- 1080p -
Audio Track 1 (Default): English 2.0 FLAC
Audio Track 2: Japanese 2.0 FLAC
Subtitle Track 1 (Default): English Signs & Songs (.ASS)
Subtitle Track 2: English Dialogue [UTW modified] (.ASS)
Dual-audio remux featuring my own 1080p encodes and modified UTW subtitles. I tweaked the timing of the OP/ED karaoke to be more consistent with fades and scenechanges in the video, restyled the dialogue, reworked some of the TS, removed the ‘TS notes’ (I thought they looked horrendous and usually didn’t add much to the scene) and fixed a couple more errors and scenebleeds that UTW left. I was also able to add italics for all kinds of dialogue that needed it (TV, phone talk, internal thoughts, et cetera) thanks to the extensive work my friend basheer_naimi provided.
Similar to Deanzel’s release, I opted to use the English 2.0 LPCM 16bit tracks from the UKBD, rather than the AC-3 192kbps ones from the USBD. Everything was synced and encoded to FLAC in Audacity.
Video-wise, Fate/Zero is a bit of a doozy. The BDMV contains an outrageous amount of film grain (the most I’ve ever seen in an anime BDMV), resulting in astronomically high bitrates when attempting to encode it. Episode 15 is particularly brutal. At first I was just going to make a remux using the very best 1080p encodes I could find (which, after a lot of downloading and comparing, turned out to be the 86.4 GB release from Salender-Raws), but upon closer inspection I noticed the encodes suffer from heavy discolorization compared to the BDMV due to very strong chroma denoising. There’s also the complete lack of debanding that made me shy away from Salender-Raws. The second best was mawen1250, but the luma denoising was far stronger than Salender-Raws and there was plenty of artifacting and detail loss from a lack of video bitrate.
And so, I had no choice but to do my own encodes. The heavy amount of film grain makes for an extremely sensitive source, so I stuck with adaptive BM3D denoising and only targeted bright areas to ensure minimal detail loss. Other filtering includes rescaling, insaneAA, anti-aliasing, some chroma denoising, debanding and dehaloing. 1080p credits, signs and logos were all manually excluded from filters that would otherwise damage them. I experimented a couple of hours with x265 but ultimately wasn’t satisfied with the results, so I stuck with x264. Downscaling to 855p didn’t look very good either. Perhaps in a few years from now I’ll re-do these encodes with AV1, as I do think 96 GB for 25 episodes is pushing it (although interestingly enough, x264 still reported a lot of these episodes as not being transparent). If you want smaller files that offer the same quality, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. Any other 1080p release out there is noticeably worse, and there’s not many (if any) great native resolution encodes to choose from, let alone x265/AV1 ones.
This release wouldn’t have been possible without Moodkiller, so big thanks to him for allowing me to encode these episodes with his rig.
Enjoy!
Comments - 46
Astral
Thanks friend.
DecretumGratiani
wooohooo!! <3
Basheer33
so hot!!
akabane
will you be doing others in the series?
ThePi7on
Thank you!
John_Rhogan78
One of my favorite anime series.
Marche
Did you cross check it with Noem-light’s modifications?
Dark-Angel
Wonderful!
herkz
please just use vfr.py
Scyrous (uploader)
@akabane - might look into doing UBW at some point
@Marche - nope. this batch does not include the specials, and personally I don’t care too much about terminology as everyone has different opinions on what to use.
@herkz - I’ll pass, but thanks
ShadowVlican
my god… thanks for the hard work you put into these!!!
Ackerman4Life
holy fuck, thankyou so much!!
herkz
you’re just making the work a lot harder for yourself and probably fucking it up in the process. not to mention audacity is only an option if the audio is lossless. i guess you can’t expect much competence from BD subbing groups who never learned how to fansub.
Bl4Cc4t
but LPCM is lossless, no?
ChaoXide
@herkz
Just like you can’t expect quality encodes from fansubbers who think “encoding isn’t an important process”.
Scyrous (uploader)
Syncing Aniplex audio in Audacity is not “a lot harder”. Only one small delay is needed for every episode. How many of my projects have English audio that isn’t synced properly? I’ll tell you: none.
LPCM is lossless, darling. Please stop trying to make a fool out of yourself.
Vanzz
Poor herkz…
RozDa
somebody do Comparison please
Kuromii
Do it yourself, you lazy git
proto_type
Is this worth downloading if I already have Deanzel’s release?
StazCherryBlood
Is there a chance for the attachments?
Umu
thanks
will you do ubw?
teotikalki
@proto_type I was wonderfing how this compared to Deanzel’s as well. Deanzel has an extra pair of subs included (Retail); the base set is also modified UTW (I’m guessing SCY’s work updated these, but Deanzel was my original reference for amazing quality subs).
Tashi
@teotikalki
Deanzel includes the official Blu-ray Disc PGS English and this doesn’t.
MattyMcFatty
guys can anyone seed this a little faster for me??
I don’t think 30kbps is gonna cut it.
Sugomi
this version vs coalgirls release who is better?
Archer0034
@Sugomi I’d prefer SCY
nabiru3
coalgirls wasn’t that great even back then I opted for UTW, and this shows some improvements over UTW’s encode, but I am gonna stick with what I have for the simple reason that I can’t afford 100GiB for a 24 series.
AbsoluteOwO
The best available encode on nyaa si for fate zero
Thanks scy the quality is god speed (づ。◕‿‿◕。)づ
King_of_Mongrels
Thank you very much for this!! The quality is absolutely perfect!!
Satan
Thanks
TheUnKnowN
is there any link to grab those subs?
Turu
yes check out or their site or get it from animetosho
TheUnKnowN
@Turu checked animetosho found nothing
afampis
Does anyone have a google drive link for this?
Ingenioussubs
When you realize you’re only downloading this for SCY’s amazing modified subs. Thank you so much SCY!
Ingenioussubs
Best encode for Fate/Zero. Thanks again.
George15
Scyrous, I respect you, but damn that’s huge as fuck. I’m gonna download it. Thanks!
Elite2554
Whoa…!!! Great Job buddy…Thanks a lots…
drgn
Holy work man. This is incredible.
_Edge_
thanks
Zynthia
epic
Campyfire
holy 100gb. i should delete gtav for the sake of fate/zero
alilice
merci.
HachiRokuNiSanKyu
What’s wrong with HEVC? Some people say it produces worse quality. Is that true? Please let me know, since I’ll start encoding myself soon.
HachiRokuNiSanKyu
Beatrice is better. The AA is much better. I don’t see any better grain or texture retention on your encodes.