As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m much happier with the image quality I’m now able to achieve when ripping LDs. The picture to the right shows a close up from our original release of Villgust, which was blurry and suffered badly from rainbow effects, next to our latest encode.
Here are some more side by side images to compare:
Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3
The second OVA was as hellish to deal with as it was the first time around. I’d forgotten how much of a field blended, colour shifted, awful travesty of a transfer that disc was – it gave me nightmares all over again! I must have spent 100+ hours reprocessing the video to get it looking acceptable, but it was well worth it as I can now watch it on a big screen without having a seizure ^_^;
All I need to do now is give the scripts a little tidy up, so expect a release in the coming weeks.
This OVA was originally fansubbed by Tomodachi Anime many moons ago, but the only versions I’ve found of it online are low quality captures of their VHS release. Luckily I have the LD in my collection (I’m a big fan of the mangaka, Yoshizumi Wataru) and was able to make a reasonable capture of it. The script is based on the Tomodachi release, although a fair amount of retranslation and editing was needed, including a complete reworking of the songs. Not quite the quicky job I had in mind, but it was worth the extra effort!
