Vilgefortz

“Time of Contempt” is part 4 of Witcher fanedit project, that is meant to be closer to the books, and stripped of large amount of Netflix-fiction that makes the show practically unwatchable.

“Time of Contempt” is based on season 3 of Netflix show.

Several changes were made that include:

• almost complete re-score with music from Witcher games (including Gwent and Thronebreaker) and Hexer Tv show. Some AI extensions were done to some of the tracks to help fit them with the scenes, and some tracks got AI-remixes just to not be repeated in their original version over and over again.
• some dialogue lines were altered with the help of AI which made some additional changes possible.
• Teryn has just one scene and whole subplot with kidnapped girls and Stregobor being framed is gone
• Galatin is reduced to some random elf that appears in few scenes but isnt ever addressed by name
• Dijkstra and Philippa plotline is heavily trimmed down (just as many other secondary or episodic characters)
  -Radovid has just three scenes now and there’s no non-book romance with Jaskier obviously
• focus is mostly on Geralt and Ciri
• Yennefer role is reduced but she still has more to do here than she has in the book as it’s impossible to cut all Netflix-fiction concerning her character.
• Some book sequences were trimmed down (Ciri on the desert), as they were just boring, too long and stuffed with pointless additions (flashbacks)
• Thanedd was re-edited into chronological order even if the original episode structure was more like in the books, but I needed this sequence to be shortened.
• The whole Thanedd battle was trimmed here and there (for example - majority of Triss and Istredd scenes were removed).
• dryads in Brokilon are able to succesfully heal Geralt so Yen doesn’t show up there (and she doesnt have her narration/monologue at the end)
• I’ve decided to keep some cool non-book Geralt’s fight scenes.

And a LOT more of various changes.

Running time: 184 minutes, polish and english audio available.

Part 4 in the works - will be one 3 hours long movie. There are chances for easter release, but I dont promise anything.
As usual, re-scored audio will be available.

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf3fRRkkQNc

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:

https://vimeo.com/785196584

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:

• new re-encode with higher bitrate
• added 7 minutes long grindhouse opening including three grindhouse trailers
• additional sfx in several scenes (mostly screams and blood splatters)
• added new piece of music: Contra Jungle Theme, synthcover by French Riviera
• added one additional shot that I’ve forgotten to include first time around
• four audio options included: 1) new stereo grindhoused audio (includes changes listed above), 2) same as 1 but without added noise, 3) same as 1 but ugly grindhouse mono mix, 4) audio track from previous release

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.

ElectricTriangle said:

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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Fullmetaled said:

Vilgefortz said:

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)

Before: https://images4.imagebam.com/89/a1/5c/MEFYHRN_o.png

After: https://images4.imagebam.com/b2/11/8e/MEFYHRK_o.png

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)

Before: https://images4.imagebam.com/89/a1/5c/MEFYHRN_o.png

After: https://images4.imagebam.com/b2/11/8e/MEFYHRK_o.png

Doctor M said:

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_UK0Q14dmU

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.

• All scenes have been re-ordered chronologically
• if there was more than one version of a scene, one was selected
• in some cases, different versions were mixed
• some scenes have been cut for better transitions / flow
• some non-essential scenes have been cut as well
• added new color grade
• added new title card

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.