I've noticed that anytime a post references using AI is a fan edit tool, it is met with a flurry of down votes.

AI is divisive, and I totally get it. For years, I worked as a comic book writer and a video producer. I know what it's like to be on the unstable creative side of business. The idea of people losing their livelihoods because of AI makes me sick to my stomach.

That being said, I have nothing against anyone using AI as "digital paintbrush" in a hobby. It's a versatile, fascinating tool set, and whether we like it or not, it is here to stay. We might as well put it to some good use.

There is going to be a job apocalypse, and I certainly expect AI to start coming for me in my current day job as a technical writer. But I'm not going to take it personally; it doesn't mean AI is evil. It's a tool like anything else.

So my friends, I think we need to stop downvoting posts that have to do with AI. Also, it's kind of silly to get on a high horse about protecting creatives when the fan edit community often desecrates the creative work of others. I know none of us are stealing income from these artists, (and AI could certainly do that in actual Hollywood) but in this circumstance no one is being wronged through the use of AI. Unless of course a fan edit crosses the line and puts a actor or actress in a situation that they would not consent to normally. But using AI to augment a film is no different than redubbing dialogue, matteing out backgrounds or what have you.

Ok, glad to get that off my chest. If you have any dissenting views, I would love to hear them.

DM me your Gmail address if you would like to take a look!

Just finished a quick recut of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. This was done to fulfill a request by a fellow Redditor who wanted to share this movie with their kids, but without the experience of the blatant transphobia depicted in this film. 

Others have commented that the particular plot point around which the transphobia revolves makes it impossible to remove or alter. Of course, we also have some hateful people here who feel the need to put their two cents in by addressing such a request as “soft”, or that Ace Ventura “wasn’t made for you”, or describing the person’s children by saying “your poor kids” and some who have outright denied the presence of transphobia in this film.

I found this request to be totally reasonable, and I’ll leave it to everyone to decide if my changes have compromised the integrity of the final cut in any way. 

Here is what I did:

• Cut out the montage of Ace retching, brushing his teeth, plunging his mouth, burning his clothes, and finally crying in agony as he showers after realizing Einhorn is a man

• Cut out Ace saying, “Well, I have kissed a man,” after Einhorn asks, “What would you know about pressure?”

• Cut out the montage of all the cops spitting in disgust after Ace reveals Einhorn’s secret

That’s it. That’s literally all the request was, and I made sure to ask.

51 seconds of footage. Bringing the runtime of my cut to 1 hour, 25 minutes, 10 seconds.

If you’ve got a problem with that--who is the “soft” one now?

Again, DM me your gmail address if you want to take a look!

My attempt with this color grading change is to make the film darker and much closer to the noir style that we associate with the Batman universe.

Hi there, I would like to put this out there and condemn the use of AI upscaling/restorations. Though, Fantastic Four 1994 - Ultimate Remaster did use Topaz, and it is a work my friend and I collaborated on. (Mostly ReverendRetro), I am ethically opposed to AI, in all forms. My previous use of it was only for video restoration and audio memes. I am opposed to the use of AI and I do not judge others for it I apologize for contributing to this phenomenon. I am just opposed to (myself) using it in ANY fanedit, imo.

My friend ReverendRetro will eventually make a V2 of Fantastic Four 1994 that is an improved version of the 1B transfer, with better contrast.
His YT: https://www.youtube.com/@lithium-dreams-echo
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/TheReverendRetro/

However, I will not release it, and I will likely have my friend release it, as the original F4 project was largely his work (with SundayPancakeBreakfast too, YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/SundayPancakeBreakfast) they are largely responsible for most of the incredible restoration work F4 has.
I was there for assistance, guidance and preliminary work.

I refuse to promote any AI content on this account.

Eventually, I will also, in the near future, retire from reddit. You can still ask me for links of my edits, but I have no interest in really sharing much else of my work in the future. Matrix V2 will come out, see my page for other fanedit links.

Thank you for your time.
-MTR_Edits

Alrighty, with the release of season 5 I figured i'll clean up some seasons

What was cut:

Alot of the overly sexual jokes like "i picured their face while they are screwing" or "you kept us up with all the moaning" have been removed.
Most of the profanity has been dubbed/removed. Episode 8 has some profanity left in.

Violence wasn't too bad but was toned down a bit like literally a few seconds each episode.

According to IMDB this season has a rating of:

Sex and nudity - Mild
This edit - Mild to none

Violence/Gore - Moderate
This edit - Mild

Profanity - Moderate
This edit - None

I would love to see someone put together a full movie fan edit, replacing the rap songs with news, presidential speeches and other audio soundbites.

The rate that AI is improving is insane and we’re already seeing pretty impressive AI video generation. Based on the timeline from the warped messes made by og DALLE to what we can do now, I wouldn’t be surprised if AI can create actually good scenes within a year or two.

Obviously there’s loads of concerns around this, but one of the plus sides would be INCREDIBLE fan edits. I’m thinking much more easily completely changing the plot of films, and being able add any scenes needed or convincingly change dialogue. The Star Wars sequels remade in 10 different ways, with the exact same cast. New episodes of Friends by combining and modifying scenes from existing seasons. Animated stuff will presumably be even easier, with looser voice-mouth matching and simpler visuals. Love a film but just wish one or two things were slightly different? Just change them!

Earlier on it might just be some individual scenes generated and dialogue manipulated combined with normal heavy editing, which would already be enough to change a storyline. But with a bit more time we could see axed TV shows revived, cancelled movies brought to life and crossovers that would never normally get to happen.

As concerned as I am about AI more generally and the impact this would then have on the movie industry, I’m super excited by this side of things. What do you guys think? Coming soon or still a long way off? Think I’m being too optimistic or are you as excited as I am? Personally I can’t wait to see that episode of korra where Aang comes back and the new not shit GoT season 7/8

I really want to share the movie with my kids because I loved it at their age but it goes pretty heavy on the transphobia in the third act.

Uwe Boll was a guest at the Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam several years ago, where he screened the film *Rampage*.

As far as I can remember, it was received fairly well.

However, he definitely doesn't produce masterpieces, as the believability of his films is often questionable.

The same can be said for his film *Citizen Vigilante*.

I thought it was somewhat good, but I was disappointed by the choice of Croatia as the setting and the fact that many actors spoke with noticeable accents.

Hammer is fantastic in the film, but the original editing of the film featured a disorganized jumble of scenes that jumped back and forth, which I found quite annoying.

In this edit, the scenes have been arranged in a more logical order, and there are significant changes to the music.

The story is now told in a 65-minute version, which, for me, was just enough.

Additional music by 

Alexis Grapsas

Brian Reitzell

Jimmy Page

Don Miggs

Fesliyan Studios

Roque Banos

And Charlie Clouser.

It's online now, converted to 4K; the audio is in TrueHD 5.1

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great day.

I've seen a lot of edits of single scenes using things like deepfakes for swapping faces, ai generation to change costumes, adding voiceovers and similar stuff around YouTube. That made me curious as to what the general concensus is around the use of AI on fan edits.

I personally enjoy 3d modeling and CGI in general, but some changes are either impossible to make without AI or it is unreasonable to ask a hobbyist to learn how to make photorealistic CGI elements or even full scenes if it is a live action movie.

Do you think editors should limit themselves to only manipulating existing footage? Or do you think using AI is valid if clearly indicated in non-profit fan edits?

Palm springs has alot of talk and use with drugs and alchol - that was left in

What was taken out are:
Sex scenes, profanity, and inuendoes.

There is mention of having sex or it's implied. It's as clean as it can get.

Spoilers!

Before the mvoie's release, James Gunn described this story as that of an immigrant, which Superman originally was and still is in the comics. When I watched the movie, I saw everything that was done with Jor-El and Lara, and it ruined that immigrant metaphor for me, since, for him to be accepted by humanity, he needs to "humanize" or "Americanize" himself—he needs to stop being who he truly is. The film justifies this by making Kal's parents bad people.

This fanedit aims to balance the human and alien sides of Superman. At the beginning of the film, we see that he never knew the meaning of the message, and there is no first or second part. Superman thinks he was sent to Earth to serve and be a good man, not to survive. He discovers that Krypton exploded when Lex reveals the message after the fight against the Kaiju, and that's why he is so affected here.

Kal never told the world he was an alien; therefore, all scenes where the words "Krypton" or "Kryptonian" are mentioned have been altered. The world finds out when Luthor exposes the first part of the message (which is the only one that exists) to the people, and this surprise, combined with the way Luthor conducts the revelation, makes people hate Superman simply for being an alien.

The conversation between Clark and Jonathan is about what he thought he had to do on Earth, not about Jor-El's true intentions for his son.

I deleted the scene where Superman tells Lex what it means to be human. Instead, when Lex calls Superman an "alien," it cuts to one of the TV shows apologizing to Superman, apologizing to this alien that Luthor sees as a bad thing.

The final scene shows Superman watching a montage of both his adoptive and biological parents. He is a son of two worlds, not just one.

I also changed the movie's colors to make them more like those in the first trailer. I loved that extremely blue colors.

There’s been a lot of discussion about the scene in Blade Runner where Deckard stops Rachel from leaving, pushes her hard back into the room, and then kisses her, leading to sex. Many discussions today focus on modern day interpretations of the characters, suggesting that Deckard is morally complex or even a replicant with diminished empathy.

But the reality is different. In the early 1980’s, this kind of scene wasn’t widely seen as rape. Back then, it was more common for films to depict men as “strong” by taking charge and very aggressively seducing reluctant women. No didn’t necessarily mean no. This view was flawed and backward.

Ridley Scott, like many people of his time, probably didn’t see the scene as rape when it was released in 1982. He likely thought it portrayed Deckard as assertive.

While this scene doesn’t hold up well today, it’s helpful to understand it in the context of the 1980’s, even if it makes the film uncomfortable to watch. For example, in the 1980’s, a magazine referred to a 13-year-old Brooke Shields as the “princess of wet dreams.” The culture was far different then, and Deckard wasn’t intended to be seen as a rapist when the movie was first released.

In the original novel, Deckard doesn’t coerce Rachel into sex. This element of coercion was added by the two male screenwriters.

Notably middle-aged Director Ridley Scott attempted to date a 22 year old Sean Young during filming, and was denied.

The actress has stated she felt like the nude scene with Ford was Scott’s revenge for her refusing to have sex with him.

So in the end, editing out the rape would make the film truer to the intended character dynamics.

The concept of the show and performances are great. It just has the longest, most time-wastingest montages you've ever seen in your life. Almost every episode there is a montage so over-long that it makes you bust out laughing at the absurdity of it.

I genuinely think that this entire season could be a great 90 minute movie.

As some of you may know my Hobbit edits have been a near constant journey of small tweaks to get them as good as possible.

There was one problem though: Orcrist.

For the life of me I couldn't fine a way to fix it. I had a crude edit of Radaghast dropping it, but it felt unfinished/not cinematic enough at all.

No more! Now with AI i was able to make something thats right in line with the original movies artificial look lol.

Im going to see if I can add a scene where Radaghast meets Gandalf and Legolas on the battlefield, but it might be too much for AI to handle.

AI will definitely shape the fanedit community in the future. It already does with the audio tools available, but i had never guessed it would actually be helpful here.

Like at least 90% of the sub I see on my homepage is just Star Wars edits, can we make a separate sub for that?

Some truly amazing fan edits have been made of George Lucas's prequel trilogy. But the editors will be the first to admit: there's only so much that can be done with the source material. Case in point, Lucas is on record of being almost contemptuous of writing dialogue, and it shows.

BUT we are now at a pivotal point in technology development where we really do have the power to change things, to fix things for the better. To bring good writing, snappy dialogue, and security to our new empire prequel trilogy.

I propose the following:

• We get together a team of good writers, good fan editors, and a few technical folks to reimagine the prequel trilogy, scene by scene.

• We strive to make the minimum amounts of edits while maximizing the improvement in the source material, if only just to maintain the quality

• Editors advise on what they would change narratively, and what's advisable vs. superfluous. Writers imagine what the dialogue could be with no holds barred, and butt heads with the editors to build a shared vision. And the tech folks inform what can or can't be done, and again with a stretch versus what's a solid hit

• We do this together, so not only do we get all the best ideas while screening out things that just can't work -- but we get people working together to create new ideas that hit harder than the sum of their parts

• Lucas was a master of emotional impact; so we keep what's great and jettison what's not

• And we never have to hear the words "hold me like you did by the lake on naboo" ever again

Just spitballin', but this seems like the kind of thing that can finally be done now with the current tech in 2025. I'd love to hear folks' thoughts.

EDIT: Lots of downvotes, lots of "AI bad". There's room for disagreement here, but I'm genuinely eager to hear crisp discussions of why you don't like it, rather than just reactive pushback

It's such a good series, but the sexual content makes it unpresentable for family settings. The swearing is fine. The gore can get a bit much, but it's the sex that really makes it awful for family viewing.

Got to say I'm surprised, it seems like every time I post something now I get a thumbs down. Personally I really don't care but I think it's ignorant because of my post that I'm making that people are giving me negative votes just to give me a negative vote and I'm sure it's just a person that doesn't like my edits. Oh well

Hi all, in celebration of the cancelation of The Acolyte, I wanted to post a fan edit where the Jedi are the good guys, however, I have not done this before, so I (think), I posted correctly on "Fan Edit Central". But if you just message me directly, I may be able to get it to you. Here is a quick summary of changes;

I edited the 8 episodes of The Acolyte (5hr30m) into 3 parts (now totaling 2hr40m). I removed all references to "The Vergence", "The Thread", "The Sith", "The Power of Manyyyy", removed Ki-Adi-Mundi, Yoda, and Basil (except I kept one scene as a joke). I removed all repetitive flashbacks and scattered the rest around sequentially at various moments that would make sense, from the perspective of the person flashing back. Most importantly, Mother Aniseya doesn't turn into a demon, Mae actually turns good and doesn't get her memory wiped, Sol doesn't try to stupidly hold the bridges up, and Sol does not blame Mae for the fire (nor is Mae's fire the cause of the destruction, it is Mother Koril). Oh, I also removed any s'xual innuendoes. I made dozens more edits that I have listed out for anyone curious.

Again, because I have not done this before and want to follow the community guidelines, please feel free to message me for any suggestion/inquiry, thanks!

A grandmother recently asked me to make an edit of Super 8 for her grandkids

Per her request all profanity has been removed from the film

That's the only thing that was touched in the film

I do have 2 versions, one with and one without subs

Super Mario Bros. Super Movie (WIP Project)

Using both the Super Mario Bros. 1993 movie and the Super Mario Bros. 1986 anime movie.

Changes Include:

• Intro/Outro: Introduction and ending taken from the 1993 movie (specifically the Brooklyn segments).

• Core Plot: The main part of the movie is from the 1986 anime (specifically the Mushroom Kingdom segments).

• Dino-Removal: All references to "Dinohattan" or dinosaurs are removed.

• AI Dialogue Modifications: Daisy will be referred to as "Peach" in the 1993 movie segments.

• Iggy and Spike will be referred to as "Iggy and Lemmy" in the 1993 movie segments.

• Character Swaps: The two Goombas working for Bowser in the 1986 anime will be replaced by Iggy and Lemmy. (I chose Iggy and Lemmy based on The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 show).

• Peach will be holding the Emerald from the 1986 anime, but she will give it to Luigi before being chased.

• New AI Sequences: A brief appearance of Kamek reverting Iggy and Lemmy to their Koopa forms and having them hand Peach over to Bowser.

• Kibidango is revealed to be Toad, Princess Peach’s assistant (the same version seen in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show). He was transformed by Kamek while trying to stop Iggy and Lemmy.

Desired Major AI Changes:

• Character Reskin: Change the faces, voices, and clothes of Mario and Luigi to match Lou Albano and Danny Wells in the live-action fragments.

• Art Style: Change the animation style of the anime to match the style of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show.

• Setting: Replace Mario and Luigi’s house with the basement workshop from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show.

• Subplot: Include a guest-star subplot in the first act involving Hulk Hogan getting his "Hulkamania Jacuzzi" repaired. He may also appear trying to stop Iggy and Lemmy or confronting Anthony Scapelli.

• Vibe: Modify dialogues to better match the Super Mario Bros. Super Show style.

Removed all the nudity and censored the f-bombs. Slightly suggestive content remains (vital for the story). Let me know if you'd like to watch it!