able to post your DVD cover for this very fine movie, please? Thanks ever so much to you and your team!

That was pretty cool! If you don't mind, I'll save that video for an upcoming Macross Fan Edit music video DVD. The video encoding gets a little blocky on a few transitions. There's so many cool mecha scenes that hit the beats of the music, that I get some kind of macross mental mecha overload. But, in a good way.

Thank you again!

S-47 Berkut has been getting very good results with Neatvideo sofware for grain removal for his japanese subtitle removal DYRL project. I'm not sure which software is better without screenshot comparisons. I keep thinking that the perfect edition dyrl would have been better as the basis for the remastered edition rather than the theatrical edition. But, your version does look like an improvement. This virtualdub plugin will also come in handy for the remastered SDF tv series that Gubaba and I are putting together. Thanks!

I updated the Macross Special .ass subtitles for color changes. PM me if you have any subtitling suggestions or would like to help me and Gubaba to get the remastered SDF TV series subtitled. Feb. 8/09 Gubaba checked over a couple of punctuation mistakes and I shifted over the title cards a bit. I'll be uploading a new .mkv with muxed in .ass subtitle file that works fine with Media Player Classic and Haali Media splitter video codec.

iMacross4 UPDATES: In celebration of February 7, 1982 premiere of the SDF Macross TV series, here is the remastered SDF Macross pilot episode with english subtitles SDF Macross Premiere Special TV episode english subtitled 720x480 http://rapidshare.com/files/200646163/rema...btitled.mkv.001 http://rapidshare.com/files/200651738/rema...btitled.mkv.002 http://rapidshare.com/files/200657664/rema...btitled.mkv.003 http://rapidshare.com/files/200664080/rema...btitled.mkv.004 http://rapidshare.com/files/200670786/rema...btitled.mkv.005 http://rapidshare.com/files/200678071/rema...btitled.mkv.006 http://rapidshare.com/files/200686519/rema...btitled.mkv.007 http://rapidshare.com/files/200694954/rema...btitled.mkv.008 http://rapidshare.com/files/200703873/rema...btitled.mkv.009 http://rapidshare.com/files/200713505/rema...btitled.mkv.010 http://rapidshare.com/files/200723390/rema...btitled.mkv.011 http://rapidshare.com/files/200733442/rema...btitled.mkv.012 http://rapidshare.com/files/200744007/rema...btitled.mkv.013 http://rapidshare.com/files/200754788/rema...btitled.mkv.014 http://rapidshare.com/files/200763619/rema...btitled.mkv.015 HJSplit muxed in .ass english subtitle tested with Media player classic and zoom player. Double check that vsfilter/directvobsub has "always load" subtitles under general settings. Translated by Gubaba Subtitled by boinger Video encoded by boinger with Handbrake software ************************** Enjoy!

iMacross4 UPDATES: 1. SDF TV remastered !! a. SDF Macross Premiere episode .mkv, 11 parts, HJSplit (I'm working on the subtitles with Gubaba to be released hopefully tomorrow.) b. Super Deformed SDF Macross TV opening .mkv + .srt c. Lynn Minmay SDF Macross TV closing .mkv + .srt d. SDF Macross subtitles by ADV (not corrected for time or diction yet.) Gubaba and I both bought the SDF TV memorial DVD box set. Gubaba will be updating the remastered SDF TV subtitles and I'll be learning how to encode the video and time the subtitles with Aegisub. So, we just need to figure out how best to present the remastered episodes. The remastered SDF TV video detail is much improved, but the film grain is just as problematic as the remastered DYRL movie. 2. Robotech comics a. BIG UPDATE 3. Macross Frontier a. BD 1-13 english .ass subtitles by phunky204 winrar phunky204 needs a little help with episode 4 .ssa subtitle. The cell phone words change position from frame to frame. I don't know how to adjust Aegisub software to get the right positioning. b. Megumi_Nakajima_-_Tenshi_ni_Naritai.mp3, winrar c. May'n Street .mp3, winrar d. Frontier BD episode 14 english subtitle by THORA .mkv, 7 parts, HJSplit 4. DYRL a. Macross_DYRL_Long_Method_Subs_Patch_OpX_Version winrar I had to take down Xeros DYRL subtitle patch due to it was based on an old faulty subtitle file I made a while ago. Thanks OptimusX! 5. Macross 7 remastered a. episode 29, 30, 31, 32 english subtitle by VIP and Central Anime .mkv, 4 parts, HJSplit b. Spiritia dreaming english subtitle by VIP and Central Anime .mkv

I'm slowly putting together an extended version of the DHE SDF Macross DYRL .avi. Just been really busy for the last 2-3 weeks with non-Macross related stuff, so the .avi won't be ready until the end of this month. I could put together a DVD version and a DVD cover after that's finished. It probably won't be as fancy as Hikuro's DVD though. Maybe, one of the recipients of the DHE DYRL DVD could upload their copy to asiandvdclub.org? This week, I'm working with Gubaba on putting together subtitles for the Macross Premiere episode for February 9.

I was just browsing CDJapan to check on Macross DVDs and I found that there is a Macross Frontier Drama CD coming out in April. Could it be a bridging story to the movie?

M7 29-32 VIP on mininova. I'm glad that they're still working on this.

Macross Plus Remaster Box Disc 3 Special is now available on asiandvdclub.org. Enjoy!

Macross: 2036 and Macross: Eternal Love Song are video game prequels to the Macross II universe that I would like to know more about, too.

That was good.

Big Bad Toy store still does not have the vf-25 alto and ozma toys in stock. I'll try to be patient.

OptimusX doesn't have the 4th disc of the remastered Macross Plus DVD box set, I do. The 4th disc of the LE remastered Macross Plus box set has Macross Plus trailers for the OVA, movie and PSX game, PSX game remastered video footage (basically just scenes from the OVA), begining and end credits from the OVAs and Movie, and Shoji Kawamori documentary, where he gets to fly with in fighter jet to get a better understanding of flight combat. I posted the Shoji Kawamori docuementary as an .avi under the iMacross4 remastered Macross Plus folder. No translations were done for any of these videos. ***** Yes, the updated remastered Macross Plus movie and OVAs retain their original menu structure.