Deathly Hallows as it should have been: a more focused, entertaining and magical finale that combines both parts into one big, epic conclusion to the Harry Potter franchise!

INSPIRATIONS

• Spence’s edit
• Harry Potter and the Hunt for Horcruxes by tremault
• The 90 Minute Wicked Edition by AEmovieguy
• The Harry Potter: Revisited series by Anjohan
• The Almighty Editions by almightycutie

PRELIMINARY CUT LIST

• Overall colour correction (Green tinge reduced/brighter picture)
• Rescore several scenes with classic John Williams, sourced from The John Williams Collection by La-La Land Records
• Add Harry & Petunia deleted scene
• Add Ron & Arthur radio deleted scene
• Remove “Part 1” from the title
• Cut Pius’ introduction
• Cut Voldemort raising his wand before he kills Charity Burbage
• Move the mirror shard reveal to later
• Tighten the motorbike chase
• Cut George’s “I’m holey” joke
• Cut Harry trying to leave the Burrow
• Cut Ron’s line, “Brilliant. What is it?”
• Cut all references to Bathilda Bagshot and Godric’s Hollow
• Cut Aunt Muriel at the wedding
• Cut Hermione’s line, “That’ll be the books.”
• Recut the café fight and aftermath
• Cut Hermione teaching Ron piano
• Tighten the entire Ministry of Magic sequence for pacing, urgency and tension
• Add deleted scene discussing the locket
• Cut Hermione and the Snatchers
• Create new exodus montage, based on old test clips by AEmovieguy
• Cut Ron leaving
• Cut Harry and Hermione dancing
• Cut Hermione’s line about staying in the forest and growing old together
• Cut the subplot of Harry’s wand breaking
• Cut Harry and Ron discussing the Deluminator
• Cut Harry asking about Luna at the Lovegood residence
• Cut the awkward tea drinking with Xenophilius
• Cut Ron’s line, “Mum always said ‘midnight’.”
• Shorten the Snatcher chase to be slightly more understandable
• Recut Dobby’s death
• Move Voldemort finding the Elder Wand to follow the Malfoy Manor sequence
• Trim conversation with Ollivander to avoid redundancy
• Add Harry & Luna deleted scene
• Trim the Gringotts bank heist sequence for pacing and humour
• Restore unused piece of music when Ginny enters the Room of Requirement
• Restore unused piece of music during Snape’s speech in the Great Hall
• Cut Slytherin house being sent to the dungeons
• Add Lupin & Tonks deleted scene (green screen fixed)
• Recut the Fiendfyre sequence
• Cut Voldemort and Lucius at the boathouse
• Add Voldemort’s theme from Philosopher’s Stone before he uses Sectumsempra on Snape
• Trim Snape’s demise by removing one of Nagini’s bites (might leave it in)
• Change young Lily’s eyes to blue
• Cut Harry saying goodbye to Hermione and Ron on his way to the Forbidden Forest
• Cut Narcissa checking to see if Harry is dead
• Cut the awkward Voldemort/Draco hug
• Resequence the final battle to be more exciting
• Recut the Molly/Bellatrix duel
• Many, many small changes throughout!

Special thanks to Anjohan for his kind and encouraging words!

Here’s a quick comparison of the visual changes made to Parts 1 and 2.

Password: lumos

Molly vs. Bellatrix:
https://vimeo.com/568449410

(Would someone care to change the thread’s title to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Exodus”, please?)

You have some really exciting stuff here. I love the color correction and your take on Ron leaving.
I am curious to see what you are cutting out of your edit, since you are putting back some of the deleted scenes (many of which are crucial to the film).

CamSMurph said:

Molly vs. Bellatrix:
https://vimeo.com/568449410

(Would someone care to change the thread’s title to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Exodus”, please?)

Is there a way to remove Bellatrix getting chopped to pieces? I never liked that choice, since it is never established that Avada Kedavra can do that to a person. Also, it kind of takes away Voldemort’s “special way of dying”.

Anyway, keep up the good work and I will definetely be looking forward to check out the final result!

ThanosM. said:

You have some really exciting stuff here. I love the color correction and your take on Ron leaving.
I am curious to see what you are cutting out of your edit, since you are putting back some of the deleted scenes (many of which are crucial to the film).

CamSMurph said:

Molly vs. Bellatrix:
https://vimeo.com/568449410

(Would someone care to change the thread’s title to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Exodus”, please?)

Is there a way to remove Bellatrix getting chopped to pieces? I never liked that choice, since it is never established that Avada Kedavra can do that to a person. Also, it kind of takes away Voldemort’s “special way of dying”.

Anyway, keep up the good work and I will definetely be looking forward to check out the final result!

I know AEmovieguy was going to attempt something similar for his “Whole Wicked Edition” until he mysteriously disappeared from the forums no less than seven years ago. Take note of the two specific changes in his cutlist for Part 2:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/XfrzgNY.jpg[/img]

This seems like a very ambitious change, indeed. I have no idea how he would have — or did, for that matter — accomplish this specific alteration, but it sounds doable to me. If I can gather enough information on this, I’ll surely see what I can do in this case. 😉

CamSMurph said:

Here’s a quick comparison of the visual changes made to Parts 1 and 2
Password: lumos

The color and general effect of your brightness and contrast are awesome! 😃 But in the final shot of your three examples in that video (from March 20) — the shot with Ron and Hermione, Harry — you can see (especially with the ground) that you are losing a good amount of detail due to brightness/contrast blow out. Maybe play with the settings on that one to see if you can both keep your overall look and more of the detail? (Or maybe you’ve tweaked that already since that post? It is a few months old now.)

That’s just a quick thought for kicks. Good stuff, CamSMurph, keep up the good work! 😃

WXM said:

CamSMurph said:

Here’s a quick comparison of the visual changes made to Parts 1 and 2
Password: lumos

The color and general effect of your brightness and contrast are awesome! 😃 But in the final shot of your three examples in that video (from March 20) — the shot with Ron and Hermione, Harry — you can see (especially with the ground) that you are losing a good amount of detail due to brightness/contrast blow out. Maybe play with the settings on that one to see if you can both keep your overall look and more of the detail? (Or maybe you’ve tweaked that already since that post? It is a few months old now.)

That’s just a quick thought for kicks. Good stuff, CamSMurph, keep up the good work! 😃

Thank you for your kind feedback. I’m currently messing around with Adobe Premiere Pro and I’ve actually gotten a head start on developing an entirely new intro heavily inspired by these two videos:
https://youtu.be/DnCsp44f8Ow
https://youtu.be/3hL7lTbP4eI

I’ve already altered the colour grading since then, and I cannot wait for you to see it when the time comes!

Updated the main post!

COLOUR CORRECTION EXAMPLES

Part 1
Part 2

Looks good. Only thing I see that I don’t know will work is Ron not leaving - there’s no way to really explain why he doesn’t go to Godric’s Hollow with them.

nightstalkerpoet said:

Looks good. Only thing I see that I don’t know will work is Ron not leaving - there’s no way to really explain why he doesn’t go to Godric’s Hollow with them.

I’m actually figuring out how I’m going to pull that off. Not gonna lie, I’m kind of nervous as to how it’ll turn out. 😅

I’ll keep it in for now and come back to it later.

CAFÉ FIGHT AND AFTERMATH

• Re-edited for pacing and urgency.

https://streamable.com/hr0s0a