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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
January 18 2011 04:41 GMT
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I am looking for either possible websites dedicated to English subbed Japanese music PVs (do PV fansub groups exist?), or learn a way to sub them myself.


I am not sure where this should go, so I am throwing it here.

Here's what I am interested: Japanese music videos, or often called "PVs", or Promotional Videos. Since I got my iPod I like to watch these while I am in the subway.

Since this media is both visual and audio, I prefer having some English translations embedded to the video so I can understand the lyrics (I find it really hard to understand the lyrics just by listening to the song as a non-native Japanese speaker).

Here's the problem. While Youtube is a very good source for PVs, for some stupid reason it is illegal to sub them so subbed PVs get removed periodically. Other than Youtube, however, I have not discovered any good sources for finding these coveted PVs with subtitles. If you know any, please share!

If that fails, I am thinking the possibility of subbing them myself.
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I honestly don't care much about the copyright issue. As far as I understand, a PV is a commercial for (musical) artistic work. To translate it into English is to promote the artist's work, not violating it.

The problem is that I have *zero* idea as to how to do it. Obviously, it would be nice to be able to get romanji + kanji karaoke and English translation, for example:

But I imagine this might be too much work (but exactly how much work is it???). So something very simple like this:

seems good for me too (although I would probably also add the original Japanese lyrics by looking it up on Google).
So, can anyone shred some light as to what kind of software I should use and what are the things I should pay attention to?

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Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8031 Posts
January 18 2011 05:33 GMT
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http://www.aegisub.org/

Consider PMing aers. He's in a fansubbing group, so he'll know a lot more about this, or will know people who actually knows what they're doing.
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Yukidasu
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Australia125 Posts
January 18 2011 07:08 GMT
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Good advice.

You should also look for original lyrics using google (try to get official ones), and use those to translate it, because for many songs it's extremely difficult to get everything right by ear, and you'll probably have to guess. Just like some english songs.
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Hong Kong4685 Posts
January 18 2011 08:01 GMT
#4
http://jpopsuki.eu/

I can give you an invite. Provided that you already know how to torrent, seed, and keep your ratio up.
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