This resulted in the dub no longer syncing up. For those of you new to these releases, these are re-edits of the HD Remaster that restore shots that were shortened or removed in favor of footage usually taken from the Special Edition movies. So, that’s about it for the revisions since the last releases. Several other sequences were replaced due to the timing being off on the new encodes.
This is mostly because, in order to keep everything as closely matching the DVDs for purposes of syncing, the episodes start off with ~1 second of black. The audio has been re-ripped and retimed.The insert song lyrics on the full subs track in Episodes 7-9 remain the same because I like how it looked. They now use white fonts with a glowing outline, similar to how the lyrics for G-Reco and GBF were presented. The fonts remain the same, but no longer use the plain green/blue colors we used to use. All upscaled sequences have be re-upscaled using Waifu2x.Any upscaled sequences now display at 30p, keeping playback looking smooth. The previous encodes had the upscaled areas forced to 24p and they stuttered during playback because of this. The HD remaster was converted to 24p, but the old DVDs were 30i. As before, these are 720p only because I was unhappy with the final results of the upscaled sequences at 1080p.
All-new encodes using superior filtering based on the G-Reco encodes compared to the old releases that preserves more detail and keeps the colors correct (turns out one of the old filters was altering the color profile quite a bit without my realizing).
So, what has changed? Quite a few things actually, which is why this is a batch that includes the first 10 episodes. In turn, I returned to work on new episodes. While it is slow as hell, even on my brand new i7 6700K, the results it provides are superior to my previous efforts, to the point that I was happy with how the upscales were turning out. However, a few months ago, I stumbled upon a new upscaler called Waifu2x and the AVISynth port for it. It’s baaaaack! Finally, almost 2 years since we released Episode 8, we’re back with more Gundam SEED! The biggest reason for the delay had to do with my unhappiness with the upscaling I was having to do from the DVDs to fix some of the scenes I couldn’t edit mouthflaps for or those that had their runtimes changed.
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