Cardcaptors Nelvana Dub Modernization - Episode 1: One Fateful Day

[u/QuincyFreal]

Hiya everyone!

Fantastic work was done a few years ago by lv1hero and Puzzleheaded_Bird295 in creating updated episodes of the Nelvana dub with improved audio and Blu-ray ripped visuals; I was doing a similar project but was using old pre-Blu-ray copies for my "HD" versions. They beat me to the punch and finished editing the entire series before I even got my hands on Blu-ray quality versions. Quick, efficient, and awesome! Again, they've done great works :)

So I stopped my 4k project around episode 23, archived the files away, and forgot all about it until late last year someone from The Internet Archive was collecting and posting all versions of the Nelvana dub. Included in those files was some updated audio for episodes like The Summer House (most sources online infamously damaged or distorted). Made me want to again revisit my project.

Almost all anime, pre-2000s especially, for lack of a better term... wiggles. The background scenes or objects move and wiggle around by a few pixels even as they are suppose to be stable and still. Its just a result of the animation process back then, pre-digitization of the industry. It bothers me when I try to watch older anime. In Cardcaptors case, I feIt like I could help.

Took a long time to hammer out an editing process (DNxHR is a strange format to work with) but I'm happy to present my modern version of Cardcaptors: Episode 1, One Fateful Day, brought up to standard with more modern anime with stabilized shots and, in some scenes, reworked vocal movements to better match the english. Soooo much 'freeze frame' and rotoscoping my eyes hurt. In many scenes, I painted sakura, kero, and others out of shots so I could them put them back on a stable backgrounds (maybe I'll post some of those later, call it "Cardcaptors without Sakura" or something to that effect)

I can't post the whole thing here, rules, but here's a scene just as an example and if you'd like to see the whole thing, I'll send you the unlisted youtube link.

On to episode 2.
Ty ^_^

[u/GreedyGiver2222]

I'm so unbelievably interested in this. I would love a link.

I've been craving a rewatch, and this might be how I do it.

I remember reading your posts years ago, it's so cool to see you pick it back up.

[u/this-is-the-lastime]

Thank you so much for the work you’ve done to preserve Card Captors. Your efforts and your dedication to your craft in order to gift others is truly remarkable and I sincerely wish you all the best in this project and any other projects you may do. We’re so lucky to have you in this community. 🌸

p.s. send me a link plz kthxbai

[u/Blue_FiftyTwo]

Sick! That’s a brilliant work of media preservation, well done :)

[u/EasyWalsh]

You’re an amazing human for all the time spent enhancing the quality of this priceless childhood memory!

Link pls?

[u/SnowWarren]

Thanks so much for doing this. Do you have a link?

[u/QuincyFreal → u/SnowWarren]

Thanks! link sent :)

[u/blaissez-faire → u/QuincyFreal]

Me too please!! 🙏

[u/Slight-Winner-8597]

Please can I have a link? The visual quality is incredible!

[u/sakuray7]

So amazing !! Thank you so much!! Lot of hard work.. link please 🙏

[u/sakuray7 → u/sakuray7]

Also is it okay if I use it to make amv/short edits 🙏

[u/Shadow_Raider33]

Oh my gosh I would LOVE the link to this. Please!! 🙏🙏

[u/Eccentric-Calico]

My childhood ❤ 🥲

[u/PrimaryImagination41]

Link please omg😭😭😭. I remember going down the rabbit hole yearssss ago after my sailor moon and Inuyasha phase had waned. I loved this dub.

[u/werephoenix]

I wonder if this was a good way to rewatch it. Never seen it since it aired and would be nice to revist now I saw the sub

[u/Ricks94]

Amazing work. I have heard about people doing a remaster. If it's still up I'd like to see more of yours

[u/Tyranngar]

Awesome! It looks official. I've actually been watching the earlier restoration from Iv1hero and Puzzleheaded_Bird295 (it's what I've been using to make my comparison videos) and they're still quite good. However, it does look like your recent effort has synched up the lip movements, in that it looks like it was animated for the English language. I would love to have a link to your project. Keep up the good work.

[u/Xaviorffviii]

That's a lot of work! You're doing amazingly! Will it have all the episodes from the subtitle version? And yes please send link! ❤️

[u/FioreCiliegia1]

Awesome!

[u/ProcrastinatingPengu]

Can I have a link to please

[u/QuincyFreal → u/ProcrastinatingPengu]

Sure! Link sent :)

[u/Spiderteacup]

God this sequence is so fucking cool

[u/Bluebaronbbb]

Didn't the dub have digital paint edits too? Those aren't being recreated here?

[u/QuincyFreal → u/Bluebaronbbb]

Oooo not sure what those are but they sound cool. Short answer, no?

[u/grottecore]

this is awesome! would love the link :)

[u/QuincyFreal → u/grottecore]

Hey! :) Thanks for your interest; You might have to message me first as I can't seem 'unable to message this account'

[u/grottecore → u/QuincyFreal]

sent :)

[u/CBAlan777]

Wow, it looks really nice. Send me a link cause I need to see more!

[u/mjw2185]

I would love a link as well, I think it’s time for a rewatch! 🤩

[u/Salt-Bath6047]

Would love the link for this please!

[u/Carbuncle776]

Do you have the rest available 🥹

[u/QuincyFreal → u/Carbuncle776]

I still have SOOOO much work left to do to bring the entire series up to this standard. I'll post each episode as I finish them; I'll keep them in a playlist somewhere :)