DBZ Season Sets vs DBKai - Cropping
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DBZGTKOSDH
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DBZ Season Sets vs DBKai - Cropping
Did DBKai do a better job at cropping compared to FUNi's crappy cropping with the Season Sets? Was the cropping in DBKai good in general?
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Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.
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Re: DBZ Season Sets vs DBKai - Cropping
Of course. The orange bricks were center cropped, while Kai was selectively framed. It goes without saying Kai did a way better job at cropping.DBZGTKOSDH wrote:Did DBKai do a better job at cropping compared to FUNi's crappy cropping with the Season Sets?
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Re: DBZ Season Sets vs DBKai - Cropping
And one wonders why they spent money on remastering the series but didn't bother to do selective cropping.
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Re: DBZ Season Sets vs DBKai - Cropping
Mmmmm......debatable. Toei is likely a better judge of where to selectively frame the cropped 16:9 picture than someone at Video Post and Transfer (the Dallas-based post-production company FUNimation hired for the restoration process). If someone at Video Post and Transfer or FUNimation decided to take the liberty of deciding where and how to selectively frame the picture, that might have opened a whole new can of worms, a la, "Who do they think they are to decide what is and isn't important?" So just keeping the frame centered was the lesser of two evils.UltimateHammerBro wrote:And one wonders why they spent money on remastering the series but didn't bother to do selective cropping.
Or they could have kept it in 4:3. 'Ya know. Just a thought.
A "rather haggard" translation of a line from Future Gohan in DBZ, provided to FUNimation by Toei:
"To think of fighting that is this fun...so, it was pleasant fight, as many as, therefore is a feeling which is good the fight where."
"To think of fighting that is this fun...so, it was pleasant fight, as many as, therefore is a feeling which is good the fight where."