Wizarding World: Ultimate Definitive Edition

[Hydra Spectre]

I am also really excited to see your extended version of the Philosophers Stone. Can't wait till you upload it!

Thanks again for your hard work.

Hate to break it to you, bud, but he will not do the UK cut (The Philosopher's Stone) of Harry Potter Year 1, but he will do the US cut (The Sorcerer's Stone).

[casdeo]

I am also really excited to see your extended version of the Philosophers Stone. Can't wait till you upload it!

Thanks again for your hard work.

Hate to break it to you, bud, but he will not do the UK cut (The Philosopher's Stone) of Harry Potter Year 1, but he will do the US cut (The Sorcerer's Stone).

Ah it's actually mostly out of habit, since I'm English, that I refer to it as The Philosopher's Stone lol. I don't mind whether it is the US or UK version to be honest. This versions quality looks absolutely insane.

[Bilbofett]

https://youtu.be/6N90KOF7ZMU

[Klexos]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Definitive Edition [85.1 GBx4]
Will be available in 24 hours on the snap, EF and on personal request.

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Code:

This release includes:
• 4 Versions, Theatrical & Extended, with proper SDR and HDR masters for each.
• 4K Picture in Ultra HD Blu-Ray bitrate.
• Dynamic Aspect Ratio
• Maximum Expanded Ratio, more picture than ever seen before at once, achieved through the overlaying of 3 sources.
• Fully Subtitled
• Lossless 7.1 Audio for theatrical and 5.1 for Extended.
Theatrical Runtime: 02:32:20
Extended Runtime: 02:38:49

Special thanks to mgold0704 for the 4K Blu-Ray and Open Matte DVD, CG1989 for the normal Blu-Ray and fres202 for the Open Matte Extended HDTVRip. And of course to random.next for AutoOverlay, I couldn't have done it without these guys. Cinema DTS Audio Track also kindly provided by stwd4nder2.

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Known Issues:

Code:

• Borders are always slightly shifting, as a limitation of the AutoOverlay plugin when working with aligning 3 sources.
Not actually distracting nor even visible 99% of the time unless you're standing inches from your screen and actively looking for it, which a sane person wouldn't do to experience a movie.

Most issues arise and are present because of the Open Matte Extended TVRips, used to open up the ratio in the respective scenes, so these issues are constricted to the 7 extended scenes. Specifically:

• There were some missing frames in 2 of the extended scenes from the TVRip, making it not possible to open matte them. Hence instead of discarding the BD non-open-matte counterparts, I opted to keep them in instead, as the goal of this project is to present the movie in it's most complete way. Despite the jarring sudden switch of AR within these 2 scenes, luckily only towards their end. So only briefly noticeable.
• All extended scenes had the Freeform logo, I had masked it to the best of my ability.
• A very thin vertical black line on the left and two ads appear in the second last extended scene. Not maskable.
• About 2 seconds of the last extended scene gets a bit shaky.
• Sporadic more visible difference between the grading of the BD and TVRip made it impossible for ColorAdjust even in conjunction to my best efforts in manual intervention to match.
• Lack of black data/detail in the TVRip causes black banding/artifacts (despite 3 passes through avisynth in an attempt to subdue them as much as possible). This is seen mostly in Snape's classroom extended scene.

DO NOT pester this thread pointing out issues with the master, I am aware of all the issues (which I just listed above) and I will not do a v2 anytime soon if ever, so it's pointless to do so and will only help in demotivating me to continue this project with the rest of the movies, I have done my best.

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Final Notes:
I first started this over 1 year ago, despite my best humanly viable efforts to resolve these issues and unspeakable amount of time I put into it, I fail to deliver a perfect result, nor I intend on driving myself insane to do so.
But even more and unspoken remain the challenges and issues I managed to conquer, prevent and solve.
However, despite its imperfection, I reserve myself the cheek to say that this is, as it stands now, the most advanced and technically complete way to experience this movie. Should someone more skilled, resourceful and patient come along and do a better job one day mayhap with better tools and technology I will happily embrace it.
But until that day, I offer thee my accomplishment, brought on by the sacrifice of my own available patience and free time.

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Comparisons:
https://imgsli.com/ODcwMTY
https://imgsli.com/ODcwMTc
https://imgsli.com/ODcwMTg

The HDR Difference:
If you're watching on a HDR screen you should definitely get the HDR version, however if you're on SDR the SDR master will be better than the automatically tonemaped HDR to SDR most players do.
The Difference as seen through a Camera. SDR [First] vs HDR [Second]


Raw Screenshots:

[SHM]

What can i say.... it looks insanely good.
This is truly the definitive edition for me and we can only just appreciate the tremendous amount of work this has required....
I think everyone interested is dying to test this version
Colours look good, the quality is perfect...
CONGRATULATIONS.

[spoRv]

That's great, Klexos, well done!

Hope you will find soon extended scenes without logos - maybe you can attempt a V2 in that case...

[jackjason]

Wow that looks very impressive. That will be the next Harry Potter christmas gift after sporvs open matte Edit. Can’t wait for it. Very well done!

[stwd4nder2]

Is it in time with the US UHD? Would be nice to sync the Cinema DTS track to it.

[Klexos]

Is it in time with the US UHD? Would be nice to sync the Cinema DTS track to it.

The theatrical is, yes. It already has the untouched audio from the UHD Blu-Ray. Unless this Cinema DTS track is something else entirely that I am not aware of.

[diegomaster]

this looks amazing great job