RWBY is the most troublesome project we have ever seen, thanks to its ridiculous error-proneness throughout our encoding process. Our previous work (Vol.1), in collaboration with EMTP-Raws, was published five years ago. My remark back then was "Because it looks so different from Japanese animes we commonly watch, if the image quality is nowhere near you are expecting, try to chill. Any aliasing, colour banding or blocking you see, or lack of bitrate ... they are special effects meant to be there!"
Five years has passed, and encoding tools and methods have greatly improved. Yet we are still unable to make this atypical American-made anime comply to our standard of perfection as we have always been doing for its Japanese counterparts. Severe aliasing and banding are the main issues found in the Blu-ray source. As far as aliasing is concerned, we first downscaled the source to 540p. By doing so the aliases were small enough to get processed by an anti-aliasing filter. The output was then reconstructed back to 1080p. When it comes to colour banding, aggressive smearing was our only option. The two processing techniques independently fixed lines and background colours, so that damages to delicate textures were kept to a minimum.
RWBY has a wide range of SP contents. They come with different issues and were treated accordingly. PP for some commercials that have little to do with the main episodes were skipped. We are going to continue this project once sources for Vol.5-7 are released.
给 LP 挖了个坑,然后大家一起进了火葬场。(LP:你自己提的番,哭着也给我整理完。) —— 黑羽
I don't know where we should go. Just feeling farther from our goal. I don't know what path we will be shown. But I know that I'm with you I'm at home. —— icefires