Brave Witches

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Series

SavI0r	Episodes	MyAnimeList	TVDB	Source
Season 1	12 (S01E01-S01E12)	Brave Witches	Brave Witches	anti-raws, NH, ColdYawn, Kitsunekko, ahmad_bahraini
OVA	1 (S00E01)	Brave Witches: Petersburg Daisenryaku	Petersburg Great Strategy	anti-raws, NH

Related Series

For more details see our releases linked below:

Strike Witches	Strike Witches: 501 Butai Hasshin Shimasu! (Strike Witches 501st Joint Fighter Wing Take Off!)	World Witches Hasshin Shimasu! (World Witches Take Off!)	Renmei Kuugun Koukuu Mahou Ongakutai Luminous Witches (League of Nations Air Force Aviation Magic Band Luminous Witches)
Original series with Seasons 1, 2, 3 (Road to Berlin), OVAs (Operation Victory Arrow), and Movie	Spin-off series with Season 1 and Movie	Spin-off series with Season 1	Spin-off series with Season 1

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Release

A 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.

SavI0r	Codec	Quality	Language	Notes
Video	AV1	1080p 10-bit		Rescale, SWAN
Audio	OPUS	Stereo (2.0) 128K	Japanese, English
Subtitle	ASS, SRT	decent	Japanese, Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish (Latin America)	Signs & Songs, Dialogue, SDH
Chapter		yes

Encoding Details:

We rescaled the JPBD via VapourSynth using ArtCNN and encoded with our SWAN system to target a SSIMULACRA2 score of ~80.

SVT-AV1-Psy 3.0.2 with Av1an (--photon-noise 16)

--preset 4 --crf 28 --color-primaries 1 --transfer-characteristics 1 --matrix-coefficients 1 --keyint 0 --aq-mode 2 --tune 2 --kf-tf-strength 1 --enable-qm 1 --qm-min 0 --qm-max 15 --variance-octile 6 --variance-boost-strength 2 --enable-dlf 2  --spy-rd 1 --psy-rd 0.5

This project is a production with the goal of the smallest video size with significant subjective compromises to image quality. This is not the hallmark of AV1, but close enough. This release should only contain changes to the video stream and audio tracks. The subtitle and attachment tracks are usually copied from the noted sources. Timings are not adjusted except in cases of extreme delay as a result of mixing sources. - SavI0r

Comparisons

The header above links to the comparison of S01E01 between the JPBD, the JPBD rescaled, NH as a larger HEVC release, and our resulting AV1. Below are a couple of those comparisons between the JPBD and this release.

JPBD	AV1

Source

Thanks to the following sources:

• anti-raws - Video, Audio, RU Subtitle, Chapter
• NH - EN Audio, EN Subtitle
• ColdYawn - S01 AR, DE, ES, ES-LA, FR, IT, PT Subtitle
• Kitsunekko - S01 JA Subtitle
• ahmad_bahraini - S01 FA Subtitle

Media Info