Mind posting you’re workflow incase I or others can see any parts that could be improved upon before redoing E01?
The newer masters for the DVDs were carefully IVTCed (and the 29.97 portions brought to 23.976 in I-don’t -know-what-way), and then sped up to 25fps.
Are you sure they did this?
From what I found it was suggested that they used a method called DEFT to convert it to 25 fps. It does produce some combing artifacts but it works 99% of the time and that’s why I haven’t touched the PAL discs since then.
Sorry for not posting for a while. I’ve been thinking alot about this project as I want to be done with it, but I’m not happy in it’s final form.
I am going to redo most of the edit, as my editing skills have increased since I started this project, from working on this fanedit, working on other fanedits and going to film school.
The Plan For Leviathan Wakes:
I plan to separate the edit into two parts. Part 1 will cover the first season. Part 2 will cover the ending of Leviathan Wakes and side plots that feed into Caliban’s War. Both parts should be around 2.5 to 3 hours, and it’ll help me show everything that needs to be shown for the story.
The Plan For Future Seasons and Fanedits:
I intend to do that same With Caliban’s War, with having a Part 1 and Part 2. Caliban’s War Part 1 will cover from the ending of Leviathan Wakes (trying to cut out as much of the transitional stuff as possible) till the end of Season 2. Caliban’s War Part 2 being Season 3 till Abaddon’s Gate story line starts (which I believe is S03E07). And Abaddon’s Gate should only have one movie as it’s roughly 7 hours in total, and I definitely can cut it down.
What’s Next:
Which goes back to what I’m going to do next. I call the Leviathan Wakes edit inactive as I’ve spent way to much time in this story and need a break. I would start with Caliban’s War next, but it’s so intertwined with Leviathan Wakes in the show I think it would be too hard to start from there.
So, I’ll be starting The Expanse: Abaddon’s Gate Fanedit sometime later this year, as I am busy as hell with Film School ATM.
If you really want to see, what I’m calling, the Leviathan Wakes Blueprint, I’m happy to send you a link in a PM. But I highly stress that it’s not in a perfect state, but it will generally show what I’m going to do in Leviathan Wakes Part 1 and Part 2.
I was messing around with upscaling that exact episode to 4K, and produced some really good results. If you PM me I can show what I did and explain how I did it and get you in contact with some other people who are working on the same thing.
The Expanse - Donnager Part 2
https://vimeo.com/432513367
Password: fanedit
So, the edit is basically done, just need a technical watch (to make sure the editing is clean (or as clean as possible)) and there isn’t an errors. I’ll do a more formalised announcement of what’s next for me and this project once it’s out.
So, until it’s released I’ll try to have one or two clips uploaded of the final version each week… (Hopefully it’ll make me less lazy 😛)
First up, Donnager Part 1.
This is E03 when the rocci gang get’s captured by Mars. (sorry for the split second of Miller)
https://vimeo.com/432509033
Password: fanedit
When I first did my edit it was only the second time I had attempted such a thing. For ages I wanted to at least go back to my original files spread across 20 DVDs and at least do a remaster. But I recently imported those files to my PC and I’m not happy with the quality. So I’m doing a reconstruction from better source materials. This will included fixing some glitches and making some changes to my edit.
Stay tuned.
Looking forward to this, are these from BD or DVD sources?
Bluray for the regular footage. But most of the deleted footage is SD quality. I’m finding lots of little glitches from the initial edit that I’m fixing now as well.
Would Topaz Gigapixel AI be of use in dealing with the SD deleted scenes?
Never heard of it actually
I’d be happy to help you upscale some stuff, I’ve been messing around with upscaling DS9 and come up with some pretty good techniques to get the most out of Topaz Video Enhance AI. Just chuck me a PM if you’re interested
Do you have your own copy of Topaz? I downloaded it and it was too much for my PC. So I ended up paying Topaz themselves and uploaded a bunch of the cut scenes and I honestly didn’t see that much of a difference in the quality.
Just have a the free trial (and may have had a few times already), but there is advantages of doing it yourself cos you can choose what model is used to upscale or even being able to combine multiple models after the fact to get the most accurate upscale. I’ve done a bit or messing around with that actually and it provides some really promising results
BTW sorry for the late msg, wasn’t following this thread for some reason 😛
When I first did my edit it was only the second time I had attempted such a thing. For ages I wanted to at least go back to my original files spread across 20 DVDs and at least do a remaster. But I recently imported those files to my PC and I’m not happy with the quality. So I’m doing a reconstruction from better source materials. This will included fixing some glitches and making some changes to my edit.
Stay tuned.
Looking forward to this, are these from BD or DVD sources?
Bluray for the regular footage. But most of the deleted footage is SD quality. I’m finding lots of little glitches from the initial edit that I’m fixing now as well.
Would Topaz Gigapixel AI be of use in dealing with the SD deleted scenes?
Never heard of it actually
I’d be happy to help you upscale some stuff, I’ve been messing around with upscaling DS9 and come up with some pretty good techniques to get the most out of Topaz Video Enhance AI. Just chuck me a PM if you’re interested
Best news I’ve heard all day. Can’t wait!
Made a Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpvF21Md-bg
Preview Version is now Avaliable!
Just finished Pass 3. I took so long because I moved to some proper Bluray Sources and some parts I had to entirely re-edit (from memory all of S02, and E09-E10 of S01).
The total runtime is 5:18:14, which I am okay with, but I wish could be shorter. Funnily enough the S01 storyline stops about 3:15:00ish which would make for a great Season 1 movie time, but as I want to do Books I’m not willing to make a separate edit for this.
My plans from now is to watch through the edit and see what I want to change. Then I’ll make those changes and release a preview version (to get other peoples feedback). I’ll post on this board again when I’m ready for that (simply msg me in a private topic. You can do this now if you like and I’ll get back to you when I’m ready). Then finally I’ll release my (hopefully) final version.
Going through Pass 3 and thought peeps would like to see what I’ve done. You’ll want to start at ~42 seconds, I need to find a better way to render parts out.
Distress Call scene: https://vimeo.com/357512460
Password: scopuli
Ah, when I mean I’ll cut that storyline I meant the S01 one, not the S04 one
Didn’t know he came back, have only read the first book. Guess I’ll have to see if he’s in Season 4, but looking through the cast and crew of each Season 4 episode, Havelock isn’t on any of them. If he does I might just be able to cut that storyline, it would be a shame but would streamline the movie more.
Izotope’s RX Audio Editor (I’ve used RX5 myself) is pretty good at doing stuff with audio and probs what your looking for.
Please read this update for more information in the state of this edit https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Expanse-Leviathan-Wakes-Preview-Version-Avaliable/id/69195/page/1#1363707
This fanedit intends to create a movie based on the Leviathan Wakes book plot from The Expanse TV Show.
[1.1] PROJECT INFO AND EXPLANATION
The Expanse: Leviathan Wakes is the first movie in a series of The Expanse movies, that are based on the plots of the book series of the same name. The source will be from Season 1 and Season 2 (E01 - E05). The first book’s plot is set out weirdly and extends from S01E01 to S02E05 and I will try to edit as much of Caliban’s War’ plot out of this first movie.
I will be more faithful to the books than the T.V. show when possible as I believe some choices made in the show (i.e. the fighting amongst the Roci’s Crew and Amos/Holden not liking each other which suddenly dropped in S02). I’m aiming for a 5 hour run time, and will include an interval, but will always be trying to get a 3 hour cut.
Like with most other TV-to-Movie fanedits the main purpose of this fanedit is for people who weren’t caught up in the show, most likely because of it’s slow first few episodes, but also for people wanting to rewatch the show.
I also will make a ‘S02E05 Catchup’ which is a version of what I’ve done of Caliban War (Book 2) tocatch up the viewer of the events I’ve omitted in the from S01E01-S0E05 that are relevant to the story, so that viewers can start watching from S02E06
[1.2] PROJECT STATISTICS
CURRENT RUNTIME: 5:18:14 (Pass 3)
‘S02E05 Catchup’ RUNTIME: 00:38:59
FOCUS: Jim Holden, Josephus Miller, Roci Crew, Chrisjen Avasarala, supporting characters where relevant.
As of right now I have made three passes of the full movie. The first pass runtime was 6 hours & 13 mins. The second pass was a runtime of 5 hours & 34 mins. I just finished my third pass and I feel like I have the story sorted.
I’ve focused the Roci’s Crew and Miller for first ~20 mins before getting into the story. My aim was to get the Canterbury destroyed by the 30 minute mark and I’ve successfully done that. Avasarala is introduced after Holden has put out the message that ‘Mars destoryed the Cant’, going straight to Errinwright’s office with Admiral Souther. The story continues as usual, cutting out sub-plots that aren’t needed, with a massive build up at ~90mins (Donnager) then slowly building up to middle-act/middle-climax at ~240 mins (Julie is found). The last ~120 mins finishes off the story with two big climaxes (Throth Station and Eros).
[1.3] STORY
(ATM this is more ramblings of what I remember I’ve done, there is way to many to count)