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With the above in mind, I have to throw in these two youtube clips: and another fav on a familiar note:

The animeigo discs are chaptered in a way where it reuses the same intro and being video for all the episodes. That is why your chapters are messed up. Why don't you check out the Galaxy Network blog and download some of the new remastered versions on high bitrate mkvs? Or you can get the DL DVD versions off of asiandvdclub.org. These versions are the Japanese remAsters with superior bitrate and will look so much better on that tv of yours

Thanks Gub!

courtesy of google translate: Macross has finally gathered a good message I want to do a sequel or seven members of the Macross it CR or CG if I can make his next Recruitment Chi Yudesui talking about his next big Kudasaru more people

times like this I wish I could use the translator function from FFXI. <yes please> ^^;

It isn't about space, it is about bitrate. When I added subs to one of the R2s, I decided that there was plenty of room for more audio tracks (in terms of MB and disc space). To my chagrin, I could only add a single mono track because the video was maxed out in terms of bitrate. The bitrate for DVD spec tops out under 10,000 kbs/s...and that bitrate total counts all the audio tracks, even the ones not in use. ADV uses a lower bitrate to accomodate more audio tracks to keep it with DVD specifications. The R2 video bitrate is so high it can really only accomodate one quality audio track.

They are dual layer, but they add on multiple audio tracks and special features. Max combined bitrate of video plus audio tracks (even tracks not being played) is about 10k. The BV release is 8k+ with only one audio track. The combined bitrate on the ADV/AE release is below that. I'm just recalling from memory, but I had the impression that the bitrate for video alone was about 30% lower. Your biggest issue seems to be my greatest source of satisfaction. I guess it all comes down to personal preference, and since Macross is such an old show, I think we all have our own way of remembering things and how we would like to see them today. Color is something I have yet to be particularly picky about, I just love that the R2s upscale so well and like you've said, not DNR'd to death! The reason I've brought up the LDs is because of the potential that it was mastered from younger film. I don't know analog video as well as today's digital formats...would these sources be interlaced? You should check out the latest Ghostbusters BD release. It has film grain from hell! When I say that I mean that as a compliment, I think you would understand...

The Galaxy Network encodes use x264 encoding at double or maybe even triple the bitrate that is usually used for DVD video. There is probably little to no loss from the DVD source. One thing the BV release has over the AE release is bitrate. They use DVD-9s and the DVD video is packed at the max bitrate the DVDs can handle. I'm making DVD versions of the R2s following the Galaxy Network releases, and I attempted to add some alternate audio tracks from the ADV release (dub and Mari commentaries). I quickly learned that the R2 bitrate was packed so tightly I could only fit one additional audio track after it was downgraded. The AE/ADV video bitrate is low enough to fit a 5.1 track and two 2.0 a tracks. Ingrained in my memory is the macroblocking on the AE release on a certain high speed scene: the closeup on the hull of Kamujin's ship taking damage in Ep 36. I've noticed that the R2 DVDs upscale wonderfully to large displays with a decent upscaling player. The absence of significant DNR plus the high bitrate make the R2 DVDs good upscale material. I'm finding the R2 DVDs perfect for watching SDFM all over again. For me the strong colors are a definite plus. Take a look at Misa's skin tone in some of the comparison shots. The AE clips show her as very pale and white, but in the R2 clips she has color and life. I just have a feeling that that is the way she was meant to look. Also take a look at the clip with Hikaru in the hospital. Notice that grass hill through the window? The AE version has that odd blue tinted grass. The grass in the R2 version is....GREEN!!! The R2 remaster isn't perfect, but it is the best I've ever seen SDFM. The audio is not very strong on the R2s, I have to admit. Many scenes carry a quiet hiss, and I have a feeling this is a result of aging masters. I've been talking to Boinger and he has brought up the idea of digitally preserving some of the old Macross LD releases. I think this idea has good potential...because the LDs would be mastered from "younger" and "fresher" film! Even if the video quality turns out to be not up to par, I'm certain that the LDs may have superior audio. In that regard, can anyone say anything about the LDs compared with today's releases?

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Lol, sometimes it helps to get that fresh perspective...sometimes interpretations get confined when you watch a movie 5-6 times a year for a decade and a half....

awesome, good find!

so what was the plot point, out of curiosity? I wonder if it might be something i might've missed as well..since I don't think I've quite watched it 300 times... (maybe 200....) Btw, I have a wife who politely listens to me explain my genre stuff as well lol.

Lol, I feel the same way when I try to tell a young-un what Gunbuster is.

Yeah, I've also thought it as a "love letter to the fans."

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I like the website asiandvdclub.org

Your hard work is appreciated^^ When you are finished I'll (eventually) get around to adapting them to the DVDs.

The scripts have been released, but they need some cleaning up since they are adapted from the old Jacosub format. I'm helping with some Macross DVD subbing projects, but I'm mostly on the sidelines for the moment. I might consider picking this up as a primary project. If I do it will be for DVD only and leave it for others to make smaller file size re-encodes.

Macross for me is like pizza. Pepperonni Pizza. Cheap pizza. Expensive pizza. All awesome. I would not expect a cheap $5 pizza to be featured on Top Chef, nor do I expect $5 pizza to be a work of art. But I still love pizza. With Macross...some of it is gourmet pizza....some of it is $5 pizza, but dammit it's my favorite thing to eat. So for the next Macross...I hope for gourmet, but I'll still eat the hell out of it if it was the $5 variety. So I don't have any of this complicated self-hating psychology...I like to keep things simple... I just like pizza (especially whilst watching Macross)

That was the only thing I didn't like about Frontier. I took FB 2012 to show our characters "riding off into the sunset" and just ignored the "never heard from again" business in my personal canon. I just took it that their story was over and complete. That approach just put that nagging feeling to rest. Now that their loss is somewhat acknowledged by Bilrer in Frontier...within the Macross animation itself...that was actually kind of a big deal for me. Now I'm bugged about them being lost in space as I ever was...

i like iMacross4....

I love DYRL. I know I've seen it more than the original series. But I don't think the movie stands very well on it's own. If you were to pull random people to form a test audience and watch it...they are going to walk out very confused. During the first battle, Macross fans are bathing in....well..."Macross awesomness..." from music, missiles, and Macross Main Cannon. A fresh, random viewer is going to be too busy wondering wtf is going on. DYRL is a love letter to the fans. The movie is made directly for the people who love Macross, and when taken in that regard it is awesome. IMHO, DYRL is an awesome companion to the original series....but my wife will never understand why I like that movie with the "silly song."

When boinger finishes releasing the x264 episodes from a single dvd, I extract the scripts and apply them to the original R2 DVD. The first disc is up on asiandvdclub.org. It might be gentler on that PIII lappy of yours...

In general I'm very wary of grain removal processes. I've seen some attempts lower contrast to the point that it seems blurry. I also have a larger widescreen TV, and sometimes grain fixed video do not upscale as well as the "grainy" source (more pixelation). IMHO grain removal makes video look great and screens 30" or smaller, but can impact detail on upscalers for video larger than 46". All this is just my opinion in general, it's not based on hard data, and each restoration process is truly an individual work. I'm not bothered by the grain so much anymore as long as the colors and detail are what they should be. When I emotionally "let it go" the grain just becomes part of the era in which it was produced, and is therefore part of the style. quick edit - changed 46" from 56"....typo....that would be a big tv....

Lol...and I thought I was crazy for looping lines. It takes me like 30 minutes per minute though...and it drives my wife nuts.