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Hi All,
I think I sent PMs to everyone. If you didn’t get a link please message me again!
Thanks,
AC
Hi All,
I think I sent PMs to everyone. If you didn’t get a link please message me again!
Thanks,
AC
I believe I’ve messaged everyone so far. If I missed anyone let me know
I’m extremely nostalgic for Harry Potter and really love the books. I also love the movies but always felt they could be improved. I made a set of movie edits a while back, but they weren’t very polished so I’ve gone back to upgrade the quality of each one, and have done tons more work to make them my definitive versions of these movies.
A few highlights:
My main goals:
If you are interested in watching, PM me.
Full list of edits:
Sorcerer’s Stone:
Original - 2:24 (2:32 with credits) Edit - 2:20 (2:28 with credits)
My main goals for this edit were to - Make Hagrid not appear to be so dumb, cut out a lot of Harry’s unnecessary one-liners, and trim up some of the dated CGI.
Chamber of Secrets:
Original - 2:32 (2:41 with credits) Edit - 2:28 (2:37 with credits)
My main goals for this edit were to - Trim down the movie a bit to make it more in line with the lengths of the other movies, cut out some of the one liners and poorly written lines and scenes (Harry shushing Ron a couple times, and Harry always needing to get a final word in), and reduce some of the more over the top stuff (Harry almost falling out of the car, Harry holding the sword by the bloody blade in Dumbledore’s office, Lucius trying to Avada Kedavra Harry)
Prisoner of Azkaban:
Original - 2:10 (2:22 with credits) Edit - 2:08 (2:20 with credits)
My main goals for this edit were to - Trim some of the poor performances (Hermione’s laughing, some of Harry’s acting), cut out some of the one liners and poorly written lines and scenes (Neville’s “I’m okay” joke, Hermione mocking Trelawney, and Harry always needing to get a final word in), and reduce some of the more over the top stuff (Trim the whole whomping willow scene)
Goblet of Fire:
Original - 2:08 (2:27 with credits) Edit - 2:34 (2:37 with credits)
My main goals for this edit were to - Remove the Ron and Harry’s broken friendship subplot, cut out as much bad acting, dialog and writing as I could , and take out all instances of the Crouch Jr tongue flicks
Order of the Phoenix:
Original - 2:08 (2:18 with credits) Edit - 2:10 (2:20 with credits)
My main goals for this edit were to - Incorporate most of the deleted scenes, and cut out as much bad acting, dialog and writing as I could
Half Blood Prince:
Original - 2:24 (2:33 with credits) Edit - 2:23 (2:32 with credits)
My main goals for this edit were to - Incorporate most of the deleted scenes, try to establish Harry and Ginny’s connection better, and cut out as much bad acting, dialog and writing as I could
Deathly Hallows Part 1:
Original - 2:15 (2:26 with credits) Edit - 2:17 (2:29 with credits)
My main goals for this edit were to - Incorporate a select few deleted scenes, and fix bad writing and acting wherever possible
Deathly Hallows Part 2:
Original - 1:58 (2:10 with credits) Edit - 2:01 (2:13 with credits)
My main goals for this edit were to - Incorporate a select few deleted scenes, change young Lily’s eye color to match adult Lily and Harry, and fix bad writing and acting wherever possible
Really looking forward to how you handle the final seasons of the show!
Sure, sent a link
UPDATE: OCTOBER 19, 2021 - I made a few changes that I highlighted on the front page. Biggest thing was adding subtitles to the edit. I also did some changes to the ending after a lot of feedback. Other changes were small.
Also sent PMs to everyone who requested.
First off just wanted to give a huge shoutout to Master Lawdog and his excellent Enhanced Editions - https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/harry-potter-enhanced-editions-audiobooks-released/id/79659
For the past couple years I’ve basically been doing the same thing, but with the Jim Dale versions of the audiobooks instead of the Stephen Fry ones. Now you can have a choice between the two versions. I’ve just finished the final book so the whole series is now complete!
I’ve gone through each Harry Potter audiobook and placed music from the movies throughout each chapter, enhancing scenes and highlighting key moments. I’ve used music from all of the movies across each book, but mainly focusing on each individual books’ music to bridge the gap between the movies and books as best I could. As the books got longer there were many scenes that were not present in the movies, so I started using music from the official video games to fill in those sections, and they matched beautifully with the rest of the music. Alongside the music I also added a light touch of sound effects, nothing too overbearing, and ambient tracks that really help to immerse you in the stories.
Here is a preview of The Prisoner of Azkaban:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov7KfL3I_Zo
And here is a preview of The Goblet of Fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJa1_lGNk0w
PM me for a link
Sent PMs out.
Yeah, leaving it as is. Like I said, it doesn’t really bother me so I’m leaving it in. If you wanted to use the small amount of work I did on this movie and make that change feel free to use my edits
Ah I thought you meant removing the whole sequence, not just the lines about where they are going. I guess the lines don’t bother me enough to change it. I’m sure some other edits have made that change though, especially all the ones that have combined the final two movies.
I think that particular scene does break some of the serious tension happening, but with how it plays out and leads into McGonagall talking to Harry I don’t know how I’d remove it. I guess I don’t really mind that scene though.
The only thing I really wanted to change, and I might go back and try again, was the Harry flying through the air with Voldemort during their fight, and blending into each other. I liked most everything else about the movie though.
I wasn’t aiming to just make extended editions. JJPotter already made great, fully extended copies. I only added the ones that I thought enhanced the movies. If I thought the deleted scene detracted from the tone or pacing, or just didn’t fit in very well then I didn’t add it.
Thanks for the review! Glad you enjoyed it
I’ve always loved the Harry Potter books, but the movies have been pretty hit or miss for me. I watched Anjohan’s Revisited edits and found the tighter pacing so much more immersive, but they weren’t exactly what I was hoping for. I want to emphasize how fantastic his edits are!
The Revisited edits are excellent for what they are trying to be - more consistent darker tone for each movie, using music from the whole series throughout, adding more emotion through the music, keeping locations consistent, and tightening the pacing. But I wanted to make a new set of edits for a few reasons. I think a lot of the music doesn’t blend too well between movies, and I personally like how the earlier movies are a lot brighter and then darken as the years go on. Another issue I had was removing world-building magic to tighten the pacing. This kept the movie times shorter but I think it lost some of the fun.
So with all of that out of the way, I used Anjohan’s edits as heavy inspiration (often taking exact edits, especially with GoF), took some deleted scenes straight from JJPotters Extended Editions, and made a new series of edits.
My main goals:
If you are interested in watching, PM me.
Full list of edits:
Sorcerer’s Stone:
Original - 2:24 (2:32 with credits)
Edit - 2:20 (2:27 with credits)
Chamber of Secrets:
Original - 2:32 (2:41 with credits)
Edit - 2:25 (2:35 with credits)
Prisoner of Azkaban:
Original - 2:10 (2:22 with credits)
Edit - 2:08 (2:20 with credits)
Goblet of Fire:
Original - 2:34 (2:37 with credits)
Edit - 2:07 (2:21 with credits)
Order of the Phoenix:
Original - 2:08 (2:18 with credits)
Edit - 2:10 (2:20 with credits)
Half Blood Prince:
Original - 2:24 (2:33 with credits)
Edit - 2:25 (2:34 with credits)
Deathly Hallows Part 1:
Original - 2:15 (2:26 with credits)
Edit - 2:17 (2:29 with credits)
Deathly Hallows Part 2:
Original - 1:58 (2:10 with credits)
Edit - 2:01 (2:13 with credits)
Hey DarthYcey, congrats again on finishing your edit! I’m really excited to see it all finished. Looking forward especially to your new ending!
Sorry, I don’t have a 4K source. I’ll send out links to anyone I haven’t already yet.
Would love a link!
I’m glad you’re taking on this task! I had done my own version that is very similar with the NK killing Arya and then Bran warging into her to deliver the final blow. I don’t know how difficult it is going to be to do convincing VFX on her face when he kills her. If you did maybe a blood splatter on the NK’s face that might be easier to pull off.
I’m very excited that you are doing this one with the original score as well!
Just curious on your last point, why do you have Bran warging into the future during the Battle of Winterfell? Why have him warging then and not just in the moment while Dany is at Kings Landing?
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Hey Tsiskwa, I’ll PM you a link to the edit.
Sent PMs to everyone above.
Sent a PM.
A change list is kinda hard as I have rearranged so much. I’m adding what I posted to reddit to the main post.
Can you send me.the link?
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@Booshman
Thanks for the critiques! I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ll try to answer your thoughts below:
I made the choice to split some episodes from beyond the wall and the battle at winterfell because I felt it gave an illusion of longer time for one thing, and also it helped a bit with some of the fast travel. I agree that the 30 minute episodes were too short, but after playing around with them I felt like this was the best choice for what I had.
I tried really hard to make each scene change have different people for a natural flow, but there were a few times where it just wasn’t working.
The biggest change I’d like to make if I ever go back to this would be to fix the Bran VO. Some people were okay with the volume, and others obviously weren’t. Audio editing is the most challenging part to me, but hopefully I can fix it up.
Glad the visual effects worked! Only thing was at the end I wanted more dead in the funeral, but I could only manage a few characters because of the footage.
Dialogue for Jon is difficult. I actually went through two voice over actors. One didn’t work out and I just wasted time and money, but the one I had was a guy from youtube who was one of the better ones out there. I think if it was a normal scene with Jon talking like he usually does it would have fit better, but because it was a quieter scene he didn’t know how to impersonate it as well.
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A change list is kinda hard as I have rearranged so much. I’m adding what I posted to reddit to the main post.
Hello All,
Update 10.19.2021 - Added subtitles! Also I adjusted one vfx shot with poor tracking, and made an updated ending. The Jon voiceover is mostly removed now save two lines because the voice just didn’t match well enough, and then the last couple minutes were updated because the original Bran open ended-ending just wasn’t working.
Update 4.12.2020 - I made a few adjustments to some audio transitions, fixed some of the funeral and added one more character, and made a few adjustments to the ending to include more characters in the montage.
I’ve edited together an 11 episode finale for Game of Thrones combining seasons 7 and 8. I’ve rearranged the episodes, cut out a ton of the garbage, did a ton of editing, minor visual effects and a few lines of voiceover, and made a much more satisfying conclusion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1OcIZbrl60&feature=youtu.be
Game of Thrones Redeemed Trailer
PM me for a link.
My main fixes:
Detailed changes:
Cersei’s Downfall Arc (Episodes 1-6)
Dany still arrives in Westeros and plans her conquest. I tried to take out as much as I could of Tyrion looking at Dany as a monster. There is still a bit of tension when some of Tyrion’s plans fail, but it does not build to the Mad Dany plotline.
Sadly, Varys has no story in the final seasons other than plotting against Dany, so he is mostly gone now except for being a background character.
I completely removed Tyrion trying to reason with Cersei. He no longer goes to King’s Landing to talk to Jaime or Cersei. After Dany destroys the Tarlys on the Road and nearly kills Jaime and Bronn, she goes straight to Kings Landing. She no longer loses one of her dragons either, she goes right in and destroys Euron’s fleet and him in the process. She then takes out the Golden company, and then everyone surrenders. But she isn’t done yet. She doesn’t go crazy, but instead heads straight for the castle and burns Cersei to death.
This fixes a lot. Cersei still mostly just drinks wine, but there is a lot less so it doesn’t feel like she’s a useless character anymore. And of course, Dany doesn’t go mad which was so against her character this whole time.
Onto Jon. He still visits Dany in dragonstone and she still wants him to bend the knee, but his reason for leaving for the wall changes. He now gets a vision through Bran of the Night King. Bran wants to guide him past the wall, behind the Night King’s army to assassinate him before he can make it to the Wall. Jon leaves Dragonstone before Dany goes on the Road to attack Cersei’s armies. I hated the capture a zombie plotline, but I’ll get into that in the next section. One big fix here was Jon fast traveling up to the wall within the same episode as he left. He now arrives 3 episodes later. Not perfect obviously, but the best I could do.
There are two character problems in this section. 1st is Jorah. In the original season 7 he arrives at Dragonstone after being cured, he hears about the mission to capture a wight and asks to join, and then leaves instantly. I couldn’t keep his line in that justified him leaving so now he just arrives in Dragonstone and then leaves with Jon without any reasoning. It goes against his character which I assume he would stay with Dany. Couldn’t fix it though. 2nd is Gendry. Since Tyrion no longer goes to Kings Landing to talk to Cersei there is no reason for Davos to go there either. In this edit Gendry just appears with Davos to go talk to Jon. He doesn’t get his proper introduction but I don’t think it’s super important as this scene serves as his intro enough.
Night King Arc (Episodes 7-11)
Before I get to all the Night King stuff some explanation of a lot of what was removed. Littlefinger’s plot was only getting Sansa and Arya to go against each other, which made them looks like idiots, so I removed this completely making him hardly more than a backing character, same as Varys. He also doesn’t get outsmarted by them and killed. I really like both him and Varys but there just wasn’t footage I could use to make a decent story for them. All of Sansa being against Dany is also removed. It doesn’t make any sense in this edit.
Onto the edit: Jon arrives at the wall and the plot continues as normal except for some additions of Bran talking to Jon in visions. All the capturing a zombie plot are gone. Now once they get further in it appears that the Night King knew what was happening and wanted Jon to come North. Bran is confused as to why he would draw Jon up there just to kill him off. Then Bran realizes that the Night King was using Jon and Bran to draw Dany North to capture her dragon to get past the wall.
This provides much more depth to the Night King. He has some actual tactics. It also gives more character to Bran who lost basically all substance in the final seasons.
Rather than two episodes of “before the battle for Winterfell” I condensed them into one, cutting out a lot that I thought was unnecessary including the whole Gendry/Arya relationship. I focused instead on her relationship with the Hound and left it at that. Jaime’s arc is done now after he knights Brienne. No more sex scene or going back to Cersei. I think it ends perfectly with the knighting, and then he can die in battle.
The battle for Winterfell is split into two episodes. This gives some illusion of a longer battle, but also the way I arranged it just works better as two parts. The battle starts the same with the Dothraki charging out and all dying. This makes a lot more sense when they don’t respawn the next episode. I took some of the main characters out of the first fight outside the wall. I hated having every major character on the front line. Ned’s death also gets pushed to be later when the army breaks into the castle since he’s no longer in the first fight. The calling for the trenches to be lit is removed. Now Melisandre just goes straight out to light it. There was no need for that dumb little plotline. The first battle episode ends when the Night King raises the dead.
The second episode starts with Arya sneaking through the castle. I actually liked this section but it was so out of place in the original episode, going from heavy battle to this really quiet section. It works much better now. The fight continues and has Sam, Jaime, Pod, and Brienne all dying to the horde. The Night King’s end is much different now. The NK brings Bran back to where he was created and Bran gets stuck in the NK as he is being transformed by the Children of the Forest. This is how the NK gets his powers to control the dead, from Bran’s powers. Back in the present, Arya jumps on the Night King, but doesn’t immediately kill him. The Night King snaps her neck and kills her instantly. Bran wargs into her and uses the knife to end the Night King. After he dies then it shows all the walkers die and ends with Jorah and Melisandre dying. This was changed a few times because other versions were really confusing. I’m hoping this is the most clear version.
All the deaths give a lot more weight to this episode, especially with Arya. And the changes with the Night King give him an actual story. Also, this technically makes it Bran who kills the Night King who, aside from Jon, feels like the most important character to kill him given how tied his story is with the Night King (especially in my edit). Afterwards there is a short funeral, and I removed Jon’s speech, and I brought in the unused track - Stay a Thousand Years. I thought it fit nicely over this. The funeral adds several of the killed characters that I added with some VFX. I couldn’t fit in everyone though.
The end of the show has Dany in the throne room. Jon knows now that he is the rightful heir. He doesn’t want her to rule. But he doesn’t want it either. Instead of them ruling he calls on the dragon to burn the throne down. He and Dany then fly away afterwards and there is a short montage of all the characters still alive. Then it goes to Dany and Jon at the waterfall, falling in love basically. And the final shots are Sansa being crowned at Winterfell, and then Jon heading out beyond the Wall with Dany flying above him. (I removed the open ended shot of Bran being the new Night King. It didn’t work so well and this new ending is better)
Jon and Dany’s arcs are complete. Sansa has a decent ending. Both Varys and Littlefinger will be lurking at the end giving them open ended endings. The Hound’s arc ends nicely with him overcoming his fears to save Arya once more. He doesn’t need to go back for revenge after all of this. Jorah and Theon already had good ends I thought.
Thanks,
AC