Release notes: Blu-ray edition of Sword Art Online is of good quality, although it has a few problems. I used generic rescale AA from 720 bicubic, also manually corrected scenes with very strong jaggies and
scenes with a visible hard banding effect. Several scenes were also fixed, containing artifacts from incorrect motion interpolation.
For the rest of the material, everything is already pretty standard: 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. In addition, the filtering of bonus material has been heavily reworked.
Also, my goal was to improve overall texture quality and compression using modern filters and the HEVC codec. And I’m happy with the final result
Author | Language | Format |
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Crunchyroll | ENG | ass |
UK BD | ENG | pgs |
USA BD | ENG | pgs |
Crunchyroll | POR | ass |
Crunchyroll | SPA | ass |
Crunchyroll | ARA | ass |
DHR&Hakugetsu | CHI | ass |
SumiSora | CHI | ass |
HR & Stan WarHammer | RUS | ass |
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Comments - 5
Jensen
Since I decided to encode all released episodes of Sword Art Online Alicization, I also decided to convert to HEVC and improve the filtering for older episodes of this anime.
Since it will take quite a long time to code so many episodes, I decided to release everything as it is ready gradually. This will create less confusion and eliminate the huge time gap between releases, like if I released everything at the same time at the beginning of winter lol.
Asakura
So we can expect everything to be redone? Including Extra Edition and Ordinal Scale?
Jensen
Yes, except Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online. There is already HEVC, not 264 and there are no problems that I would like to fix better than it was done before.
sandoe41
Hard pass on this, I have the UTW and EveTaku releases of season 1, much better than the CR subs.
SomaHeir
Thanks for this ^^