DOWNLOAD: [UTW-Mazui]_Tamayura_~hitotose~_-_01v0_[480p][1CF45750].mkv [DDL1] [DDL2]

Annnd, here’s the third project with UTW: Tamayura ~hitotose~. It’s a joint, too! This is my first time translating a series for UTW (aside from that one thing I did before…), so I’m really excited about it. fotc from Mazui kindly agreed to TLC, and Ulrezaj offered to QC the script for me.

This was the most fun I’ve had working on a show. Nothing beats a calming, peaceful, cute show like Tamayura.

Note: We used a share raw for this weeks episode, and we will re-encode it when we get a better source. We won’t be doing this as of next week, as we will get AT-X caps. We’ll be releasing faster next week. Sorry about the video quality, though. We tried!

Hope everyone enjoys it!

Oh, and fotc wanted me to add: Kuroneko = mai waifu

EDIT: There seems to be a problem with the spacing in MPlayer. I have no idea how to troubleshoot it. Have you tried updating? Dunno, bro. For the time being, considering this is a v0, you can re-mux the script yourself (download it here), or wait until our v1 release.

UPDATE: We have the tvk .ts. All of the sources are LQ. We won’t be releasing anything in 720p (maybe 576p) because all I’ve heard are complaints from the encoders. We will be doing the blu-rays, however, so hopefully that makes up for the loss.

We’ll release the v1 (with script fixes and an actual encode) when __ar comes back to help~

UPDATE: (7/10/2011)
Below are 3 frames I picked randomly from one of the TV broadcasts (transport stream). The quality is nearly identical between the 3 broadcasts I have seen so far, and that reinforces the likelihood these problems were present on the tapes used for broadcasting, which have one thing in common, the studio that did the production work. The broadcasts look like utter shit, as per below, and have been field upscaled from most likely the post-production master, which based on the required steps to correct the problems, has a vertical resolution of no greater than 480 lines. Broadcast info/logo/commercial telecining (1 or more re-encodes of the digital tape provided to the station) has left field ghosting on at least 60-70% of fields from the bad upscaling job, and is irreversible/unrepairable on at least 20-30% of the ghosted fields.
tl;dr The broadcast is field upscaled from 480i/p to 1080i, The quality is abysmal, and there is ghosting of previous frames all over the place. I have compromised with Kusion to do 576p for the mkv release, but there will NOT be a 720p release period. It doesn’t even really warrant 576p, but it’s easier to work with so I’m partial on it.
– ar