I don’t use this site as much as IFDB so I’m a little behind, but my quality rebuild is finished and I’ve made a few changes and improvements, outside of increasing the overall Video and Audio quality by upping my source file rips (They were really compressed before)
Episode 2:
I always loved how Anti-Cringe moved the scene “My lord Elrond, the dwarves… They’re gone.” to come right after Galadriel shows up. I thought it was genius. However, someone recently pointed out to me that we see Thorin and Bilbo dropping eves on that conversation like 30 seconds prior to that announcement, so it was a continuity error that was perhaps pretty minor, but one that bugged me enough to change it! The Rivendell sequence now only has 1 night, instead of 2. (Day arrival -> Dinner -> Night Moon Runes -> Night Eavesdropping -> Galadriel -> Bilbo explores Rivendell the following morning -> Departure)
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I only used the 2nd half of the walking Montage because I plan on using the 1st half in Episode 1 to transition from the troll hoard to Rivendell like M4 did (had a few people suggest this) however my version includes the Gandalf/Galadriel conversations.
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Realized Bilbo falling off the cliff actually has a contuinity error in the original film. Rearranged some shots to fix this
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Toned down Thorin raging at Bilbo for said fall, just a little (TM2YC)
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Removed Gandalf noticing Bilbo put the ring in his pocket, and added back his “Awwww” expression towards Bilbo once Bilbo gives his wholesome speech @Hal9000
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Replaced the slowed shot I used of Bilbo at the ending with a cropped and zoomed version of the same shot for removing the caption. @Wraith and I discussed this a while back and I thought it looked weird, but when I saw @TM2YC 's edit and barely noticed, I realized it was the way to go.
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I had a few people critique how the end of this episode goes from movie 1 to movie 2, but honestly I think this is the single best thing @DonKamillo did in his edit (and I liked a LOT) so I refuse to budge on it!
Episode 3:
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Sauron’s eye at Mirkwood re-instated, but does not relate to the Ring or Bilbo @Wraith
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Sequence from Entering Mirkwood to the Spider attack has been restored and left untouched. I shortened it after some feedback, then got some different feedback saying it was too short, and I always liked it to begin with so I put it back in.
Episode 4
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I previously mimicked L8wrtr’s version of the dwarves not giving up when they couldn’t find the keyhole, then I tried Maple’s, ended up with M4’s.
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Remove Sauron’s eye when Bilbo takes off the ring (Smaug encounter). Now, the only time Sauron’s eye shows up in my edit is right before Gandalf leaves Mirkwood. This was done at Wraith’s recommendation to disassociate the Ring from feeling so "LotR-Prequel"y, and place that foreshadowing on Gandalf’s shoulders, so it can be fleshed out in Episode 4.5
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Created new sequence during the Smaug encounter (modeled off of Maple Films) to make a better transition