Starting at the Japanese Premiere of Howl's Moving Castle, Ghibli: The Miyazaki Temple chronicles the histories of Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki from their early years at Toei Co. to the powerhouse studio which was to be, Ghibli. This documentary features clips from their films and their influences.
Air date: 08.04.2010 (French HD-based), 2005 (English) Rip & sources: Various (special thanks to Dominion for providing the French HD raw) Encode: neo1024 Related torrent: English hardsubbed version
Technical info: Video: x264, 25fps, 1432x1076 @ 4300kbps (original, non-processed video with incorrect aspect ratio. Force set aspect ratio to 16:9 in your player.) Audio: English commentary / Japanese interviews (MP3 @ 160kbps) French full dub (AAC @ 64kbps) German full dub (MP3 @ 224kbps)
Subtitles: English (ASS), German (captions only, ASS), French (captions only, hardsub)
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Encoder's note: This release presented several challenges. The English audio and subtitles were taken from the other hardsubbed torrent. The subs had to be OCR'ed and extensively fixed. Then there was the timing issue. This HD-based version's running time is about 15 seconds shorter than the English one, so the audio had to be resampled (stretched) and shifted to match the video. The same applied to the English subs. Both the HD and the English video featured the same materials with one exception - the English video shows a collection of sketches from Horus, while the HD-based version has a film sequence. There were also a few internal speed variations, which means that some interviews are not in exact lip-sync. I have however, watched the entire film with the re-adjusted English audio track and the overall sync is more than acceptable. The German audio was taken from yet another film-file, but it did not require any stretching as the German video and the French HD video had exactly the same footage and matched exactly.