axs446 Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 (edited) Hi, I have bleach episodes on DVD which I want to upscale to 720p. I have found episodes on Nyaa which are upscaled and I want to acheive the same results. I am new to encoding, is anybody able to point me in the right direction (Tutorial / Guide). Also I am currently watching the Naruto Series, in terms of quality is it better to have 720p Rips or DVD Qulaity which can be upscaled. Thank you Edited August 9, 2014 by axs446 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 I have bleach episodes on DVD which I want to upscale to 720p. Why? You get no quality gain and typically end up with a worse looking product. It's all placebo and to do it half right means the file size tends to be pretty big. I have found episodes on Nyaa which are upscaled and I want to acheive the same results.Those upscales on Nyaa look terrible as hell. Lines look stretched because they upscaled but didn't use a line darkener, so the lines just become almost see-through. They altered the contrast/brightness which just makes it look worse. They created banding, halos, and rainbows. One of our resident uploaders is already posting the upscales here on the forum. He's syncing subtitles and the English audio to them to make a dual-audio release. I wouldn't recommend it though. Arigatou, Anime-Anarchy, or Zero-HP would be all be better options. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBreaker Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 I have bleach episodes on DVD which I want to upscale to 720p. Why? You get no quality gain and typically end up with a worse looking product. It's all placebo and to do it half right means the file size tends to be pretty big.I have found episodes on Nyaa which are upscaled and I want to acheive the same results.Those upscales on Nyaa look terrible as hell. Lines look stretched because they upscaled but didn't use a line darkener, so the lines just become almost see-through. They altered the contrast/brightness which just makes it look worse. They created banding, halos, and rainbows.One of our resident uploaders is already posting the upscales here on the forum. He's syncing subtitles and the English audio to them to make a dual-audio release. I wouldn't recommend it though. Arigatou, Anime-Anarchy, or Zero-HP would be all be better options. Since Anime-Anarchy releases are impossible to find, which release(s) would you personally pick Koby: Arigatou or Zero-HP or maybe a combination of both??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 I have bleach episodes on DVD which I want to upscale to 720p. Why? You get no quality gain and typically end up with a worse looking product. It's all placebo and to do it half right means the file size tends to be pretty big. I have found episodes on Nyaa which are upscaled and I want to acheive the same results.Those upscales on Nyaa look terrible as hell. Lines look stretched because they upscaled but didn't use a line darkener, so the lines just become almost see-through. They altered the contrast/brightness which just makes it look worse. They created banding, halos, and rainbows. One of our resident uploaders is already posting the upscales here on the forum. He's syncing subtitles and the English audio to them to make a dual-audio release. I wouldn't recommend it though. Arigatou, Anime-Anarchy, or Zero-HP would be all be better options.Since Anime-Anarchy releases are impossible to find, which release(s) would you personally pick Koby: Arigatou or Zero-HP or maybe a combination of both???I haven't compared; but BakaBT chose to replace their Arigatou releases with Zero-HP if that means anything to you. Honestly, ChoeyXD's dvd releases were the best, but he stalled at episode 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 Honestly, ChoeyXD's dvd releases were the best, but he stalled at episode 8. Understandable. At 366 episodes, a single person release would be either slow (read: months between single episodes) or shit. A lot of releases for longer series fall into the 'shit' category, which is sad. Not that I care too much for other series, though. Bleach is the only one I am willing to put up with~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 Honestly, ChoeyXD's dvd releases were the best, but he stalled at episode 8. Understandable. At 366 episodes, a single person release would be either slow (read: months between single episodes) or shit. A lot of releases for longer series fall into the 'shit' category, which is sad. Not that I care too much for other series, though. Bleach is the only one I am willing to put up with~You're a BieberFan, of course you'd have poor taste and like Bleach above the likes of Hunter x Hunter and One Piece, lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 s/Bieber/Beiber/ One Piece lacks decent story progress and hence is far too long. Hunter x Hunter looks like your generic shounen shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 Hunter x Hunter looks like your generic shounen shit.Looks are extremely deceiving in this case. HxH has more depth and thought put into than any other shounen; and it can be extremely dark and serious when it needs to be. The anime is about to end in about another 10 episodes (around episode 150) because the manga is always Hiatus x Hiatus because the mangaka takes such large breaks all the time, I assume to plot out the next arc and everything; which is something Tite Kubo could have learned from. If you liked Yuyu Hakusho, definitely give HxH a chance man. Same author, pretty similar style, but HxH has more thought put into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axs446 Posted August 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 In terms of DVD vs HDTV rips, what are your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 I'm going to say the R2 DVDs are better... Though I have never compared them. Just a generalisation after looking at the HDTV rips I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 In terms of DVD vs HDTV rips, what are your thoughts? The r2 dvds would be better than the HDTV rips for quite a while as the HDTV was pretty lacking. However around episode 300 or so (I forget exactly where; probably a bit before) the HDTV of Naruto Shippuuden increased in quality and I'd honestly say it looks better than the dvds now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Was Bleach ever animated above 480p? I had another look at SGKK's release and compared it to one of Arigatou's episodes (ep 24 to be exact). With the correct filters, one could replicate the filters used on the HDTV release if they use the R2 DVDs. I don't see why anyone would do this, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Was Bleach ever animated above 480p? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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