Not bad, IMO. I used a blend deinterlace with crop, 20% increase in colour saturation, 2d cleaner threshold 4 area 7x7, and a sharpen of 10. Compressed to DivX 4 at a bitrate of 2000 (!
gave me a 320MB file and a quality better than the original analog broadcast. Not as good as the TV Nihon fansub. Took about 7 hours on a 3GHz PC.Something interesting to note is there didn't appear to be any interlacing in the original. So they must have used a different video source than the US version because normally it gets converted from NTSC. Anyway, the quality was fantastic.
I didn't mind the dubbing, but I was a bit thrown when Astro started to talk. I thought it was the little robot bird toy! I prefer it to the subbed versions. As much as I like hearing the original, also I like to sit back and be entertained without having to concentrate on reading at the same time. I understood what was going on a lot better. Anyway, I didn't think it was toooo messed up.
As for the editing, they cut 3:50 from it. 1:50 was edited from the opening/closing/preview alone, about another 40 seconds from Astro throwing the girl's dad around.
It's interesting though, they didn't just cut stuff. Like after the edited handshake part, the English version has a second or two of the energy core's eye (before the cables detatch). The Japanese version doesn't have that scene.
Overall I was really happy with the translation. Can't wait for the rest!
At first i laughed and thought they were really worse dubbers than i first imagined.....but by the end of the episode when it was about 3 seconds behind the animation i decided not ^^; Reminds me of a few VCDs/DVDs i have seen where the sound starts to lag. I'm waiting to see this on ABC to see if they have the same problem or it was just CN (the rest of CN's broadcast was running fine btw)
) but I captured it live, I'm not fortunate enough to own a DTV tuner card yet.
