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About this mod
Remastered all Pre-Rendered Cutscenes to 4K - offering better video fidelity and quality.
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
- Donations
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• OVERVIEW •
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All Pre-Rendered Cutscenes in Life is Strange, has been remastered to 4K, uses Bink 1, due to Bink 2.3d requiring a commercial licence. I have attempted to mimic Bink 2 Full Range colours, as natively, Bink 1 supports limited colour range. A bug has been fixed, with the UE logo screen taking longer than usual to fade, as the Bink player in this game, is capped at 30 FPS, but the video is rendered at 60 FPS, causing a slo-mo effect.
The final visual results, demonstrate that the videos now look visually almost-lossless. File size is admittedly bloated, due to the obsolete Bink 1 compression, requiring high bitrate allocation for appropriate 4K frame quality.
I have worked on this, as it seemed appropriate, now that Max is returning in the sequel - Life is Strange: Double Exposure. I highly doubt that the game features Pre-Rendered videos, but if there are any, I will work on remastering them.
Not only that, but I am conflicted if the remastered versions, will receive the same treatment. Primarily, the videos are exported to lower quality by default (1280x720), possibly creating quality inconsistency between LiS and LiS Remastered 4K Pre-Rendered Cutscenes.
PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT RE-HOST MY FILES ON A THIRD-PARTY SITE. THIS ONLY AGGRAVATES AND CONVINCE ME FROM WORKING ON REMASTERED FMVs FURTHER, ESPECIALLY, WHEN I WAS NOT ASKED FOR PERMISSION.
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• REQUIREMENTS •
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• IMPORTANT NOTES •
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• INSTRUCTIONS •
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• REPORTING BUGS •
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‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
I highly recommend reporting bugs under the `Bugs` tab under this mod page, although, I am not always active on Nexus Mods. Alternatively, report any bugs in my Discord Server, which helps me to organise and remember known bugs to fix, more easily.
I will attempt to fix any known bugs as soon as I can, however, I am very busy with my own life, so delays are to be expected!
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• DISCORD SERVER •
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Join us at Discord, where you will get live updates regarding any new 4K Remastered FMVs and Pre-Rendered Cutscenes that are in the works and released. Besides this, you will always get the mirror links before anyone or anywhere else.
You will now get 2 days early access to the releases than anyone or anywhere else! You can have the opportunity to test out, before the release.
Invite Link.
Please read the rules before doing anything else on the server.
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• DONATIONS | DONATORS [SPECIAL THANKS] •
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‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
If you wish to support me with these projects, as they do not come cheap considering the cost of living crisis in the UK, on top of over-inflated prices, you can do so by the following:
THANK YOU TO THESE DONATORS!
It really means a lot to see you guys donating. Even just a dollar/pound/euro is appreciated. :)
If anyone, listed on here, wants their name privatised or replaced with their usernames, please let me know!
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• OVERVIEW •
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‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
- Steam Store Page
- Developed by: Square Enix, DONTNOD Entertainment.
- Game Engine Used: Unreal Engine 3.
- Video Codec Used: Bink 2.3d, Bink Compressor 2.4g.
- Original Video Resolution: 1920x1080.
- Audio Channels Supported: Stereo, 5.1 Surround Sound.
All Pre-Rendered Cutscenes in Life is Strange, has been remastered to 4K, uses Bink 1, due to Bink 2.3d requiring a commercial licence. I have attempted to mimic Bink 2 Full Range colours, as natively, Bink 1 supports limited colour range. A bug has been fixed, with the UE logo screen taking longer than usual to fade, as the Bink player in this game, is capped at 30 FPS, but the video is rendered at 60 FPS, causing a slo-mo effect.
The final visual results, demonstrate that the videos now look visually almost-lossless. File size is admittedly bloated, due to the obsolete Bink 1 compression, requiring high bitrate allocation for appropriate 4K frame quality.
I have worked on this, as it seemed appropriate, now that Max is returning in the sequel - Life is Strange: Double Exposure. I highly doubt that the game features Pre-Rendered videos, but if there are any, I will work on remastering them.
Not only that, but I am conflicted if the remastered versions, will receive the same treatment. Primarily, the videos are exported to lower quality by default (1280x720), possibly creating quality inconsistency between LiS and LiS Remastered 4K Pre-Rendered Cutscenes.
PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT RE-HOST MY FILES ON A THIRD-PARTY SITE. THIS ONLY AGGRAVATES AND CONVINCE ME FROM WORKING ON REMASTERED FMVs FURTHER, ESPECIALLY, WHEN I WAS NOT ASKED FOR PERMISSION.
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• REQUIREMENTS •
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‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
- 3.5" 5900RPM or better HDD, if the game is installed on an HDD.
- Entire pack requires about ~51GB, 25.5GB is required to extract the videos separately from the game folder.
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• IMPORTANT NOTES •
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- PLEASE use a reputable third-party download manager like Internet Download Manager [IDM] or JDownloader2. They are much better and reliable than browser's download manager. Any posts mentioning corrupted files, or anything along those lines, will not get any help from me!
- In-game brightness applies to the FMVs.
- Do not use Dolby Atmos for Home Theatre and any sound configuration beyond 5.1, that would cause audio tracks not to play properly.
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• INSTRUCTIONS •
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‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
- Open STEAM common folder, this is where your games are located. To do this, go to STEAM, find Life is Strange. Then Right-Click on it, go to Manage → Browse Local Files.
- Back up by one folder / go to common folder. You will see the folder in the directory path above in File Explorer, so you can just click on where it says "common".
- Drag and Drop in the Life is Strange folder from the archive inside the common folder. Replace files when asked by Windows.
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• REPORTING BUGS •
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‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
I highly recommend reporting bugs under the `Bugs` tab under this mod page, although, I am not always active on Nexus Mods. Alternatively, report any bugs in my Discord Server, which helps me to organise and remember known bugs to fix, more easily.
I will attempt to fix any known bugs as soon as I can, however, I am very busy with my own life, so delays are to be expected!
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• DISCORD SERVER •
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‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
Join us at Discord, where you will get live updates regarding any new 4K Remastered FMVs and Pre-Rendered Cutscenes that are in the works and released. Besides this, you will always get the mirror links before anyone or anywhere else.
You will now get 2 days early access to the releases than anyone or anywhere else! You can have the opportunity to test out, before the release.
Invite Link.
Please read the rules before doing anything else on the server.
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• DONATIONS | DONATORS [SPECIAL THANKS] •
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‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
If you wish to support me with these projects, as they do not come cheap considering the cost of living crisis in the UK, on top of over-inflated prices, you can do so by the following:
- Nexus Mods Donation [via PayPal]: My Nexus Mods Profile
- My Patreon Page.
- My Ko-fi Page
- Bitcoin: bc1qmvt4yqgyz7fq6z8knxywmplt2pfmhx38cdnx6l
- Ethereum: 0xAA78A2CcBb480eCdABe6b94423089e67a2f56b3C
THANK YOU TO THESE DONATORS!
- Richard E R
- Цыбискин А
- Fairlight Imaging
- David N - Top Donator [Thank you so much!]
- Jermaine W
- Nicholas P
- FahLou
- Victor A
- Ben R
- chotto matte
- Alfred M
It really means a lot to see you guys donating. Even just a dollar/pound/euro is appreciated. :)
If anyone, listed on here, wants their name privatised or replaced with their usernames, please let me know!