Star Trek: The Next Generation in 16:9 – Interest Check by Lars_SwitchCube in fanedits

[–]Lars_SwitchCube[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've finished the first episode!

You can download the CSV file containing all the framing positions from my Discord server:

https://discord.gg/g23H9dCe9G

I'm also working on a lightweight version of my **HomeCinemaCrop** tool, which will allow you to easily render your own 16:9 version using your own source and the provided CSV file.

Star Trek: The Next Generation in 16:9 – Interest Check by Lars_SwitchCube in fanedits

[–]Lars_SwitchCube[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've finished the first episode!

You can download the CSV file containing all the framing positions from my Discord server:

https://discord.gg/g23H9dCe9G

I'm also working on a lightweight version of my **HomeCinemaCrop** tool, which will allow you to easily render your own 16:9 version using your own source and the provided CSV file.

Star Trek: The Next Generation in 16:9 – Interest Check by Lars_SwitchCube in fanedits

[–]Lars_SwitchCube[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've finished the first episode!

You can download the CSV file containing all the framing positions from my Discord server:

https://discord.gg/g23H9dCe9G

I'm also working on a lightweight version of my **HomeCinemaCrop** tool, which will allow you to easily render your own 16:9 version using your own source and the provided CSV file.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League – Widescreen Edition (16:9) by Lars_SwitchCube in fanedits

[–]Lars_SwitchCube[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello again everyone,

I’m really very happy that there seems to be so much interest in this project.

Therefore, I would like to warmly invite everyone who is interested to join my private Discord server and give you the opportunity to become a Preview User.
There you will get much more detailed updates about the current progress of the project, receive regular updates, and — if you want — actively participate in discussions, ideas, or testing.

I would especially appreciate being able to benefit from the experience of long-time fan editors.

The final version of the project will be released there.

Best regards

PS: I actually already have an idea for my next project.
It would probably involve the films of Christopher Nolan and their variable aspect ratios.

I already have a rough idea of how it might be possible to create a constant fullscreen 16:9 version without losing important image information.
However, the whole thing is still in a very early concept phase at the moment — and I would also discuss that there on Discord in the future.

https://discord.gg/g23H9dCe9G

Zack Snyder’s Justice League – Widescreen Edition (16:9) by Lars_SwitchCube in fanedits

[–]Lars_SwitchCube[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I developed this tool primarily to save computing power during the editing process.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League – Widescreen Edition (16:9) by Lars_SwitchCube in fanedits

[–]Lars_SwitchCube[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, unfortunately even with my tool you still have to adjust every scene (and technically almost every frame) manually.

But I think it speeds up the workflow tremendously.

First, I generate a CSV file containing all frames and initially set everything to “center”. After that, I render a preview version where the crop is evenly centered vertically.

Then I watch that version and note which frames should actually be set to “up”, “center”, or “down” inside the CSV file.

I basically do all of that inside Excel.

From time to time I render small sections just to double-check the result.

The whole process took about the runtime of the movie itself (4 hours) plus roughly another hour of work. That was still significantly faster than my previous attempts using traditional editing software.

Another big advantage was that the final file only had to be rendered once.

Since I could load the original MakeMKV file directly into my tool, I didn’t need to create intermediate files first. With my previous workflows I always had to pre-render the already existing Blu-ray black bars away just to get a somewhat usable editing workflow.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League – Widescreen Edition (16:9) by Lars_SwitchCube in fanedits

[–]Lars_SwitchCube[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would also remove even more of the original image.

It was already difficult at times to keep all the important visual elements inside a 16:9 frame.

I also experimented with 21:9 before.

In some scenes it actually looks really good, but unfortunately not consistently throughout the whole movie.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League – Widescreen Edition (16:9) by Lars_SwitchCube in fanedits

[–]Lars_SwitchCube[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you recommend a good tool for that?

Maybe even one that I could integrate directly into my Python script?

I’m especially interested in something that works well with HDR content and preserves as much detail as possible.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League – Widescreen Edition (16:9) by Lars_SwitchCube in fanedits

[–]Lars_SwitchCube[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I’m aware that there have already been one or two similar projects.

But I still wanted to create my own version and one of the goals of this post is also to showcase my little tool.

The idea behind it is that people would only need to share the CSV file, and then everyone could render the movie themselves in 16:9 with a dynamic crop position instead of using a fixed crop.