Encoder(s): Jensen
Notes: The 4K Ultra HD version of Violet Evergarden the Movie is a pretty good 2k - 4k up. I cleaned the video from visible errors of 2k-4k conversion (ringing, etc.), slight de-noise with de-band and detail preservation mask to prevent destruction on dark scenes. That was encoded in HEVC 10-bit with safe compression settings to produce transparent quality video.
Also, many thanks to the people from our discord channel for help with testing Dolby Vision. For this release, I converted Dolby Vision Profile 7 BL + EL + RPU from BD to Profile 8 BL + RPU. This work on the following devices: nVidia Shield Pro 2019, Zidoo / Dune (SOC Realtek RTD1619DR), Ugoos AM6 Plus, Sony XG / XH. On devices without DV support, the HDR10 layer will be played.
Subtitles: English, Russian, Arabic + Arabic iTunes ver, Brazilian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese SDH, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Thai, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese (ass and srt from Netflix) and Japanese (sup from BD).
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Comments - 41
xOmnium
LE EPICCCC
non_aggressive1
Благодарность
Alucard01
Subs included?
herkz
try reading the description for literally 2 seconds
mirregaroar
I didn’t think saving Dolby Vision with encodes was possible. This is the first release I have seen anywhere (not including private trackers) that actually does this.
Nice stuff! Thank you!
F12X
Japanese voice recording or original?
herkz
does it matter if the DV is saved when it’s all fake? might be useful for movies that were actually made with HDR in mind though.
Bakugo
Finally
mirregaroar
@Herkz
I don’t know how to measure whether it’s real or not besides trusting what MediaInfo says in the Light Level entries, which can be wrong.
The main thing I know is that HDTVTest used the Canon DP-V3120 with its HDR analysis tool to identify fake HDR in stuff like Blade Runner 2049, and that device costs tens of thousands of dollars. I highly doubt that HDTVTest will make a video on the VEG Movie for this purpose.
I don’t know anyone or anything else that would tell me truthfully if the HDR and even Dolby Vision is fake, and I don’t know how you found out it’s “all fake”.
I’m just hopeful that Dolby Vision still provides a better picture quality overall for the VEG Movie. I want my first viewing experience to be the best it can be.
herkz
you know it’s fake because it’s an anime and there is no anime that’s been made with HDR in mind (yet). there’s also no modern anime animated at any resolution above 1080p. so basically all these UHD BDs for recent anime are giant scams. the producers of the anime just hire some company to upscale the movie and that company also do their own color grading. the creators aren’t involved with the color grading, so i consider it fake.
(technically this exists but it’s more an experiment more than an actual anime)
Arcus_Deer
“Fake” in this regard isn’t referring to the actual 4K/DolbyVision/HDR, it has more to do with the studio’s work process. The studio completed this animation in a normal way (likely with absolutely zero thought to HDR or anything else in the process), and it was modified after the fact by BD licensors/distributors to sell to people with overpriced tvs. This means it wasn’t done with much care, as these distributors are all awful money grubbers who won’t spend a dime more than they have to to provide a better product. Now that I’m thinking about it, the only anime I can think of that was actually made with 4K in mind was that awful netflix short
great minds; eh herkz?
theradicalripper
Is it worth buying a whole new DV compatible device if your OLED can already play this with HDR10?
Jensen
@theradicalripper
Hdr10 < hdr10+ < Dolby Vision
HDR formats are sorted in order of increasing quality.
In addition, “DV support” means not only the playback of such content, the TV must also be able to handle Dolby metadata. If your TV does not support DV, you can replace only it with another model.
theradicalripper
@Jensen
My TV definitely can. And thanks for explanation.
Reza27
based herkz being based
MemoryNK
might just be something on my end on VLC but the subtitles are all black can barely see them (haven’t had this issue before)
Ingenioussubs
TheDevilsHyper
Any fansub group working on it?
vikrant9760
Finally good fucking encode damn it. Thanks Jensen.
Bill_G
when you say 2k->4k, is the native resolution 1920x804 or somewhere inbetween that and 3840x1612?
i’s a shame but if it’s going to be upscaled to 4k on my screen anyway, i’ll wait for your 804p release and let my mpv shaders do the job
for now, i’ll just help seed this torrent
StazCherryBlood
edgy
Mysticus
Bless you!
Jensen
@Bill_G cinema 2k scope 2048x858 to 4k 3840×1612. 1080 ver is a downscale from 2048x858 to 1920x804 and has its own problems (ringing).
SuperDown
Nice, thanks guys.
Simplistic
mfw people are still styling NVIDIA this way
torablaze
Any idea why the video looks so washed out? It’s actually the worst encode I’ve ever seen…
Arcus_Deer
Never download hdr/4K releases if you don’t have an hdr/4K screen to view it on, simple as
YouTube
Please some comparison pics 🙏
Simplistic
omg its youtube
Jensen
https://slow.pics/c/UiQVRnjE
1 - bdmv
2 - encode
@torablaze Because this is not a true 4k, this video is an upscaling done in a create BD studio.
Simplistic
@Jensen
Nah, it’s totally what Arcus said.
Bill_G
well then @Jensen any intention of doing it in sdr conversion and native 858p?
though i understand if you don’t want to, it’s not that different pixel-wise and would never be as accurate color-wise as the native sdr release in 1920x804
Jensen
This is not a simple up in resolution, something like bicubic or bilinear interpolation. More sophisticated software and algorithms were used such as q-tec, etc. And therefore changing the video resolution to the original resolution will not give good results.
SomaHeir
Waiting on 1080p :)
Good work!!!
theradicalripper
Any idea how to make this play in Dolby vision on Nvidia shield?
HARVEST
I hope you can also include the DTS Headphone:X track here.
DTS Headphone:X sounded great on Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Mary and the Witch’s Flower, and T2.
I also hope you can add Netflix subs to your Violet Evergarden series and Gaiden encodes. And that you can also do the 4-part movie versions of the series with 5.1 audio as well as the extended episodes.
AlisherK
Did you apply a dark gradient or overlay on the video? it feels dark and rather dull
Jensen
This is HDR video. You must be using TV HDR for proper display.
AlisherK
so what should i do
Kazumato
Color grading of the HDR version is darker by 1 exposure compared to SDR version.
I have a LG OLED that’s DV capable, but I’m going to keep the SDR version of this movie.
vikrant9760
Late but this is such a stupid take. Thats like saying Demon Souls Remake for PS5 is a fake because FromSoft weren’t involved in it even though they are the one that made the OG PS3 game.
Or calling thousands of PC ports of games fake which are ported over by third party studios and not the ones who created them lol. Its an official product so its not fake.
And HDR has more to do with luminance so studio couldnt do shit about it cuz they probably do not have the technical expertise of color grading it.