Legend of Yunze

[extrapenguin]

I watched s1 and s2 of Legend of Yunze (links to engsubs) and I am emotionally compromised by the ending. The seasons are both self-contained stories, ~1h each, and it's censored GL. Both leads are stunning. Had I been A-Ze, falling down naked on Jiang Zhaoyun, I too would've been desperately clingy and attempted to flirt ineptly. I liked how both of them had hidden backstory and how Zhaoyun's was handled. S1 was a bit breakneck and felt a touch disjointed as a result, but S2 was a marked improvement. The ending is sort of bittersweet, but in a way that leaves space for a third season as well as a plot hook for it.

I downloaded it for potential vidding purposes but that means I need to either a) carefully clip around the subtitles, b) zoom, or c) learn how to use Clean Credits. Urghhh.

Looking at the fansubber's Twitter, I also need to go through the lesbian short films list and see which ones are subbed. Next on my list is Nü Er Hong, which promises both a fucked-up relationship and a happy ending.

(Icon from Sect Leader and Little Shimei's Story.)

Comments

[colls]

I do not personally know how to clean credits/remove hard-coded subtitles, but I know some in the vidding discord have done it with great success!
*cheers you on

[extrapenguin]

I definitely need to ask how difficult it is – whether I can just stuff the entire film in there and have it work, or whether I need to do every subtitle by itself.

[atamascolily]

Oh, gosh, is there a way to clean subtitles???!!! Good to know--I can usually get raws/English dubs for most of the media I want to work with, but sometimes it just isn't possible and it would be good to have a workaround in those instances. I did eventually cave and make a handful of CQL vids with the hard-coded subtitles anyway, because that was what I had in the moment, but I'm not proud of it. (It was still better than not making them, but they were not the quality I prefer and at some point I need to go back and fix them.)

Clipping around them is possible, depending on the shot(s) you want (since lipflap is usually the least interesting part of a scene from a vidding perspective) but it doesn't always work out and it makes the process 1000% more complicated. I had not thought of using zoom to get around them, but that's a good idea if I can figure out how to do that in Premiere.

PS: Thanks for the media rec, this show sounds interesting and I'll check it out!

[extrapenguin]

It's called cleancredits! I have not used it so I have no idea how it is to actually use. Looks like you'd have to clean out each subtitle by itself. Getting rid of a logo should be easier, though.

I got the zoom idea from a Guardian vid lola made before the logo and hardsub-free files were available. It wasn't noticeable at all when watched at the YouTube embed size; I didn't check fullscreen.

[superborb]

I never ended up getting around to s2, so it's good to know that s2 was more of a hit!

[extrapenguin]

A lot of that was just from a level up in pacing and coherence, but the bit at the end where they go to (spoiler location) and choose each other over everything that has been callous to them was just. Guh. So good.