comparison can be found here
first of all i thank the_E_y_Es for his help. he spotted and marked lot of spots for me, which i could fix in return.
this is a re-encode of my original release, since the source/MPEG2 stream is not available anymore. this is a huge improvement over the original video and as before a lot better than the BD source.
this encode is not completely issue free and perfect. not all of the MPEG2/WMV artifacts could be fixed completely without damaging other areas of the video. the video is still quite dirty in places and not all spots have been fixed. tbh one could probably sit on this for an eternity and won’t be able to fix them all.
Video:
- Several 1000 frames (severely damaged by MPEG2/WMV artifacts) were restored (per frame)
- Several 100.000 spots on several 10.000 of frames were removed and fixed (per frame)
- Frames edges were fixed (per scene)
- Remnants of the Logo have been removed
- Colour and range correction have been made (red/yellow tints etc.) (per scene)
- Some combing remnants were fixed
- Heavy sharpening artifacts were removed as good as possible (ringing/haloing)
- Chroma bleeding has been fixed
- Everything was cleaned up to remove encoding artifacts
- Everything was stabilised
- Banding was removed (per scene)
- Frames were matched to the BD source (audio matches properly now)
Audio:
- Japanese audio: Sourced from a DTS-HD MA track
- Japanese audio: Cut to make it properly sync with the video (bad mastering, BD audio wasn’t in sync on the BD)
- Japanese audio: A missing dialogue line was added
- Japanese audio: The original Japanese ending theme was re-inserted (U2’s “One Minute Warning” replaced with “Reincarnation”)
- English audio: Sourced from the 6.1 DTS-ES track instead of the UK BD’s DTS-HD MA track because of severe mastering problems, same problems on the US DTS stream
- English audio: Problems were missing sound effects and bad mixing (more infos here and here)
Subtitle:
- The opening Sign was redone
- Song lyrics were added
- Dialogue styling was adjusted
- Some lines were fixed
for some history of the several stages of my filtering you can look at these two comparisons.
Comments - 24
CheekyKoala
Not long until we’ll transition to completely redrawing this frame-by-frame
DAC
Been waiting for this for ages. Thanks guys.
Xeiros
Appreciate it.
Scyrous
Thanks a lot
Patch-Sama
Domo
bogi_danger
Thanks
eebeeb
The v1 seems to retain more grain and looks better overall imo.
der_richter (uploader)
sure v1 does retain more grain because i cleaned it up, eg it was basically degrained. if you seriously think that mpge2 artifacts, blends, broken levels etc. are acceptable, then be happy and stay with v1.
godblessadolfhitler
Are you gonna do it all over again when the MPEG2 source is found/a new BD is made?
der_richter (uploader)
yes, assuming in the case of a new BD that it actually fixes the sever shortcomings of the current master.
fabrebatalla18
Any update for v2?
Windii
The v3 is about 80% done according to richter’s post on this thread. Looking forward to it.
https://forum.fanres.com/thread-1223-post-51119.html#pid51119
Sukeroku
Which subs does this release have, retail BD?
SomaHeir
Thanks!!
heynando
here’s a comparison between other releases = http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/DP67GNNX
here’s a link to get the better one = https://pastebin.com/S5PwPGWB
Metamoran
@Windii
Update: https://forum.fanres.com/thread-1223-post-59255.html#pid59255
TMoane
@heynando thanks for the comparison. This one looks the best to me
ManueLink64
@der_richter
I can’t believe an HDTVrip has more PQ than a retail BD, lazy producers!
Thanks for your amazing job!
PS: for V3, can you try x265 encoding?
Dogway
Does anyone know where I can find the WOWOW release? It has the best unbiased detail retrieval.
Jaytoven
Legendary. Thank you sooo much !
xOmnium
Thank you
Rrobynne
Anyone have a link for the V2 of this release? Doesn’t seem to have been re-added to this version of the site. And I assume V3 is dead in the water atm?
mcbaws21
hey, this release has a font issue, where the subtitle file references the wrong font name for the opening song.
fixed subs can be found here
MetalicBox
@Rrobynne This is the V2.
V1 CRC: 2A6DFEBA (And only 5GB)
V2 CRC: 1CE4C716
There’s V3 screens on the judging.it site which does look better but its not released yet at least publicly