11 hours ago
(This post was last modified: 11 hours ago by Cryogenicality.
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Greetings, all.
I followed Klexos' thread here on his Wizarding World open matte extended cuts as a lurker for the past couple years. That thread was closed due to a large volume of people joining and pestering Klexos for links because they did not read the thread (which drove him off this forum). Since he has not returned in nearly a year, I am posting to inform this forum that over the last nine months, Klexos has released his revisions of the Fantastic Beasts trilogy, the first four Harry Potter films, the Hobbit trilogy, and The Return of the King.
He has made a post for each of these eleven epic edits on his Reddit profile (icebox616).
Please read carefully and do not ask him for links; navigate to his profile page instead.
As Klexos has explained on Reddit, he is currently unable to finish his revisions of the remaining six films due to his old computer failing and lack of funds. While he is currently saving for a new computer, he does not know when or if he will be able to resume fanediting work. If he does, he has expressed interest in using generative filling instead of simple ambilighting to fill in the corners, as was recently done—apparently for the first time—by random.next (via introspected's AutoOverlay and sczhou's ProPainter) for his Terminator 2 fanedit (which was subsequently used as the base for JayXtended_Edition's extended cut). This is an exciting new development in fanediting technique and I hope Klexos will be able to apply it to his projects one day, although I think the current ambilight solution works remarkably well and is vastly superior to leaving black spaces in the corners.
Also, Klexos has not retained copies of his original versions but has directed people interested in them to find them through others who still have them. Redditor JayXtended_Edition (formerly superzwei) helpfully shares his encodes of Klexos' Wizarding World fanedits with anyone who asks. I am currently searching for the uncompressed files of Klexos' original versions of the final four Wizarding World films as well as for his original versions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers (whether compressed or uncompressed) and will report back here for you all if I locate them.
Please join me in congratulating Klexos on this momumental, yearslong effort and enjoying these truly definitive presentations of the Wizarding World and Middle-Earth sagas.
I followed Klexos' thread here on his Wizarding World open matte extended cuts as a lurker for the past couple years. That thread was closed due to a large volume of people joining and pestering Klexos for links because they did not read the thread (which drove him off this forum). Since he has not returned in nearly a year, I am posting to inform this forum that over the last nine months, Klexos has released his revisions of the Fantastic Beasts trilogy, the first four Harry Potter films, the Hobbit trilogy, and The Return of the King.
He has made a post for each of these eleven epic edits on his Reddit profile (icebox616).
Please read carefully and do not ask him for links; navigate to his profile page instead.
As Klexos has explained on Reddit, he is currently unable to finish his revisions of the remaining six films due to his old computer failing and lack of funds. While he is currently saving for a new computer, he does not know when or if he will be able to resume fanediting work. If he does, he has expressed interest in using generative filling instead of simple ambilighting to fill in the corners, as was recently done—apparently for the first time—by random.next (via introspected's AutoOverlay and sczhou's ProPainter) for his Terminator 2 fanedit (which was subsequently used as the base for JayXtended_Edition's extended cut). This is an exciting new development in fanediting technique and I hope Klexos will be able to apply it to his projects one day, although I think the current ambilight solution works remarkably well and is vastly superior to leaving black spaces in the corners.
Also, Klexos has not retained copies of his original versions but has directed people interested in them to find them through others who still have them. Redditor JayXtended_Edition (formerly superzwei) helpfully shares his encodes of Klexos' Wizarding World fanedits with anyone who asks. I am currently searching for the uncompressed files of Klexos' original versions of the final four Wizarding World films as well as for his original versions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers (whether compressed or uncompressed) and will report back here for you all if I locate them.
Please join me in congratulating Klexos on this momumental, yearslong effort and enjoying these truly definitive presentations of the Wizarding World and Middle-Earth sagas.
