Halforums Academy 2 Story Commentary Thread
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Really? How are you searching it? With the Chinese name (w/chinese characters)? Also are you adding "karaoke" to your search string? You might be better off using KTV。
Here, here's hundreds：
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=中国歌曲KTV无声音伴奏
GasBandit
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Those all still have vocals. I meant, like, instrumental versions. Even I managed to find lots of ones with vocals
Eh? most of them were sans vocals I thought. . Well ill just find some for you and send you the links later when im not here in chem lab.Those all still have vocals. I meant, like, instrumental versions. Even I managed to find lots of ones with vocals
GasBandit
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Half had the original artist's vocals, the other half were videos of someone's karaoke performance, where they themselves were singing.
That would be helpful, thanks. I did Irish music for Celt Z, and Hawaiian music for Wasabi, and tongue-in-cheek religious references for Dirona, so I thought I should TRY to get something authentically Chinese on Li Jun's day, but my cultural ignorance hampers me. I've found lots of lists of current popular songs there, but no instrumental versions.
GasBandit
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At this point I'm open to anything authentic, popular, and instrumental
Can't you just center-cancel anything that's out there to remove the lyrics?At this point I'm open to anything authentic, popular, and instrumental
--Patrick
I know both exist, because I learned about them from karaoke, but hunting them down...hmmm...At this point I'm open to anything authentic, popular, and instrumental
GasBandit
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It's generally becoming less and less common to do that with all audio in general, in my experience. Even on the tracks it works on, it also usually also eliminates at least 1 other instrument.
Just go with some JoCo for my day and be done with it. He used to do what I do now (more or less).
GasBandit
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Yeah, but you didn't roll an author avatar. You minmaxed to try to game the system. Don't think I wasn't hep to your jive!
I didn't do german music for Rendar either 
Eh, we'll see if it fits. Dunno if there are that many JoCo instrumental tracks floating around, either.
I'm guessing instrumental Chinese tracks are proving just as hard to find to Terrik and Keltsy as they were to me. I may have to go a different direction on that.
Yeah, but you didn't roll an author avatar. You minmaxed to try to game the system. Don't think I wasn't hep to your jive!
Eh, we'll see if it fits. Dunno if there are that many JoCo instrumental tracks floating around, either.
I'm guessing instrumental Chinese tracks are proving just as hard to find to Terrik and Keltsy as they were to me. I may have to go a different direction on that.
Er...nooo just got caught up in work. I'll send toda.
GasBandit
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@Eriol so far, a garbage matte is the only way I've found to reliably edit a section of video where I've pasted somebody's face into it, but then need something (a hand or arm, for example) from the original video to "pass in front of" the face that's pasted over the video. I'm sure there's an easier way to do this in After Effects (which I don't have), but in Premiere, this seems to be it. It's maddening because usually the motion is irregular so I can't use motion tweens to get it done, I have to reposition the matte frame by frame. This is most of what makes those parts take so long to edit. It's enough to drive a sane man crazy. It's enough to make a nice guy kill.
...so what effect does it have on the likes of you?
GasBandit
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It makes me WHINE ON AN INTERNET FORUM...so what effect does it have on the likes of you?
And go do something else for a little while every 20 minutes.
I don't think we're ever going to get it nailed down 100%. We should just go for as close as we can get.
GasBandit
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Thing is, I have no way of judging how off I am. A couple people have volunteered, but are busy. The local Latin language prof here has blown me off.
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GasBandit
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"I hear they are up to no good."
I've been sticking various permutations into Google Translate to see if I can get something that sounds right .
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"Hey, I know I'm a weird old man that you don't know, but can I take a picture of you? It's nothing creepy, it's just for this porn game that I narrate for a board dedicated to minotaur penis..."
GasBandit
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Exactly.
Though, as a chick with ass-length teal hair, she's gotta be used to dealing with wierdoes, right?
GasBandit
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Another try at the motto... Ipsi non fácerent boni. Google translates it as "they did not do good," and near as I can tell it's the good as in "good things" not good as in "well."
Every time I try to go for "bad" or "mischief" out pops "malum" or some conjugated form of it (for example Ipsi videtur malos), which seems to always translate back as "evil." And that's a little stronger than the verbiage I'm trying to hit.
Every time I try to go for "bad" or "mischief" out pops "malum" or some conjugated form of it (for example Ipsi videtur malos), which seems to always translate back as "evil." And that's a little stronger than the verbiage I'm trying to hit.
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Generally speaking, Latin lacks a lot of the subtly that we take for granted in modern English.