nightstalkerpoet

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.

Never walked out on the prequels.

Got really really close to walking out on The Last Airbender. Awful. 

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.) 

Also, in the back description, on the last line after the word attack, it says "a" when it should say "and".

They look very nice. Wondering how you're going to manage the Theatrical Trailer in High Definition on DVD though ;)

I would Also use the Yellow/Gold color for the Description on the Back. The white is hard to see.

Yeah, Ronster. How dare you talk about something actually related to the edit, as opposed to the last page and a half of hoverboards comments ;-) 

Can't wait. No, really. Put it out. Please?

Will there be hoverboards in ESB:R?

Just wanted to mention that a little while back I put up a version of ANH:R on the spleen that combines the higher resolution PAL video (slowed to 23.976 fps) with the higher quality NTSC audio. As good as it gets until ANH:R:HD comes out.

+1 on Star Wars. 

No, the real issue here is that the aforementioned inserted Ewoks have no table manners. And dining with Vader in Bespin, no less...

They won't provide the option to select between the original SW and revised Ep 4 crawls.

Has anyone tried recompositing Jabba into that shot with altered lighting? Also seems that a slight blur could do wonders, as he appears too detailed in comparison to the original film elements.

My attempt: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/104248

As much of a pain as it would be, I would suggest releasing both versions. This project looks awesome, looking forward to it. (Oddly enough, sparked my curiosity on what AotC and RotS would look like if matched to the theatrical TPM, rather than the typical trying to match them to the OT.)

The problem with game capture devices is most of them have built in hardware encoders that can't be bypassed. You'd have to find a way to feed the uncompressed video directly to to computer to save losslessly, then convert with a multipass x264.

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.

I don't mind it except... Why not "The Force Awakened"... Such a small change, same basic meaning, but sounds like 10x cooler...

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.

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.

Sounds like the RotJ you have is Q2s.

Anyone think there's a chance we'll see a return of Alec Guinness as Obi Wans ghost? Considering they are creating a whole scene of Philip Seymour Hoffman in the last hunger games, I'd imagine it could be quite possible.

Anyone else excited? 

Finally, I can quit paying for the Start8 start menu and rid myself of Metro!

Sorry, got caught up and went a bit overboard X.X

stretch009 said:

Adywan's Revisited of Episode IV (Subpar PQ though, won't watch again until it's in HD)

 Blasphemy. Revisited is about as good as DVD can get, and looks better than most upconverted.