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Harry Potter Archives - Complete Project Discussion

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AvP said:
Will you be doing a space saver cover for each year too?

Oh yes, definitely in the plans. I'd like to wait though until I know I have pretty much exhausted all the material for a particular year (i.e., when I think there will be no more volumes done for that year). There will be a multi-case for each year (for example, year 5 will probably be a 6-disc case). I'll probably make 2 different space saver versions; one will be the same overall style as the single disc covers (USA book covers with black bars on top and bottom), and the other will be stylized to look more like leather bound books (sort of similar to the space-saver case I did for ADM's HP extended editions). I will try to make the leather color similar to the colors used in the USA book covers.

I'll try to get some examples done up soon to show everyone.


 

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OK, volume 1 of year 6 is complete. I will make a full post with complete details in the finished preservations section when the disc is available and listed on the main page. Here is the final listing for the contents:

TITLE...............................: DURATION
ITV's Behind the Magic.........: 46 minutes
HBO First Look....................: 13 minutes
Sky Movies Special..............: 23 minutes
E! Behind the Scenes...........: 22 minutes
T4 Inside Look....................: 5 minutes
Official Sneak Peek..............: 3 minutes


 

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The Harry Potter Archives - Year Six, Volume One

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ABOUT
A compilation of a lot of the Harry Potter documentaries from year 6 (The Half-Blood Prince). First of multiple volumes for THBP.

tagline: Enter deep into the Wizarding World
original film name: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
new film name: Harry Potter Archives – Year 6 Volume a
film studio name: Warner Brothers
edit crew name: ThrowgnCpr
Date Original Film Was Released: July 15, 2009
Date Preservation Was Released: November 7, 2009
Total Preservation Runtime: approximately 1 hr 52 minutes


DISC SPECS
Type...................: DVD
Video Format........: NTSC
Aspect Ratio........: 16:9 widescreen (except E! special, which is 4:3)
Audio Format........: ac3 Stereo (2.0) variable bitrate
Language............: English only
Subtitles.............: none
DVD Authoring......: ThrowgnCpr


CONTENTS
TITLE............................: DURATION
ITV's Behind the Magic......: 46 minutes
HBO First Look.................: 13 minutes
Sky Movies Special...........: 23 minutes
E! Behind the Scenes........: 22 minutes
T4 Inside Look.................: 5 minutes
Official Sneak Peek...........: 3 minutes


DVD-ROM CONTENTS
  • Case Artwork by ThrowgnCpr
  • 'Famous' (June, July 2009) magazine scans
  • Hi-res posters
  • Wallpapers
  • Promotional photographs
  • This *.NFO file


SPECIAL THANKS
The following people were incredibly helpful with this project, either by providing technical support, footage, or other materials: Zorzalita, AvP, Boon23, Lewis886, tonecapone, Frantic Canadian, Shades, joebshmoe, dobo, Invisible Wolfman, sladetwc, desolation, dazzatron, swordstone, goldstone9


TOOLS USED
The following tools were used to create this preservation DVD:
  • Sony Vegas 7
  • Virtualdub 1.9.4
  • AviSynth 2.5
  • Cinema Craft Encoder SP 2.7
  • Sony DVD Architect 4.0
  • Adobe After Effects CS4
  • Adobe Photoshop CS4
  • PGCdemux
  • AVImuxGUI
  • tsMuxerGUI
  • Womble Video Wizard
  • IFOedit
  • DG Pulldown
  • TMPGEnc XPress 4.0
  • FLV Extract
  • AVI Demux 2.5
 

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not yet. I will probably include the TV Guide Big Movie Premiere, but I am not sure what else. I may include the UK Preview DVD1, since DVD2 contains non-HBP material. I'll have to see what else will fit on the disc and works well with the TV Guide special. I'll probably try to get this sorted out and done soon.

If you get a chance to look at Yr6 vol1 before I do vol2 that would be great. Be good to know if I should do something different. :)
 

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I got another email from one of my sources asking what all I had so he could send me some more things, so I figured it was time I take a quick inventory on the Half-Blood Prince material I currently have (other than what I put on the volume 1 DVD). Here is a rough list (I am sure I am missing a couple things) with a general note about quality. Sorry I don't have runtimes for this stuff yet (organizing and updating as you read this).

Major Featurettes
- UK Preview DVD1 (trailers, short featurettes, galleries) - 23min
- TV Guide Big Movie Premiere [SD, NTSC] - 35min
- Behind the Screen (a Canadian presentation) [SD, NTSC] - 47min
- T4 HP&tHBP Movie Special (UK Premiere) [SD, PAL] - 23min
- JK Rowling meets Jeremy Paxon [SD (vhs transfer), PAL] - 29min (about books)

Talk Show Appearances
- Rupert Grint on Al Murray's Happy Hour [SD (avi), PAL] - ~10min
- Daniel Radcliffe on Conan 2009-01-12 [SD (avi), NTSC] - ~10min
- Emma Watson on Letterman 2009-07-08 [HD, NTSC] - ~15min
- Daniel Radcliffe on Letterman 2009-07-09 [SD, NTSC] - ~10min
- Emma & Rupert on GMTV 2009-07-07 [HD, PAL] - ~5min
- Jason Isaacs on Jonathon Ross [HD, PAL] - ~10min (but not really about HP)
- Emma Watson on Jonathon Ross [SD, PAL] - ~15min
- Jason Isaacs on Justin Lee Collins [SD (avi), PAL] - ~10min
- Emma Watson on Regis and Kelly [HD, NTSC] - ~7min
- Daniel Radcliffe on Parkinson 2007-11-03 [SD (avi), PAL] - ~12min (but not really about HP)

Video Game Stuff
- video game trailers [HD, NTSC] - ~9min
- making of video game [SD, NTSC] - 15min
- video game producer interview [HD, NTSC] - 2min
- video game review (gametrailersdotcom) [SD, NTSC] - 7min
- various video game adverts for different platforms [SD, PAL mostly]

Unsorted
- All official trailers [HD, NTSC]
- a handful of foreign trailers [varying quality]
- various short TV spots [SD, NTSC or PAL]
- 2009 MTV movie awards [SD (avi), NTSC]
- Tom Felton on 8 out of 10 Cats [HD, PAL]
- Comic Relief 2009 [SD (avi), PAL]
- Film 2009 w/ Jonathon Ross [SD (avi), PAL]
- UK Newsround clips [SD (avi), PAL]
- IGN Rewind Theater Review [HD, NTSC]
- Jason Isaacs on the One Show [SD (avi), PAL]
- E! Buzzworthy short [SD, PAL]
- The Fix (SD, PAL]
- Discovery the Real World of HP [SD, PAL]
- SKY News advert [SD, PAL]
- Daily Mail advert [SD, PAL]
- 35MM Film Review [SD, PAL]
- and a few other short news clips and adverts


If anyone has or knows of something NOT on this list, or a better quality source, please let me know. I'd like to put a couple more of these discs together soon.

 

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Here is a list of the material I have so far for The Goblet of Fire. Its not that extensive. The first 4 years is pretty tough to find good quality material on.


Major Featurettes
- Inside the Goblet of Fire [SD, PAL] - 43min
- HBO Inside Look [SD (avi), NTSC] - 13min

Talk Show Appearances
- Emma Watson on CBS early show 2005-11-18 [SD (avi, poor), NTSC] - ~5min
- Emma & Katie on MTV's TRL 2005-11-17 [SD (avi, poor, NTSC] - ~3min
- Emma Watson on Regis and Kelly 2005-11-15 [SD (avi, poor), NTSC] - ~6min
- Emma Watson on Today Show 2005-11-15 [SD (avi, poor), NTSC] - ~5min

Video Game Stuff
- Lego Harry Potter (years 1-4) teaser trailer [HD, NTSC] - 1min

Unsorted
- 2 official trailers [HD, NTSC]
- Party at the Palace, 2006 [SD (avi, poor), PAL] - ~7min
- JK Rowling on Richard & Judy [SD (wmv, really poor), PAL] - 30min


As you can see, its pretty slim pickings. If anyone has or knows of something NOT on this list, or a better quality source, please let me know.

 

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thanks AvP. I will for sure contact the uploaders. I have never had any luck with that in the past, but there's always hope...
 

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thanks ;) I'll try to help with your spleen in a bit. 8)
 

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update: I'd really like to fix something up on my disc 3 of this set. It would involve redoing and replacing the audio for one of the features. I requested some help with this technique a while back in the tutorial requests thread. If anybody can indulge that request, I would really appreciate it. thanks :)
 

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I just want to replace the audio for one of the features. So without having to reauthor the whole project, I'd like to just take my new audio file, and replace it for the one that is on the DVD.
 

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OK, got it sorted out thanks to AvP. The costume drama had a bit of a sync problem that was bugging the hell out of me. I didn't know what to do about it at the time, but its fixed now. The video quality is slightly better imo too (as I used vdub and CCE for encoding) and this has AC3 audio now, not PCM, which left more room for video. Sync is all fixed now. will be available tomorrow.
 

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Deathly Hallows stuff is coming out now!!! Please be on the look out for anything useful, and especially in good quality.

This is sort of crap quality:
Dh Preview One
 
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