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Now that DUNE and the Banned Bond sets have gone public, I thought it was time to start a FanFiltration Release & Feedback Thread .

Firstly I would like to thank my fellow film fans. Extra thanks must go out to Rikter for all the great help, the forces that run www.originaltrilogy.com, and to Xavier and the guys at MYSPLEEN. And to Ash595, thanks for the great DVD cover art for the Bond sets!


It is here that I ask for any and all feedback on my work to be posted. Please, I only ask that you be constructive with your remarks so that I may incorporate any ideas into my future fan works. Making fan edits is my way to interact with my fellow fans. They are only meant to be enjoyed as an education in film storytelling and not for profit of any kind other then personal enjoyment. Please support the official versions of films and buy lots of stuff at places like the local mall and Amazon. **Do not support those who sell other peoples fan work on Ebay!**

Please DON'T post, ask, or make any requests for copies of these DVD sets on this thread! This work is now out in the public domain, and must be obtained via non-profit fan interaction only. The FanFiltration sets are NOT FOR SALE!

Thanks!


At this time, the following fan edits & Preservation titles have been done by FanFiltration@hotmail.com

DUNE (FanFiltration Edit)
*2 DVD SET*
"This special reedit of “DUNE” was prepared by us at Fanfiltration to satisfy
fans whom have never been truly happy with “DUNE” in neither its truncated 1984
theatrical version, nor the version of the David Lynch film prepared
specifically for television markets with extended (yet poorly edited) footage.
In many places, scenes have been reedited to try and faithfully reconstruct
David Lynch’s original vision of the film using the December 9, 1983 shooting
script as a guide.

The film is presented in a “Pan & Scan” format; as no widescreen footage of the
extended cut scenes is available at the current time of this reedit production.

For this fan–created reedit of “DUNE”, every attempt has been made to enhance
grainy cutting–room–floor scenes that had been haphazardly inserted into the
“Allen Smithee” television version. Fanfiltration’s computer–generated effects
have been added to correct the missing “blue within blue eyes” that had been
left unfinished in the Smithee version. We also applied color correction to make
the clips match. These clips have been incorporated to allude to the dimension
of the characters and plotlines in Frank Herbert’s “DUNE”.

BANNED BOND: The Criterion Collection on DVD (Laserdisc Preservation)
*3 DVD SET*
Shortly after releasing the first 3 James Bond films on Laserdisc in a 2-disc CAV format in 1991, Criterion was asked by EON Productions (Producers of the James Bond Films) to recall all unsold Laserdisc product. It was felt that the audio commentary tracks on the 3 titles where unacceptable to Albert R. Broccoli, one of the original producers of the 3 films.
The 3 films had later been re-packaged by Criterion into a single disc format, and re-issued without any of the supplemental features. When MGM released their DVD’s of the first 3 films in the mid 1990’s, they contained different audio commentaries. Now, the original 2-disc Criterion versions go for big bucks on Ebay. I am proud to preserve these great films and their original Special Features on DVD for Bond Fans Everywhere.

DVD #1: DR. NO (The Criterion Collection)

*BANNED Audio Commentary
*Music and Effects Only Audio Track
*Bond Bread Television Commercials
*Information on Publicity and Advertising / Cast / Production Team
Original Theatrical Trailer

DVD #2: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (The Criterion Collection)

*BANNED Audio Commentary
*Information on Publicity and Advertising / Cast / Production Team
*S.P.C.T.R.E. Dossier
*007 Friends and Enemies
*Daniela and Sean
*The Literary History of James Bond
*British Secret Service Dossier

DVD #3: GOLDFINGER (The Criterion Collection)

*BANNED Audio Commentary
*Music and Effects Only Audio Track
*Bond Bread Television Commercials
Original Theatrical Trailer
*Information on Publicity and Advertising / Cast / Production Team
*Golden Girl
*Goldfinger Women
*Good Guys
*Bad Guys
*The Filmmakers
*Sets
*Cars

*Feature found only on The Criterion Collection

MORE TO COME

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I haven't yet watched any of your edits but they sound very very promising and I am going to do so soon. Keep up the great work. What I like especially is that you don't stop where others do: just the movie and that's it. Although it may be hard to believe for Americans, there is a world outside the States ;-) and we love movies the same way you do (probably). For the non-english-native-speakers subtitles are very important (I have heard that listening to David Duchovny and not having subtitles available is even hard for native speakers). It is enough to add english subtitles, just to be able to read what you hear. Also a nice menu and some Extras are very nice especially for collectors. You seem to be eager to give people more, so I just want to ask you, to not forget about non-Americans. If you don't want to add subtitles or don't have the time to do so, I may be of help here and hereby offer my services.
What will your next edit be?

Nothing about fanediting is easy.

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Thanks for your comments boon23. I have alot of fun making the DVDs. The extras are the best part of any DVD, and are a MUST! Look what is said about DVD titles that have little or no extras on Amazon, they get bad reviews. One of the things I wanted to add to the DUNE set was a text commentary, but there is alot of work entering the text to show up at the right time on the program. To be honest, I enjoy the editing part, the making menus part, and evan the building of the DVD in Adobe DVD Encore, but I HATE typing!

Right now I am still working on getting the Banned Bond set out.

My next projects are:

Star Wars Re-Making Magic (The Making Magic CD-ROM now on DVD with full remote navigation!!!)
It is 98% done and is being staled for some unknown reason on my part. All I need to do is add the 3 SE trailers and "making of" from SE laser set as an extra, but I am procrastinating for some reason. I know this disc will be a hit with the SW fans.

Star Wars *mystery project*
This is 45% done, and I still don't want to let the cat out of the bag on this one. This DVD project is something that has not been done by anyone in the fan community yet. **It's focus is on Episode 4**

The Chronological GODFATHER (Fanfiltration Edit)
99% Done! I am just trying to take my real name off the credits (This was a personal project), and make Fanfiltration versions out of it. the set at this time is 5 DVD's, and I would like to shrink it down a bit without too much loss.


A Hard Day's Night (Preservation Edition)
This is a restoration project. This DVD will present the film in it's correct aspect ratio, including the original MONO Soundtrack and the MPI Stereo remix. The DVD will have audio extras from the Beatles, a vintage making of video, the out-take "You Can't Do That", and more.

THUNDERBALL (THE ALTERNATE EDIT)
This edit of Thunderball will include all known variations not presented in the MGM DVD version.

Space 1999: The Movie
This is a re-edit of footage from original "Space 1999" shows to recreate the type of action and adventure storys we seem to remember from childhood, but somehow does not realy exist when re-viewing the episodes on DVD today. This is a labor of love, and is being done as a kind of homage to the Telemovie format of the 70's and 80's.

PINK FLOYD Live at POMPEII (Preservation Edition)
This is a re-creation of the films second edition/cut that was not included on the "Director's Cut" DVD. This is the edit most fans remember, and it is a reconstruction of the film as seen on the 1980's VHS tape.

Halloween Mega-Edit:
Still in the concept phase.


MORE TO COME
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Star Wars *mystery project*
This is 45% done, and I still don't want to let the cat out of the bag on this one. This DVD project is something that has not been done by anyone in the fan community yet. **It's focus is on Episode 4**


Wait, wait, let me guess...

"The Phantom Menace: How George Lucas Took the Greatest Science Fiction Trilogy Ever and Single-Handedly Flushed It Down the Toilet."

Edit: Oh wait, forgot, it focuses on Ep 4, not Ep 1. Well, there's a fantastic idea there for the taking.
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Your projects sound awesome!
I author DVDs myself as well, but only from stuff I capture via PVR or d/l in pre-made .AVIs, and I like Ulead DVD Workshop 2.
Does your Godfather set cut the showing of characters having flashbacks and move the flashback scenes to the first disc, in chrono order with the family story?
My pals I were a bit disappointed with "Spider-Man", so I thought it would be cool to cut the second half of it off and attach the first half to the sequel, with only a bare-bones bit of flashback-type review over the whole 2nd half of the first film to segue to "Spider-Man 2".
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Well people are already getting their copies of the Dune extended Region 1 dvd and are happy to report that yes the Smithee cut is in it's orignal aspect ratio and there are additional deleted scenes on the disc,just wondering if another go at a fan re-edit will be taking place?
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The Star Wars Re-Making Magic DVD is SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is gonna be a hit!


And the Bond DVD's are VERY VERY NICE! Thanks man I will be adding these all to the upload queue

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Yeah, I definitely cannot wait to get my hands on Re-Making Magic.

I used to be very active on this forum. I’m not really anymore. Sometimes, people still want to get in touch with me about something, and that is great! If that describes you, please email me at [my username]ATgmailDOTcom.

Hi everybody. You’re all awesome. Keep up the good work.

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Oh My!

I forgot to make an official announcement about Star Wars Re-Making Magic being done, and that it's in testing phase.

That DVD has over 200 menus that had to be programmed. We also made it so you can now move through the entire program just using the enter button on a remote. The CD-ROM was annoying in this regard. There is a very obvious Easter egg off of the main menu.

Rikter, thanks so much for helping me test this project and with all the help getting it to fans!

Today, I just got done with my latest restoration project on yet another great film.

An announcement will be coming soon.

FF

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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The SW disc will be PIF'd in my next mailing (Blaksvn-Torrentz Seeder team first) & a few more to some other close friends here, so once you guys get copies please PIF

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Originally posted by: THX-1138
Space 1999: The Movie
This is a re-edit of footage from original "Space 1999" shows to recreate the type of action and adventure storys we seem to remember from childhood, but somehow does not realy exist when re-viewing the episodes on DVD today. This is a labor of love, and is being done as a kind of homage to the Telemovie format of the 70's and 80's.


as a Big fan of this show, I am curious to see this

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A Hard Day's Night (Preservation Edition)
This is a restoration project. This DVD will present the film in it's correct aspect ratio, including the original MONO Soundtrack and the MPI Stereo remix. The DVD will have audio extras from the Beatles, a vintage making of video, the out-take "You Can't Do That", and more.


What are the differences between this and the official DVD? From what I understand, there were things not included on the official release, but I'm not sure what they were.

And where are Help, and Magical Mystery Tour, and Let It Be on official DVD already?
We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
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i am super excited for all these projects to complete! the DUNE 2Disc set is awesome

thanks again

and, p.s. torrents torrents myspleen torrents
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The Torrent for this will be up in a few hours

http://home.comcast.net/~tk420/FanFiltration_-_Making_Magic_Cover_-_SAMPLE.jpg

FanFiltration - I do hope the cover is okay...

For those that think it's okay you can DL the cover HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE

ENJOY!

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Originally posted by: Rikter
The Torrent for this will be up in a few hours

http://home.comcast.net/~tk420/FanFiltration_-_Making_Magic_Cover_-_SAMPLE.jpg

FanFiltration - I do hope the cover is okay...

For those that think it's okay you can DL the cover HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE

ENJOY!



Great Work!!!!!

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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QUOTE from myspleen comment by metalshop"I would like to make a comment here on this edition or fan edit. While I am very grateful to have been able to get this one, I must say that I was somewhat disappointed with it as fan edits go.

The sound on this particluar issue was in my opinion not very good. Matter of fact, I have had to turn the sound all the way up just to gain some richness in the sound of the film itself. The parts where the music or score is highlighted, I then have to turn it down in order to balance the sound out. Then in parts where there is dicussion going on, the sound has to then be turned up to be able to hear it.

I have watched this on the computer with my nice flat screen 22 inch CRT and I have to say as fan edits go, this one was quite dull in texture, and was somewhat smudged if that is the word I am looking for.

The detail was not there, it was somewhat a blur in that you could tell it was not the greatest print to be copied from. I think that in part 1, I have only seen about 3 or so areas which were not shown in various versions I have seen. Adding them to me or in my opinion, didn't give much to the overall scheme of the film itself. If one had to source this, one would hope it would have been on a better print. I had felt at times like I was actually watching some poor resoltuion image from a TV program as opposed to something that had been given a good treatment by someone so good as the author of this fan edit.

Not taking anything away from him or his work or the monumental task of what he did, however one wonders if it was indeed worth it to add scenes at the expense of sound and picture quality.

I know that I am no editor myself, however I wasn't impressed at all with the sound. The first thing that did stick out however was that the print itself was weak, and almost look like some old copy from VHS.

Anyway, the next thing I noticed was the sound, which was not what should have been. No one likes turning something up and down all the time for balance, and the richness in sound that I have seen on regular views of this show pales on this edit.

I do however want to thank the author and editor for this work, as I am sure it was a very hard task to complete, and he richly deserves much credit for the time and effort that he spent for the viewing public."

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Dito.
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All I can say to the above is,

"Hey, it was free!".



But seriously, the purpose of my DUNE edit was not to replace or preserve a high quality version of DUNE (go to Amazon.com for that).
That edit was only meant to demonstrate to fellow DUNE fans how MCA could have used a bit of editing skill and some new blue eye animation to have made a better version with the footage they have in the vaults. As we have seen in this last DVD release, MCA Video just don't care to put any effort at all into giving the fans a decent extended edit of that film. The FanFiltration edit was taken from a 1980's Pan and Scan laserdisc (The print looks like crap to start with), and a PAL format DVD (converted to NTSC) of the T.V. version that I feel may be far from an official print (via Ebay). Sorry, but I was not going to just go out and obtain pristine prints and some high quality media equipment just to splice together a conversation piece that I would not profit from in any way. This is a "Fan" edit meant for simple FREE trade and film education. It's not a Laserdisc preservation or product for mass distribution at a profit.

DUNE was my first distributed project, and I enjoyed making it. After that edit was done, I made some investments in better video editing programs and a much better video and AC-3 encoder. Now that I got the hang of things, I believe people have seen some much better video / laserdisc transfers done by me on my later projects like "Banned Bond" and "Star wars: Making Magic DVD".

But still, thanks for the input.


FF

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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FF,

I haven't yet seen your edit but I'm hoping that works itself out in due time. Meanwhile, I'm considering my own hybrid edit of the Lynch and Smithee editions in hopes of taking advantage of the new anamorphic releases. I haven't attempted to manipulate video yet, but how did you fix the blue-within-blue eyes where necessary? Care to share any trade secrets? Any freeware or trialware programs that can do this? Is there any list of the scenes where this oversight happened to make access a bit quicker?

I'm also hoping to restore some of the deleted scenes that are in neither cut (I'll have to upsample them to anamorphic but I've gotten pretty good at that lately), use Irulan's (extended) intro and voiceovers, cut out some of the outright wrong fx shots, and who knows what from there. Right now it's only an idea in my head and nothing more. I'm still jonesing to see your cut. It sounds wayyyyyyy cool.

I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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I sure wish that some one would seed the Banned bonds so I can get a copy
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I was really surprised by how short the Dune FF Edit was.
I assumed it would be longer than the Allan Smithee version (I have a VHS from the SciFi Channel) but it looked to be 15-20 minutes shorter.
Still pretty nice, but I kept feeling like I lost pieces.

Dr. M

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i liked the DUNE/FF cut - my only gripe is that it was fullscreen -

obviously the source material is the culprit, so me and my widescreen tv have coped with that, eheh

but now, a widescreen/dvd-quality release would make so much sense right now
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Does anyone have torrent links for these edits as well as links to the covers?

*clap clap* OI!

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I would be most interested in getting a copy of the "Preservation" issue of A Hard Day's Night. Would such a project have the original trailers, the original mono soundtrack (with unique mixes of "Tell Me Why" and others), as well as "I'll Cry Instead" and "You Can't Do That"? That would be fantastic.
Thank you,
Scott