Synopsis:

Harry Potter finds himself competing in a hazardous tournament between rival schools of magic, but he is distracted by recurring nightmares. EXTENDED & OPEN MATTE

Intentions:

This is an Extended Cut of HP4, kind of a transformative combination of three existing extended edits of Gobled made by Klexos, JJPotter and realporkula. What will you get? - All the light from the 3 existing fantastic EE of Goblet by Klexos, JJPotter & realporkula (minus their more problematic and shady side effects). In my mind the most exciting EE of Goblet you can watch to this date - All 8 deleted/ extended scenes masterfully reintegrated back into the movie - A crisp 5.1 soundtrack - The sharp and beautiful Picture Klexos created frame by frame for his Ultimate Aspect Ratio (UAR) Edit of Goblet V1 (minus the legion of wild Aspect Ratio changes of his edit and also minus over 90% of the blurry corners his UAR comes with) (if you don't know what that means read further below. I'll explain it in the "long section"). - 1080p with the most gorgeous picture you have ever laid your eyes upon in case of Goblet Of Fire. - Over 50% in gorgeous Open Matte (16:9) - realporkulas "frame break effects" (if you don't know what I'm talking about, check out his clip here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/comments/169wbor/harry_potter_and_the_goblet_of_fire_frame_break/ ). It's amazing! - Some cool AR-transitions I created which you'll find nowhere else - English and German subtitles Theatrical runtime is 157 min, runtime of the JyaXtended Edition is about 166 min

Change List:

What is special about this edit (the long version):Part One As I said above this EE is a transformative combination of the three exciting extended edits of Gobled made by Klexos, JJPotter and realporkula. What does that mean? If you know the work of Klexos, you know that he made an astonishing Series of EE of the Potter-World. He made UAR (ultimate aspect ratio) edits of the movies by combining 3 different versions (theatrical scope, 16:9 Open Matte and 4:3 Fullscreen). Via upscaling and frame by frame work he produced a vibrant and crisp and brilliant picture that puts the official 4K release into shame (I'm not kidding!). AND by combining the different aspect ratios (AR) you get to see much more of the filmed material as you see in any of the official releases. Therefore Klexos edits are my go to versions. I've never seen any take on the Potter World (extended or not) that is of better quality. The downside is that to be successful with that approach he had to change the AR a LOT, sometimes with every cut, which is kind of annoying. AND because by combining sources with those different AR there will always be corners where you have nothing to fill it with (that's something UAR releases often suffer from) so he blurred the corners, which is the usual thing to do in UAR releases but can look annoying nonetheless too. All that can take one quite easily out of the movie experience. So I took his edit as the base for mine and minimized the AR changes and blurry corners as much as possible and tried to keep at the same time as much of his gained picture as I could. It's a compromise. BUT one really worth going for. So with my edit you won't jump through different ARs in every Angle, but still have different ARs (mostly Scope and 16:9 Open Matte but also sometimes something in between). But it changes much smoother now. There are still some blurred corners but only a fraction of the corners in Klexos edit. Where I decided in favor of them was when they weren't that noticeable or the gain clearly outweighed them. Instead of zooming into the whole of Klexos edit at once I took the manual road and went scene by scene (most of the time cut by cut!) trying to save the most I could of what he had gained, smooth the AR Changes and at the same time try to lose as much blurry corners I could. AND (and that's another reason for doing my own edit) not going the Klexos-road (show every time as much as you can), but asking myself "which AR helps the frame or the flow or the plot point better?" So I got way more scope scenes now but also way more 16:9 scenes than any other attempts of EE with Open Matte material I have seen (and a fair amount of ARs in between). Klexos took the technical road ("show as much as you can, if the AR changes what the hell do I care?"). I tried to ask myself, which change helps the movie at this point. And also played with the transitions at certain points which brings even some extended magic into the AR changes. If you know something about editing you can imagine that it was an exhausting and pretty detailed work to walk through the whole movie cut by cut and decide how to deal with the AR changes and blurred out corners (Zoom in or crop it? To which AR? Does the next cut go well with it or not? If not, which would be the better choice? Do I lose too much in doing so? How can I preserve more of Klexos' genius? And always the question: How does it flow in the context of the whole scene/ picture? And on and on and on and on...). Exhausting and detailed work? Who am I kidding, it was a pain in the ass! But I like to think that I was pretty successful with it. And that the result is a hell of a watch now.

Additional Notes:

What is special about this edit (the long version): Part Two 2. JJ Potters () edit is the one to go to if you want to experience an extended cut of the movie in the theatrical aspect ratio (scope). But his 5.1 track is just an extrapolated stereo track. So I used Klexos 5.1 track for the theatrical scenes which is way superior and JJPotters upscaled track for the deleted scenes where Klexos just used the stereo signal the DS originally came with. 3. realporkula took JJ Potters edit and enhanced it with several Open Matte sequences which is pretty cool. But the source Klexos produced is still MUCH sharper, crisper and better looking. And I also liked more Open Matte and not just in a few selected sequences. The HUGH advantage over all the other edits realporkula has in his edit is "frame break effects" which is very, very, VERY cool (if you don't know what I'm talking about, see his clip of it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/comments/169wbor/harry_potter_and_the_goblet_of_fire_frame_break/ ). Gladly he allowed me to use those astonishing scenes. So I worked them into my edit. 4. My own approach was not only to combine as much of the best things of those edits into one and smoothing out Klexos AR-Orgy, but to play with the changing ARs in a way that actually serves the movie. And so I added some cool transitions from one AR to another which gives my edit a unique touch too. Then I did some color grading (i.e. realporkulas "frame break" scenes had to be adjusted to the grading of Klexos edit, but there were a few scenes in which I wasn't convinced with Klexos grading too so I adjusted them). Last but not least I did some editing choices on my own in changing some scenes for the better (i.e. at the end of the Full version of "Can You Dance Like a Hippogriff" the singer of the Weird Sisters ends the performance with forming a voiceless O with his mouth. The funny thing is, in the theatrical version you can hear him shouting it while we see Hermine and Victor Krumm leaving the dance floor. In the deleted Scene it's voiceless and in the movie you can hear it... I recuted the scene so that you can see and hear him doing it now. I am still wondering why no other EE I saw made that obvious change?).

Special Thanks:

Some words of Reddit-Users about this edit: "Boom! Looks amazing! Congrats on a great looking fanedit. Definitely time for a Potter marathon :)" "After going down a rabbit hole of research, I have to say that your edit of this film is something I am insanely excited to see. To combine all three of these epic efforts into a polished final product is amazing."