If anyone remembers this elderly thread, it is in fact the last true fan edit I have ever done.
Because of technical issues I shelved it in hopes of one day reworking it. 2 years later I've decided this project is well and truly dead,
I've updated the first post with the full details of the project and if there is interest I'm thinking of releasing it.
What is wrong with this? Loads!
The sources are HDTV. At the time I started this I didn't realize how many broadcast artifacts were present until I had finished cutting it together. I thought I removed them all, but it is riddled with sparkles, pixellations and breakups.
The audio is crazy soft. I'm not sure why since it's largely untouched DVD audio with HDTV audio adjusted to the same volume. Considering Womble changed the dialog normilzation from -27 to -31 it should be louder (assuming I've got that straight in my head).
The aspect ratio, while full 16x9 open matte, I found to be jarring. The aesthetics and composition of the shots really do seem to suffer.
The HD version got scrapped after hours of labor because of difficulty and lack of interest.
Finally, I just don't care anymore. The last novel was too dark for my tastes and poisoned all previous ones for me. The last several movies have been crap collections of the action scenes with none of the story and heart of the books. I pretty much no longer care about all things Harry Potter.
At the time it was an interesting exercise in seeing what an extended cut should have looked like and if someone else wants to remake it, I will provide advice, avisynth scripts and anything else useful to help.
Maybe finally putting a close to this albatross of a project I can begin to consider editing again.