Japanese subs are already cropped. Haven’t really worked with subtitles before but yes, will be including them in the final release and make them seperately available for the mp4 once completed - do people prefer forced or hard coded for a project like this?

As for AVCHD - unless I can get decent upscaling results, I’ll probably just release a VERY high quality SD version - with 1.5 GB going to audio, might as well. For anyone interested, I’m happy to compress this down as tight as possible losslessly and send it to get a proper upscale. I don’t own the SR plugin, and have always just made attempts with the demo.

The MP4 is CRF 14.

Looks like a few people have finished grabbing this - any thoughts?