(i have no idea what i'm doing)

DirectShowSource("d:\hr1_big.avi", fps=29.97, convertfps=true)

Invert().YLevelsS(gamma=1.5, output_high=240).Invert()

orig = last

Repair(AA(), orig, mode=3)

prescale = last

FluxSmoothST(spatial_threshold=2, temporal_threshold=12)

LanczosResize(856, 472, taps=5)
LimitedSharpenFaster(Lmode=3)

vmToon(sharpen=false, thinning=35, strength=64, threshold=3, luma_cap=200)

Repair(last, prescale.Spline36Resize(856, 472), mode=1)
function PreviewFile()
{
DirectShowSource("d:\hr_previews.avi", fps=29.97, convertfps=true)
Trim(0, 448)
AA(edge=true)
Crop(0, 4, 0, -4)
Spline36Resize(856, 472)
return last
}

last ++ PreviewFile()

Top one is the new one, right?

Yes.

I think it could still use some work (the line of her sleeve is smudged and fades into the background a bit), but at this point making random changes makes it worse.

Trying to mask it so I can apply much darker, uh, darkening/warpsharp to the characters only would be interesting. I'm mostly allergic to sharpening, though.

>>5

Apparently they went out of business on about September 28, 2007. Their site is held by squatters now.

...fuck. Who has the licenses to their shows now, then? They had loads of good stuff.

Currently going insane trying to suppress flickering noise in their hair. I don't want to run that filter chain again (it's far too slow) so I hope --nr in x264 is safe.

And even after complaining that the DVDs are way too blurry, I haven't really sharpened them... it does look much better, though.

>>8

HOLY SHIT

That is brilliant!

How do you apply these scripts? The changes are quite magnificent.

It's still under development and will be until I test it on every episode; I've already rewritten it entirely from that one. I guess I should find somewhere else to post it.

Look for a DVD+AVISynth encoding guide, anyway. HR is 30fps so you don't need to worry about ivtc. I'll figure out which plugins I'm using sometime.

Currently wondering how they messed up ep 2 like this...

http://pastebin.com/f70225015
You'd want to replace the Source lines with something else, and get rid of preview file/hikariaemon since those aren't available.

done now, I guess, but staring at every frame for a month leads you to the uncomfortable realization that ep 4/9 are the only ones with good character art...

Whatever happened to this?

http://pastebin.com/fdc2b1d3

That's the final script, I figure two years is enough time to work on it.

But it's pretty hard to get all that running, and I consider it no longer licensed, so I'm just going to resub the whole thing. ep1-2 should be done in a week or two.

Deleted post 8 because it took up so much space on the page.

>>6

Geneon is still around, they're just not in the distribution business any more. They've set up a deal (deals?) with Funimation to have the latter ditribute a number of titles they licensed (e.g. Kamichu, Higurashi, Nanoha, etc.), but they didn't do anything for any ABe anime. As far as I know, either Geneon still has a license for North American distribution for Haibane Renmei and simply isn't using it for anything, or the license has lapsed and no longer exists.

http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Haibane_1_ADTRW.torrent

Ep 2 will take a little longer. I'd forgotten ther character art was so poor in that one.

Looking good. I thought I saw a very slight film-grain effect in the first episode; is that just compression artifacts, or something you added?

I added some static film grain to counteract blurring, yeah (using SeeSaw). It works better than sharpening to recover apparent detail loss.

Looks like I forgot chapters to episode 1, oops.

http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Haibane_2_ADTRW.torrent

The video (and animation quality) is twice as bad in this one, so it's only half-fixed.
Also, I'm not sure what floor Reki's studio is on…

http://raspberryheaven.net/~adtrw/torrents/Haibane_3_ADTRW.torrent

I forgot to do chapters again…