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• Ghost in the Shell (Grain re-construction)

  It has been like 7 years since the last release and ~5 years since i started the grain re-construction work on this. this release has all the filtering from the previous v2 (sans the ones that aren’t necessary anymore) + some improvements: – Use of a proper TV stream instead of a re-encode of the pre-encoded source – Re-constructed grain – Improved stabilisation especially the extreme cases on/around scene changes – Rework of colour and range correction – Properly removed logo – Inclusion of the original stereo mixes as new default (there are some issues with mixing on the surround tracks, like missing sound effects) – Japanese 5.1 track from a new TrueHD source, some fixed/added missing sound sound effects – Inclusion of english commentary – Some minor sub fixes Though this isn’t the ‘holy grail’ of GitS releases. The new source is overall cleaner, i could properly IVTC it, it has a lot less severe problems, the high motion/action scenes are especially better, but it does lose some minor [&hellip

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