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[hydes] Cowboy Bebop The Movie - Knockin' On Heaven's Door V2 (IT BD Remux)
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### Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Knockin' on Heaven's Door v2 (IT BD version)
#### What's new in this v2:
* Better Japanese surround sound audio with little to no clipping, center channel bass frequencies intact, and 4 erroneously timed dialogue lines fixed
* Fully retimed and restyled subtitles
#### See also the [JP BD version](https://nyaa.si/view/1470155) of this v2!
#### [Discord](https://discord.gg/PMrccmpYTu)
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### Video
The video in this version of the v2 is a remux of the 2020 Dynit IT BD.
There's no good-looking version of this movie in existence, but the encode mp3dom did for Dynit's BD release of the same nearly-2-decade-old master that's been subsequently used by every overseas release since Sony's 2003 DVD is perhaps the least offensive option of the bunch. There *is* too the 2008 Bandai JP BD as one you'd think would be decent enough. However, despite not being based on the same master as all the non-Japanese DVD/BD releases, it arguably doesn't fare any better because of the sporadically blurrier image ([although the IT BD partly suffers from seemingly bad focus as well](https://slow.pics/c/0quCvZRw)) and the occasional black crush on it that leads to [severe loss of detail](https://slow.pics/c/ZTosWOCJ) in certain scenes. Add to that the fact that it, like many early Blu-rays, is windowboxed, and you've got overall unideal picture quality.
The picture on the IT BD is also all-around better stabilized than on the JP BD, with one prominent, albeit a singular, example of this being the shot of the Swordfish at 1h32min53s (1h32min41s on JP BD), which on the former is decently steady and uncontrollably shaky on the latter. That's just the worst case I could spot out, and I didn't personally find the ultimately only slight increase in shakiness throughout the movie to be a significant detriment to the experience. The JP BD isn't non-stop wobbling all over the place or anything like that. I thought I'd just give it a mention for anyone who might be more perceptive about that stuff and whose experience might be more negatively impacted by it.
Though it might sound like it comes on top, it's important to note that the Sony master used on the IT BD unquestionably has its own share of issues in the way of [DVNR artifacts](https://twitter.com/NLScavenger/status/1459981386127921155) appearing in many of the visually busier shots and the said in parts fuzzy focus. After learning about how frequently they pop up, the DVNR artifacts were one thing I tended to notice a lot on my recent rewatches. They're definitely something to keep in mind when deciding which version to go with. Another thing I can’t confidently say is really better on either one is the color. You’ll have to decide for yourself which look you prefer more there.
As the JP BD is windowboxed, I took the comparison screenshots of it using a zoom of 0.110 in mpv ([with spline36 enabled](https://slow.pics/c/Gpi6oDxl)) so that comparing it to the others would be easier. The 2011 Image Entertainment US BD isn't included since I don't have it at hand, but you can see from the comparisons up on [caps-a-holic](https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=2&x=539&y=76&d1=15759&d2=4235&s1=166809&s2=39428&l=1&i=0&go=1) that it's inferior to the Funimation US BD in terms of detail preservation.
### Audio
Of the 2018 Funimation US BD, 2020 Dynit IT BD, and 2008 Bandai JP BD, the JP BD had the best version of the Japanese 5.1 audio track. All releases except for the original Japanese one had [greatly attenuated low bass](https://slow.pics/c/r5tTmrjm) in the [center channel](https://slow.pics/c/rpDulAaf) (Ch. 3), and there's some slight clipping present at parts in the left (Ch. 1), right (Ch. 2), and center channels on them as well. To be clear, the JP BD track's center channel does also seem maximized somewhat and might very well be limited, just not to the point of clipping as early as the overseas version on the US/IT BDs does. To view the clipping for yourself, see the waveform screenshots linked below. See the spectrogram and mastering graphs if you're curious about the bass reduction issue and what frequencies exactly are affected by it.
I haven't compared the audio on any other BDs, but as per above, my understanding is that all overseas releases were provided with the same masters to work with by Sony, so it’s most likely safe to assume that they’re all identical and hence have the same flaws in their audio as the US/IT releases. That said though, I'm still very much interested to know about every release and will be glad to take a look at any I haven't yet compared. If you happen to own such a one and want to share, let me know.
The JP BD track is the best around, yet it isn't perfect. There were four plainly obvious out-of-sync dialogue lines on it that had gotten corrected on the overseas version, and so to correct them for this upload, I implemented the same fixes to the JP BD track. I didn't see a point in leaving off the fixes since they were clear improvements (one of Spike's lines while in jail with Electra was initially over 900 ms off from mouth flaps), didn't require removing/adding anything but silence and were thus relatively easy to accomplish.
Maybe a bit off-topic, but now that the version that best represents its strengths is known, I must also praise the killer mix on the surround track in question. If you are keen on good audio, even just in general, watching this movie with the Japanese 5.1 audio is never two hours poorly spent.
Seeing as the spectrograms, waveforms, and mastering graphs all show the English audio to be of equal quality between the US/IT BDs, and other releases [apparently have mixing errors](https://twitter.com/NLScavenger/status/1460186255510151172), I went with the safest option and took the dub track from the IT BD to use here.
### Subtitles
I used THORA's subtitles as a base, restyled them, and retimed all lines as none of the existing subtitles I looked at were to my own liking on closer inspection. A couple of lines were also split/joined when appropriate. All in all, the viewing experience should hopefully be a bit more pleasant now. Included as a legacy option are THORA's subtitles unchanged by me. Let me know if you find any errors!
### Comparisons
(Spectrogram and waveform comparisons now better split by channels.)
|Japanese 5.1|English 5.1
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|[Spectrograms](https://slow.pics/c/px1GCV41)|[Spectrograms](https://slow.pics/c/c8HtCzvy)|
|[Waveforms](https://slow.pics/c/Uu58RsNX)|[Waveforms](https://slow.pics/c/MoIfZEQG)|
|[Masterings](https://slow.pics/c/Tsx5jBEd)|[Masterings](https://slow.pics/c/GnBxCS5E)|
|Video|
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|[BD comparisons](https://slow.pics/c/zRdX8xHq)|
|[IT BD vs encodes](https://slow.pics/c/xgCvC4AJ)|
### Specifics
Video:
1. 2020 Dynit IT BD Remux (1920x1080, 23.976fps)
Audio:
1. Japanese 5.1 FLAC (2008 Bandai JP BD) (default)
3. English 5.1 FLAC (2020 Dynit IT BD)
Subtitles:
1. English [hydes] (default)
2. English [THORA]
[MediaInfo](https://pastebin.com/raw/Kp5yt4F8)
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[4]: https://i.imgur.com/VFUwdVY.png
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