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hua-fei-hua · 19 days ago

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i'm starting to see why excellent fansubbing is a dying art these days. there are all these cool tools to aid in the creation of top-notch fansubs efficiently and automate the most tedious parts of the job, but the cooler the tool, the greater the computer literacy it requires to get it running, and this scales up in such a way that just installing the tools, let alone learning to utilize them to their fullest potential, can feel very daunting... like it just kind of gives the impression of being made for massive fucking geeks at a time when being a massive fucking geek meant "customizing your own operating system" and not "knowing where the file explorer is"

#you can really tell that aegisub and its tools and plugins are one massive communal passion project #which is very cool but it also feels so nitty gritty. which is ALSO very cool to be clear #like aegisub itself without any of the plugins or frills is like... pre-industrial revolution technology #where you have your simple machines and tools to do your basic tasks but automation isn't really a ~thing~#it has plugins and external tools and whatnot you can use and implement into your workflow which all come together #to form what feels like a steampunk sort of monstrosity in its elaborateness and delicacy and all-over-the-placeness #like i mentioned this before but the quickest way to do a vector drawing in aegisub is to draw a vector clip and convert it to a drawing #via a hotkey and like that's what i've been doing and like yeah i see why they never implemented just drawing vector imgs natively #in this very 'everyone has this plugin and macro configured and it works perfectly so if it ain't broke don't fix it' type of way #and also there are numerous scripts and plugins n stuff that require you to like. download other things. like other executables #and i feel like if this had ever become like a professional thing these things would have all been integrated #into aegisub the subtitle editor software program itself #like yes. i gave in. i downloaded blender so that i could use its motion tracking to make moving subtitles more easily #but now i have to figure out how to get the trim macro to work so i can export the necessary clips for working quickly #and now THAT'S been giving me problems lately but i also want to know so badly how to do it this way #also having to configure like 95+% of hotkeys myself is like kind of ass tbh but i respect the degrees of freedom it allows #for letting people get into their own workflow and stuff #also just bc tbh doing this makes me feel like i'm making an artisinal product. you know what i'm saying #花話 #i loooove making things and i looooove making them ultra high quality too... not bc i'm a perfectionist but bc i simply enjoy attn to detail

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