Encoder here. Any /m/ things that really need encoding at the

Mobile Fighter G Gundam. RX-78-2 did the first episodes already but said he may not ever do the rest.

>>15066647
First 7 episodes.

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Also, forgot to mention, but if you suggest anything, make sure to say if there are raws available and subs.

>>15066647
I heard about that, but are there raws available? And does he intend to finish eventually or has he called it quits?

>>15066647
I'm done. Those seven were just me riding a high of looking at the BDMVs, but I've deleted the files and have no plans to continue.

>>15066679
I thought you were going to stop encoding anyhow.

I have Ganbaruger and will soon have Go Saurer/Daiteioh BDs and gosh it takes 18h per 5eps to postprocess+encode in i7-2720qm. It would be great if you can help with the encoding.

Not sure which of the following will take more time, though - sending the file to you or encoding all the files in this laptop, since internet kinda sucks here.

>>15066686
I did. Doing those 7 was basically a relapse...

>>15066706
You say that as if it's a bad thing. You're one of the few encoders I can really appreciate that are particularly autistic about their releases. Hard to find that dedication these days.

>>15067369
Well it was bad in the sense that I should have known better. I actually ended up feeling kinda down after I released those episodes because it was a shitty way to go out. It is kinda disappointing that no one wants to encode the show properly, but that's why we're all waiting for RS then, isn't it?

Do the Urashiman Blu-rays.
And then wait for the Dunbine BD and do that when it comes out.

>>15067369
>>15068812
Here's to hoping somebody has the decency to rip that official release when the time comes. Even Iznjie Biznjie stopped doing anything lately.

Could you remux BunnyHat's encode of Macross into a dual-audio version? It would be pretty cool to have a version with the ADV dub and the pre-Robotech Harmony Gold dub of eps 1-3. I think the Animeigo DVDs have an isolated score version as well too.

>>15068894
>I think the Animeigo DVDs have an isolated score version as well too.
Score on one channel, sound effects on the other.

>>15068923
They could be mixed into a single channel since the show was only in mono anyway

>>15066628
G gundam

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Does nobody want an encode of the BD release of the original 1970's Casshan? I was originally thinking of doing that, but I was wondering if you guys would suggest something better.

Anyhow, does anybody know if the american BD release's image quality is different from the Japanese release?

>>15066700
Well, I'd say uploading the first episode raw as a test would be the best option. Zip it into as many parts as you'd like, and we'll see how it turns out.

However, do estimate how long it would take you to encode, or I could send you my handbrake encode settings and you could see how long it would take for you to encode. Whichever you prefer.

>>15068819
Are there raws?

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>>15068959

Each m2ts file is about 7.6GB. Since I'm heavily filtering the noise out, the AviSynth script is the following for Ganbaruger:

Crop(240,0,1440,1080)
Deen("a2d",7,15,9,min=0.7)
VagueDenoiser(4)
LSFMod(Smode=5,Smethod=4,Spwr=6,Szrp =80,preblur="ON")
FastLineDarken(400,luma_cap=225,thinning=0)
TIsophote(iterations=4,tStep=0.12)
GradFun3(1,16,smode=2)
ConvertToYV24()

and x264 settings are --crf 19 --preset slow --trellis 0 --tune film --profile high444 --output-csp i444.

It takes 13~16 hours per episode to encode, and it can only use 2 CPU cores mostly because AviSynth can't really utilize multiple cores at once.
I'm uploading the last episode of Ganbaruger to Mega, and it's going to take a bit more than 1 hour.

The attachment is the result of filtering; I'm thinking about making it clean, like Moozzi2's Raijin-Oh raws.

>>15068959
Huh, nevermind about Mega. Can you send a YT message to me about your E-Mail at page https://www.youtube.com/user/Soreepeong/about ?
I'll send you a link to Ganbaruger episodes. My storage is limited so I can't upload all at once though, so I'll have to upload whenever you're done with downloading the previous.

>>15068959
>Are there raws?

Buy them

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>>15069006
Ha ha ha. Fuck you. Would you spend hundreds of pounds just to do an encode? I think not.

>>15069002
Sure thing. I'll do that now. But that image is god fucking awful. You really shouldn't do that. Just encode it naturally.

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>>15069042
Yeah, I thought so too when I saw Moozzi2's Raijin-Oh raws. But all hope was lost when I actually got the BD... Attached is the screenshot from original M2TS file.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/195289

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Anyhow, for the moment, I'll start downloading the raws for the original Casshan. Hail black king.

>>15069060
Much better. I don't think anyone would find that acceptable.

>>15069042
it was simply a suggestion coated as a demand, I advice you to talk to me and everyone else in a respectful manner. The productivity you share on this board is not a license to misbehave.

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>>15069133
It's advise, asshole.

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>>15069133
That's not really the point. What you said was unreasonable, and very unrealistic as an option. No way in hell is somebody going to import Japanese blu-rays unless they're really an insane fan of something or they just have wads of cash lying around to spend pointlessly.

>>15068995
This is a troll script, I think...

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>>15069284
I agree that Deen is a very strong filter, but FFT3DFilter resulted something that looks like jpeg artifact and RemoveGrain/DegrainMedian weren't doing something noticeable, and I thought Deen might not be a bad choice considering that this is an old anime and too much noise was kinda hurting the compression. Do you think the filters are too strong on this one?

I was aiming towards something like this raw: https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=792887
I'd appreciate any suggestions to the script.

Top: Filtered -> https://youtu.be/nCpyq54nbCU
Bottom left: Original
Bottom right: x264 tune=animation

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>>15066628
Mazinkaiser has BDs from a few years ago that noone seems to have touched. I even found a dual-audio source in case someone needed it.

It's actually a really good dub...

>>15069318
Your whole approach is too heavy handed though. That you even are considering Deen is the real problem.

Go for that style if you want, but I personally think it's atrocious. That said, I don't blame you for wanting to enhance it *a little bit*. What I would do is this:

1. Remove the chroma grain exclusively
>FFT3Dfilter(plane=3, sigma=x) #whatever you want for X, probably no more than 2
2. Overall grain reduction:
>SMDegrain(tr=2,thSAD=250)
>SmoothLevels16() #adjust the white levels just a bit to get something closer to that raw. I can't give you a number for this.
>SmoothTweak16(saturation=1.1) #I can, however, give you a number here, because saturation usually requires VERY little adjustment.
awarpsharp2(depth=20,chroma=6) #chroma mode 6 ONLY affects chroma bleed, but bases the decision on luma (useful for outlines).
#lsfmod #use sparingly, I have no particular settings for this since I rarely used it.

>>15069372
Woops, messed up my formatting and green text. Either way, the point stands. Also, if you intend on leaving any grain in, I suggest avoiding x264's animation tuning, and using the film tuning instead.

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Gah! All that fucking grain! My eyes! Still, it's better than none.

>>15069422
If you want something stronger, try dfttest. Prepare for a slow as fuck encode though.

Hell, whatever, I'm up for a challenge, and I want something to give /m/ for Christmas/New Year's. Can you upload a small .m2ts segment somewhere? I'll see what I can do.

>>15069453
Great!! Here are some samples. Also, if you want, send me a message through youtube and I'll send you the whole episode!
First 30sec: http://subdiver.soreepeong.com/something/seg1.m2ts
6:45~7:15: http://subdiver.soreepeong.com/something/seg2.m2ts
13:25~13:55: http://subdiver.soreepeong.com/something/seg3.m2ts
23:00~: http://subdiver.soreepeong.com/something/seg4.m2ts

I was already doing encode in 0.5fps, so I'm kinda ready, I guess...? But I didn't really see an improvement using dfttest - maybe my parameter was too weak or something.

>>15069496
Nah, I should need a few samples to get a script for you.

>>15069533
awarpsharp2(depth=20,chroma=6)
SMDegrain(tr=2,thSAD=300,lsb_in=false,lsb=true,lsb_out=true)
#dfttest(sigma=4)
#dither_convert_8_to_16()
SmoothLevels16(0,1,62000,0,65535)
SmoothTweak16(saturation=1.1)
ditherpost()

Try this to start, I'll work on sharpening later.

>>15069569
I commented out dfttest for taste/speed and dither_convert because SMDegrain can do the conversion internally. If you're going to 10bit output, you'll need to swap out ditherpost for dither_out().

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>>15069569
It looks very clean; after adding the following at the end, remaining noises are almost unnoticeable. If this happens to be working right, I'll find the right way to put these in 16bit processing section.
VagueDenoiser(2)
GradFun3(1,16,smode=2)
#LSFMod(Smode=5,Smethod=4,Spwr=6,Szrp =80,preblur="ON")
TIsophote(iterations=4,tStep=0.12)

But for some reason, the output is blended with previous frames even without the lines I added. Any idea why?

Aside from that: will aWarpSharp2 fix chroma bleeding in a video from VHS? I am sure that it is not caused by chroma shifting.

>>15069607
TIsophote isn't going to help you bud, it's best used for antialiasing.

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>>15069607
Nevermind; adding contrasharp=true/refinemotion=true fixed the problem. Some thin lines disappear, but I think that can be fixed by fiddling with wrapsharp/sharpening filters.

Tisophote - yeah, I forgot to comment it out when I was doing that to LSFmod. w/o wrapsharp and w/ LSFmod results in this pic.

>>15069648
Ugh, those lines. Man, just give up on the sharpening, it's horrendous.

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>>15069683
Yeah, I should give up on that. There were some parts that SMDegrain results in blended frames, so I had to use DFTTest.

I ended up with
DeGrainMedian(limitY=24, limitUV=24, mode=1)
dfttest(sigma=24, lsb=true,tbsize=1)
SmoothLevels16(0,1,62000,0,65535)
SmoothTweak16(saturation=1.1)
GradFun3(1,16,smode=2,lsb_in=true)

It pretty much results something like Deen while leaving some minor jpeg-like artifacts behind whenever scene changes (under Kotaro's mouth), but it preserves more details and is 3x faster than the previous script, so good enough!

Thank you for the help.

If you want the ultimate challenge: Try to clean up Armored Hunter Mellowlink. I don't think it's actually doable though.

>>15068995
Damn that looks bad

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Mospeada, GaoGaiGar, basically anything that BunnyHat started but stalled on :P

(I love you BunnyHat)

>>15070115
I still think you're going way too hard on the denoising, but whatever.

>>15069607
chroma bleeding from a VHS tends to be directional. In other words, it's not the same in every frame, affects some color elements, but not others, etc. There are specific filters to combat chroma alignment and tracking issues in VHS captures.

>>15069060
>>15069607
>>15070115
Jesus christ what the fuck is wrong with you? Do you think this looks good? What the fuck is the point of doing a 1080p encode if you're just going to blur all of the HD details. Stop denoising shit, this isn't digital content, it's supposed to have grain. If you can't deal with that then do a 720p, it will look better than this garbage you're doing right now.

>>15070693
Some people don't understand film anime and think it should look like digital anime, thus this thread.

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http://compare.bakashots.me/compare.php?setId=2336 (Set 1 and 3 - for some reason I couldn't upload 10~'s 3th set, so #10 in the next line)
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/195366

Well, if details are more important than flat surface, then how does this look? If Go Saurer's sword looks too bright, I can always fiddle with or remove Tweak.

Tweak(sat=1.1)
DeGrainMedian(limitY=8, limitUV=12, mode=1)
GradFun3(0.6,16,smode=2)

Some people say that the encoder is being lazy when any visible grains are left in, while others say that one is out of one's mind when grains and details are erased too much. Eh, I guess there are more of the latter.

>>15070991
People say that because they think everything has to be difficult. No, a good encode just has to be a good encode, it doesn't have to be over processed just because. You have be a bit lazy in the actual compression aspect of it by using shitty settings that bloat the bitrate. I got criticized for this all the time, but then coalgirls would put out 5GB episodes, plus people would never look at why a particular show was huge; some legitimately needed it.

This show looks particularly soft, I'd just go with a high bitrate 720p encode if I were you.

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Okay, I think I'll just go ahead and do the 1973 BD release of Casshan. My encode is at 8000 bitrate and looks good enough in comparison to the BMDV.

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Took just over 4 hours to encode the 1st episode, but I really don't want to wait any longer for one episode so this will be the final quality of it. That, and obviously there's going to be a quality difference since the bitrate is lower. Also, each episode will be around 1.47GB in 1080p, FYI.

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HAIL BLACK KING!

We need someone to obtain and upload the Tekkaman Blade BDs so that someone can actually encode them.

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Here's a short video I uploaded as a test, but I'll fiddle around with the settings to try soften the image a little since there's way too much grain. Here's a picture as an example, but I'll try a lighter setting.

https://youtu.be/Q3Kw3mg_huA

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Here's my original encode retaining all the grain. A bit too much, but should I reduce the bitrate since I'm softening the image? I really don't know myself.

>>15071068
Hey, RX, what's your opinion on encoding at a set bitrate and constant framerate? I need some advice from an expert here.

>>15071427
CFR is fine/preferable most of the time, bitrate is stupid.

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>>15071460
>bitrate is stupid
Care to give an explanation? I'm not too knowledgeable about this sort of thing. Though I guess 8000 bitrate is a bit too high. Maybe 6000 would suit better.

What do you have access to, raw-wise?
I'd like if it someone ripped something classic that's not even on AoDVD yet.

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>>15071575
Well, don't expect me to go out of my way and encode something at my own expense money-wise. For now, I've decided on encoding the 1973 Casshan for a softsub 1080p release using the American BDs.

Still, feel free to suggest something regardless, but mention if there are raws or not and if it has been softsubbed. That's all.

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Guess I'll just make a 720p release instead of 1080p. Looks much better since it's kinda blurry in 1080p (due to the bad transfer or something) and it'll be smaller file size. All set to go. Just need to wait for the raws to download.

People are interested in the original Casshan, right? Tell me if I'm wrong.

>>15071760
It's blurry because the film stock is old. The transfer actually looks pretty good if you ask me. The thing you need to understand is that a quality of the transfer is separate from the quality of the film itself. A good transfer reveals the issues of lackluster film stock, which, yes, includes softness. Some stocks are better than others, sometimes the print is older, sometimes they use incredibly advanced restoration techniques to sharpen it (but perform them on the raw scans, and have better algorithms to do it), but you'll be hard pressed to find film from this era that looks better.

>>15071993
Forgot to trip.

>>15069320
Those BDs are dvd-upscale. Not worthy of efforts.
>>15069422
>2017
>Think that grain is bad
I don't know anon...
Maybe you should switch to some 2000+ year mecha.

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>>15066628
I could use some high quality raws of Rokumon Tengai Moncolle Knight, if any exist. It was released on DVD but I don't know about BD.

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>>15072279
I'm not >>15069648 because I do love my grain, but this is Dragon Ball Z Levels tier of grain. Only a SLIGHT denoise and it's much easier on the eyes. I love my grain, too, brah.

>>15068812
Would bitcoin change your mind?

>>15071760
Sure they do! It'd be good to have a consistent release for Casshan in this quality.

>>15072664
>Dragon Ball Z
That reminds me, I wonder what happened to that guy trying to compile every Dragon Ball anime ever made into an optimal release. It's too bad, because it'd be hilarious to watch Big Green dubs in high quality.

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Here's another grain example straight from the raw.

>>15072702
I thought people might, but nobody really mentioned it in the thread when I was posting about it until you.

But I was going to do it regardless because I REALLY REALLY liked the 90s OVAs and because I haven't seen the original yet since the american BDs are region locked and the DVD encodes are fucking hardsubbed (I'm going to hit someone) and in awful quality.

Anyway, live action movie sucked big furry balls, and I haven't saw Sins, but I've heard it's good.

>>15072722
I can respect that. In regards to Sin, it's Yasuko Kobayashi at her darkest and most symbolic, so be wary of that. It makes the previous incarnations of Casshan look downright cheery.

>>15072678
No. I'd love some BTC right now (especially given the price at the moment), but it's not worth the dozens of hours I'd need to spend putting together a release.

>>15072664
Don't get me wrong, even I have limits on grain, and I'm all for a MODEST reduction when possible, but this should be done by the remastering facility, on the original files, with better tools. Grain reduction at the pro level can be pretty damn impressive.

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HAIL BLACK KING! The episode is only about 940mb at 720p so I'm happy with that. I'll start uploading it now, but I'll also upload the 1st episode in 1080p just for show, too.

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I'm tempted to buy the Blu-Ray of Teito Monogatari and rip it if someone was willing to encode it, because last I checked there isn't one. Now we just need someone to sub the director commentary.

It's technically live-action and not anime, but a lot of people on /m/ loves the movie.

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Who will do?

>>15073607
>Teito Monogatari
And this is what exactly?

>>15068812
You have nothing to apologize for.

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1st episode is up. Let me know what you think. I'll start encoding the 2nd episode tomorrow and upload the 1080p version of the 1st.

https://mega.nz/#F!iNJHyZaZ!B6dgUCKp-DBxE13n14kRGA

I'll also post a thread soon. More people might notice it, then.

>>15073710
>And this is what exactly?

Essentially it is a 12-volume novel (well, novella really) series that tells the history of 20th century Tokyo in an alternate perspective, where all events are tied to the occult. It's most famous for giving us the inspiration for M.Bison/Vega in Street Fighter.

There was a movie made that condenses the first 4 volumes into just over 2 hours. It was released in english as a DVD (under the title Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis), but the dvd isn't easy to find and there's no rips online. The BD came out in Japan this year. So unless someone buys and rips the BD, the best we have is this uploaded on youtube at 240p (though for 240p, it doesn't look bad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHwRHSsypT0

>>15074098
Meanwhile, Hox will start one of the manga versions of the first books at some point.
http://hoxtranslations.blogspot.ca/2016/02/some-thoughts-on-adaptation-sangokushi.html