Seed of Might is proud to present our version of Dragon Ball GT. In this fan-created work you'll get the best of the best when it comes to:
Video
By far the most ambitious portion of this final version is the color correction process. We spent over a full year to white balance, color correct and filter all 64 episodes of DBGT. That’s about 1530 minutes or 1,843,200 frames of footage.
After the white balance was completed, we referenced hundreds of examples coming from the original cel production materials. This was important to ensure the end result was actually accurate in addition to being nice to look at. Being an all-volunteer group with no corporate deadlines to meet, we had the greatest resource of all; time. We used that time to go over the results of our work again and again until we achieved the greatest overall result reasonably possible. If you’d like to learn more about specifics, you can read the write-up of the color correction process here (We even have a “Night-Mode” version of the document)
Don’t feel like reading all that? Well, these images speak for themselves:
(Before then after format)
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Audio
For Japanese audio, gone are the muffled sounds of the optical audio present on home releases. In its place you'll get high quality Broadcast Audio tracks captured, shared, cleaned, and synced. If you're unfamiliar with the home release audio problems and what the difference broadcast audio makes, check out an example video here.
If you're really interested in the history of why this is, this video offers a great explanation:
For fans of the English dub, that is also included and synced losslessly. The “Remastered” Dub with original Tokunaga score is retained as-is from our previous release. The original FUNi dub with Mark Menza replacement score is presented in two different tracks - the first track mimics the presentation of the Green Bricks by including English language covers of the Japanese OP and EDs. The second track replaces the OP/EDs with extended versions of the “Step Into The Grand Tour” OP/EDs. This version has been replaced with HiFi VHS recordings for all 64 episodes. AB Groupe’s “Big Green” dub of the special is also included.
Due to size consideration and group priorities, we have not included any other language dubs. This is one reason why it was important for us to use Toei's DBOX video as a sync. It can be considered the most "universal" since studios would likely license this version from Toei themselves. This gives other fans around the world the chance to sync their preferred dub track to what we've made.
Subtitles
Generally satisfied with the official subtitles, we've applied some small tweaks to ensure Toriyama's favorite puns are preserved as well as other minor corrections.
Our default subtitle track takes advantage of the Advanced SubStation Alpha format to create dynamic subtitles with the size, color, and font designed in a way to make it look like the signs are part of the video. We've even added these subtitles to the ED credits this time around.
Prefer more traditional subtitles? A simplified version of the translation is also available. If you only want these cool signs and listen to the English dub, we even have a subtitle track that only has these great signs. Speaking of the English dub, we synced and corrected a “Dubtitles” track. Subtitles that match exactly what is being said in the English Funimation Dub. For the final subs track, we even included Japanese transcription fully synced from the Japanese Closed Caption rebroadcasts (if anyone is actually weeb enough to use it).
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FAQs
Let me take this time to answer some questions I anticipate people may have.
Q1. Why didn’t Seed of Might upscale this one? Surely it would look better in HD right? Bigger numbers in resolution means a better picture right?
A1. Most software upscalers tend to create decent results in single images but fall apart in motion. It’s not a coincidence that most upscales you see shared are only of still images or occasionally low-quality video that masks these issues. This criticism applies to the best current upscales with trained models that take time and decent processing power, so “easy” fan upscales where people say they will just “throw it in Topaz '' look even worse. As a group we feel that MPV configured with ewa_lanczossharp now accomplishes great upscaling with no detail destruction. People have viewed this video on large 4K TVs, and the real-time upscale creates an incredibly good image. Note that for awhile we recommended spline36, but now that most hardware can run ewa_lanczossharp fine, we've opted to use that instead. We have a pre-configured MPV for Windows and Mac on our Discord that uses these settings. Great for anime and live-action as well.
Q2. OK that’s nice and all, but this project sounds pretty ambitious. I’ve seen tons of projects that go nowhere. When do you expect to finish all of this?
A2. Now. As in literally right now. It’s done. Enjoy.
Q3. What else have you done besides DBGT?
A3. We did the same process for the original Dragon Ball show. Check out the thread here.
Q4. Where can I find out about future projects like these?
A4. We have a Twitter/X https://x.com/seedofmight
BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/seedofmight.bsky.social
Discord https://discord.com/invite/5HuFcx5msE
