Post edited 1:00 am – January 14, 2009 by antialiasis
Post edited 1:12 am – January 14, 2009 by antialiasis

http://www.dragonflycave.com/c…..titles.zip

English subtitles for Commentary! The Musical, based on the lyrics at the official site and a1tipop's transcription of the dialogue, with some of my own corrections and timed to the best of my ability in a day's rushed work.

I've never actually subtitled anything before and wasn't entirely prepared when my VLC didn't want to use the subtitles properly with the actual DVD, but ripping the files from the DVD and playing those with the subtitles works aside from the subtitles then being a bit behind (can be corrected by setting a delay on the subtitles, except I can't quite figure out how to do that on the new version of VLC). Don't know how it works in other media players. At least I hope it helps somebody?

Post edited 1:13 am – January 14, 2009 by antialiasis

One .srt (SubRIP) file with subtitles that can be applied to an existing video file (it does not not the video file itself, if that's what you were worrying about). I originally meant to link straight to the file, but it didn't seem to work for some reason, so I zipped it.

The Green Dragon said:

That's um interesting but I think that might of been illegai then again…..

Why do you think subtitles are illegal? :/ Remember, I'm not providing a video with subtitles – it's just subtitles that can be played on top of any video but will only make sense with Commentary! The Musical. It's mostly analogous to transcribing the lyrics of songs, and look how many websites do that. It's just that reading the whole thing is obviously an inferior experience to actually watching and listening to it; nobody will read my subtitles and therefore think, "Aha, now I won't have to buy the DVD."

Miral said:

Post edited 8:58 pm – January 14, 2009 by Miral
Post edited 9:02 pm – January 14, 2009 by Miral

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Sweet!  Thanks for this.  (And incidentally, Media Player Classic can add the subtitles in when playing straight from the DVD, so it's nice and painless.  In fact for extra entertainment value you can enable the regular DVD subtitles at the same time…)

Though some of the durations seem a little shorter than they should be…

Great! I'm glad this is managing to be useful. Although when I try to get it working in Media Player Classic, the subtitles start a minute in and keep flickering. o_O How did you get it to work right?

Once I find that out, I can probably readjust some of the durations.

Post edited 3:10 am – January 19, 2009 by antialiasis
Post edited 3:12 am – January 19, 2009 by antialiasis
Post edited 3:13 am – January 19, 2009 by antialiasis

I updated the subtitles again with some tweaked timings, some lines that weren't in before because they're not in the official lyrics (Zack's comments during the chorus of "Zack's Rap", a "No" in "Nobody's Asian in the Movies", and the ends of "Ninja Ropes" and "All About Me"), and the addition of some 'sound effects' ("(awkward pause)", "(laughing)", "(evil laugh)" and "(sobbing)"); there might be more that I can't remember off the top of my head. I couldn't make some of those lines out very well or at all, so corrections and pointers would be much appreciated if you have any.

There was one other bit that I'm not sure about, and I didn't change in the subtitle file: when Joss says "spoiler warning" in Pick it Apart, it sounds like he's saying "spoiler warning on".  But it doesn't say that in the official lyrics, so I'm not sure about the subtitle.  (Another possibility is that it's "spoiler warning" followed by "oh, we're gonna pick pick pick pick pick it apart".)