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Post #494800

Author
Doctor M
Parent topic
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Extended and Enhanced by Doctor M (Released)
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Date created
28-Apr-2011, 2:55 PM

Here is deleted scene #1 integrated into the movie: http://www.mediafire.com/?n5bkoj3y4n1kvu3

I need a ruling on this from the community.

The deleted scene itself is a straight cut in the middle of a tracking shot.  I had constructed a custom close-up shot cropped from the Blu-Ray to put in to hide the cut between the two clips.

The thing is, I adjusted the levels and color corrected, and left a straight cut as a place holder while I worked with other things.  Then I noticed the cut was almost invisible anyway.

So first I'd like to know if the cut from the theatrical footage to the deleted scene is noticeable and/or a problem.   (I'll also take feedback on my color correction.  I don't think perfect is possible.).

Second, once the audio in the scene was upmixed to 5.1, you could tell the ambient hallway noise was different from the sound in the rest of the scene.

To make things worse the last several seconds of the deleted scene is a riff on the dialog and giggle from the next shot in the theatrical cut.

To fix this I took the theatrical cut of the scene's audio and re-encoded a 5.1 track with the center channel muted.

So what you are hearing is a mix of a custom "hallway noise" track, with a DPLII upmix of the deleted scene.  Hopefully the final product is seamless with consistent volumes throughout.

To fix the giggle and dialog I kept the deleted scene's giggle (assuming it's what drew Harry and Hermione's attention), muted the later giggle from the theatrical audio and muted the rest of the deleted scene until the theatrical footage comes in with the dialog.

Comments? Questions? Concerns?