Added comparison shots of the regrade. Release pending final renders…
Above images with explanations: https://imgur.com/a/rSICnvG
To inquire about this edit, email krausfadr at gmail dot com and include the word fanedit in the subject line.
Note: version 1.1 adds a few more seconds of Holden’s shooting and corrects skin tones in several scenes, which were a bit too pink/red in version 1.0.
This edit incorporates the following changes into the Blade Runner Final Cut UHD 4K release:
1.Complete scene by scene regrade mainly to remove or reduce excessive green and teal colors. Also reduced some overexposed whites in various scenes.
2. Reduced the intense shimmer in the bottom part of the opening Los Angeles cityscape scene (the shimmer is absent in the theatrical release, present in the Blu Ray, and even worse in the 4K). The existing blanket of darkness over the city is now expanded and deepened to help hide the shimmer.
3. Lessened the extreme quality/brightness disparity between the first two cityscape VFX shots.
4. With added atmospheric VFX, concealed and softened weird artifacts in the second cityscape VFX shot. These were in the theatrical version and even worse in the 4K Final Cut.
5. Added subtle atmospheric VFX (particles, weather) to enhance several scenes and also to make the Tyrell building, flying cars, and other structures seem less like they were small models on a static movie set and more like they were in a real world. Outdoors there are a lot of dirty particles floating around now. The hockey mask go go dancers are right in the worst of it. Indoor air is filtered.
6. Completely recut and rearranged VERY limited portions of Deckard’s narration from the theatrical version. It actually works quite well. Give it a try. Details below. Or select the alternate audio track with no narration.
7. Reinstated the darker red color for the word Replicant in the introduction.
8. Ver 1.1: From the Blu-Ray HD Workprint added an upscaled few seconds of Holden with a smoking bullet hole in his back. Re-cut the footage so he smashes harder, face first into the desk.
9. During Deckard’s briefing, completely removed Zhora’s dossier. Reduced the briefing footage of Pris slightly and removed Bryant’s comment about Pris’ file. Deckard would have acted much differently if he had perfect headshots of all four of his targets for retirement. It also would have made the Voight-Kampff test irrelevant. The overly perfect setup for Deckard (and expository for the audience) is now gone.
10. Brightened Deckard’s visit in the Tyrell building (“it’s too bright in here.”) Also dimmed the room a bit more for the Voight-Kampff test.
11. Cut the superintendent grunting “Kowalski” as he lets Deckard and Gaff into the room.
12. The unicorn dream sequence is more subtle, now more a part of the scene with Deckard.
13. Cropped out the ceiling part of Deckard’s balcony as he looks below. The openness looks better with the added particles and fog.
14. When Zhora strikes Deckard, cut the delayed reaction so he goes flying.
15. Note: now that this is the first we see of Zhora, it is somewhat questionable at first if Deckard shot a person or a Replicant. This is meant to linger in the viewer’s mind until Byant shows up and answers it with his skin job line.
16. For the fight between Leon and Deckard, removed a few frames that showed the windshield was broken before Deckard landed on it.
17. Same fight scene, new punching and gunshot SFX.
18. Added blood VFX for Leon’s gunshot wound to the head.
19. Trimmed Leon’s front facing reaction after he is shot. The rear reaction shot remains, now with added blood.
20. Trimmed the few seconds after Leon and Deckard fall to the ground.
21. Cut Deckard violently pushing Rachael twice. The moral ambiguity of the protagonist and this scene is already quite apparent without making Deckard into a violent rapist.
22. Included a few deleted shots for the romantic interlude. Upscaled and very brief.
23. Slightly cropped the scene where Sebastian talks about Tyrell playing chess because his mouth wasn’t moving.
24. When Roy and Sebastian seek out Tyrell, the establishing shots of the building and external elevator are now night time, like it is supposed to be.
25. Reinstated the expletive in Roy’s line, “I want more life, fucker.” Trivia: although the center channel in the theatrical release has Roy saying fucker, the side channel fx has the word father reverberating.
26. Re-foleyed when Pris strikes Deckard.
27. Cut Roy’s inserted, odd voiceover after he breaks Deckard’s fingers, “Now it’s my turn.”
About the opening Cityscape scene in the high definition release…
It’s unfortunate the studio took the time and money to clean this footage up so professionally, only to ruin it with an insufficient bitrate (causing the distracting shimmer). Upscaling the Blu Ray here is not a good option because it is very softened / blurry in comparison to the 4K. Upscaling the theatrical release would also have a very noticeable difference in quality with its extensive scratches and dirt. Hiding the shimmer in the N-7 Cut is the least of three evils, so that’s what I did.
NEW, LIMITED NARRATION
Below is the new, complete narration in quotes, reducing and changing it significantly. The theatrical narration was supposed to give a gritty detective noir feel, but most of it was awful expository, not well placed within scenes. This edit allows for a fresh take on limited narration while retiring the scene ruining parts of it.
Outside the noodle stand:
“They don’t advertise for killers in the newspaper. But then I’d rather be a killer than a victim.”
Walking to Gaff’s police car:
“That mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you… I didn’t really need a translator. But I wasn’t going to make it easier for him.”
Rifling through Leon’s drawer:
“Whatever was in the bathtub was not human. I didn’t know whether Leon gave Holden a legit address. But it was the only lead I had.”
Looking at Rachel’s dropped photo:
“A mother she never had, a daughter she never was. The report would be routine retirement of a replicant. Anyway… more killing.”
Zhora dead, Leon watching:
“There it was again. Shooting a woman in the back.”
At the end, in the corridor to Deckard’s apartment:
“I don’t know why he saved my life. All I could do was sit there and watch him die.”
REGRADE AND VFX COMPARISON SHOTS
Top image is Final Cut. Bottom image is N-7 Cut.
Note: images are not high resolution, just posted for a quick comparison.
Hello everyone, v2.3 will be released in the next few days with the updates below. If anyone has any last minute requests, please give your 2 cents. axlanian, if you want anything else tweaked let me know…
v2.3:
Improved audio levels for Knight’s of Ren voices so they can all be clearly heard now.
Remove Finn’s loud grunting during lightspeed skipping.
Finn yells “Rey” one less time somewhere in the movie (does it matter where?)
Stormtroopers do not sound like droids when they die: Refoleyed the stromtrooper on the speeder as he drives onto rocks and it is ramped up into the air. Refoleyed when a jet trooper is shot and lands on the ground. Refoleyed when another jet trooper flies out of control and crashes explosively into a rock formation. All done to remove the slapstick cartoon droid screams.
Removed Poe saying “we only have 8 hours left.”
Removed Poe exclaiming during the battle of Exegol, “they’re toast!”
When Rey looks to the suns, extended the shot of BB-8
Improved reverb sfx and audio level of Yoda’s voice during lightsaber burial
V2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18a2L-J2DoSwCi7gJBnv3kTJe0YgQJHPy/view?usp=sharing
really excellent work jonh. you did a better job on ben’s force ghost than disney did on luke and leia’s ghosts.
Deepfake Palpatine’s face onto Snoke’s.
Ewww. Now someone’s gonna do this.
Finn’s line placement is really in the wrong spot, making it sound like an awkward afterthought to the battle. Moving the line to the destroyer destruction around the galaxy doesn’t work well either because it turns him into the narrator of Star Wars, similar to 300 or The Road Warrior. The final scene would be old Finn teaching at a Jedi temple (and maybe still screaming REEEYYYY).
It’s not jarring. It’s jar jarring. Which is the opposite of jarring. If you’re a gungan.
This is great. I’ve watched it a couple of times now and haven’t spotted anything I would personally change.
Thanks negspec13. Version 2.2 is being released today to fix a bad cut while Ren is on Exegol the first time. And with Klaud reinstated (lol just kidding about Klaud).
Version 2.2 will be released today with current pending PM requests sent.
August 27, 2020: ver 2.2 released to fix a video cut error on Exegol when Ren takes the elevator down to see Palpatine. Also now released in 3 different filesizes in High Quality, Good Quality, and Tiny Encode Quality.
All video encodes begininning with ver 2.2 customized for the content with manually defined zones in the encoder command line to increase bitrate (and quality) in specific darker scenes, especially on Exegol. Even the tiny encode file is surprisingly decent for its filesize. Recommended quality to download is Good or High, depending on your bandwith.
File details:
High Quality 8.9 GB
Highest quality, should look nearly identical to the 60 GB prores master
Video: 1080p, H264, very slow, film preset, CRF 20, Zone CRF 10
Audio: AC3, 5.1 channel, 640 kbps (audio filesize 592 MB)
Good Quality 4.9 GB
Most will probably find the video quality to be excellent; the audio should be perceptually the same as the Bluray AC3 at this reduced filesize because of the variable bitrate
Video: 1080p, H264, very slow, film preset, CRF 22, Zone CRF 15
Audio: AAC-LE, 5.1 channel, VBR (audio filesize 350 MB)
Tiny Encode 1.5 GB
Intended for test screenings or smaller screens (phones, tablets, notebooks)
Decent but lower quality; small filesize!
Video: 720p, H264, very slow, CRF 24, Zone CRF 18
Audio: AAC-LE, 2 channel,192 kbps CBR (audio filesize 180 MB)
I was also thinking about adding chapters to the mkv’s. Below is what it would look like which gives a good feel for the scene reordering and plot changes of Resurgence:
Opening Logo
The Rise of Skywalker
Ren Reforged
A True Empire
Training as Corellia Burns
Earning Her Lightsaber
Millenium Falcon Mission
Lightspeed Skipping
Falcon on Fire
Spy Message
“We Go Together”
Festival of Ancestors
General Calrissian
Speeder Chase
Buried Secrets
Power Unleashed
Ren’s Wayfinder
Meeting on Exegol
“For Chewie”
The Spice Runner
Babu Frik’s Workshop
Into the Destroyer
Hangar Revelation
Falcon Crashed
Finn Feels the Force
Rey’s Wayfinder
Wreckage Duel
Ben Solo
The Princess
The Final Order Begins
Destiny of a Jedi
Battle Plans
Welcome to Exegol
Ground Team
“You Will Take the Throne”
Navigation Tower
The Knights Betrayed
Dyad in the Force
The Galaxy Responds
Emperor Reborn
Force Spirits
Redeemed
Victory Celebration
Desert Burial
End Credits
Maybe compression issues? Would like to know from others, maybe there is something wrong on my side.
If that’s the case I posted a new version with no artifacts from a prores render, 10 GB, 6 channel. It’s version 2.1 in the same folder.
EDIT: And I will also post a ~3 GB file for version 2.1 as well.
When something as dumb and egregious as Rey Palpatine is canon, i don’t think it matters anymore.
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Don´t know if iam hallucinating, but at 0:27:02 - 0:27:10 (knights of ren round-shot) there is some kind of flickering at the head of the knights of ren (not all of them but 2 or 3, if i´m correct).
I hope you’re not hallucinating. I did not change that scene in any way.
Hey, just wondering if your final edit has a 5.1 track?
I’ve released a 5.1 audio version today.
Pet Sematary (2019): The Extended Cut by DEJ-Flounder
The theatrical 2019 film is not perfect by any means but DEJ-Flounder has improved it in a seamless way by adding in the much needed extended scenes and alternate ending which fix this film really as much as it can be. For some films, the extended scenes were deleted because they were fluff-- but here the deleted scenes add to the depth in a good way.
The alternate ending fixes the ridiculous original ending. I won’t post spoilers, just watch this edit.
Because of the incorporation of the deleted scene material which was in stereo, this is a stereo release.
Great job, DEJ-Flounder. This version has replaced my original as the definitive version.
–krausfadr
This v 2.0 release just has stereo. My adobe premiere has some strange problems with audio quality when mixing down to 5.1. I can’t explain why. I can render to surround but the audio quality is noticeably inferior.
I will later attempt to export my project from my laptop to a pc and see if that helps. If the audio issue is fixed in doing so… then I will release a version in 5.1.
Axlanian lol. Also I’m uploading a corrected version 2. You will likely notice some audio anomalies in the version you downloaded, particularly a scream when no one is screaming. Correction will post in 5 minutes.
Version 2 released today. Contains a fix of a major video error of one scene and adds voices for the Knight of of Ren.
Thanks to Axlanian for processing the vocals for the Knights of Ren and also thanks to him, his wife, Mr. Benjamino, and poppasketti for voicing the KoR.
Yeah that’s a good idea. It was very abrupt.
Thanks I liked it too but it’s too wonky.
On second thought I think I’m going to give up on modifying Alderaan and just use the SE footage.
Thanks StarkillerAG yeah I do have plans for both those cuts.
Hi Hal! Just checking in to say I’ve received the final revisions for each of the Knights of Ren voices. I’m applying the final effects and will have the voice pack (two different people for each knight, and multiple line options for each scene) ready tomorrow!
WOO WOO
Alderaan destruction enhanced:
Rough clip: https://youtu.be/wzvgr1GzljI
ha ha nice nl0428 I saw the power converters episode a few years back but not the sandcrawler one.