![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/SamuraiXTrustBetrayal_1.jpg )
**Encoding Note:**
Long story short, the production of the whole series is about trim and treat.
We started with trust&betrayal, and first we thought it is a regular HD remaster until in EP04, we found a lot of problematic SD scenes. Some even have serious interlacing issues which should never be seen in a progressive source BD. It is hardly possible to design one scheme that copes well with both HD and SD scenes so we trim them one by one, use different approaches to fix their problems, and them join them again. For HD scenes, we only performed some grain stabilization to reduce the bit-rate, and for SD scenes, we fixed the interlacing problems, replace the awful DCT noise with a reconstructed noise layer, and finally we did some de-ringing and line darken in order to match the visual similarity with the HD scenes. It should be far less obvious to distinguish them after encode.
![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/SamuraiXReflection_1.jpg )
**Encoding Note:**
For the reflection chapter, the problem is similar but slightly better. However there is one short scene in EP02 with extreme aliasing and I have no idea how to fix it. All I can do is to take the DVD source, trim the corresponding part and then replace the BD portion. The hue of DVD is a bit different from the BD (seen the below comparison) but it should be fine since it's only a few seconds long.
![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/SamuraiXTheMotionPicture_1.jpg)
**Encoding Note:**
The last chapter, the motion picture, is probably the easiest since the only problem is its heavy noise.
This project started long ago when AVC is still the better choice, and we have no plan for the TV series.
Comparison (right click on the image and open it in a new tab to see the full-size one)
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[![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/14676s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/14676.png) [![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/14676s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/14676v.png)
[![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/23718s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/23718.png) [![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/23718s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/23718v.png)
[![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/31125s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/31125.png) [![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/31125s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/31125v.png)
[![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/4061s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/4061.png) [![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/4061s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/4061v.png)
[![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/6103s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/6103.png) [![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/6103s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/6103v.png)
[![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/7610s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/7610.png) [![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/7610s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/7610v.png)
[![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/9218s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/9218.png) [![Image](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/9218s.png)](http://img.2222.moe/images/2016/10/14/9218v.png)
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