Crash Twinsanity All Cutscenes in Full HD 60fps (AI Upscaled)

Download lossless upscale files + source fmvs:- https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Old upscales for comparison:-    • Crash Twinsanity Remastered Cutscenes  

checkout the in-game upscaled textures:    • Crash Twinsanity upscaled textures for PCSX2  


It's been close to 5 years since I last upscaled them. AI upscaling tech has progressed significantly since then. This time the files I uploaded on Google Drive are totally lossless, encoded on a very slow preset through Handbrake on x265 10 bit 60fps with 20CRF. Took me hours upon hours but it was worth it, small file size, easy web viewing, and perfect optimization.

Workflow: -

I used PAL FMVs and NTSC Audio, combined them to get the highest quality output. PSS Demux for audio extraction, ffmpeg to extract all frames then processed through gigapixel first (Video AI was terrible at upscaling in comparison) the only downside of using gigapixel was temporal inconsistency which you can probably notice but the detail retrieval capabilities were far superior to that of Video AI. So it was worth the compromise in my opinion. After upscaling the frames, I fed them into Video AI for interpolation using the Apollo model, disabled dupe frame checking and interpolated 2x and had it export to 16 bit pngs instead of to a video, again, trying to keep it as high quality and lossless as possible. Then I used ffmpeg to create a ffv1 video out of the frames and then fed the pcm.wav file to create the almost final output. I then fed that into Handbrake with the very slow preset and all that as I described above to a small but perfect output which are then uploaded to the GDrive. The YouTube video you see here is just a scaled and stretched all around with a lower bitrate with Davinci Resolve and shitty YouTube compression further ruining the quality. It's a showcase type thingy for quick viewing imo. Still decent, but not as good as the OG GDrive files. E.g in the NTSC Complete vid I kept the aspect ratio and black bars, unlike here in the YT upload where I removed those and stretched it in place. If you're still reading, I love you. Feel free to do whatever with the files as you please, but do tag me in whatever project you use it for, not because I want or need credit, but because I wanna see what the community does with it. Enjoy, hope my 80 hour long effort was worth it. To an outsider or an uninformed person all this may seem as easy as putting in a file and getting a perfect output out, but it's genuinely a lot more complex than that and there's still a great deal of thought and care that goes into this stuff.

Obligatory swearing so YT doesn't disable comments: -


Fuck shit piss cunt dickbutt.

I had to remove or merge chapters that were less than 10 seconds because YT doesn't like small chapters for whatever reason.

Chapters:

0:00 Vivendi and Traveller's Tales
0:19 Cutscene 1
0:56 Cutscene 2
2:01 Cutscene 3
2:41 Cutscene 4
3:23 Cutscene 5
4:12 Cutscene 6
4:29 Cutscene 7
4:56 Cutscene 8 and 9
6:20 Cutscene 10
7:32 Cutscene 11
8:19 Cutscene 12
9:29 NTSC Complete
10:44 PAL Complete
11:06 Bonus videos