Vegetano1 Wrote:A "half year or more" ago i started making this custom dvd with the complete s1 of black lagoon

I have send Shinzen a mail and again for requesting the soft subs wich they used for hard subbing there release of black lagoon.. no response..
Hmm lets wait a while for the dvd subs come out but now half year later still can not find any soft subs..(English offcourse)
I got the complete dvd ready menu's and everything just need these subs to implement into the episodes..

Shinsen (referring shinsen subs right?) will never give away their raw subs. Fan subbing groups aren't just going to give away their stuff, they fear other people screwing it up, or putting their own name on it or whatever. + They like to keep it so they are the only releasers for specific anime, so everyone uses their version. One of the reason that fansub groups still use hardsubs even when they know softsubbing are better. It just pisses me off when i download a Matroska (MKV) file to find that it's also hardsubbed, and uses Xvid and MP3 just like the AVIs.

Some fansub groups (Lunar) also put like a 3 second intro at the start of each episode saying something like "[anime name] presented by [fansub group name]" and that pisses me off completely (i get pissed off at everything). I mean, isn't just putting their name on the starting song enough, but no, they have to also go an add an intro onto the anime to further promote themselves. I seriously considered many times stripping the intros from these fansubs intros on them, but never ended up bothering.

Wait for the DVD, then u got dual audio as well :). That's what all my anime encodings come from, DVDs from the library.

If u REALLY want the subs now, u can always try OCR (optical charactor recognition). Get Subrip and give it a go. Although i find OCRing hardsubbed videos to be a pain in the butt, and u loose the typesetting, if u care about typesetting at all.

Vegetano1 Wrote:By the way i am checking some container releases now for english subs:
MapleSnow_PPX mkv dvdrip >>>>>> no english subs
Kaa >>>>> have not checked

Most groups use AVI, and out of the ones that use MKV, most still use hardsubs.

KAA might have softsubs. That's actually the only fansub group that i ever seen that uses softsubs at all. Thus making them my favourite group, beside for Vision Anime, which releases strictly illegal dual audio DVD rips :).