Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun) Complete

Series

Sav1or	Episodes	MyAnimeList	TVDB	Source	Encode Notes
Season 1	24 (S01E01-S01E24)	Toaru Kagaku no Railgun	A Certain Scientific Railgun	IK, Beatrice-Raws
OVA - MMR	2 (S00E01-S00E02)	Toaru Kagaku no Railgun: Motto Marutto Railgun	MMR: Much More Railgun	Judgement	--cpu-used=3 --cq-level=24 --photon-noise 8
OVA	1 (S00E03)	Toaru Kagaku no Railgun: Entenka no Satsuei Model mo Raku Ja Arimasen wa ne.	#13' Special: Being a Photo Shoot Model Under the Sun Isn't Easy, You Know	Judgement	--cpu-used=3 --cq-level=24 --photon-noise 8
OVA	1 (S00E04)	Toaru Kagaku no Railgun: Misaka-san wa Ima Chuumoku no Mato desu kara	#Ex OVA: Since Misaka-san is the Centre of Attention Right Now	IK, Beatrice-Raws
Season 2 - Railgun S	24 (S02E01-S02E24)	Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S	A Certain Scientific Railgun S	IK, Beatrice-Raws	E01-E12 AOM-AV1-Lavish, E13-E24 SVT-AV1 1.7.0 --photon-noise 2
OVA - MMR	2 (S00E07-S00E08)	Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S: Motto Marutto Railgun	MMR III: Much More Railgun III	IK, Beatrice-Raws
OVA	1 (S00E09)	Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S: Daiji na Koto wa Zenbu Sentou ni Osowatta	All the Important Things I Learned in a Bathhouse	IK, Beatrice-Raws
Season 3 - Railgun T	25 (S03E01-S03E25)	Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T	A Certain Scientific Railgun T	IK, Airota&VCB-Studio&LoliHouse
OVA - MMR	2 (S00E12-S00E13)	Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T: Motto Marutto Railgun	MMR V: Much More Railgun V	IK, Airota&VCB-Studio&LoliHouse

Release

A complete Dual Audio release encoded in AV1 and OPUS for optimum size and quality. Files are named to support media servers like Plex using TVDB metadata.

Encoding Details:

Halfway through encoding Season 2, SVT-AV1 1.7.0 was released and the performance improvements at the settings we use could not be ignored. While there are some caveats with comparing the Lavish AOM fork and SVT, we switched encoders mid-season in order to capitalize on the performance improvements on our setup. To the very discerning eye you will spot differences between the two on a case-by-case basis. However, the overall quality is within our target for Railgun.

AOM-AV1 with Av1an (--photon-noise 14)

--end-usage=q --cpu-used=5 --cq-level=30 --disable-kf --kf-min-dist=12 --kf-max-dist=240 --enable-dnl-denoising=0 --denoise-noise-level=0 --color-primaries=bt709 --transfer-characteristics=bt709 --matrix-coefficients=bt709 --threads=1 --tile-rows=0 --tile-columns=1 --enable-keyframe-filtering=1 --aq-mode=0 --tune-content=psy --tune=ssim --enable-qm=1 --lag-in-frames=48 --quant-sharpness=3 --quant-b-adapt=1 --sb-size=dynamic

SVT-AV1 with Av1an (--photon-noise 2)

--preset 6 --crf 30 --keyint 240 --lp 1 --film-grain 0 --film-grain-denoise 0 --color-primaries 1 --transfer-characteristics 1 --matrix-coefficients 1 --color-range 0 --irefresh-type 1 --aq-mode 1 --enable-overlays 1 --scd 0 --lookahead 48 --tune 2 --enable-cdef 0 --chroma-u-dc-qindex-offset -1 --chroma-u-ac-qindex-offset -1 --chroma-v-dc-qindex-offset -1 --chroma-v-ac-qindex-offset -1 --enable-tf 0 --enable-qm 1 --qm-min 5 --qm-max 9

This project is a coarse production with the goal of the smallest video size without noticeable loss in quality (ie. artifacts, banding, loss of grain/detail, etc.). This is not the hallmark of AV1 - but close enough. - Sav1or

Thanks to the helpful people on the AV1 Anime Discord. This project was also a request from the server.

Source

Thanks to the following sources:

• IK - S01-S03 Video, Audio, Subtitle
• Beatrice-Raws - S01-S02 Video, Audio, Subtitle
• Judgement - S00E01-S00E03 Video, Audio, Subtitle
• Airota&VCB-Studio&LoliHouse - S03 Video, Audio, Subtitle

Media Info