Jormungous 02
by Tormaid • May 1, 2012 • Anime, Fansubbing, Jormungand • 8 Comments
There were so many good Koko reaction faces in this episode, it was hard to choose just one…
My extensive effort attempting to denoise this was rendered moot when we acquired much better looking caps. This comes at the cost of being even less compressible, so we unanimously decided ordered chapters were called for. Continue reading below for further details about the encodes.
Delay was partially due to lack of experience with ordered chapters… ^^;
[00:06] <Tormaid> oh my god
[00:06] <Tormaid> she turns around twice
1v2 soon.
My original plan was was to mostly denoise this and apply a light layer of grain over it to hide the splotches left over. Why not completely denoise it? Doing so would erase stupid amounts of detail during dark scenes, even line art (despite stacks of masking lines). There’s just too much grain. While I was able to pull this off to a degree, it still wasn’t ideal without scene-filtering out the dark scenes and leaving them alone. Then comes the issue of compressibility, again. The added grain was less compressible, even when applied very lightly, and only to dark areas of the frame. In the end, since we had to sacrifice something, we chose to use mostly unfiltered encodes and try to strike a balance between compressibility and grain retention. Dark scenes look very good, we sacrificed very little detail and the stronger grain forced higher bitrate allocation, and thus better grain retention. Bright scenes are a toss up. I actually chose to denoise the very brightest areas of the frame, because you can barely even see the grain there and it was just eating bitrate for no reason. If you look at the above screenshot, you can see the state of the grain during normal lighting. No, it doesn’t look spectacular. However, in motion it’s really not so bad. Ultimately, I think this was the best of several not-so-appealing choices presented me.
Haters gonna hate.
-Tormaid
too bad we have to watch the same ending credit of ep1 every episode.
You mean, because it’s slow? Or did you notice a problem with it? The translation was updated from episode 1.
Not a problem. The ending credit is different from episode to episode, such as lists of character voices, staff, etc. I mean using ordered chapters will make every episode’s ending credit just the same. A little pity.
99% of our viewers can’t read Japanese. It’s not worth almost 200mb more per episode. I personally don’t like ordered chapters, but we had to make an exception here.
“Anxious-Domo” –I really thought you had teamed up with that pay-for-play Russian “fansub” (Anon Russian Rippers, DOMO, etc.)!! Oh, did I have some questions for you.
How about “Anxious-Aho” instead? There would be several prostitution jokes, but no one would assume you had become pure evil. “He-Aho”? –even more fun.
File size: Coalgirls had a high grain movie a while back where the encode exceeded the raw file size. So they released the raw with subtitles muxed. I think it was a 6GB file release.
We chose a joint name that would make it easy to tell what groups were involved, unlike our last one.
What Coalgirls did with Dantalian (I assume that’s what you’re referring to) was completely justifiable. However, that was a Blu Ray release, this is not.
Nothing major, just 2 things:
http://i.minus.com/inj4cLuPHc440.png
http://i.minus.com/ibchnIO6CzkGYf.png
Not sure about the second one, but if u look closely, u will see that there is a second “I” in there.
Good thing you reached me on IRC… I totally don’t read comments here ^O^