Whew! Finally done!

[eternal_rena]

Finally done with the New Year release for my manga group, Eternal.

I'm really pooped out. Five QCs in...like 6 hours. Time to slack off and rest!

Lots of things to catch up on now that this is done. Lots of stuff to scan for manga scanlations and also for Tales of Scans. Not only that, I want to work on and finish up the Skills Guide/FAQ for Tales of Vesperia and also to move all of the Tales of Series related scans at Tales of Scans into a gallery for easier viewing and also to create batch downloads for them. The gallery is already set up at my web host here, but there is nothing uploaded at the moment. I'm still in the process of tweaking the settings to my liking. It's also called Tales of Scans since it's a gallery to accompany it. This is on top of the to do list, the only things that override it are the weekly scans for Weekly Shounen Magazine and the scanlation for Tales of Vesperia. As usual, I'll be scanning as I'm doing internet stuffs.

There is also another thing I need to do though...try ripping my Tales of Symphonia OVA DVDs to produce raws. I hope it goes right. I've never ripped DVDs before...only music CDs x_x

Not only that, lots of games to play too...ugh...so much to do...and so little time...D: Oh well, I'll just do whatever I can!

Happy New Year!

Comments

[argentum-canine.livejournal.com]

You're the greatest and the most marvelous and loveliest and super, Rena . . . :')

THANKS FOR ALL THE RELEASE~ XD (since I'm too lazy to post a comment to an individual release post :p )

And . . . hope the DVD ripping works~ XDDD

[newien.livejournal.com]

Wow you really like tales of.. series :P happy new year <333

[laenavesse.livejournal.com]

...xD; You poor dear.

At least people appreciate your efforts :3 But I know how having all that crap (especially scanlation...especially the SCANNING part) is like.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Bah, scanning is easy. The harder parts of scanlation is actually cleaning and maybe proofreading, if you have a translator that doesn't have superb English.

[laenavesse.livejournal.com]

Hahaaa for me? My scanner is RETARDED. I can't line it up along the edge or it will be slanted. SLANTED. I have no clue why. Also, it would cut off like half an inch of the page :| So it's...really annoying for me. *has to tape rules/post-it strips/SOMETHING to realign the pages and make enough gap away D:*

If you ever need a cleaner, I wouldn't mind. ..Except when text is over images BUT yeah, I find that part actually easy XD

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

I just put the page in the middle of the scanner glass and scan it in. I rotate the scans in photoshop. I do a lot of scanning and they're of varying paper sizes, so I cannot paste guidelines on my scanner.

A lot of scanners cut off the scans at the side so you'll have to find a way around it.

chiyo_sama is a very good redrawer so you don't have to worry really XD But don't you already have a lot of things to do...?

[laenavesse.livejournal.com]

I do the same but...it gets really annoying xD; I prefer getting it in one shot~ And yeah, I know scanners do that. My original one cut off more than others though :\ Sometimes I use like pencil lead casings xD; I don't need it to go all the way down the side, just a little bit. I've eyeballed it before but...again. Kinna hard. And having to do multi-scans where you have to scan a large image in several parts is even more annoying when a part comes out slanted ;_;'' ..And I get OCD >_>;;

You realize I like to pile things on myself, yes? xD; But I seriously wouldn't mind helping if you ever came into a pinch.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

It's not hard to rotate. You just use the measure tool and draw a line on the part of the page that's supposed to be straight and then Rotate Canvas->Attributry (sp?) and the rotation angle would have been filled up for you by the measure tool and just click okay and there you have it XD

Yes, you need to stop piling stuff on yourself XD You seem to be doing a lot of RPs (I don't RP so I don't bother). As for a pinch, the group is actually in better shape than it was last year and the year before last so we'll manage (not to mention I require all cleaner applicants to do the cleaning test >__>)

[laenavesse.livejournal.com]

I use Paint Shop Pro. XD I haaaaet Photoshop. I just can't handle it very well :\ I get all my needs done through it anyway sooo ^^;

I CAN'T HELP IT. IT'S LIKE. MY NATURE OR SOMETHING TO KILL MYSELF ;O; That and I have a LOUD mind. :\ But that's good :D I wish I could just find translators for my own little scanlation project :\ It's put on hold until then.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Why don't you try posting on your journal to look for one? I've tried before and it works XD

Is it a "Tales of" related scanlation project? O_o

[laenavesse.livejournal.com]

...I tried D: But the fandom is. Small. Like. Really small.

And now it's not D: It's for my old passion, Dragon Knights and other works that the manga-ka, Mineko OHkami, did. And she's working on a new project and we've wanted to scanlate it but. 1) her handwriting sucks ballz so any text outside of the normal type print is hard to read xD 2) My friend can translate but...for the first reason and that it's really just ALL HER and she's still learning it's not really that fun for her :\

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see...can't help you much there DX

[laenavesse.livejournal.com]

It's all right >_o; Though..if you ever hear of some random person who wants to translate something and doesn't care what or wants to try something new/different...8D Like that'll happen BUT never know.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

The chance of that happening is quite low. Why don't you try posting over at MangaHelpers (http://www.mangahelpers.com)? There are a bunch of translators there that are not tied to any group and might be interested. There are quite a few freelancers there that does public translations with the raws found at that site.

Not only that, your friend can also go there to seek help from the other more experienced translators there. They have a translation help board. That site might be a useful place for your friend to improve her Japanese too :)

[miken-chan.livejournal.com]

You're awesome~<3

If you're ripping a video, try using DVD Decrypter (sp?)...though you'll have to convert the ripped video to something like .avi

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

That's what Abby told me to use. Truth is, the ToS OVA rips are going to be used for AC's ToS Subs, so I'm not going to encode to XviD AVI. I'm looking into encoding into H264 MKV. If not, I'll just pass the MPEG-2 to AC's encoder to deal with XD

[chiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

Hahaha tell me about it, I've been slacking on my cleaning because I've been playing games.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

*tells her about it*

I've been slacking off on my scanning too so there really isn't anything new yet ^_^"

I've been mainly playing Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia and playing Tales of Vesperia only during the weekends to finish up what's left (getting all the equipment from the shops, synth items, filling up what I can for the monster and item books and finishing up the 200 man-melee for all the characters) then it'd be time to play Eternal Sonata...and work on the ToV Skills Guide/FAQ...

You don't go on Xbox Live...do you...?

[chiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

For online play? nope since I only have a silver account.

Just in general? yeah, except my 360 has taken a backseat to the ps3.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just connecting in general, so that I can be evil and see profiles (and expand the friend list XD) *shot*

I'm not really a fan of online multi-player, but for casual games it's fine. But I don't really care anyway XD

So let me guess...you're playing Valkyria Chronicles...?

[chiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

no, I finished Heavenly Sword in 2 nights, started playing Ratchet and Clank but then found the fun that is Folklore (which I'm playing now). Valkyria Chronicles will probably be the last one that I play.

[dragynville.livejournal.com]

Hello, is there any chance that I can get the raw/original color scans (covers, front & back, + inserts) of the Tales of Symphonia manga from you? I need them as large and uncompressed as possible for a personal calendar I'd like to make. Please let me know.

And thank you for the wonderful scanlations of the series, I love ToS!

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

I don't have the color pages for all the volumes scanned in yet. I dunno how large are her raws, but you can try asking chiyo_sama and see if she can help you with it since she has all the volumes scanned.

[dragynville.livejournal.com]

I'll ask her also, but I'll take whatever I can get. I mostly need the back covers, as they have the smallest pics, whereas what's already available of the others (fronts and inserts) I can probably make do with if need be.

[eternal-rena.livejournal.com]

That would mean there would be nothing -_-" I've lost the raws for the first two chapters of ToS from a previous OS crash and had to reformat my computer. Asking chiyo_sama would be the better option here. I'm sure she won't mind giving you her raw scans for the color pages.

[dragynville.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that, I had to reformat my h/d once and what a pain in the neck that was. Thanks for the quick responses! :)