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nightstalkerpoet

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#745589
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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - Nightstalkerpoet's Extended Book Cut (Released)
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I’ve been wanting to release a quick extended book cut of HP6 for a while now - finally got around to it. Nothing dramatic, just trying to improve what I find the weakest of the Harry Potter films. Let me know what you thin 😃 Check your spleen…

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince BD-25

(also a 3.5gb 720p mkv, 7gb 1080p mkv, and 1.5gb 480p equivalent h264 mp4)

Extended Book Cut

Changes: Color Regraded less green.

Removed Bridge Destruction

Moved Spinners End to Beginning of Film

Removed Cafe Flirting

Removed reference to cafe flirting

Added Courtyard Cabinet Discussion

Added Tom Riddle/Kids/Cave Discussion

Added alternate musical montage of castle at night.

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#745431
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Was just thinking about this - remember a while back when adywan tried to swich things up and call the team AD1 and most of us were against it.

Then, a few pages back it was established that it's pronounced AY-dee-wan, and a LOT of us professed to having pronounced it add-ee-wan for years.

Did the mispronunciation confusion have an effect on anyone else's opinion of the proposed name change? (I know it did on mine.) 

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#739295
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Info: Hardware and Software Scaling, Enhancing, and Upconversion Techniques
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Just stumbled across this

http://hdguru.com/darbeevision-darblet-hdtv-dvp-5000-review/

(small slideshow here http://hometheaterreview.com/oppo-bdp-103d-darbee-edition-universal-disc-player-reviewed/#2)hometheaterreview.com/oppo-bdp-103d-darbee-edition-universal-disc-player-reviewed/#2)”)

and it got me wondering what everyone’s preferred method of upscaling footage for projects is. I’ve always thought it would be amazing if someone with top of the line hardware could release high bitrate BD encodes of lossless captures of some of the projects that have only seen releases on DVD/720p.

From my personal experience, I can say that my old Samsung UP5000 has made many edits “pop” in comparison to what I was getting out of my PS3.

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#732461
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NightStalkerPoet's Quick and Dirty PT OT-ified (* unfinished project *)
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I definitely know what you mean. In comparison, it is incredibly different. However, viewed in motion I've been pretty happy with the results.

Yes, the vast majority of my settings were applied in After Effects using Hue/Saturation settings. I've struggled with finding the correct Brightness and Contrast settings, as the lower saturation causes the brightness to make the film appear washed out. However, having color corrected mainly with saturation, hue, and individual color brightness, upping the master saturation causes pretty bad artifacts. 

I color corrected against Harmy's despecialized Star Wars.

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#732388
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NightStalkerPoet's Quick and Dirty PT OT-ified (* unfinished project *)
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I love the concept of Emanswfan’s project… but I’m an impatient person 😉. So impatient that I went to work on a grain addition/OT color scheme attempt of my own.

This project is definitely different in that I have not scene by scene color corrected - instead, I have spent hours trying to find a one size fits all color correction for each film. As such, I’m not striving for perfection nearly as much as I’m looking for a far better starting point for myself and other editors looking to make PT fanedits. These are the official Blus, just visually changed to match the OT. No deleted scenes are included, though when I have finished all three films I may go back and do them as well.

I will update soon with images in the second post (internet currently down at home so won’t have screengrabs for a little bit.

However, my TPM is finished, just running through x264 to drop down from the 300+ GB file it currently is. I will first be releasing a DVD-9 AVCHD, and if it is deemed of acceptable quality by the community, I will release a BD-25. The audio I’ll be including on these is 640 kbps english ac3 to provide more space for higher quality video, while still providing adequate audio quality in a format compatible with most editing programs.

Expecting to release TPM in the next couple days. At that point, I will possibly exspleen where to get them.