File:「Trails of Cold Steel II」 Opening 「Where the Light Flashes」 《AI Upscale 4K + Sub》

The Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel 2 OP/Opening/Intro AI Upscaled with Gigapixel, ESRGAN, Waifu2x and AviSynth. English, Japanese (Kanji + Romaji), Catalan, Korean and Chinese subtitles. Song: 「Senkou no Yukue」 (Where the Light Flashes) by 『Falcom Sound Team jdk (Okajima Toshiharu | Kotera Kanako)』 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 59.94fps MPEG4_H264 21.3Mp/s), audio - flac (NW10103320)

Upscaling process:

— AviSynth - Decimate (60fps to 30fps) + FFmpeg encode (1280x720): 1. script.avs FFmpegSource2("video") Decimate(cycle=2) 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)]

— ESRGAN: model "1x_BCGone_Detailed_115000_G" [1749-1921;2105-2106;2136-2291;2345-2541;2895-3077]

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

— Manual edit [2107-2135;2167-2182]: 1. FFmpeg encode (640x360): ffmpeg -i "video" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv444p -crf 0 -s 640x360 "video" 2. "Gigapixel v5.4.2" [(Scale:1.0x)(Mode:Standard)(S.Noise:100)(R.Blur:0)(R.C.Bleed:on)(FaceR.:off)] 3. ESRGAN: model "1x_BCGone_Detailed_115000_G" 4. Waifu2x: "Magnify only" "4x" (( -s 2 ) twice) 5. Combine with previously processed images in Photoshop (History brush)

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

— AviSynth, TemporalDegrain2: 1. Script.avs: FFmpegSource2("video") TemporalDegrain2(degrainTR=2,postSigma=0,postFFT=0,postDither=0,grainLevel=false) 2. FFmpeg encode: ffmpeg -i "script.avs" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv444p -crf 0 "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 Ayu Ohseki (https://www.esterior.net/2014/08/bonus-item-sen-no-kiseki-ii-opening-senko-no-yukue-lyrics-and-translation/) Catalan by Lluis_Cat (https://lyricstranslate.com/en/senkou-no-yukue-alla-centelleja.html) Korean by @SuR_SEN (https://fusetter.com/tw/iZUac) Chinese by Jian Kai (https://bbs.a9vg.com/thread-4217685-1-1.html) Transliteration by Lluis_Cat (https://lyricstranslate.com/en/senkou-no-yukue-senkou-no-yukue.html)


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