Macross Frontier 25: The Insert Song Spam From Hell
I’ve never liked Seikan much, but this part where Sheryl went, “Alto” and he saluted the girls while Seikan was playing then Sheryl saluted him back was kinda cool.
After writing the Schneizel’s Mask post last night, I fixed up the insert songs in Macross F 25 for ChaosShadow. 3hrs, 11 font files, and a billion colors later, the inserts file v1 was done. And just now I went insane and timed all of the “What ’bout my star?” lines that Ranka is singing in the background when Sheryl starts up Lion again. Then I told Chaos, “How ’bout my sensory overload~?” Basically I am severely butthurt from INSERT SONGS and feel like bitching about it. Macross F has really made me come to hate fansub karaoke and fucking songs because there’s so fucking many of them, yet, back in the day, my job for a time was only making karaoke effects. D: Sometimes with Macross, I get these random ideas for karaoke effects even though we’ve downgraded to just softsubbed lyrics and translation. Like I wanted to make hardsubbed Lion karaoke with spinning triangles and particles. Earlier I desired to make rainbow kitty paw Neko Nikki karaoke. Also we’ve been pretty irresponsible with songs in Macross. We never really made a conscious effort to keep “master” song files sitting around, so the “timing” was more like “copy paste from other episodes lolol”.
…in retrospect it might have been fun to pick everything, but god damn, what a pain in the ass. Fuck you Macross.
At least the insert song spam is over.
…until the Macross Frontier movie, that is. 
Btw, some release notes in advance: Release will be ~700mb, have dual audio tracks (Stereo & 5.1 upmix), and dual sub tracks (default won’t have any inserts, alt track will have full blown styled sensory overload faggotry on the inserts).
We’ve now made chapters based on when each song plays. God help us.
Tags: Bitching, Fansub Faggotry, Karaoke, Macross Frontier
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September 26, 2008 10:56 pm
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kilere (September 26, 2008 @ 11:10 pm)
So Ma-Play Frontier is finally over, huh?
congrats on surviving insert song spam.
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yzak (September 27, 2008 @ 12:20 am)
700 mb!?
looks like I’m driving to school to leach bandwidth when I wake up…
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miasmacloud (September 27, 2008 @ 12:32 am)
702, actually!
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darkkosmos (September 27, 2008 @ 1:04 am)
lolwut? How did you get 702mb??
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Lightbringer (September 27, 2008 @ 3:22 am)
So is that megabyte, or mebibyte?
You’re doing unnecessary things. Fansub karaoke is so pointless and overrated, anyway ^_^;;;
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miasmacloud (September 27, 2008 @ 3:52 am)
Karaoke effects are extremely pointless. Lyrics are not.
Lightbringer (September 27, 2008 @ 5:23 am)
Depends. IMHO lyrics just clog up the screen but eh.
Li Shan (September 27, 2008 @ 1:49 am)
holy eff….. 702mb
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE TOWARDS OTAKU DECULTURE!
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P3s (September 27, 2008 @ 4:08 am)
it took me halfway through the damn article to realize this isnt an article related to schneizel, screw me for not reading the title.
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Smerpy (September 27, 2008 @ 6:39 am)
Wooo,702mb,srs song spam in there
As always,thanks alot for the hard work GG.
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Crazyfellow (September 27, 2008 @ 9:07 am)
wow great job there!
grats on surviving song spam
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miken-chan (September 27, 2008 @ 9:04 pm)
702 Mb?! Holy cow, you need a break.
I understand your pain — I karaoke sub when I’m not scanlating, and timing has become the worst part of the process. I get headaches from running a 2 minute clip and nearly died from a 10 minute song. This means I’m going to have a fuuuuuun time when Sunrise ruins my life next week and I have to design more effects and typset whenever the other timer has off. Thank goodness that Tales of the Abyss is based on a game and they’re reusing the OP, I got to time the OP beforehand. XD;;
(I have a feeling some people may have thought I was talking about Gundam 00 second season…)
I applaud you greatly for making it out alive. /o/
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