Quote:I went and saw The Last Act (Episode 8 & 9) in theaters and was blown away by how cleaner of a source Episode 8 was on the DCP and how nice Episode 9 looked compared to what I saw on YouTube once it was released. I wasn't surprised of course due to how the rest of the show looked online, so that planted a seed in the back of my mind that grew into the end result of this project. This project originally started as a simple reconstruction of The Last Act using an AI upscale of the fish intro and 2 shots of the series recap I couldn't source from the rest of the episodes at the beginning of the movie and the cleaner Netflix source to reconstruct the recap of the series, and I was reminded of the compression issues after the first render and I wanted to see what I could do to improve it. After being mostly impressed with what I was able to accomplish with AviSynth over AI tools to fix compression issues (Banding, blocking, aliasing), I switched to a AviSynth workflow and decided to expand the project to cover all of the episodes.

Quote:I did a few visual comparisons and found that the Netflix WEB-DL's of the episodes were the better source detail and bitrate so I went with those and used a script that Debands, deblocks, performs some anti-aliasing and does a light warp-sharpen to further hide any aliasing issues and make the image slightly less soft. A light layer of grain was added over the image to help make the filter come together cohesively. I felt an authentic 35mm grain overlay wouldn't suit the 3D animation so I opted to use an AviSynth script to add a light layer onto the image. I also tweaked the saturation slightly to reduce some of the harsh colors the show had and brightness/contrast to address the Netflix version having lower contrast than the YouTube version.

I also discovered that the Netflix source had more detail in the mix than the YouTube so I also opted to use that mix.

Around this time I decided I wanted to do a Blu-Ray release eventually for myself so I tested out converting to Dolby Digital AC3 and it compressed the detail similar to how the YouTube mixed looked. I ended up encoding in DTS-HD MA for compatibility with the higher quality preserved. YouTube subtitles were synced up and cleaned up and converted to SUP files for Blu-Ray compatibility as well. This project should be 100% Blu-Ray compatible but I haven't tested it myself yet.

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im looking forward to watching movies as they were intended

Hello there, film nerd here

Hello there, I am glad to be here.

has a nice Far Field Mix sourced from 2007 bluray
Very nice addition for a great movie

And this kind of answers my own question about Arrow and their notes about original audio (theatrical far field vs near field)
https://fanrestore.com/thread-6882.html

Hi there, glad to be here.

helloo ebery nyaan!!! how are you fine  thank you

helloo ebery nyaan!!! how are you fine  thank you

Hi everybody, excited about joining this forum. Have a nice day!

These Fan preservation projects are my favorite things ever. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THOSE WHO MAKE THEM POSSIBLE