File:「Trails of Cold Steel I」 Opening 「Pulse Towards Tomorrow」 《AI Upscale 4K + Sub》

The Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel 1 OP/Opening/Intro AI Upscaled with Gigapixel, ESRGAN, Waifu2x and AviSynth. English, Japanese (Kanji + Romaji), Catalan, Korean and Chinese subtitles. Song: 「Ashita e no Kodou」 (Pulse Towards Tomorrow) by 『Falcom Sound Team jdk (Yukihiro Jindo | 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 29.97fps MPEG4_H264 9.7Mp/s), audio - flac (NW10103280)

Upscaling process:

— FFmpeg encode into 1280x720: ffmpeg -i "video" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv444p -crf 0 -s 1280x720 "video"

— Gigapixel: "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" [0077-0190;0536-0546;1055-1063;1130-1147;1500-1647;1681-1730;2142-2156;2306-2335;3518-3890]

— 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, 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/2014/07/bonus-item-translated-lyrics-to-sen-no-kisekis-ashita-he-no-kodou/) Catalan by Lluis_Cat (https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ashita-e-no-kodou-batecs-del-dema.html) Korean by Tenya (https://m.blog.naver.com/est1211/30174580361) Chinese by Feng Zhi Lian Yue (https://bbs.a9vg.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3557774) Transliteration by Lluis_Cat (https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ashita-e-no-kodou-ashita-e-no-kodou.html)


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