Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular

[Jinzoningen MULE]

Has anybody tried color correcting the funi blu ray movies or are they a lost cause. I got a few and wanted to try color correcting them but don't know if it's worth the effort.

You couldn't fix them, it's been tampered with too much. But you could probably improve them.

[Bruma rabu]

Has anybody tried color correcting the funi blu ray movies or are they a lost cause. I got a few and wanted to try color correcting them but don't know if it's worth the effort.

You couldn't fix them, it's been tampered with too much. But you could probably improve them.

Yeah I figured as much, I'll give it a shot though.

[genjosanzo8]

I tried not a long time ago but delete what i did.
but like said , you just can correct little things. what was already destroy by the remastered process cannot be fully recover

Just to know if it exist speediest plugin to do the same thing as this one? it is terribly good but terribly slow ..

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SMDegrain(tr=2,thSAD=800,search=5,pel=1,blksize=8,RefineMotion=true)

edit: for those who search original colors:
the dragon ball z anime comics have them

[lansing]

forget about the original color from the manga, as Toei's kai already did that, but what happen? It looks odd, everything looks bright, even the shadow looks bright.

[genjosanzo8]

okay it's better using cels scan like that

[genjosanzo8]

I figure that toei vod thumnails are not really all cels (sôme are screenshot) and i notice that even those which are cels canot be from épisode (différent background or other), even if they have good color

[genjosanzo8]

no denoise no image cleaning but some attempt in color correction
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[Kenichi512]

Hi.

I am very bad with the use of colors but I did not want to stay without trying

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[xekon]

Did someone obtain this kind of result? i work a lot to use avisynth correctly and did good correction and i use smdegrain but i haven't this kind of natural sharpeness without grain with avisynth

not only are those line darkended, but if you look really closely at the lines, they appear to have an anti aliasing filter applied to them as well.

possibly a line sharpening filter with anti aliasing built in, really hard to say.

[genjosanzo8]

while playing with things to correct color i have found a way to correct the bright white with dragon ball like in episode 123 and recover details that was lost
here the dbox footage


here a speed correction (just watch mountain and cloud)

[genjosanzo8]

some quick test cc

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[Gog]

Huh, never knew that this thread even existed but it is interesting knowing that it does.

[xekon]

I have ported VirtualDub Gradation Curves plugin to VapourSynth.

GradCurve on github: https://github.com/xekon/GradCurve

[MrWalnut4]

some quick test cc

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Except for your mids being just a tad too bright, that's about as good as you will get correcting the Dragon Box. Looks really good. Keep at it!

[genjosanzo8]

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Wow! I actually dig those colors a lot! Reminds me of Kai in a way, except it still retains that vintage flair. Very nice!

[Ajay]

Really solid work, Genjo!

[jjgp1112]

Those are excellent! I always use Piccolo's skin color as the litmus test and those are perfect.

[genjosanzo8]

episodes of the day

[Kojiro Sasaki]

Very good job! I don't even need to compare it to anything, because I can tell that the colors look natural just by looking! I really like it! I would accept such colors on the official release without any complaining. Keep up the good job!
Also, props for not filtering out the grain, not using any kinds of sharpening filters and any other moronic modifications.