Tag Archives: Ghost in the Shell

• 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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• Ghost in the Shell

  First of all i thank the_E_y_Es for his help. He spotted and marked lot of spots for me, which i could fix in return. This is a re-encode of my original release, since the source/MPEG2 stream is not available anymore. This is a huge improvement over the original video and as before a lot better than the BD source. This encode is not completely issue free and perfect. not all of the MPEG2/WMV artifacts could be fixed completely without damaging other areas of the video. The video is still quite dirty in places and not all spots have been fixed. Tbh one could probably sit on this for an eternity and won’t be able to fix them all. Video: – Several 1000 frames (severely damaged by MPEG2/WMV artifacts) were restored (per frame) – Several 100.000 spots on several 10.000 of frames were removed and fixed (per frame) – Frames edges were fixed (per scene) – Remnants of the Logo have been removed – Colour and range correction have been made [&hellip

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• Ghost in the Shell

  This release uses a HDTV stream as source instead of BluRay. Simple reason for that decision is, the BD is fucked up in many different ways and I deem HDTV as the superior source. For my claims please see the comparison on my comparison page. This is not my own encode, it is quite an old raw that uses WMV9 as video codec. As subtitle source I used the official subs. I fixed a lot of scene bleeds, retimed many lines, split a lot of three liners, added some proper typesetting, and much more. The whole specs of this release are: Video: 1920×1040 WMV9 Audio: Japanese 5.1 DTS Subtitle: English ASS Subs Download: Ghost in the Shell on BakaBT Ghost in the Shell on nyaa  

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