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[SoM] Dragon Ball Z - COMPLETE (001-291) - Color Corrected Dragon Box Merge [480p][x264]
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A complete comprehensive color-correction for the entire series, including shot-by-shot white balancing of every single episode, global hue shifts, skin tone fixes, de-bleaching, and more.
This release contains all previous fixes to include IVTC, decimation, PAR correction, chromatic aberration reduction, chroma noise reduction, chroma placement adjustment, blocking treatment, and grain retention.
What are these images you'll find online? They're "promotional images" or "promo images" for short. While they may look nice, artists and color correctors striving for accuracy should avoid these as references, and here's why... 🧵
First, you may think these promo images are untouched pictures of the original animation cels. Promo images often look too "clean" and bright compared to the source material. Here are some examples to help differentiate.
These promo images appeared online years after the series aired. They are made to promote the series, serving as advertisements and video thumbnails. Unfortunately, they prioritize being eye catching instead of being accurate, tending to be a bit revisionist.
After a recent post, we realized we've never really talked about the sources we're using for the #DragonBall and #DBZ movies. Everyone knows we used the Dragon Boxes for the show, but for the movies it's a little more complicated...
In 2018 all classic Dragon Ball films and specials were once again rescanned and cleaned for their re-release in HD. Unlike anything FUNi has done, the scan was done competently and all the movies have far more detail than in any previous release.
The movies were first released on streaming services (Amazon was available). These versions of the films retain grain, however suffer from the standard issues with streaming sources, such as low bitrate, sometimes crushed details, and Amazon's H.264 encoders having built-in DNR.