Found a trick for getting past crunchy subs in older releases

I was watching a 2005 encode of Eureka Seven and the subtitles were so bad I almost gave up. Tried VLC's subtitle sync but the timing was all over the place. Then I found out you can just download a newer .ass file from a fansub archive and it fixed everything in like 2 minutes. The old release had really good video quality so I didn't want to ditch it. Has anyone else had luck mixing old raws with modern sub tracks?

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nora_wells5819d ago

Yeah the 2005 era fansubs were rough timing wise. I've done this exact thing with an old Witch Hunter Robin encode. Just grabbed a fresh .ass from kuroi-raws or similar and it lined up perfectly after maybe 30 seconds of tweaking the delay. The key is making sure the frame rate matches between the video and the subtitle file or you'll still have drift issues later on.

noah_palmer4219d agoMost Upvoted

Drift issues later on" seems like overthinking it for most people.