Privately requested encode. What, you thought I was gonna do the entire thing? Are you out of your mind? This is one of like only two One Piece OPs I actually care about! BD quality is subpar. They performed some kind of post-processing on the BDs not present on the webrips which creates ugly ringing. But I can't use the websource, because while the same kind of ringing is not present, it is too starved to actually use. From what I hear this may not be a big problem for Funi rips of older episodes, but unfortunately here it is. Filterchain includes IVTC. This was simple, as it's literally a single pattern throughout the entire OP. No need to wobbly 'er up, nor to use TIVTC as I don't trust it as far as I can throw it. A weak deringing filter was run prior to rescaling (native resolution: 900p, Bilinear, Catrom as fallback kernel). Was rescaled using a mix of FSRCNNX and nnedi3. Nnedi3 by itself didn't handle the lines as well as I would've liked but at least helped further get rid of any leftover ringing, and straight FSRCNNX just made the ringing worse. A mix was achieved where nnedi3 was primarily used to dering and also "smoothen" the lineart a bit, but FSRCNNX would counteract the smoothening and keep the lineart nice and sharp. Denoising is the annoying part of this BD. There is a lot of very heavy dynamic blocking, but a lot of finer textures also survive quite well, making it difficult to process without destroying said textures. In the end, I decided to say "sod it, the blocking is far more annoying", and performed a relatively strong temporal denoise, with a DPIR ref clip for spatial denoising specifically because of the blocking (this didn't help as much as I'd liked, sadly). The end result is that the dynamic blocking is reduced, and while most textures survived, a couple unfortunately had to bite the dust. But such is the price you pay with denoising. It shouldn't really impact a regular viewing experience, but for those who prefer the highest quality encodes, I suggest trying to scenefilter and custom mask the denoising yourself. The aforementioned post-processing also did a number on the chroma. The chroma around hard edges look almost starved now, slowly becoming black and causing the entire image to look much blurrier as an indirect result. I simply warped the chroma, and did some contrasharpening to reduce the damage caused on the actual line edges. This results in there being little overlap between the colours and the black of the lineart, giving the image an additional sharper look without any of the issues prevalent with actual sharpening. Debanding and graining were scenefiltered. Nothing special here. Stronger debanding on specific scenes/frames with very big bands, stronger graining on scenes with a dynamic grain filter thrown over them (which is also a big cause of the blocking, btw. Gotta love heavy compression). Do not expect me to do more other than maybe NCOP17, although I can always give pointers if you need any, I suppose. Requests are welcome, but don't count on me to follow through with yours from the get-go. A sheet with links to all my releases, as well as OP/EDs I plan on encoding, can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRHi17OFtGeS4dgA6xVmx6ZC3BhCfh-szsO8ioVuESiGkovwcLpwUKWo8VCLSCf1QLls83V9LWII5E8/pubhtml) (not guaranteed to be up-to-date). Encoding scripts and additional stuff can be found [here](https://github.com/LightArrowsEXE/Encoding-Projects/tree/master/%5BOPMan%5D).