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nl0428 said:
I didn’t know about the ADR line from Chamber of Secrets, but I already knew about the one from The Empire Strikes Back. I’m a bit confused that they kept that line in the extended edition, considering that Harry and Ron didn’t put on Crabbe and Goyle’s robes, and Hermione snuck out Slytherin robes from the laundry for them to wear.

The added line was to explain where the Slytherin robes they end up wearing came from. The scene with Hermione saying she stole some Slyntherin robes from the laundry was deleted. Whoever re-edited probably didn’t notice. Most people don’t.

But hey, they fixed a LOT of other errors from the ABC cut. Mouths out of sync to dialog, repeated shots, Harry flipping through the diary in the same direction more than once, etc. I’ll allow one bad line (and some improper music cues).

Yeah. I had avoided getting the official extended discs of SS and CoS since I thought they were the same crappy ABC edits.
On the advice of people here I got them and they are indeed more professional than what ABC/Disney cobbled together.

I think I took issue with a couple of music cues and the fact that in Chamber… they didn’t fix the overdub of Hermione, at dinner, telling Ron and Harry to put on Crabbe and Goyle’s robes.

The overdub was added to the theatrical cut to explain the Slytherin robes they wear later. Hermione saying she got the robes for them from the laundry is a deleted scene. Both shouldn’t be in the same cut of the film.

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143716
…and done.

That’s right. I remember the elevator scene as well.
My understanding is the networks don’t get official extended cuts from the studio (except maybe in the case of 1 & 2 since there has now been a retail release). They only get the pieces if they want to cobble something together themselves.
It’s why there is slight differences between ABC/Freeform edits and Syfy/USA/E! versions.

ABC/Freeform’s edits were an amateur jobs. The official discs fix a lot of inconsistencies, audio sync issues, etc.
I’ve never compared 1:1 the discs to what Syfy is showing.

I’m pretty sure I saw the effects-less rabbit hunt from DH on Syfy, but I could have hallucinated that.

TerryVader said:

DM me if you want the JJPotter edits 😛 He may be gone, but his fan edits will survive!

Don’t do that. This is the EXACT reason why he’s gone.

Has anyone seen Peter Pan on Disney+ (if it’s there)? I’m curious how that looks compared to existing copies. Still looking to do some sort of restoration to the colors and oversharpening of the Limited Edition DVD.

Same question for Snow White. How does the Disney+ version look?

I never really cared for the Pixar film ‘Up’.
I realize it was nominated for 5 Academy Awards and won 2, but re-watching it tonight I realized what is wrong: The first 11 minutes.

The beginning is completely unnecessary and a real downer from which the movie never recovers. Cut it.

You’d start with a grumpy old man, living alone. Within the first few minutes of that you would easily deduce he lost his wife, you’d also see he is in danger of losing his house, to which he is obviously attached. It’s weighty enough and covers all the information needed.

Some of the opening scenes could be cut in later as flashbacks where needed to fill in backstory.
What we don’t need is to sit through his drab little life on fast forward and the sad conclusion of his relationship with his wife. It puts a cloud over the rest of the film.

I haven’t done a true fanedit in years… but what do you guys think?

Yeah, I never warmed up to Witch Hunt. Fred Ward was perfect for this role. I like Dennis Hopper, but he was so wrong for the part.
It also lost a lot of the fantasy/noir tone of the original.

Yup, get the Criterion. Looks like a winner.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film9/blu-ray_review_123/the_great_escape_blu-ray.htm

Thank you for all the work you’ve done, and I completely understand. These things, unfortunately, happen. There are people that feel entitled and do crap like this.

I maintain the rule that anyone who asks me for one of my edits, but hasn’t been an OT member for at least a year and hasn’t posted a reasonable amount of comments to a couple threads in that time, does not get links.

Too many people find their way here from Google and sign up just to hit and run for some links.

The Splash digital alteration has had many articles in the past week. It’s really badly done for no good reason.
Lilo and Stitch looks like she’s hiding in an oven now, which seems worse to me.

I don’t know when the opening of Toy Story changed. That’s news to me. It could be with the new BD releases, since we know they made changes to Toy Story 2 as well around that time.

I definitely liked seeing it. Harry miming without the smoke was always so noticeable, especially since we see the effects of that candy later.

Was the puff of smoke new in the after Hogsmeade scene? I didn’t remember that.
While I think it should be more of a jet of smoke (from his ears as well?), it’s a real improvement.
Maybe time it later after Harry puts his hand up or is that harder to accomplish?

I did see that HMV already prints what looks like a theatrical cut DVD. And their details of the Special Edition are thin, but it is a 2 disc set.
It could be just bonus features.

Edit: Btw, there IS a hybrid edit of this already on 'spleen. Pretty nice work. Definitely a labor of love. Technically, the DVD source could have been handled better, but the editing is first rate.

It shows as an HMV Exclusive. They are a UK company, not Australian.
BUT, the PAL runtime for the extended cut is 100 minutes and if they gave a proper 24fps release it really would be 104 minutes instead of 98.
There’s so few details, it’s hard to tell, but good find.

It sounds like your video conversion wasn’t right, and probably why you have jagginess. The movie is hard interlaced and the fields occasionally go out of sync.

I’m a bit rusty and I’m on a cobbled together PC (not my usual one).

Using DGIndex is right. You need an AVISynth script like this:

loadplugin("…dgdecode.dll")
loadplugin("…tivtc.dll")
mpeg2source(“croc.d2v”)
tfm(d2v=“croc.d2v”)
assumefps(23.976) #NTSC Speed
spline36resize(720,480) #NTSC resolution

Then you can use DGPulldown to get soft telecine (23.976 -> 29.97).
For the audio, I’d use eac3to. A simple -slowdown option and you can go from ac3 right to ac3 in one step.

But as long as you’re using avisynth it give you an opportunity to try to adjust the black/white levels and colors if you want.

There are no subtitles, so that makes life easier, but if you want to put in the same chapter stops you’ll need to extract and convert them. Somewhere here I’ve got a guide for PAL to NTSC conversion of full discs.

New Criterion transfer coming May 12th. It might be what we’ve all been hoping for.
https://www.criterion.com/films/29149-the-great-escape

This has been on MySpleen for quite a while. I’ve looked at doing something with it, but the quality is awful. The black levels are crushed, the colors are poor, the image soft and it’s an interlaced mess.
I can’t remember if I tried to figure out the underlying framerate. Interlaced COULD mean blended fields so there might not be PAL speed up, but I honestly can’t remember.

With some elbow grease it might make a source for a hybrid mix with a better source, but it’s difficult to watch in the condition it’s in.

What did you do to make the conversion? Can you post screenshots?

You know, I don’t even WANT to ask how snozzberries could be inappropriate. Just find another forum to troll.

I always figured Warner provided ABC/etc. with the extended cuts, but it sounds like they are homebrew by whomever has the broadcast rights at the moment.
It definitely explains why the official (physical media) extended cuts of 1 & 2 differ from prior versions.

I’m just surprised Warner allows it at all.

I watched some of Deathly Hallows 1 on Syfy tonight. They had inserted the rabbit chase scene, still without the finished effects. Very weird.

No kidding, cogebo. I can’t believe Warner left so much money on the table by not releasing Uber cuts of all the Potter films. We know whole plot lines were filmed and discarded for some of the earlier films. Anyone with sense would have thrown money at some special effects studio to complete the footage and give these the Lord of the Rings treatment.

We’ll probably just have to wait until some ridiculous HBO GoT inspired reboot series to see more officially.

It should be mentioned that a recent revision by JJPotter has the stereo output some flavor of DPL so people with surround systems will still get a surround effect. It is quite satisfactory.

I couldn’t watch Molly’s release. The source it came from was good, but the quality of the release was too low for me to stick with.
I don’t know anywhere you can still get it.