Star's Lovers SOOMPI Subbers

Haru2subs

2009-06-22T16:37:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

Just to give everyone a heads up, it is with great appreciation that Haru2subs have now taken over this project. You can access the page with this link: http://fansub.d-addicts.com/Haru2subS I'll still try and post sub links from their website on to this blog for those that don't check soompi.

Anyways, have a great week everyone. You can post on this blog still if you have any additional comments or you'd like to discuss Star's Lover in general ^_^

Cheers,
cathycasi21

Updates updates and more updates

2009-06-10T09:36:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone,

So far we have finished up to episode 6 and now we are just going to do QC on each of them before they are released.

They won't be released till sometime next week. I might become MIA in the next couple of weeks because I will be training for a 200 km bike ride. Wish me luck ^_^ haha Anywho, I'm going to try and keep everyone up to date on what is happening with the subtitles from now on since I have access to internet at work now. hehehe

Please understand that this is a voluntary service and everyone who is involved with these subs have other commitments as well. We all thank you for your patience and I will post the links As soon as they come in.

Cheers,
cathycasi21

SL 20 done to meju's translation.

2009-04-15T14:46:00.000-07:00

meju has suggested that we continue to release in consecutive order, so the softsub for episode 20 is only in the "Release Ready" folder for access by our team members.

I'm working on completing SL 4, and cathycasi21 is working on completing SL 5.

Legal Streaming on "Drama Fever"

2009-04-05T00:41:00.000-07:00

I was hoping that "Star's Lover" could be legally streamed with our softsubs on "Drama Fever":
http://www.dramafever.com/home/

"Drama Fever" is a new streaming site that is completely legal, because they have acquired the rights to stream the dramas from the legal license holders. It's a new site, a great site, a site by K-Drama Addicts for K-Drama Addicts. They are only able to serve the US at this time. Hopefully, they'll be able to stream to the entire world in the future.

"Star's Fever" is not one of the dramas they have acquired the rights to stream at this time. I'm hopeful that they'll be able to acquire to right in the near future. :)

Please check out the site. English Subs for the dramas they stream are provided by WITHS2. This is the only streaming site to stream using WITHS2 subs with full knowledge and support of our beloved WITHS2 fansub group.

meju just joined the team as Korean Translator

2009-04-02T13:35:00.000-07:00

meju has just joined the team as our Korean Translator.

meju will be working backward from the finale, as time allows.

meju is a fellow WITHS2 subber I've been working with on WITHS2 projects, and is coincidentally a distant relative of the SL male lead, Yoo Ji Tae.

Please give a warm welcome to meju. :)

"Star's Lover" Ep.03 Softsub Released.

2009-03-31T06:27:00.000-07:00

Another softsub released.

Thanks to translation by icarus and spot translation by doggiexbunnie.

"Star's Lover" Softsubs Released.

2009-03-23T18:37:00.000-07:00

Thanks to translations by icarus and spotchecks of those translations by doggiexbunnie, we have our first softsub release.

Release of only the first two softsubs at this point, but we already have the translations for the first 5 episodes. We hope everyone can enjoy the first two while we're working on the rest.

Please Enjoy.

NOTE:
Softsubs are synced to HQ 700MB Ental videos.
Vids are available for download at:
http://aja-aja.com/regular/stars-lovers

EDIT:
Alternative Links are to the same files... uploaded to Box.Net
We're sorry that MU is giving trouble to downloaders.

Special Thank You to doggiexbunnie.

2009-03-14T14:52:00.000-07:00

icarus has completed translation of episode 01.

doggiexbunnie did the spot translations & linguistics QC.

Now all I have to do is get my lazy butt in gear so that we can have the first releaseable English Softsub.

Everyone, please give a big cheer for icarus and doggiexbunnie.

icarus has joined us as a Chinese translator.

2009-03-13T14:23:00.000-07:00

A big cheer for icarus.

icarus has just joined us and is currently translating episode 01.

We should be able to publicly release the softsubs soon, thanks to his new translations.

Bimbibap reply to translation request.

2009-03-10T11:25:00.000-07:00

Morning Ahoxan,

We regret to say that we are unable to take on Star's Lover as the show has already ended & we're currently covering Family Honor & Cain and Abel. We wish your project the best of luck!

-- Anne & Jackie (http://bimbibap.com)

Requesting bimbibap translations.

2009-03-09T20:33:00.000-07:00

I've just sent the following message to bimbibap admin. Hopefully, we can get their assistance in translations, so we can make a public release of the softsubs.

Would you please consider translating "Star's Lover".

We, SOOMPI Star's Lover subbing team, are almost done with subbing the drama.

We are unable to obtain permission from ViiKii to release the softsubs that have been based on their translations.

If we can use your translations, we can make a public release of the softsubs for everyone to enjoy "Star's Lover"

Ahoxan
http://sl-subbers.blogspot.com/

We welcome aida_ladida to the team.

2009-03-09T17:12:00.000-07:00

aida_ladida has already done episode 18, and is in the process of finalizing the timing for the last 10 minutes of the sub.

Update on release of softsubs.

2009-03-05T19:02:00.000-08:00

Update on release of softsubs.

WITHS2 has declined to take on SL re-translation, because three new projects are being added on in the near future.

I'm still leery of releasing softsubs based on ViiKii translations without their explicit consent/permission. I've just heard that the admin for ViiKii resides in Korea... That's not much help, but I hope to get more info on her and get in contact with her directly.

Meanwhile, the softsubs for the entire series will be completed and ready for release. Translators for this project would be joyfully received. I have the Chinese-Subbed files for any Chinese translators willing to join in.

EDIT:

I'll follow up on milagirl's suggestion and get in contact with bimbibap.

Star's Lover 12 & 13 Subtitles Done.

2009-03-01T21:48:00.000-08:00

A few more completed subtitles and I'll start requesting help from some of the translators with an established Fansub group for help.

If I'm not too busy, we'll have another 2 or 3 softsubs completed in a week.

Star's Lover 11 Subtitle Done.

2009-02-27T18:43:00.000-08:00

Sorry it took so long.

I got a little discouraged with the non-progress in getting permission to release. KST is apparently not continuing the project.

Anyway, let's just continue and complete the SL Subbing project. I think we may be able to get some translators once most of the subs are done. We can just replace the current translation with new translations... and we can release then.

Permission For Release of softsubs.

2009-02-04T17:24:00.000-08:00

It looks like ViiKii won't allow us to release SL softsubs based on ViiKii on-line subs.

I'm looking into getting permission from VietNamese subs creators for translating from their subs.

I can translate VietNamese into English fairly easily.

I've watched an episode with VietNamese hardsubbed, and found the translation to be pretty good, even poetic. It seems more accurate to the original Korean. Since VietNamese, Chinese, and Korean have a lot of similar concepts... I'm pretty sure I can produce a pretty good translation from the VietNamese subs, which were translated from Chinese subs.

EDIT:

I've sent a message to KST Fansub staff, offering to collaborate on creating subs. We've gotten further on our effort than they have, so perhaps a joint project can result in earlier release of both E-Subs and VN-Subs.

Getting RAW "Star's Lover" files.

2009-01-30T15:03:00.000-08:00

The complete collection can be found for direct MU download from Aja-Aja at:
http://aja-aja.com/regular/stars-lovers

This is the HQ, 700MB version.
The 700p version are also available to members and VIP.

This drama is licensed, and torrents are hard to find. Some torrents can be found on Chinese & Asian torrent sites. Please go to the SOOMPI "Star's Lovers" thread to find those torrents.

Subtitle Editing Software

2009-01-24T11:44:00.000-08:00

Aegisub:
http://www.aegisub.net/

This is what I normally use. I like the features for precise timing such as the audio wave-form bar. Keyboard shortcuts makes it nice and fast. Once the "sub text" have been imported. the entire sub can be done without moving your hands away from the shortcut keys and the mouse.

Subtitle Workshop:
http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw

Venerable workhorse. Recently updated. I should revisit this software and look at the automation and subtitle fixing features.

Media Subtitler:
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxland_media_subtitler.html

Very nice and easy to use.

Star's Lover 10 Subtitle Done.

2009-01-24T10:42:00.000-08:00

We've completed half the subs for this drama.

The half-way point is a significant milestone. Congratulations to everyone for a job well done thus far. :o)

Getting ViiKii subs' Text

2009-01-21T21:56:00.000-08:00

Simple way to get ViiKii subs' text without typing

1. Goto viikii website.
2. Select a segment of video to watch.
3. Click on the "Captions/Subtitle" tab to the right of the video.
4. Click on the "T" at the bottom right.
5. High-light and Copy all of the subs that are displayed and paste them into Notepad.
6. Replace blank lines with "?????" for the spots.
7. Remove the duplicate lines that have subtitle version numbers.

Voila... the segment text is ready to be saved and read into your subtitling software.

NOTE: kapneemo's contribution to our subbing effort.

Star's Lover 09 Subtitle Done.

2009-01-20T20:41:00.000-08:00

I took a little longer with this one.
Since we still don't have permission from ViiKii.
I took the liberty of doing more editing to tighten up some of the awkward language used.

I started using the top part of the screen to add explanatory notes for a few korean terms. In future episodes, I think we can just keep some of the personal titles and add notes on screen tops.

We've only kept "unni", "noona", and "oppa" so far. I think we can add more to the kept list with "halmoni", "ahjusssi", "ahjumma", and some other simple titles.

Welcome rabbit0900!!!

2009-01-19T12:31:00.000-08:00

rabbit0900 has just joined our team.

He's already subbed SL01-SL09 on his own.
He'll be a great addition to the team.

Cheers for rabbit0900

EDIT: appologies for confusing rabbit0900 with a different acquaintance.

Status of communication with ViiKii

2009-01-12T21:34:00.000-08:00

So far...

We've received communications from some ViiKii E-Subbers. All except one have given conditional permission.

Since we would need permission from all E-Subbers, it would be difficult. ViiKii E-Subbers are rotating in/out of the project on no particular schedule or set list of members.

We're attempting to contact the site administrator/owner, but are not having much luck with that.

Please be patient... We're hopeful that permission will eventually be given, since one of the site administrators had previously posted that they were looking into making the ViiKii Subs downloadable.

Cheers,
Aja! Aja!

SL 07&08 Completed.

2009-01-11T14:02:00.000-08:00

We've now completed 4 weeks' worth of softsubs.

We've also caught up with ViiKii again for all the completed E-Subbed episodes being streamed.

We're one week away from the half way point, for completion of softsubs for this excellent drama.

SL 01-06 Completed.

2009-01-03T19:18:00.000-08:00

SL 01-06 Completed.

We've caught up with the SL E-Subs on ViiKii.

The softsubs are being shared with the ViiKii subbers through White Star. Hopefully, this will be an added factor to get permission for public release of the softsubs.

About SakuraG

2009-01-03T01:10:00.001-08:00

SakuraG

A major contributor on E-Subbing "Star's Lover" on ViiKii streaming site.

SakuraG - On softsubs

2009-01-03T01:06:00.000-08:00

Posted by SakuraG +15 days ago (on ViiKii)

If I hadn't seen so many people abuse the good will of fansub groups by hard encoding their softsubs (which are legal) with video raws ( which is illegal in a number of countries) and posting them to streaming video sites, I might agree that downloading would be good. I've worked with several people on subs for Japanese vids who quit subbing completely because they were afraid of legal problems. I'm sure some of you know of a number of people who've gotten kicked off some sites because their subs were linked to raws, whose license holders objected. If selfish and inconsiderate people who want attention and don't mind getting it at the expense of subbers could magically disappear, I'd say , "by all means", but I'm not willing to face a multimillion dollar copyright infringement lawsuit, which is why I now work someplace where you CAN'T download the subs! I also wish I could download subs when the site is busy or it's late, but unless you can think of way where only trustworthy people could access downloading rights, I think you may drive some translators from this site.

SL Subbing Assignments 07-.....

2009-01-01T19:45:00.000-08:00

SL Subbing Assignments

We're making the subbing assignments for each episode a "permanent" post so we won't have to navigate through the older posts. Starting on episode 07, the assignments for segments are as follows:

1. starstruck
2. semi-fly
3. m3LLO
4. cathycasi21
5. starstruck
6. Ahoxan
7. Ahoxan
8. Ahoxan

Odd Episodes ----- QC/Edit Ahoxan
Even Episodes ----- QC/Edit Semi-Fly

Status of each ongoing work on SL Episodes will be shown in the right side panel below the list of completed softsubs.

Episode 4 Softsub Fully Completed.

2008-12-29T12:10:00.000-08:00

semi-fly has just completed QC/Edit for episode 4, and uploaded it to our common data-storage.

All four completed softsubs are in folder "Release Ready SL Soft-Subs".

Making permanent segment position.

2008-12-28T00:10:00.000-08:00

m3LL0: could we make the subbing assignments for each episode a "permanent" post so we won't have to navigate through the older posts?

I have no problem with this. Let start on episode 7, with assignments as follows.

1. starstruck
2. semi-fly
3. m3LLO
4. cathycasi21
5. Ahoxan
6. Ahoxan
7. Ahoxan

I put myself on the last 3 segments since I'm fairly fast, and I can be replaced on the segments if/when other subbers may want to join our team.

1,2,3 Softsubs Fully Completed.

2008-12-27T16:54:00.000-08:00

The first three softsubs have been completed and uploaded to our common data-storage.

Last minute changes have been made to make sure the credits are consistent. Terms such as "Noona", "Unni", "Hyung" are kept as they have no direct translation into English. Japanese honorific extensions such as "-san" or "-sama" are also kept. Korean honorific "-ssi" is changed to "Ms." or "Mr.". Names have been made consistent with those that appear on Drama-Wiki "Star's Lover" descriptions at:
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Star's_Lover

Common data-storage is for team members to share our work.

Softsubs will not be released to the public before we obtain definitive permission from ViiKii.

SL 1 & 3 are now fully complete.

2008-12-27T01:42:00.000-08:00

The E-Subs are done for episodes 1 and 3. They're both uploaded to our common data storage.

Obtaining Permission From ViiKii

2008-12-27T01:41:00.000-08:00

I think we have to rethink our strategy for obtaining permission for releasing E-Sub softsubs.
There are many contributors on a rotating basis, so it would be extremely difficult to contact all of them for each segment as they're released on ViiKii.
It might be best, and simpler, to obtain permission from the site administrator and maybe the manager for the SL episodes. We already have permission from White-Star. So we would need to get permission from the site administrator.

Except for Sunnyahn79, who explicitly did not give permission, all the E-Subbers have given de-facto permission, though it is not de-jure. The permission was given when they contributed to E-Sub SL on ViiKii for public release. The site administrator(s) would hold the authority to give permission to release the subs that are hosted on their site.

Star's Lover Ep. 01 softsub fully complete.

2008-12-25T18:21:00.000-08:00

Soft-sub for episode 1 fully complete and uploaded to our common data storage. Let me know what you guys think about it.

Semi-Fly is QC'ing episode 2, and I'm starting QC of episode 3.

SL 1,2,& 3 Timed. QC in process.

2008-12-24T17:02:00.000-08:00

SL 1,2,& 3 Timed. QC in process.

We have the first 3 episodes almost complete except for QC.

Softsubs will be shared only among the team until permission for public release is given by all the ViiKii E-Subbers.

Bad News - Permission Revoked

2008-12-23T21:01:00.000-08:00

Bad news,

Sunnyahn79 replied back and they said they would not be ok with us doing soft subs...

cathycasi21 @ SOOMPI

QC'ing SL-01 & SL-02

2008-12-23T20:32:00.000-08:00

m3LL0 has uploaded the completed .srt for SL-01 & SL-02 to Box.net.

I'm QC'ing SL-01 for the timing, and have asked semi-fly to QC SL-02.

Proposed Soft-sub Credit header.

2008-12-23T16:59:00.000-08:00

Brought to you by SOOMPI "Star's Lover" Subbers
[ cathycasi21, m3LL0, Ahoxan, starstruck, semi-fly, White Star ]
.
Original on-line E-Subs by ViiKii's "Star's Lover" Subbing Team
[ shoko8, SakuraG, Sunnyahn79, viikii45, kwonfan, blabber90, missjules, dwasten90, namusaram, semifly ]

Completing and Releasing softsubs.

2008-12-23T16:00:00.000-08:00

Try uploading completed soft-subs and soft-sub segments to our common data-site using the e-mail address I used. (i.e. Ahoxan@yahoo.com)
I'll concatenate all segments when they're all complete and have semi-fly do the QC.

We'll release them on our blog & "Star's Lover" SOOMPI thread. I'll also see about releasing them on D-Addict.

Common Data-Storage on Box.Net

2008-12-23T10:36:00.000-08:00

Another thing... I tried to log onto the data-storage and couldn't get in until I used the email address.

https://www.box.net

ID: Ahoxan
E-Mail: Ahoxan@yahoo.com

Permission Text from ViiKii

2008-12-23T04:35:00.000-08:00

Permission message by sakuraG from ViiKii as given to cathycasi21

So long as you credit everybody who\'s working on the subs, it\'s fine by me. You should know you\'ll still need to fix a few things here and there because I try to leave the original translators\' names on the file as much as possible, so I ignore some punctuation, etc. at the end of lines. I generally don\'t change things unless there is more than one problem with a sentence. You might give us all a "team" name for the project, you know? My only restriction is that you not hardsub using these subs. Soft subs are the intellectual property of the subbers, so they can be given freely to any one we want, but the raw videos are the property of the producers, directors, tv stations, etc. who hold the rights to the videos. Have a happy Christmas, and if you figure out a way to extract the subs without having to retype them, let me know!

ViiKii Gave Permission For Softsubs.

2008-12-23T02:38:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone!

Another update..hehe

I got a reply from sakuraG and they said that it was ok to use their subtitles just as long as we credit them with the subtitles and change as little as possible on the subtitles. Also, we can't make hard subs

yayyyyy

From cathycasi21's post on SOOMPI's "Star's Lover" thread.

On-Line Data-Storage Work-Site

2008-12-23T00:17:00.000-08:00

I'll see about setting up a place where all team members can access.

It'll hopefully be more convenient than uploading to a file-sharing site and sending links to everyone.

Team Member as blog authors.

2008-12-21T22:03:00.000-08:00

Team members,

You guys can post here instead of just adding comments to my posts. Just PM me on SOOMPI an e-mail address. I'll use that to give you author privilege for this blog.

Waiting for permission from ViiKii.

2008-12-21T17:46:00.000-08:00

So far... no word from cathycasi21 on her contacts with ViiKii about permission to use their E-Subs to create soft-subs.

Like some others, I had already started subbing for my personal use... so if we don't get permission for release, we can use whatever we create for our private enjoyment. We don't have to pool our soft-sub segments until we get permission from ViiKii.

While waiting for permission, I plan on subbing the segments I mentioned. If we don't get permission from ViiKii for release, I'd like to exchange segments with other subbers for our personal use.

SL Subbing Assignments 01-06

2008-12-21T16:00:00.001-08:00

SL Subbing Assignments:
.
Ep. 1 --- QC Ahoxan [completed]
[completed] - m3LL0
.
Ep. 2 --- QC Semi-Fly [completed]
[completed] - m3LL0
.

Ep. 3 --- QC Ahoxan [completed]
(semi-fly provided complete transcript on 12/23)

1. [completed] Ahoxan
2. [completed] starstruck
3. [completed] m3LL0
4. [completed] Ahoxan
5. [completed] starstruck
6. [completed] Ahoxan
7. [completed] Ahoxan
.
Ep. 4 --- QC Semi-Fly [completed]
1. [completed] cathycasi21
2. [completed] starstruck
3. [completed] m3LL0
4. [completed] Ahoxan
5. [completed] cathycasi21
6. [completed] starstruck
7. [completed] m3LL0
.
Ep. 5 --- QC Ahoxan
1. [completed] Ahoxan
2. [completed] cathycasi21
3. [completed] starstruck
4. [completed] m3LL0
5. [completed] Ahoxan
6. cathycasi21
7. [completed] starstruck
.
Ep. 6 --- QC Semi-Fly [completed]
1. [completed] m3LL0
2. [completed] Ahoxan
3. [completed] Ahoxan
4. [completed] starstruck
5. [completed] m3LL0
6. [completed] Ahoxan
7. [completed] Ahoxan

SL sub team

2008-12-21T15:34:00.000-08:00

List of SL sub team I've compiled from posts.

cathycasi21 - initiator [team leader?]
m3LL0 - timer [1 & 2 done]
ahoxan - timer
starstruck - timer
semi-fly - QC - Transcripts.

White Star - ViiKii contact [uploader]

Star's Lovers

2008-12-21T15:25:00.000-08:00

(White Star @ Nov 29 2008, 11:26 AM) SOOMPI SL thread.