Part 2 " Sword of Destiny" (based on episodes 6-8 of S1) also available.
Part 3, “Blood of Elves” (based on S2 and removing most of absurd Netflix inventions) in the works now, may be ready for xmas release.
Part 4 “Time of Contempt” (based on s3, it may end up as parts 4 & 5), scheduled for a next year release
Moiisty said:
Idk tbh i just want the best version of these films
There is no “best version”. Everything depends on expectations and what you like/dont like in originals.
Well, you should say first, what do you expect from those edits.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bWJs8msYxk 😛
Now that looks spectacular.
Stryker412 said:
Don’t those suffer from the green color tone?
No. This one suffers from poor video quality but isnt green 😛
Here’s comparison:
https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=5241&d2=5240&s1=48951&s2=48919&i=7&l=0
DigModification at FE org posted an idea of such edit (titled “Darkening”), but to me, this series is just too good to cut anything from it.
Up and running.
I cant change thread title though…
Opening credits:
Changed Audioslave music from scene with Clark “borrowing” clothes.
It’s not Audioslave. That song was made ten years before that band was formed 😛
gweedo16 said:
some grain removal
You can’t be serious…
CLip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPDsfQVIhdo
Audio completely rebuilded from non-movie elements.
Looks like it won’t be Vol.3 after all, but Vol.5. Project in the works again and here’s a trailer for it:
It seems that the whole thing, or at least 95% of it will be re-scored (with completely rebuilded sfx for several scenes).
I’ve just released “Final Edition” for this edit with some additional material and little changes:
Ok then, so here is my first attempt at editing streaming content. As a fan of Sapkowski’s books for the last 23 years, I was anticipating this adaptation but was eventually disappointed by it. Too much unnecessary filler, pointless attempt to make Yennefer main character which she never was in the books, omitting things crucial to the story, logical errors, geographical errors, too many things to count… It can’t be fixed the way i would want it to be, but I could at least make it a little closer to my beloved books, at least first one of them, as the show later deviates from the books more and more, making the story unrecognizable (season 2 is a complete mess which I dont think can be fixed like the first one could).
So here’s a 2,5 hour long edit of episodes 1-5 of Netflix show. The goal was to keep it closer to the book, in a form of a few short stories presented one after another (there is no “The Voice of Reason” framing story as it was not in the show, and since “Grain of Truth” short story was changed in the show, and moved to season 2, it’s not present here either).
Geralt is the only main character here, we stay with him most of the time, there’s no Ciri (yet), and Yennefer shows up when Geralt meets her.
Episodes 2 and 3 were switched here for better flow, so Jaskier doesn’t disappear just after he is introduced. Because of that, prostitute’s line mentioning bard was cut.
There are also additional audio tracks (english and polish), re-scored with music from Witcher games soundtracks and “Hexer” TV show music by Grzegorz Ciechowski (which I consider to be the best witcher related music ever created), but for all those who enjoyed Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli’s work, there’s original audio track too.
I think this is as close to a proper adaptation of first Witcher book, as we can get with this material.
PS. The sequel will follow (based on episodes 6-8), but it won’t be that close to the corresponding book (“Sword of Destiny”) as more than half of it was completely omitted in the show.
Fullmetaled said:
No I meant why haven’t fans fixed these blunders like what your doing?
Well, sometimes they do.
What I did with TMP was inspired by some Terminator 2 restoration by Sanjuro_61 (based on this last botched transfer) that added grain to it, changed colors and ended up being best looking version of the movie I’ve ever seen and the only one I rewatch since I’ve got it.
Can you tell me why popular films like the back to the future trilogy uhd and the et uhd haven’t been regrained like what you’re doing for Star Trek the motion picture’s directors cut?
I suppose it depends of people who make decisions, in case of TMP —>
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-Trek-The-Motion-Picture-4K-Blu-ray/294699/#Review
“This is discussed in detail in the supplements. Listen to the Fein, Matessino, and Dochterman commentary track at the 1:06:40 mark (as well as the “Return to Tomorrow” supplement) where the conversation begins about the grain removal and re-introduction because it was “distracting.” It detracted from the experience, they say.”
Some people think that “grain is bad”. And if it happens that the decision of what to do with particular movie is in their hands, then we may get botched transfers that doesn’t even resemble film look.
There’s no need to do it that way, when the theatrical blu-ray generally has much less DNR (for live action), so you edit that to match the DE edition. This is what I will be doing.
Sure, you can do that and it may end up better looking, but by doing what I just did I have quite nice looking Director’s Edition made in half an hour (+ re-encoding) without any editing required and with grain in place also in DC exclusive VFX shots.
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ElectricTriangle said:
I bought the UHD and was extremely disappointed to discover it had a bunch of DNR all over it.I am currently trying to fix it (on standard Blu-ray though)
So what are doing that’s fixing this is it adding fake grain?
Exactly.
If T2 new Blu-ray look could be fixed that way, then Star Trek may be fixed too.
ElectricTriangle said:
I bought the UHD and was extremely disappointed to discover it had a bunch of DNR all over it.
I am currently trying to fix it (on standard Blu-ray though)
I love that FakeYou is a thing. Wow.
Watched the trailer and loved it. I hope you changed the spelling of Bears for the final version so it doesn’t sound as much like Beer.
Yes 😃
It sounds more like “bear” in the edit itself. There’s more about it in one of posts above.
Ridley Scott’s Last Duel gives us some interesting opportunities for editing work. Not only the narration is non-linear, but we see same things from various POVs - so, what if we try to transform it to more linear narration, choose one of those viewpoints, or mix them together, to get a different take on this story?
I’ve decided to try it as a sort of experimental quick project, to see how this story works presented in more traditional fashion.
1080p, english 5.1 and polish 2.0 voiceover audio tracks included.
Final running time: 124 minutes
Trying to make AI-Stallone voice to say what I wanted it to say was a nightmare sometimes.
In many cases I needed to find different words of the same meaning cause it failed every time to say what it was supposed to say. Sometimes I needed to figure out what should I write to get the result I needed cause the voice read something wrong. For example - if I wanted it to say “bear” I needed to write “baer”, because it reads “Bear” as “Beer” (as can be heard in the trailer).
Also, sometimes it reads the words differently in complete sentence compared to stand-alone words, and stand alone may sounded better or worse, so there was a need to record words separately and edit the sentence from them.
stickydixon said:
Ah, makes sense. I do wish that you would’ve included both sources–I feel like having Arnie play an evil Russian commando in Vietnam would both be funny and make sense, given what happens in the real movie.
Yeah, but edit ended up long enough even without additional backstory bits and Uncle Bear isn’t that prominent character to need more of a backstory. He’s “Not even that hard” after all 😉
After re-watch I think that Brother Bear segment could be trimmed a little, but frankly, I dont have a desire to work on this edit anymore. It was quite an exhausting experience.
“There were more deleted scenes in First Blood than the DVD knew about. You can find them on YouTube”
In VHS quality and 4:3 AR. Can’t see the point in using those even in grindhouse edit. Especially that there’s nothing interesting.
“Rambo I did a collection as I’ve extended 1 2 3 4 5”
Since when there is any deleted material from Part II available?
I’ve made First Blood edit lately which runs 111 minutes but it’s not only extended, but also heavily modified. And I mean HEAVILY.
