12 Days of Aniblogging, Day 10Look, my phone notes just said “Anime Taxonomy”. That’s all we’ve got here.Naturally, the day before this blog post was due I wove a far-flung plan of pulling all the anime genres from MAL and messing around and creating fake organizational hierarchies. To fulfill this bit, I downloaded Protégé, which is a renowned free and open-source taxonomy program.Alas, it is not going to be possible to figure out this program in a day, much less make anything funny out of it. So instead, I’m going to talk about some of the free and open-source (FOSS) software I use to participate in anime fandom.1. InkscapeInkscape is a powerful vector editing tool, and you can tell just how powerful it is by the fact that it takes like 2 minutes to open, even off of an SSD. :/ anyways, if you’ve ever wanted to make those minimalist anime graphics and don’t want to pirate Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape is totally serviceable once you get the hang of it. The “Trace Bitmap” tool is surprisingly effective at vectorizing even relatively complex images, and tweakable to the nth degree when it fails. Expect to be googling a lot of hotkeys and basic functions though. That’s the thing about FOSS software – you can really tell it was made by power user hobbyists instead of UX designers. These programs always have fairly high learning curves (that taxonomy software…) but do the job quite well once you’ve figured out a suitable workflow. Good stuff!2. AegisubWe as anime viewers are seriously graced that Aegisub exists. It’s a comprehensive FOSS subtitling tool, geared towards anime. If you’ve watched any fansub in the last decade, chances are that it was made with this. And for good reason! The basic timing and styling functions of Aegisub are fairly intuitive, and under the hood are dozens of specific tools for more advanced styling and animation. I’ve worked on timing and QC for a few subbing groups in my time, and I have so much appreciation for this piece of miracle software. I’ve even heard that some professional companies use it!3. MKVToolNixSo once we’ve got our subtitle file, how do we splice everything together? With MKVToolNix of course. As you probably know, most anime downloads come served in the .mkv format, a file container for video, audio, subtitle, font, and chapter files. If you want to make one yourself you can use MKVToolNix to combine everything into that comprehensive .mkv file, ready to be put up on nyaa or wherever. Its sister tool, MKVExtractGUI, does the opposite, splitting apart an MKV into its base parts, which is equally useful.looks kinda ugly! but gets the job done. the FOSS mantraUltimately, the open-source software community is crucial for delivering those precious animes to you. It’s worth reflecting on and thanking them and maybe donating your money or coding skill if you can!Taxonomy, on the other hand, is bullshit.
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