RAWs

wow .... that's a bit confusing of an explanation there, itachi, and not exactly accurate...

Once the quality is "bad" it's pretty impossible to make it look "good" again. The encoder doesn't do that, because they know the principles of information loss and aren't going to waste their time.

Most groups have raw hunters. Some priveleged groups have raw cappers too. Basically a raw hunter will go around finding as many different versions of a raw as they can, usually from japanese filesharing programs and other places. In those cases, you can't usually tell where the raw came from unless it's tagged with a rippers handle...

A raw capper on the other hand lives somewhere that they can get japanese tv broadcasts (which usually means japan http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/wink.gif) and will actually go through the process of capturing and cleaning up raws and supplying them directly to a particular group. I know a few groups who have their own raw cappers, and usually they also need raw hunters to supplement the cappers, because capping is an intensive job (have to know a lot about encoding video to make a rawcap look good, and have to have a lot of spare cpu time for each episode).

Raw hunters spend a LOT of time and effort finding good raws to use, have to have japanese language extensions installed, have to be around shortly after every episode airs and have to know what kanji strings to search for. They also have to have good internet connections and a healthy dose of luck.

Sometimes it's just easier to get r2 dvds instead :-p.

Hehe thx for the info comp. Any idea which Japanese filesharing programs are used the most?

winny, mostly. Some others. winny is a japanese-centric japanese language port of winmx ...

Just wondering where the fansubbers get their raws in order to translate besides l33t raws.

I've worked for a few fansubbers as raw provider, you get low quality raws from sites whitch is really secret... you gotta have a kanji transelator program because the lq raws are in kanji and the whole site, so if you don't have a translation program you can never get a file.. after you downloaded that really bad lq you send it to the encoder that encodes it to HQ raw then they finally start working on the epsiode... that's about it, it's too troublesome to explain every step..