Trigun (new Funimation release)

[Mister Hatt]

The main reason R1's look worse is the fact that funi insist on cramming far too many episodes onto much smaller disks.

I don't like bluray anime most of the time. Everyone has a huge hardon for 1080p, so content that ISN'T 1080p always gets hurfed on. Trigun is ofc a cell animated series, so it can be recaptured at 1080p, but most recapturing companies in Japan at least seem to such fairly bad. There are a few exceptions though. America however just pointresize().warpsharp()'s everything from 480i to 1080p and thinks it looks :AWSUM:

Re your clean fields comment, it might just be a strange pattern, but if you cycled every possible match and didn't find anything then I guess it's just shitty mastering. The Japanese DVD isn't covered by extra grain to hide issues, it is more that the American DVD smoothed the shit out of it. Grain doesn't get in the way of matching, but other factors might be confusing TFM. If this is happening, you didn't do your metric collections properly, if you collected metrics at all. If you skipped on metrics, then you either don't know how to use YATTA properly, or you know far more about manual IVTC than anyone else on this forum. I think even I have only done a fully manual IVTC a dozen or so times.

[Cannonaire]

Thanks for the input, Hatt. Yeah, definitely looks like Funi decided for no good reason that grain was a defect.

When i first tried YATTA, I just went straight in without collecting metrics which obviously didn't work. I've since collected metrics with YMC, but I haven't had time to go any further with learning the correct way to use YATTA yet. Maybe tonight or tomorrow.

[Mister Hatt]

Actually for the best result you don't WANT metrics. However that is some high level shit and I don't know too many people who do that unless they know for a fact that hey are dealing with single-pattern material (hi TokyoMX)

I don't think funi wanted to remove the grain, rather I think they just over-quantized the shit out of it to fit so many episodes on a disc.

[Scintilla]

I don't think funi wanted to remove the grain, rather I think they just over-quantized the shit out of it to fit so many episodes on a disc.

Anyone know if the original Pioneer release has the same problem? I remember that being something like six to eight disks.

[Cannonaire]

I don't have any working experience with the Pioneer/Geneon release, but I have looked back at a bunch of old AMVs. Due to the high compression, I can't say for certain whether the grain was destroyed, but there appears to be a lot of random blocking/noise that looks an awful lot like what happens when you compress very grainy footage. I would guess the Pioneer release keeps most of the grain, however the transfer is pretty bad. There is severe rainbowing all over, and though I haven't found a specific example yet, dot crawl often goes hand-in-hand with rainbowing. Looking at footage from different episodes I have worked with in the context of the old AMVs, they also have the same problems plaguing the R2J release, episode 2 for example being very blurry with blended fields but no halos, and most of the rest of the series having bad haloing.

Bottom line:
Until someone decides to make a new R2 release without these problems (if that's even possible at this point), all sources you can get will have problems. Right now the best option is still the R2J DVD release, and choosing between the new and old R1 releases leaves you with a second-hand mess.