Drew Drakofolis

I am still very much interested in your project. Good luck at getting it done!

seconding Patricier’s question, I’m curious to know what your personal fan edits of HP1 and HP2 are like. How do they differ from the official Extended editions?

ZombieJoeTJ said:

Hi everyone, to get a link for the new releases do I still need to send an email to the release email or can I get it through here? Thanks in advance.

Yeah, you gotta send an email.

Oh, that’s unfortunate to hear that you got hit by a copyright strike. Thought I guess it was to be expected to happen at some point.

Well, it’s a good thing I was downloading them as you released them, and I’ll have my local copies no matter what.
But I hope you can get them re-uploaded, for everyone else to enjoy, without too much trouble.

Anyway, I’ve been listening to random chapters and segments here and there, and really enjoying those, but I’m afraid I was never able to find the time to begin a full “re-read” until just recently.
I can’t really listen to audiobooks in the background while I’m doing other stuff, because that’s multitasking, and that ain’t easy for me. I can sometimes do so with podcasts, but not with audiobooks - I want to be able to specificly dedicate time to listen to an audiobook, and just focus on that, without distractions.
And I haven’t been able to dedicate the time to start a full, from-start-to-finish listen.

But I finally started listening to your project from the very beginning, with full focus and attention.
I closed my eyes, and let the audio immerse me into the world.
And now that I was able to start at the beginning and get a true feel of how everything ties in together, I’m able to appreciate things so much more.

I’m five chapters into Philosopher’s Stone so far, and I really love your editing so far.
The scene with the Dursleys sailing to the Hut On The Rock was especially notable to me, I actually got some cold chills from the stormy atmosphere you created.

Anyway, thank you for all the hard work you do to bring this project to life.
I’m sorry it took me this long to truly get into it, but I’m loving it, and I’m looking forward to going through with it to the end.

Good luck with finishing Deathly Hallows!

I’m very happy to hear you are working on Secrets of Dumbledor already.
I have not yet seen the movie, and I think I will wait for your version, to experience the film that way.
Thank you for all the hard work that you do!

It looks like the Secrets of Dumbledore Blu-ray is coming on June 28.
I couldn’t find any info on how many and how long the deleted scenes would be, though.

In all honesty, for the best quality, the auto-translated subs should be replaced with subs that were made for the official dubs.

I’ll at least try to do so with the russian subs, if I’m able to.

I’m gonna try to help out with Russian

just to be clear, are your subtitles files completly google translated, or did you have the official translated subtitles to get started with?

Eris Morn said:

JJPotter said:

Hello, I came across your post about the fantastic beast and where to find them extended edition, and you said to message if interested in it, I realize your post is from 2018 and I’m just wondering if the offer still stands thank you, I hope to hear from you.

I’m not JJ, but idk if JJ checks this thread anymore.

See JJ’s more detailed thread about both Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts, here:

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Harry-Potter-Extended-Editions-Released/id/57636

First post has JJ’s email, so email that to request it.

You could also get the community involved in providing the subtitles. I mean, official subtitles for the theatrical versions exist, right? So you just need them for the new scenes. Or… How much work would it be to commision real language speakers to contribute?

And as far as that Trelawny scene goes, I remember some old fan edit using both the theatrical and the deleted scene, by just going back and forth between them, having a bit of each.
I don’t think split-screen would be fitting, it could just get very distracting.

Congratulations, JJ, on the release of v2.0 !
Very exciting to see the project reach this state, after having followed it for a while.
Super excited to watch these.

And here’s a better, “ambience only” video on the Forest of Dean.

https://youtu.be/hhuNdrAdy0I

Here’s a new video of the “Forest of Dean” ambience, althought it’s got some dialogue. But maybe you can get some ambience-only sections.

https://youtu.be/O0uC34L5Nu0

Do you plan on making fan edits for the upcoming Fantastic Beasts movies?

Out of curiosity, are you giving names to your custom episodes?
I really loved the varied and interesting episode titles in LOST. So it would be very cool if your versions also had new episode titles that fit the style of the show.

Oh boy, excited for the new update 😄

This could be fun

I have shared your enhanced audiobooks with my best friend, and she’s been really enjoying them so far 😃

What kind of warning screen are you talking about?

Happy to hear the project is going well. But please be careful regarding publicly showing updates, considering what happened last time.

Doctor M said:

@JJPotter, have you considered changing the first movie to ‘Philosopher’s Stone’?
I’ve always hated that they felt Americans were too stupid to want to read/watch a story that had the word Philosopher in it.

There’s already a version with the term “Philosopher’s Stone”, and it has an official Director’s Cut.

I’m sorry if I sounded too critical now or before.

I don’t actually mind the large file sizes. It’s just that having them smaller would be helpful for storage sake.
However, I do really love the high quality, so having 10 GB file sizes is worth it for the good quality.

Ultimiatly though, JJ, you know best.
It’s your project, and we’re already grateful that you’re sharing it with us.

I would very much appreciate the smaller file sizes, if you are able to achieve that.

Master Lawdog said:

Drew Drakofolis said:

Having the full Dudley’s redemption full scene would be really cool.
Aside from making it look good, I would hope you’re still able to make it fit in with the cool opening montage.
I’m not sure how well that would work, given that the scene would be longer, but maybe some parts of it (such as walking could be trimmed).

It would be, but it could affect the pacing of the opening montage.

I don’t know, I feel like a few extra quick dialogue scenes and more shots of the handshake could work out.

Having the full Dudley’s redemption full scene would be really cool.
Aside from making it look good, I would hope you’re still able to make it fit in with the cool opening montage.
I’m not sure how well that would work, given that the scene would be longer, but maybe some parts of it (such as walking could be trimmed).