Hourou Musuko 01

What a cute little girl.

SetMTMode(2,0)
dss2("D:\Video\Hourou Musuko\BDMV\STREAM\00002.m2ts")
TurnLeft().eedi2()
bicubicresize(1080,1920,-0.75)
TurnRight().eedi2()
bicubicresize(1920,1080,-0.75)
LSFmod(edgemode=1)
GradFun2DB()

x264 --crf 16.0 --output "hourou.mkv" "hourou.avs"

This release was anti-aliased. You can see the comparison here. I used zero-raws release for the comparison because I forgot to take some screenshot before deleting the .ts. Anyway, you still can see the difference in stair step artifact. As you can see from the script, I used EEDI2, well, EEDI3 kept giving me errors. 

The main concern for this release was encoding speed. Sangnom was just too slow. I also resized the video before the turning right, back to the correct orientation. EEDI2 upsize the video by a factor of 2 vertically, that is why the resize, if you didn't know. This makes it a little faster. I used bicubic resize instead of spline for the speed. -0.75 helps with the blurryness a bit. 

The anti aliasing blurs the edge quite a bit, so it's really either resize and encode it at 720p, which I really should, or use a sharpening filter. I heard you guys like to take the placebo pill, so I chose to go with the sharpening route. I used LSFmod with edge only sharpening. 

Gradfun2b is just for insurance in case I missed any banding, but overall the video looks good and it wasn't necessary. It's not the modded version because it's faster.

The x264 encoder used was JEEB's compiled revision 2146 10-bit. I used medium preset for the speed. Overall it turned out quite faster than I expected, averaging 2.8 fps. Clearly I can afford the slower preset. Additional AQ was not necessary.

The audio was encoded with neroaac at Q0.55. The commentary was omitted. The second audio is a different track. The main track features background music in some scenes that is missing in the second track. I'm guessing it is the broadcast version, and they decided to add some music in the blur-ray. I can't check because I've deleted the tv version.

The subs was taken from umee subs. Nothing was changed besides subs re-synching and auto key frame snaps. The re-synching required some attention because it seems some scenes were a few frames longer. So you get this cascading effect where you can't just move it from beginning to end at the same rate. I downloaded Protocol4 release and you can see by the end of the show the timing is out of whack. The border a little too thin because it was originally intended for 720p. Changing it would be a pain as it may mess up the typesetting.

tl;dr

RS | MF | NYAA