Hello everyone! Happy Ahsoka Tano Day!

I am proud to announce the release of the REMASTERED EDITION of my Fulcrum Cut fanedit supercut of Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith + Clone Wars season 7, named in honor of Ahsoka Tano since it adds her point of view. This version replaces my version originally released back on May 17th 2020. (For those reading this who are just now discovering this prospect, this work is a fanedit which incorporates the last 4 episodes of Clone Wars season 7 into Revenge of the Sith, resulting in a 4-hour supercut. I am one of many who undertook this project back in May 2020, having never seen anyone else's version -- mine is all my interpretation.)

What changed?

I'm glad you ask. The key driving factor behind my new Edition was the fact that after releasing my original version, I decided I didn't like the way my "mashup" approach made the Intro look and feel. What do I mean? Well, for the beginning of my original version, I used both works' Intros...wipe-transitioning into the CW ep9 narrated intro & happenings as RotS's word crawl was finishing. The obvious problem with that is you read the word crawl, then jar into CW ep9 which has nothing to do with what you just read.

Therefore, I began efforts to design and composite my own Intro, complete with a word crawl and all.  Since that was going to mean a second release, I replaced all video files with much higher quality files -- RotS is now from my own direct 1080p Blu-ray RIP, CW episodes are 4K HDR RIPS which I color tone-mapped to my liking and downsized to 1080p. THUS, a Remastered Edition!

While life events caused me to have to shelve the project in July 2020, I picked it back up in November 2020 and worked hard to finish with a planned release date of January 29th, 2021 -- Ahsoka Tano Day! I'm just sorry it took so long! But hopefully this Edition blesses you as much as it was a blessing to make!

Detailed Change List

• NEW yellow logos! - this time, both logos are yellow and side-by-side, made from scratch utilizing Photoshop/Illustrator because every vector logo that exists online is inaccurate.

• My own word crawl! - made my own space background, with words that crawl and fade frame-accurate to RotS, utilizing After Effects. It features the correct fonts used in the film: News Gothic BTW01 Bold and Univers Light Standard 49 Light Ultra Condensed. The text also better sets up CW ep9.

• Pan-down intro - what's a Star Wars intro without a proper pan-down after the word crawl?  Now this one has it, composited with a shot of planet Yerbana from CW ep9 reversed and slowed down, with Obi-Wan/Anakin's shuttle digitally removed.

• Tweaked transitions - fixed many transitions' audio flubs on my part, which I didn't notice before (amazing the subtleties you can hear when using headphones). For example, the most pronounced fix is the transition into the battle of Coruscant -- it's cleaner with the war drums starting much earlier. I'd imagine most people won't notice all of the differences from my original, but they have been perfected nonetheless. :)

• Ahsoka sensing - I improved Ahsoka sensing Windu/Anakin/grampy-Palpy to sound more real-time instead of repeated dialogue. However, I opted to still repeat Anakin's "I need him".

• Animation mistake fix - fixed a Lucasfilm render mistake during Ahsoka's lightsaber fight with Maul where his left saber blade is outside of Ahsoka's left leg but should be inside due to the angle. Literally no one will care, but I fixed it...because I can lol. (When you eat-sleep-breathe a fanedit, you see EVERYTHING!)

• Yoda communes with Qui-Gon - I threw in a soundbite of Qui-Gon speaking to Yoda during Yoda's meditation scene, right after the Emporer finds Anakin on Mustafar.

• Clone Wars credits - tacked on the credits for the Clone Wars episodes after my end-credits scene with Vader in the snow.

• Now with subtitles! - I created an English subtitle track, populated closest as possible as how was provided commercially.

File Details

• Length .......... 3 hrs 53 mins

• Codecs .......... MainConcept H264 (14GB file) & H265 (5GB file)

• Audio .......... 5.1 Surround Sound AAC

• Container .......... MKV

• Resolution .......... 1080p

• Chapters .......... yes, 35 total

• Subtitles .......... yes, English

• Post-credits scene .......... Yes

If you're interested in my transitions, you can view them here.

Links!

Please send an email to my Protonmail account Fulcrum.Tano(at)pm.me and you'll receive an auto-reply email with links and information! (Populate the SUBJECT & BODY of your email or it will go to my Spam & won't trigger the auto-reply!) Though the reply is auto, I still read the emails. I am pleasantly surprised with the amount of emails still coming in requesting my Fulcrum Cut. Thank you so much for considering my fanedit, and for all the kind words, thank you's, etc., means alot! Enjoy my Fulcrum Cut REMASTERED EDITION! Happy Ahsoka Tano Day!

Watch the "Every Change In 'Rogue One: The Andor Cut'" Comparison Video Showcase

Check my bio, or the description of the video, for details on how to watch the edit.

Thank you so much to everyone who has been following the progress on this project for the last year. I very much hope you all enjoy!

Welcome to the Rebellion, and witness the end of the Andor saga.

'Rogue One: The Andor Cut' sets out to re-envision 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' as the final finale and epilogue of the Andor series, as if it had been made afterwards. Musical pieces and leitmotifs from the show appear, pertinent flashbacks are inserted, and the tone and pacing are brought more in line with what audiences had grown accustomed to over the course of the two incredible seasons.

'The Andor Cut' is in no way attempting to replace or “one-up” the official 'Rogue One' film. On the contrary. It is simply a different approach to it. 'Rogue One A Star Wars Story' is very much a prequel to 'Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'. 'Andor', of course, is a prequel to 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'. But 'Rogue One: The Andor Cut' is a sequel to 'Andor'. As such, before you watch 'Rogue One: The Andor Cut', you should watch the 'Andor' series. But before you watch the 'Andor' series, you should watch 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'. There are so many moments of foreshadowing in 'Andor' that are absolutely made in a way that assumes you have subsequent knowledge of what happens in 'Rogue One', that wouldn't be nearly as impactful if you hadn't seen it first.

The original version is the events of ‘Rogue One’ as seen through Jyn Erso’s perspective, and ‘The Andor Cut' is through Cassian Andor’s.

I hope you enjoy this fan edit that has taken me a full year to complete, and I hope you enjoy the comparison video showcase, that ended up being almost as long as the edit itself.

May the Force be with you, always.

Runtime: 130 minutes Original version runtime: 133 minutes Content cut from original version: 9 minutes, 18 seconds Content added to new version: 6 minutes, 17 seconds

Video: 2.39:1

4K ULTRA-HD 3840 X 1606 HEVC MKV: DOLBY VISION HDR REC.2020 HLG ISO: HDR10 REC.2020 PQ

1080P 1920 x 802 H264 REC.709

Audio: English - Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English (Alternate Dialog Track) - Dolby Digital 5.1

50 Chapters

Subtitle Languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

A very special thank you to:

u/PixelJoker95: Darth Vader Helmet VFX

Dave Jones: Audio Engineer

Iain Müller: Provided Star Wars SFX

@Peter Ryker: Provided Star Wars SFX

u/samuelscane: Provided Hi-Fi Andor OST

Minato Wayne: French Subtitle Translation & Other Subtitles

Misael Arancibia: Spanish Subtitle Translation

Coleman Cooper: German Subtitle Translation

José Henrique Saraiva: Portuguese (Brazil) Subtitle Translation

Bo Cartiglia: Andor / Rebel Alliance Symbol

Artur Trzebny: Poster Artwork

Full List of Changes:

VISUAL CHANGES

• Subtle scene-by-scene re-color-grading was applied throughout to match Andor’s gritty aesthetic, with desaturated tones and cool earthy colors. Some scenes feature a slight Blade Runner-esque cyan tint. (Slight variations between the Dolby Vision, HDR10, and SDR versions).

• Flashbacks, including Jyn’s dream, are desaturated with boosted contrast and a heavy layer of film grain added.

• Darkened the rock cutout where Jyn hides, so that her eyes are less brightly lit, and not as visible to the death troopers.

• Added the Tarkin and Leia deepfakes created by YouTuber @Shamook, who was later hired by Lucasfilm, in part because of this work.

• Added battle damage to Vader’s helmet, courtesy of fellow editor PixelJoker95, to match its worn look in A New Hope, with reduced shine, scuff marks, and redder lenses.

ALTERED CONTENT

• Removed Bail Organa’s silent cameo with the Force theme playing. Replaced it with Jyn flashbacks to her father, which prompts her line “And if I do it?” [attempt to find him]. Scene rescored as well.

• Removed Cassian’s surprised reaction to Jyn taking out stormtroopers. It felt out of character after Andor, and its removal improves the pacing.

• Removed the insert reaction shot of Jyn and Cassian during Baze’s blaster fire, restoring the shot to its uninterrupted status.

• Removed Cassian’s line “This is a first for me” about having never been in a cage. Replaced his response with a knowing scoff/chuckle that acknowledges his Narkina 5 prison experience in the series.

• Removed Baze clearing his throat to get the stormtrooper’s attention. The stormtrooper now simply hears the rebels running behind him.

• Slightly sped up the shot of Krennic’s shuttle approaching the Scarif tower, and removed the landing shot, to better sync the visuals with the new music cues.

• Delayed the explosion sound effects Krennic watches by 9 frames, for more realistic speed of sound delay, based on the distance.

• Removed Jyn’s reply “You know who I am” to Krennic. His confused reaction makes it clear he doesn’t recognize her, and it flows better if she just answers directly.

• Recut / rotoscoped footage so that Cassian shoots Krennic mid-sentence (“You, on the other hand, die with the Rebel–“) instead of letting him finish his line and then waiting a few seconds, for a more cold Andor tone.

• Added the same blaster sound that hits Syril Karn in the series, because of the “Who are you?” correlation.

• Changed Admiral Raddus’ line from “She did it!” to “They did it!”, which shifts the credit from just Jyn, to Cassian, and all of the Rogue One crew as well.

• Numerous shots are slowed (using optical flow to retain 24 fps) or shortened, to sync with new music, or let moments breathe.

REMOVED CONTENT

• Removed Saw’s line “You know what to do” to create more suspense and mystery.

• Removed the shot of Krennic’s shuttle landing at the Erso homestead at a far away distance.

• Removed planetary establishing shots for Jedha and Wobani. Location titles now appear on-planet, like in Andor.

• Removed Bodhi’s line “He looks kinda different to how I imagined.”

• Removed the sub-scene of K-2SO introducing himself to Jyn, which feels redundant after meeting K2 in Andor.

• Completely removed the Bor Gullet subplot, including the first two scenes between Saw and Bodhi.

• Removed the Ponda Baba & Dr. Evazan and R2-D2 & C-3PO cameos.

• Removed Jyn’s line “Looks like we found Saw’s rebels”, since we already know from Andor that these are Saw’s rebels.

• Removed Chirrut’s line “Is your foot all right?”, since it does not tonally fit with Andor.

• Removed Jyn asking Chirrut if he can get them to Saw Gerrera, since it’s uncertain why Jyn thinks Chirrut would know how to find Saw.

• Removed one of Bodhi’s three consecutive “I’m the pilot” lines.

• Removed Krennic’s “Fire!” outburst while waving his hand frivolously at the Death Star officer.

• Removed Krennic ordering “Fire!” to the death trooper squad, since they do not actually fire.

• Removed the moment of Jyn knocking over a stormtrooper to his death, since it seems unlikely that no one nearby would have seen or heard it take place.

• Removed the entire Vader and Krennic Mustafar scene, to make Vader’s first and only appearance in the film in the hallway scene, which makes it even more impactful.

• Removed the lines “How many do we need?” and “What are you talking about?”

• Trimmed down Bodhi coming up with the “Rogue One” callsign.

• Removed the moment of Jyn awkwardly bumping into Cassian and stammering “I’ll tell the others.”

• Trimmed down Jyn’s pep-talk speech to the Rebel soldiers to allow Cassian to give the more tactical orders, since he is the Captain, and Jyn is a civilian.

• Removed K-2SO’s sappy reaction to receiving a blaster from Jyn.

• Removed the shot of Cassian holding Jyn with a romantic-esque gaze in the turbolift. Even if that is not the actual intent of the shot, it somewhat appears like it, which distracts from what we now know about Cassian and Bix.

• Removed the shots of Vader on the Star Destroyer bridge so that his hallway scene is his first and only appearance.

ADDED CONTENT

• Added a new opening sequence with audio from Andor’s final arc played over the Death Star plan renders, building into an Oppenheimer-inspired march of ramping up audio and flashes of shots of the Death Star’s construction and destructive potential, before cutting to silence in the opening shot of the film.

• Added Andor-style location and year title cards in the cold open sequence (BBY 13 and BBY 1).

• Transition from Jyn in prison to a brief scene from the final episode of Andor, with General Draven giving Cassian his orders to speak with Tivik on Kafrene, which cuts to the title sequence, and starts off the film.

• Added a new “Rogue One” title sequence modeled after Andor’s title sequence, using reverbed voices to recap the series’ events, and multiple versions of the main series theme overlayed together to create an epic final version.

• Aforementioned desaturated Jyn flashbacks of her father to replace the silent Bail Organa cameo.

• Aforementioned Tarkin and Leia deepfakes by @Shamook.

• Added the Ghorman leitmotif when Cassian says “Rebellions are built on hope”, as a callback to the Palmo bellhop Thela.

• The in-universe “Niamos” club song is added diegetically as the song Saw’s men are listening to.

• Added Cassian internal flashback to his adoptive father Clem’s death, which relates to Cassian having Jyn’s father in his crosshairs on Eadu.

• Added Cassian internal flashback of some of his losses to relate to “You’re not the only one who lost everything”, and Jyn responding “You can’t talk your way around this.”

• Added flashes of many crucial Andor characters during Cassian’s speech about sacrifice, and “everything we’ve done...”, all moments from Cassian’s perspective. • Added a rebel yelling “For Ghorman!” during the Scarif battle.

• Added Bodhi radioing Melshi to highlight his off-screen death.

• Added Andor’s theme when Cassian falls.

• As Cassian and Jyn look out at the sunset/explosion, it flashbacks to Cassian as a child being rescued by Marva, although unlike the previous flashbacks throughout the edit, this is bright and vivid, and matches the lighting of the sky - almost as if this isn't a flashback at all, and is actually Marva's spirit coming to fly Cassian into the afterlife, with a look of pride and love towards him.

• Then, Jyn has a similarly vivid flashback, being hugged by her father, who as Cassian mentioned, would have been proud of her. She is comforted in her final moments by his memory.

• Aforementioned VFX additions of battle-damage to Vader's helmet, courtesy of PixelJoker95.

AUDIO / DIALOG CHANGES

• Used stem-splitting software (thanks to Dave Jones) to retain most of the original sound effects while rescoring sections, while many other foley, vehicle, and weapon sounds still needed to be replaced.

• Gave blaster fire an extra punch and volume to match Andor’s harder-hitting weapons.

• Added the Andor first episode opening sequence blaster sound when Cassian shoots Tivik.

• Added the Ghorman massacre blaster charge-up sound when Cassian shoots Krennic.

• Added Bodhi yelling “Galen Erso sent me!” to the scene of him being taken by Saw’s men in the desert, since the original scene with that line in it has been cut.

• Added distant TIE fighter flyby sounds over Jedha City for added tension, and to harken back to the un-ease feel right before the Ghorman massacre.

• Added a stormtrooper grunting sound effect to replace Chirrut’s line “Is your foot all right?”

• Replaced Cassian’s "This is a first for me” line with him chuckling to himself, and removed Chirrut’s second “Captain.” utterance.

• Added Saw’s maniacal laugh (from Andor S2) right after his death, very quietly in the mix, as if from the grave.

• Changed Bodhi’s line from the passive “We could go” to the definitive “We should go.”

• Removed the imperial guard’s grunt after being hit by K-2SO, to make the moment more brutal than slapstick.

• Added subtle bone-cracking sounds to stormtrooper impacts after being thrown by K2, for more brutality.

• Added Jyn answering “Yeah” when Cassian asks if she’s okay.

ALTERNATE DIALOG TRACK

• In addition to all the previous audio and dialog changes, an optional second English track with extra Andor canon ties, not found in the default track, is included.

• Added an extended Tarkin line referencing the recent ISB failures and security breaches, alluding to the events of Andor’s final arc. (I came up with and recorded the added line in Tarkin’s inflection, and then ran the recording through a voice-changer program - this is the only use of AI assistance in the edit).

• Added a flashback voiceover of Saw’s “Let it run wild!” speech from Andor S2 right before he dies.

• Added an alliance council member reminding the council “And Luthen Rael”, regarding the sources of the intel about the Death Star.

• Replaced K-2SO’s “That won’t be necessary” with a simple “No.”, as a callback to Andor’s final arc.

MUSICAL SCORE CHANGES

• Nearly two-thirds of the film has been re-scored, using Andor’s gritty, minimalistic electronic music, while still keeping some key original Giacchino cues.

• Numerous examples are presented in the “Every Change in Rogue One: The Andor Cut” Video Comparison Showcase.

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Hi everyone back again and very quickly! As promised I combined the extended cuts of Halloween 1 & 2 into one complete movie! I know it’s been done once before on a fan edit called Hell & Horror in Haddonfield years back but the quality was lesser and I believe there was some missing scenes. As well, it’s almost impossible to find now unless you know someone who has it. Therefore I’m now sharing my new cut with everyone!

My intention:

I wanted one seamless cut of both the first and second movie flowing as one complete night. I wanted all of the extended scenes added in from the both movies as well and for it to be in better quality.

Changes:
- re did the opening to only say John Carpenter’s Halloween, no names after or before.
-Removed the opening credits from both movies
-Blended the audio together to sound better where the original opening credits were
-Added end credits from both movies at the end as well as the original Halloween theme and Halloween II theme to play after Mr. Sandman
-Included all deleted and extended scenes

Runtime: 3hr 14min
File Size: 3.2gb

As on the last post please try to be positive as I’ve tried my best, I hope you all enjoy it and any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Update: Halloween (2018) Extended Cut coming soon!

It's kind of unfortunate we'll probably never see the story of the Fantastic Beasts movies being properly wrapped up though.
Anyhow, here begins the releases I know many have been truly waiting for.
The project started with the frustration of having to choose in-between the 20 freaking versions of these movies, each with it's own perk, while wanting to re-watch them many Christmases ago now.

The whole thing pretty much went like this in my head:
"Do I go for the 4K HDR blu-ray?
Oh but they regraded the first 2 movies substantially and made them look dull and flatout muted many colors.
Look at this thing, they literally made the Slytherin capes and common room blue?? What the f*ck.
And why is stuff overexposed to the point where information is clipped out?
Also for "4K" masters these sure look blurry. Barely any better than the original Blu-rays.
Minus the worse colors of course.
Well, at least the audio is better. Too bad I don't care nearly enough about the audio to ignore all of the above.

So maybe I should just go for the normal Blu-Rays.
Sure, worse audio but I remember there were extended editions for the first 2 movies. Which of course were never released in 4K. But the difference in details is negligible.
I'll take substantial extra footage over a few grainy unseen details for sure.
It's settled then.

What's that?
There are DVDs and WEB masters that contain more vertical picture but also less on the sides though? "Open Matte" versions.
Not just that but the DVD has even MORE vertical picture than the WEB-DL (but of course even less on the side).
Well, at least they have the original colors, but no HDR and needless to say they both look worse than even a normal Blu-ray.
By this point the visual difference is quite substantial in terms of details when compared to the 4K version. And also no extended editions of course. And the audio is the worst out of them all.

Do I watch the extended in widescreen in better quality, or the theatrical in open matte in worse quality? Since the latter does seem to gain way more picture than it loses.

Well, shit.
Apparently there were official extended versions for HP3 through HP7P2 too broadcast exclusively on television.
And some in open matte. Meaning more picture for the extended scenes too that were never officially released to the public?
This has got to be a joke."

It was outstanding to me that there was no definitive way to watch these movies. This is Harry Potter not some obscure freaking B-movie from 1977.
Literally WB could print money if they released proper 4K IMAX Extended versions of these movies.
Due to the open matte WE KNOW they could expand the ratio. And we know they have plenty of serviceable deleted scenes because there were enough to make these TV exclusive versions.
At that point I went full-on Thanos and just said: "Fine. I'll do it myself."
I hunted down every version of these movies and combined them all, and after years of working on it on and off.
This is the result:

Here's a load of screenshots:
These are HDR to SDR so keep in mind considerable color/light data has been clipped out in these caps so they are not fully representative of what you'll see when playing the movie on a proper Rec.2020 screen, but as you can see it still looks good in SDR too.

IMPORTANT NOTES:
This is a meticulous labor of love and passion, by a fan for fans, it is not perfect.

You may notice the presence of "blurred squares" at the corners.
This is due to basic geometry, due to the way the Open Matte version is framed compared to the Widescreen version, which results often in a cross-like shape.
Due to both masters containing picture the other doesn't (see scheme here: https://imgsli.com/MTgwMjMz/4/5)
This results in empty corners, as there are no masters publicly available to restore the footage in these, so they get filled through a technique called "ambilight" to mitigate their presence.

To achieve expanded ratio for the extended scenes I had to use TV rips of said masters, given they were never released officially and available for purchase. These were incredibly hard to work with, as their quality and colors were quite different from the rest of the movie and widescreen deleted scenes on the Blu-Ray, so getting everything to match was a nightmare. https://imgsli.com/ODcwMTY
Being TV rips also means logos and ads appeared once in a while. I did my best to mask such instances but from time to time they would still be visible and trying to mask them would had compromised more picture than it would had saved so decided to leave those be as the purpose of the project is not destroying and losing picture for the sake of "presentation".

At the end of a few scenes the TV rips also had flat-out missing frames, meaning you'll see an abrupt AR shift in these instances for a few fractions of a second. Nothing I could do about it, and I certainly wasn't going to cut and smooth the transition to a tighter AR ending up losing picture from hundreds of frames for the sake of 2 frames.

I would like to thank anyone who was supportive over the past weeks and years especially. If it wasn't for you I probably would had dropped this project long ago.

PS: If you already have the v1 of this project's movie, seriously consider replacing it with this one. There is zero reason to hold on to it while this version is substantially improved upon and better in every possible aspect.

PPS: DO NOT SEND LINK REQUESTS IN THE COMMENTS OR IN DMs, I WILL NOT RESPOND, I HAVE BEEN BANNED AGAIN BY IDIOTIC REDDIT ROBOTS FOR "SPAM" FOR REPLYING TO REQUESTS.
If you are interested in this, LINK IS IN MY PROFILE for now.

DISCLAIMER: If you would like to send me a chat regarding my edit, I would ask you to exclusively send me your Olvid contact ID (no phone number needed) by PM and I will contact you on an end-to-end encrypted chat. The reason being is Reddit apparently considers spam copy-pasted messages replying to requests from you and therefore suspends my account even though my replies are neither unsolicited, nor unexpected, nor unwanted.

I completed this restoration almost a year ago but due to popular demand and new restoration projects appearing on this sub I have decided to make this post.

I have restored TDK and TDKR to their IMAX 1.43:1 presentation. Throughout my process I have made sure to use only necessary steps and to keep the quality as high as possible. The final output is a virtually lossless re-encode of the Blu-ray, hence the file size.

I extracted the IMAX 1.43:1 scenes from The Dark Knight Trilogy (Special Edition) Blu-ray and cut them with the scope sequences of the 1080p Blu-ray of each film. In order to replicate the IMAX 1.43:1 theatrical presentation, the active image 1550 x 1080 frame (1.43:1) is within a a 1920 x 1080 (1.78:1) container. Meaning that IMAX 1.43:1 scenes are pillarboxed and scope 2.39:1 scenes are windowboxed. This presentation is best suited for projectors or taller monitors/screens where the pillarboxing won't be too noticeable or will be completely masked.

To be clear, this is different than what has been done in the latest IMAX home video release of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. I believe a restoration following the BvS method has already been done for either one of TDK or TDKR but at lower resolution and bitrate.

For both TDK and TDKR, there is one main version of each which I call 3AR. And there is an extra one for TDK which I call 2AR. The following explains their differences:

For both films, there are a few IMAX shots which are missing from the Special Edition Disc: 32 shots (from 12 sequences) for TDK and maybe around 20 shots for TDKR. Those are mainly aerial and establishing shots. For this reason, I have decided to use the 1.78:1 version of these shots from the Blu-ray film for version 3AR of TDK and TDKR. There are therefore 3 aspect ratios for version 3AR: 1.43:1, 1.78:1 and 2.39:1. This is the version with no personal interference on the image. Here is what it looks like:

Fortunately for TDK, there is another version thanks to the Fullscreen DVD. That DVD (480p) has those 32 shots in 1.33:1, so still slightly horizontally cropped and a bit skewed. The 1.33:1 frames have been manually adjusted for each shot with the 1.78:1 overlaid on top for a perceived higher resolution. The result is quite satisfying. Therefore version 2AR features 2 aspect ratios: 1.43:1 and 2.39:1.

My 2 previous posts have some comparative images to understand better the 2AR version of TDK:

Looking for advice on cropping of image to fit consistent aspect ratio for TDK IMAX Restoration

Should I superpose two frames of different resolution? TDK IMAX Restoration

Disclaimer: Please note, I do not condone piracy of any kind, and in order to download a fanedit you must own the source material. Also, fanedits are free and done as a hobby. I make no profit from these edits, nor should they be sold anywhere.

TDK & TDKR IMAX 1.43:1 versions:

• The Dark Knight - 2AR v2 (38 GB)

v2: fixed the 48 black frames at 2:13:18 thanks to u/Everan_Shepard

• The Dark Knight - 3AR v2 (38 GB)

v2: fixed the 48 black frames at 2:13:18 thanks to u/Everan_Shepard

• The Dark Knight Rises - 3AR (45 GB)

Feel free to ask any questions about my restorations which isn't clear from my posts.

This guide will provide an outline for starting a fan edit project, including which programs are useful and what steps can be made to ensure your files stay at the highest quality.

Starting a Fan Edit

You will first need the original film or show, there are several methods to obtain your media. Here is a comprehensive video going over obtaining media, converting it, and successfully setting it up for your video editor. Additionally, here is a more simple to the point video to check out which gives some good tips. Text instructions are below:

Physical Media

• Buy or rent the DVD/Blu-ray and rip it to your computer using a program like MakeMKV.

• Any DVD or Blu-Ray drive is fine, I used this which can read and write CDs, DVDS & Blu-rays.

• When ripping the disc, it's easiest to right click the drop down menus and select only what you need (the main movie, the main audio) because if you don't, you could end up getting half a dozen audio tracks and a bunch of menu files and special features which you may not need.

• You will now have the best quality possible to start editing

Digital Media (Alternate)

• You can try searching on certain subreddits or torrent sites for links of movies, although I will leave this up to you, quality may not be perfect, but it can work. I do not recommend pirating movies, alway own the source material before editing.

Getting the Media Into a Program

• Video: You have a few options to get your video into editing programs. Usually, MKVs are not supported, but when you use MakeMKV that is the container you are given, so you will need to do a conversion. If it's an MP4 or some other common format you are most likely able to to just drag & drop it in, if not, follow these methods:

  • Remuxing the file. You can take the video out of an MKV into an MP4 without losing any quality. I use the command line program ffmpeg - but you will need to research on how to set this up and what commands to use, usually this one works well for our purposes:

    • ffmpeg -i input.mkv -codec copy output.mp4

  • Transcoding the file. Inside your MKV is an h264 video, if you used ffmpeg and your new MP4 is glitchy inside your editing software, then you will need to transcode to an intermediate codec, which will be visually lossless but take up a huge amount of size. The plus side is, these codecs (DNxHR or ProRes) are intended for editing and will make your workflow a lot faster. Below is the command to take your h264 MKV and convert it to a visually lossless editing codec. Prepare to have at least 100GB of free space for it though:

    • ffmpeg -i NAME.mkv -c:v dnxhd -profile:v dnxhr_hq -pix_fmt yuv422p -an OUTPUT.mxf

    • Or, as a last resort, if you cannot figure out how to use ffmpeg, you can also just transcode with handbrake, but you will lose a little quality. Make sure all settings are maxed out as you wish depending on how long you are willing to wait, resolution is correct at 1920 x 1080 or whatever you want, frame rate is same as source, and as for audio channels you can remove and do audio separately.

  • You will now either have an h264 in an MP4 untranscoded ready to edit (easiest/quickest option), a DNxHR video file that is visually lossless ready to edit (What I usually do), or a transcoded h264 video in an MP4 where a little quality was lost but not too much

• Audio: Getting the audio in a program. With the first ffmpeg command, the audio is retained. With the second ffmpeg command I listed, the audio is removed. Regardless, the audio of the movie you are editing is likely in a format that cannot be edited (such as DTS). You will have to convert it to something that can be edited.

  • As I said earlier, with the DNxHR command the audio is removed and when doing handbrake you can skip the audio, so that means keep your original MKV handy. Or, if you have a new MP4 with audio use that. Take the file with the audio, and follow these steps:

  • Load the video w/ audio directly onto Audacity, this will automatically load the audio in and obviously ignore the video. You might need the ffmpeg plugin for Audaicty which is pretty easy to install. If your audio is 5.1, you must split the top channel to mono, so now you should have 6 channels. In order, they are LF, LR, C, LFE, LB, RB. Export each one individually as its own 24 bit WAV file with the correct names to stay organized. Your audio is now converted and ready to edit without losing any quality.

  • Follow this tutorial to get 6 wav channels -> 5.1 set up in Premiere https://youtu.be/Tb4HwSUrAjw

  • Remember, since the video/audio is the same length, you don't have to worry about them being separate files while editing.

  • If you are using another program, you'll have to do research. You will now be editing lossless WAV files ripped directly from the film or show. When it comes time to export, you should be able to export as a 5.1 WAV (which you can then convert to AC3, DTS, Flac, etc. whatever you want) or to keep it easy just do 5.1 AAC in premiere and no further work is required.

Additional Resources

• Soundtracks - can be used to make new sequences or transitions. You can find soundtrack from buying the CDs and ripping them or finding them online like with any other music. I use a program called Deemix (search for it on reddit) for lossless FLAC downloads of songs from streaming services.

• Sound effects - can be used for re-dubbing or changing sequences (YouTube to mp3 works fine, if you need really high quality sound effects for a key sequence you can try searching elsewhere, but typically sound effects are quiet and in the background so quality is not as huge an issue)

• Special features - can be used for adding cut material back into the movie (Use the same process as before, but search your disc's content for the right files)

Working on a Fan Edit

Programs (These are what I used for my edits of The Hobbit and Titanic)

• Adobe Premiere for editing

• Audacity - for basic audio editing, sound effect editing, surround sound mixing, etc. I use it to convert audio to wav so I can edit it. I also used it to splice in cut dialogue from the Special Features of a movie!

• Photoshop (or GIMP for free) - basic image editing, making re-dubbed subtitles look accurate, title images, DVD artwork, new credits, etc. All artwork for my edit on my Hobbit website was made from scratch with these programs.

Tips

• Take a day to set up all your files and your project, make a folder with everything you need, sound effects, music, etc. Staying organized is very effective.

• If your computer is slow, use a low quality transcoded version of your movie to edit (Called a proxy), like 5-10gb. Then, when you are done editing, right click the file and hit "replace footage," then select your full quality version. This way you can edit a worse quality version and you won't lag as much.

• Use fade tools for audio, make use of 5.1 audio allowing you to cut out music or cut out dialogue, use official soundtracks and sound effects to re-dub scenes or fix new transitions

• Mixing - make sure the volumes sound right and are balanced, most soundtrack music off CDs is actually much louder than it really plays in movies. Environment sound effects like wind/rain/ambiance are usually in all surrounding channels, and quietly in center channel. Dialogue and foley sound effects (everyday sound effects) are in the center channel, like footsteps (unless there is someone walking behind the camera). LFE is for deep, low pitched sounds and isn't commonly edited in fan edits. The volumes of surround sound tend to be louder in the front, you don't want music or ambient blasting in all 4 speakers for normal scenes, so make it slightly quieter in the back.

• Test out volumes with speakers too, not just headphones. Look at the average peaks throughout the movie, see how high it goes in the loudest scenes of the original movie. Now, when you do your scenes, make sure it's about the same for any new edited loud scenes.

• Rarely use visual dissolve tools, only when it calls for it. Usually fade to blacks are for night/sleeping cuts, and fade from black to visuals are for waking up, or easing in after a period of time has passed. Dissolves do work well for montages, flashbacks, passages of time, or a stylistic choice - such as in a movie like Titanic where dissolve transitions were fairly common as it cuts between different parts of the ship/different times on the ship). Other than that, almost every cut should just be standard.

• This program https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo is by far the most useful in checking a file's metadata to see its bitrate, sizes, content, etc. Very useful in the entire process of fan editing and handling files.

Subtitles & chapters

• Subtitles: Make a text file save it as an .srt file. Here's a random guide if you need. If you use Notepad++ you can keep editing and closing out/saving without having to convert it back to srt. You can then post it along with your edit so when people download the file, they can use VLC - hit Subtitles -> add file. MP4s cannot store subtitles permanently, while MKVs can, which can be bundled with MKVToolNix. Important: It's most efficient to download or rip the official subtitles from the movie and then modify from using a program, as it can speed up the process.

• Chapters: (You can enable them on VLC for example) can be added with Drax for MP4s and a text file set up in the right format. Here's a random tutorial if you need. For MKVs, use MKVToolNix and it has a built in chapter editor.

DTS Audio & Turning your edit into a Blu Ray w/ menu

• Encoding DTS tutorial (Sorry it got blocked, I may post text instructions later)

• For Blu-rays, I use Adobe Encore, here is my tutorial (Also, when you create blu-ray ISO files, you can easily play them on your computer without even burning them to a disc)

Finishing/Uploading a Fan Edit

Exporting

• Use h.264 MP4s for an easy movie file, or research alternatives if you are interested. Remember, MKV is just a container, so you can put h264 in an MKV later when you are adding subtitles/chapters/audio tracks as mentioned earlier.

  • Make sure frame rate is same as source (Usually like 23.97)

  • Make sure resolution is 1920 x 1080 or 1920 x 800 for HD 1080p, shows can have different aspect ratios so double check it's all set

  • Make sure audio is 5.1 if you are using it, and it's all set to the highest quality & bitrate setting

    • I like to export my audio as WAV 5.1 separately, then export my video with no audio. Then on my desktop I will have a silent movie and a 5.1 wav, which I convert to something like AC3 or DTS, then I use ffmpeg or the MKV tool mentioned earlier to combine the two, so I go from an MP4 with no audio to an MKV with multiple audio tracks for different purposes. You can even record your own audio commentary and add it as an alternate track. If you use DTS audio, I like to supply an alternate AC3 track for compatibility reasons so people have a choice.

  • Remember to make sure it's 48kHz and not 44.1kHz audio, if you are exporting WAVs stick to 24 bit

  • Video bitrate

    • Depends what file size you want (Higher quality, higher file size)

    • Usually there are presets for "High bitrate" or "adaptive high bitrate" so use those numbers, or if your edit is really long you can set it to "medium," experiment with what works best and looks best. But you should never use anything below medium.

    • You should use 2 pass VBR if you can be patient, as opposed to normal VBR

    • I use CBR for my Blu-ray files as there is no reason to save space when I am going to cram as much content onto the disc as possible to get its worth

  • On Premiere, maximum render quality/maximum bit depth are used if you did a lot of complicated visual effects/rescaling previews or substantial color correction. If not, there's no need as it slows the whole process down. I have never used these features for any of my edits.

  • Side Note: I want to again recommend MKVToolNix, it allows me (in one click once all set up) to turn my edit into an MKV with multiple audio tracks, optional togglable subtitle tracks, chapter markers, and metadata to act as my 'definitive versions' of my fan edits, providing the most content in just one movie file. If you download my Hobbit edit and check its Metadata, you will see all that is packaged with it

Posting previews

• YouTube

  • Most programs allow you to select sequences and export those individually, these previews can be put on YouTue and should be around 5 minutes or less, any more will lead to it getting blocked

  • Copyright claims are not that bad, they simply take your ad revenue or block your video, but allow you to freely keep your video up if they choose not to block it.

  • Copyright strikes are bad, you can only get 3 before a punishment, but rarely happen, if you stick to short clips you will be absolutely fine.

• Google Drive

  • Allows you to post larger files without it getting taken down, although you will have to share the link yourself to others for test clips. I like to use this for test clips as opposed to YouTube, as I can easily share the link on forums or to others but with little risk of it getting blocked.

Posting the full edit

• Google drive, Mega, and torrents are the most common ways to spread your fan edit

  • All 3 of these at the worst can lead to your file being removed, or maybe a warning email from your ISP if you keep torrenting copyrighted stuff. You will not get heavily fined or put in jail. Technically some argues that fan edits fall under fair use, it's a grey area still because no one has been fined or arrested for them even when there were opportunities, and still, downloading/uploading a movie edit in niche communities for free is not as big an issue as people illegally selling bootleg movies.

  • Google drive has a 15gb limit unless you have a student account or pay extra.

  • Mega has a 20gb limit.

Feel free to ask questions, suggest things to add to this guide, or correct anything you may think is wrong. Thank you for reading!

I've been working on this project for a number of months now and it seems a good time to release in advance of the new Jackass Forever movie being released.

For most people, the only way to watch the Jackass TV Show in it's original broadcast format has been a tv rip pack that has been around on the internet for over a decade. The video quality of this rip is very low being in 240p but the audio is, for the most part, of fairly good quality.

Official versions of the show released on DVD or digitally have a number of issues for those wanting the original broadcast experience:

• Large amounts of the original soundtrack were replaced due to licensing issues.

• A number of skits have not been officially released since broadcast due to legal issues.

• A number of skits in the officially released versions have content cut.

• No official release is formatted in the same way as the original broadcast with skits being shown out of order than originally intended.

TURD Edition has therefore been put together to rectify these issues. The audio is sourced from the tv rips and the video is taken from multiple different official sources. Where the official high-quality video does not exist the original tv rip has been upscaled and color corrected to fit with in the other footage as best as possible.

More information of sources used and a link to the release can be found here:

https://github.com/turdEdition/JackassTV-turdEdition

The hosts of The Weekly Planet podcast kept referring to Mandalorian and Grogu as Mandalorian versus Groglet. I started to do the same as a joke around my girlfriend's 10 year old daughter. She would get mad and correct me, but I commited to the bit and insisted that was the movie title and the real name of the baby Yoda guy.

We're finally going to watch it this weekend so I edited the movie.

Changes made:
-Changed the opening title card
-Replaced audio. Every time someone said Grogu I dubbed over audio of myself saying Groglet. Fortunately they only say it 4 times in the movie. It is a very obvious audio replacement but who cares
-Changed closing title card. Lost the iris wipe but I don't know how to do that. you can see it says grogu for a couple of frames before the switch but i left it so we can argue about it
-Edited the accompanying srt subtitles file to change every Grogu to Groglet

Hello there! I have been overwhelmed by the support for my 'Star Wars: The Original Trilogy - The Final Cut', and 'The Siege of Mandalore & Revenge of the Sith' edits, and am pleased to announce my newest upcoming edit – 'Rogue One: The Andor Cut' (Trailer: https://youtu.be/FBxs_UOCTeY?si=Ot0t9DSrTZ5eJSc3)

This edit sets out to re-envision 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' as the finale of the Andor series, as if it had been made afterwards. Musical themes and leitmotifs from the show will appear, and the tone will be more in line with what we have grown accustomed to from the two incredible seasons. There may even potentially be some form of flashbacks to the show, if they flow well. It will also include fan-made deepfake renders of Grand Moff Tarkin and Princess Leia, that many consider to be visually superior to the original 2016 CGI endeavors.

If you have any suggestions for what I should add or cut for the edit, please let me know! Subscribe to the channel so you don't miss when it is released!

May the Force be with you, always.