File:「Trails of Cold Steel III」 Opening 「Beyond the Journey」 《AI Upscale 4K + Sub》

The Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel 3 OP/Opening/Intro AI Upscaled with Gigapixel, ESRGAN, Waifu2x and AviSynth. English, Japanese (Kanji + Romaji), Catalan and Korean subtitles. Song: 「Ikitsuku Saki」 (Beyond the Journey) by 『Falcom Sound Team jdk (Shinga Mitsuo (Suehiro Mitsuo) | Sasaka Megumi & Suehiro Yuuri)』 The Legend of Heroes OPs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeaWyiQfGyfO4P8PhHkdxNZesVWak1Sip Alt: 英雄伝説 閃の軌跡 | Eiyuu Densetsu Sen no Kiseki | 英雄傳說 閃之軌跡 | 영웅전설 섬의궤적 오프닝 Source: video - ps4 (1920x1080p 29.97fps MPEG4_H264 9.9Mp/s), audio - flac (NW10103460)

Upscaling process:

— AviSynth - Decimate (30fps to 24fps) + FFmpeg encode (1280x720): 1. script.avs FFmpegSource2("video") Decimate(cycle=5) 2. ffmpeg -i "script.avs" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv444p -crf 0 -s 1280x720 "video"

— "Gigapixel v5.4.2" [(Scale:1.0x)(Mode:Standard)(S.Noise:100)(R.Blur:0)(R.C.Bleed:on)(FaceR.:off)]

— Waifu2x: "Magnify only" "2x" ( -s 2 )

— FFmpeg encode into 1920x1080: ffmpeg -i "image%04d.png" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv444p -crf 0 -s 1920x1080 "video"

— AviSynth, Santiag: 1. Script.avs: FFmpegSource2("video") santiag(strh=1, strv=1, type="nnedi3", nns=4, threads=0, nsize=6, halfres=false, scaler_post="Spline36Resize") 2. FFmpeg encode: ffmpeg -i "script.avs" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv444p -crf 0 "video"

— Final FFmpeg encode: 1. ffmpeg -i "video" -c:v libx264 -crf 10 -s 3840x2160 -profile:v high444 -pix_fmt yuv444p -use_editlist 0 -movflags +faststart "video" 2. ffmpeg -i "audio" -c:a flac -ac 2 -ar 44100 "audio" 3. ffmpeg -i "video" -i "audio" -c copy -map 0:v -map 1:a -strict -2 "video"

Subtitles: English by Dwarf from Casterly Rock (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Wpo_pnCXA) Catalan by Lluis_Cat (https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ikitsuku-saki-la-fi-del-cami.html) Korean by Leimalu (https://m.blog.naver.com/railu220/221568352309) Transliteration by Lluis_Cat (https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ikitsuku-saki-ikitsuku-saki.html)


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