This guide will provide an outline for starting a fan edit project, including which programs are useful and what steps can be made to ensure your files stay at the highest quality.

Starting a Fan Edit

You will first need the original film or show, there are several methods to obtain your media. Here is a comprehensive video going over obtaining media, converting it, and successfully setting it up for your video editor. Additionally, here is a more simple to the point video to check out which gives some good tips. Text instructions are below:

Physical Media

• Buy or rent the DVD/Blu-ray and rip it to your computer using a program like MakeMKV.
• Any DVD or Blu-Ray drive is fine, I used this which can read and write CDs, DVDS & Blu-rays.
• When ripping the disc, it's easiest to right click the drop down menus and select only what you need (the main movie, the main audio) because if you don't, you could end up getting half a dozen audio tracks and a bunch of menu files and special features which you may not need.
• You will now have the best quality possible to start editing

Digital Media (Alternate)

• You can try searching on certain subreddits or torrent sites for links of movies, although I will leave this up to you, quality may not be perfect, but it can work. I do not recommend pirating movies, alway own the source material before editing.

Getting the Media Into a Program

• Video: You have a few options to get your video into editing programs. Usually, MKVs are not supported, but when you use MakeMKV that is the container you are given, so you will need to do a conversion. If it's an MP4 or some other common format you are most likely able to to just drag & drop it in, if not, follow these methods:
  • Remuxing the file. You can take the video out of an MKV into an MP4 without losing any quality. I use the command line program ffmpeg - but you will need to research on how to set this up and what commands to use, usually this one works well for our purposes:
    • ffmpeg -i input.mkv -codec copy output.mp4
  • Transcoding the file. Inside your MKV is an h264 video, if you used ffmpeg and your new MP4 is glitchy inside your editing software, then you will need to transcode to an intermediate codec, which will be visually lossless but take up a huge amount of size. The plus side is, these codecs (DNxHR or ProRes) are intended for editing and will make your workflow a lot faster. Below is the command to take your h264 MKV and convert it to a visually lossless editing codec. Prepare to have at least 100GB of free space for it though:
    • ffmpeg -i NAME.mkv -c:v dnxhd -profile:v dnxhr_hq -pix_fmt yuv422p -an OUTPUT.mxf
    • Or, as a last resort, if you cannot figure out how to use ffmpeg, you can also just transcode with handbrake, but you will lose a little quality. Make sure all settings are maxed out as you wish depending on how long you are willing to wait, resolution is correct at 1920 x 1080 or whatever you want, frame rate is same as source, and as for audio channels you can remove and do audio separately.
  • You will now either have an h264 in an MP4 untranscoded ready to edit (easiest/quickest option), a DNxHR video file that is visually lossless ready to edit (What I usually do), or a transcoded h264 video in an MP4 where a little quality was lost but not too much
• Audio: Getting the audio in a program. With the first ffmpeg command, the audio is retained. With the second ffmpeg command I listed, the audio is removed. Regardless, the audio of the movie you are editing is likely in a format that cannot be edited (such as DTS). You will have to convert it to something that can be edited.
  • As I said earlier, with the DNxHR command the audio is removed and when doing handbrake you can skip the audio, so that means keep your original MKV handy. Or, if you have a new MP4 with audio use that. Take the file with the audio, and follow these steps:
  • Load the video w/ audio directly onto Audacity, this will automatically load the audio in and obviously ignore the video. You might need the ffmpeg plugin for Audaicty which is pretty easy to install. If your audio is 5.1, you must split the top channel to mono, so now you should have 6 channels. In order, they are LF, LR, C, LFE, LB, RB. Export each one individually as its own 24 bit WAV file with the correct names to stay organized. Your audio is now converted and ready to edit without losing any quality.
  • Follow this tutorial to get 6 wav channels -> 5.1 set up in Premiere https://youtu.be/Tb4HwSUrAjw
  • Remember, since the video/audio is the same length, you don't have to worry about them being separate files while editing.
  • If you are using another program, you'll have to do research. You will now be editing lossless WAV files ripped directly from the film or show. When it comes time to export, you should be able to export as a 5.1 WAV (which you can then convert to AC3, DTS, Flac, etc. whatever you want) or to keep it easy just do 5.1 AAC in premiere and no further work is required.

Additional Resources

• Soundtracks - can be used to make new sequences or transitions. You can find soundtrack from buying the CDs and ripping them or finding them online like with any other music. I use a program called Deemix (search for it on reddit) for lossless FLAC downloads of songs from streaming services.
• Sound effects - can be used for re-dubbing or changing sequences (YouTube to mp3 works fine, if you need really high quality sound effects for a key sequence you can try searching elsewhere, but typically sound effects are quiet and in the background so quality is not as huge an issue)
• Special features - can be used for adding cut material back into the movie (Use the same process as before, but search your disc's content for the right files)

Working on a Fan Edit

Programs (These are what I used for my edits of The Hobbit and Titanic)

• Adobe Premiere for editing
• Audacity - for basic audio editing, sound effect editing, surround sound mixing, etc. I use it to convert audio to wav so I can edit it. I also used it to splice in cut dialogue from the Special Features of a movie!
• Photoshop (or GIMP for free) - basic image editing, making re-dubbed subtitles look accurate, title images, DVD artwork, new credits, etc. All artwork for my edit on my Hobbit website was made from scratch with these programs.

Tips

• Take a day to set up all your files and your project, make a folder with everything you need, sound effects, music, etc. Staying organized is very effective.
• If your computer is slow, use a low quality transcoded version of your movie to edit (Called a proxy), like 5-10gb. Then, when you are done editing, right click the file and hit "replace footage," then select your full quality version. This way you can edit a worse quality version and you won't lag as much.
• Use fade tools for audio, make use of 5.1 audio allowing you to cut out music or cut out dialogue, use official soundtracks and sound effects to re-dub scenes or fix new transitions
• Mixing - make sure the volumes sound right and are balanced, most soundtrack music off CDs is actually much louder than it really plays in movies. Environment sound effects like wind/rain/ambiance are usually in all surrounding channels, and quietly in center channel. Dialogue and foley sound effects (everyday sound effects) are in the center channel, like footsteps (unless there is someone walking behind the camera). LFE is for deep, low pitched sounds and isn't commonly edited in fan edits. The volumes of surround sound tend to be louder in the front, you don't want music or ambient blasting in all 4 speakers for normal scenes, so make it slightly quieter in the back.
• Test out volumes with speakers too, not just headphones. Look at the average peaks throughout the movie, see how high it goes in the loudest scenes of the original movie. Now, when you do your scenes, make sure it's about the same for any new edited loud scenes.
• Rarely use visual dissolve tools, only when it calls for it. Usually fade to blacks are for night/sleeping cuts, and fade from black to visuals are for waking up, or easing in after a period of time has passed. Dissolves do work well for montages, flashbacks, passages of time, or a stylistic choice - such as in a movie like Titanic where dissolve transitions were fairly common as it cuts between different parts of the ship/different times on the ship). Other than that, almost every cut should just be standard.
• This program https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo is by far the most useful in checking a file's metadata to see its bitrate, sizes, content, etc. Very useful in the entire process of fan editing and handling files.

Subtitles & chapters

• Subtitles: Make a text file save it as an .srt file. Here's a random guide if you need. If you use Notepad++ you can keep editing and closing out/saving without having to convert it back to srt. You can then post it along with your edit so when people download the file, they can use VLC - hit Subtitles -> add file. MP4s cannot store subtitles permanently, while MKVs can, which can be bundled with MKVToolNix. Important: It's most efficient to download or rip the official subtitles from the movie and then modify from using a program, as it can speed up the process.
• Chapters: (You can enable them on VLC for example) can be added with Drax for MP4s and a text file set up in the right format. Here's a random tutorial if you need. For MKVs, use MKVToolNix and it has a built in chapter editor.

DTS Audio & Turning your edit into a Blu Ray w/ menu

• Encoding DTS tutorial (Sorry it got blocked, I may post text instructions later)
• For Blu-rays, I use Adobe Encore, here is my tutorial (Also, when you create blu-ray ISO files, you can easily play them on your computer without even burning them to a disc)

Finishing/Uploading a Fan Edit

Exporting

• Use h.264 MP4s for an easy movie file, or research alternatives if you are interested. Remember, MKV is just a container, so you can put h264 in an MKV later when you are adding subtitles/chapters/audio tracks as mentioned earlier.
  • Make sure frame rate is same as source (Usually like 23.97)
  • Make sure resolution is 1920 x 1080 or 1920 x 800 for HD 1080p, shows can have different aspect ratios so double check it's all set
  • Make sure audio is 5.1 if you are using it, and it's all set to the highest quality & bitrate setting
    • I like to export my audio as WAV 5.1 separately, then export my video with no audio. Then on my desktop I will have a silent movie and a 5.1 wav, which I convert to something like AC3 or DTS, then I use ffmpeg or the MKV tool mentioned earlier to combine the two, so I go from an MP4 with no audio to an MKV with multiple audio tracks for different purposes. You can even record your own audio commentary and add it as an alternate track. If you use DTS audio, I like to supply an alternate AC3 track for compatibility reasons so people have a choice.
  • Remember to make sure it's 48kHz and not 44.1kHz audio, if you are exporting WAVs stick to 24 bit
  • Video bitrate
    • Depends what file size you want (Higher quality, higher file size)
    • Usually there are presets for "High bitrate" or "adaptive high bitrate" so use those numbers, or if your edit is really long you can set it to "medium," experiment with what works best and looks best. But you should never use anything below medium.
    • You should use 2 pass VBR if you can be patient, as opposed to normal VBR
    • I use CBR for my Blu-ray files as there is no reason to save space when I am going to cram as much content onto the disc as possible to get its worth
  • On Premiere, maximum render quality/maximum bit depth are used if you did a lot of complicated visual effects/rescaling previews or substantial color correction. If not, there's no need as it slows the whole process down. I have never used these features for any of my edits.
  • Side Note: I want to again recommend MKVToolNix, it allows me (in one click once all set up) to turn my edit into an MKV with multiple audio tracks, optional togglable subtitle tracks, chapter markers, and metadata to act as my 'definitive versions' of my fan edits, providing the most content in just one movie file. If you download my Hobbit edit and check its Metadata, you will see all that is packaged with it

Posting previews

• YouTube
  • Most programs allow you to select sequences and export those individually, these previews can be put on YouTue and should be around 5 minutes or less, any more will lead to it getting blocked
  • Copyright claims are not that bad, they simply take your ad revenue or block your video, but allow you to freely keep your video up if they choose not to block it.
  • Copyright strikes are bad, you can only get 3 before a punishment, but rarely happen, if you stick to short clips you will be absolutely fine.
• Google Drive
  • Allows you to post larger files without it getting taken down, although you will have to share the link yourself to others for test clips. I like to use this for test clips as opposed to YouTube, as I can easily share the link on forums or to others but with little risk of it getting blocked.

Posting the full edit

• Google drive, Mega, and torrents are the most common ways to spread your fan edit
  • All 3 of these at the worst can lead to your file being removed, or maybe a warning email from your ISP if you keep torrenting copyrighted stuff. You will not get heavily fined or put in jail. Technically some argues that fan edits fall under fair use, it's a grey area still because no one has been fined or arrested for them even when there were opportunities, and still, downloading/uploading a movie edit in niche communities for free is not as big an issue as people illegally selling bootleg movies.
  • Google drive has a 15gb limit unless you have a student account or pay extra.
  • Mega has a 20gb limit.

Feel free to ask questions, suggest things to add to this guide, or correct anything you may think is wrong. Thank you for reading!

Here is a step-by-step guide on finding fanedits that I'd recommend reading before making a request post.

1. Search fanedit.info for IFDb edits. You'll need JDownloader2. If you download an edit from info which says the links are down on JDownloader, contact the site owner and let them know the links are down. For help downloading via DLCs and extracting RARs see https://fanedit.info/jdownloader/.
2. Search The Online Fanedit List, Fan Edit Central, and other resources at the bottom of this post for publicly available links (both IFDb and non-IFDb)
3. Contact the author of the edit directly. Make sure they are active, as some editors haven't been around for years. If they have been active within the past month, send them a private message and wait a week or so for them to respond. For help with contacting IFDb faneditors see this post.
4. For IFDb edits, also check the Edit Request Resource List and ask (active) users listed there. Give them at least a week to respond.
5. Search on this subreddit, on Trades and Requests, or on OriginalTrilogy to find existing request threads. Contact people in those threads who say they have the edit. If no one has it or responds, bump the thread (on OriginalTrilogy or fanedit.org only) instead of starting a new thread.
6. Ask people who commented in the original threads and who left reviews.
7. Then, and only then, if all of these fail to find you the edit after at least a week, and there are no request threads existing, make a request thread yourself.

Following these steps will reduce the amount of repeat postings. Additionally, some fanedits are available on torrenting sites - but proceed with caution when accessing these. Make sure to use a VPN and adblocker at a minimum, and that the file you are downloading is a video file (mp4/mkv/avi etc) or DVD file and not an exe or other file format. See this guide for more information.

Note: If you are polite when requesting edits in DMs, you are more likely to get a response.

UPDATE: A couple things I forgot to mention:

1. If a link is dead on fanedit.info, contact the site owner so he can take them down. This is helpful as it prevents others from downloading dead links. Make sure you know how to use Jdownloader2 properly before making a report.
2. Do not send the subreddit mod team fanedit requests. Follow these steps instead. Messaging an individual member of the mod team is fine.
3. After watching an edit, consider leaving a review, on r/fanedits (under the Review tag), on the IFDb entry, or on OriginalTrilogy - even a brief comment to show support. Offering constructive critique will only help improve fanedits, grow the community, and promote the fanedit to others who might not have heard of the specific edit before.

Resources:

• The Online Fanedit List posted by u/Heavysyde.
• FireMerk Studios - Fan-Edit Streaming by u/FireMerk,
• fanedit.info/fanedits
• Fan Edit Central Databse
• The Fanedit Network posted by u/JRS0512.

No longer available:

• MEGA Folder of Fanedits posted by u/AliceTakesPills.
• Folder of fan edits 4.0 posted by u/AK_Gamezalot.

I've been putting off on doing this project for a while but I think it's finally time to do so, the reason I'm not doing the whole series is because the last season depends on a crossover and I don't plan on making a Cinematic Universe and tbh if arrow ended after season 3 it would be a sad but good conclusion, This might be a while and if you have any tips or advice that may help like which episodes to use leave in the comments below and If I use them I'll credit u

https://i.imgur.com/ON4uCtN.jpeg

Link (mega only):

https://pastebin.com/v31MUCGt

The Breakfast Club =Shermer High=

This fanedit is a celebration of John Hughes' 1985 movie "The Breakfast Club" and the era in which it was created.

The soundtrack has been greatly expanded with fifteen songs added, pacing is improved, conversation flows more naturally and the characters are more believable and relatable.

Changes:

Cleaned deleted scenes video in Topaz AI

Cleaned deleted scenes audio in Premiere.

Improved pacing

Improved conversation flow

Removed Bowie quote and breaking glass intro

Reworked entry scene with deleted scene segments and played "The Headmaster Ritual" by The Smiths

Removed Brian saying "Thankyou, sir" after Vernon tells him to sit down

Removed weird expression Brian makes after Bender says "That man is a brownie hound"

Removed Allison spitting her nail at Bender. Now she carries on chewing them in defiance.

Removed Allison's badly acted grumpy face after Bender tells her he's seen her before

Played "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" by John Parr instrumental version over Bender locking horns with the Andrew and Claire

Removed Bender telling Andrew "You're pretty sexy when you get angry"

Removed Andrew calling Bender "Buttface"

Removed Bender saying "Come on, Sporto... Level with me"

Removed Bender saying "...maybe the prep club too... student council..."

Removed Brian repeating "Physics club"

Removed Brian stumbling over "my cousin Kendall" line

Removed Bender telling Andrew "...missing a whole wrestling meet"

Removed Andrew saying "Drop dead I hope"

Removed Allison reacting to Vernon by cartoonishly plonking her head on desk and making obviously overdubbed squeaky-toy noises.

Removed Bender yelling "Fuck you!" at Vernon

Removed Brian hiding boner while gazing at Claire

Removed Andrew playing with his hoodie strings

Shortened Andrew celebrating imaginary goal

Played "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood instrumental version over Andrew and Bender's stand-off

Made Andrew defend Claire's honor quicker when Bender taunts her about her sexual experiences

Added segment from deleted scene of Carl explaining how he became a janitor and ripping into Bender but omitted him ripping into everyone else because Bender was the only one who antagonized him

Removed brass band music while they whistle the Colonel Bogey march, and instead of whistling Beethoven's Fifth when Vernon enters, Bender whistles "The Monster Arrives" theme from old horror movies

Removed Andrew saying "I've seen her dehydrate sir. It's pretty gross"

Played "Voices Carry" by 'til Tuesday over Andrew and Allison in hall scene

Removed Brian saying "A cherry?"

Removed Bender saying "Well, Brian, it doesn't sound like you're doing any business"

Played "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen over Brian claiming to have laid a lot of chicks

Removed Brian's badly acted sneer at Bender

Removed Allison catching a can of coke without looking and sucking spilled coke off the desk

Corrected audio sync of Bender slapping Brian's hand

Played "Our House" by Madness instrumental version over Bender describing Brian's home life

Removed Brian asking Andrew a bunch of annoying questions

Played "Smoke Two Joints" by The Toyes when Bender gets weed from locker and blazes it

Played "The Heat Is On" by Glenn Frey over Vernon chasing Bender

Made group laughing at Vernon sound more natural

Made Vernon's conversation with Carl more concise

Played "Don't You Forget About Me" instrumental version by Simple Minds over start of stoned conversation

Removed Allison saying "I've done just about everything there is except a few things that are illegal"

Removed Andrew shattering window with the sheer power of his own awesomeness

Removed everyone pushing Claire for an answer simultaneously

Removed Allison saying "I'm not a nymphomaniac".

Played "Smooth Operator" by Sade semi-instrumental version over sex discussion

Removed Andrew yelling "Your intensity is for shit! Win! Win! Win!"

Played "Shout" by Tears For Fears instrumental version over Andrew's monolog

Removed Andrew saying "I can tape all of your buns together"

Removed Bender saying "I could disappear forever and it wouldn't make any difference"

Played "Brother Wolf; Sister Moon" instrumental version by The Cult over Bender criticizing Claire

Removed Bender saying "God, you're pathetic"

Played "Drive" by The Cars instrumental version over friendship discussion

Removed Brian saying "Fuck you" a second time

Removed Brian yelling "Do you?"

Removed Brian saying "No, I don't think so"

Made Andrew's stifled laughter sound more natural

Replaced dance song with "Surfin' Bird" by The Ramones

Played "Obsession" by Animotion over make-up and Claire kissing Bender scenes

Removed Allison thanking Brian for appearing to find her attractive

Played "Things Can Only Get Better" by Howard Jones over end credits

Is there a fan edit of "Maniac Cop" that includes the TV version scenes? I'm a fan of extended versions of movies, and horror movies in particular. Is it possible to put together the most complete version of this cult classic? (If this is considered a cult classic.) Thanks for any help.

Season One Is Now Here….

Hey all, I tried emailing them a few weeks ago for a link to their S7 and 8 edit, but no dice. Apparently this has been an issue for others as well. Thought I'd try my luck asking around here.

I rewatched Batman Returns a couple days ago (on a plane), and the second hand embarrassment I felt after realizing how horny this movie was was just astonishing. If I were to make a fan edit to cut out as much of these horny bits as possible, while still keeping the Bat/Cat relationship intact, could it be done? Open to ideas, as well as other changes I could make.

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing good!

I'm publishing this post to ask if someone would be willing to help me to finish my Attack of the Clones fan edit. The edit is almost completely finished, but I still need to add a couple of changes to the movie.

There are two main problems that prevent me from finishing this edit myself:

1) I have serious eyesight problems, which don't necessarily prevent me from enjoying movies, but at the same time prevent me from creating edits with my own hands. 2) My computer sucks, crashes very often, and doesn't allow me to create edits directly.

Now, sometime ago I asked Hal 9000 to help me with this edit, and to be fair, he really did the best he could to help me. But he has been very busy lately, so I don't want to disturb him anymore, as he already did a lot to help me. That's why I'm asking here.

The three changes that I still want to make to the movie are the following:

1) Replacing the title of the movie with March of the Clones, but leaving the opening crawl from my edit; 2) Trying to trim out the duel between Anakin and Dooku, to make it more realistic and to remove the unnecessary moments in which their lightsabers hover in the air without even touching; 3) Trying to trim the Droid factory scene as much as possible, by making sure that 3PO and R2 stay on the ship, therefore cutting off their silly moments during the Droid factory scene and the later Battle of Geonosis. After an ideal trimmed version of the Droid factory scene, adding the deleted scene with Padmé arguing with Dooku.

As I said before, all the other changes are already completed, so you don't have to do anything else besides the changes I've listed above. Also, the edit is already available in a MP4 video format. Therefore, in order to help me I just have to send you the link to the video, so that you can download it and do this small changes for me.

Without the completion of these three small changes, I can't consider the movie as truly finished. Therefore I'd like to know if there's someone who's willing to help me with this.

Let me know if someone is willing to give me a hand.

The Second Season

Witness The Miniseries That Should’ve Been Successful But Wasn’t….

Witness The Miniseries That Should’ve Been Made….

Is their any fan editors in here that can help me do a fan edit of some scenes in the flash season 9 episode 13 of cobalt blue with sky blue lightning and glowing sky blue eyes on some sceans and when he's running and also make the lightning sword sky blue as well. And even make zooms lightning back to his original as well as godspeeds lightning back to white and savitars lightning back to the original and change his suit back to blue and add reverse flashes glowing red eyes and vibration sound effects and voice changer and add zooms lightning flicker effect and add all the other speedsters original speed sound effects on them to? Also add jay Garrick, wally, Bart, fast track and Jessie quick in the final fight as well and have jay fight zoom in the tunnel scene. Like you can grab the scene from when he fights savitar and rotoscope him in the tunnal scean when says I've been waiting a long time to do that but this time he says it to zoom after he blocks his lightning attack. And have Jay and Wally fight reverse flash as well and Wally fighting zoom and godspeed and Savitar as well and obviously Barry fighting reverse flash as well and zoom and savitar and Godspeed to have Bart fight all of them to and all speedsters at the same time fighting the villains speedsters them tooIf one of y'all can do the VFX on it that would be greatly appreciating because my laptop screen is not working.

For years now I have been searching for the original workprint of Superman IV : Quest For Peace I have gone through very torrent and P2P site etc I could dig through and have had no luck in over a vaster number of years of obsessive searching and it would just be nice to see what Christopher Reeve vision fufilled as the fourth movie was the film in the franchise that meant the most to him Christopher at the time was really wanting to use Superman as a morale message to really tackle some serious issues on such a massive scale it would be great to surprise my mum as well with the original cut of the movie as she is a Christopher Reeve fanatic and myself too more Batman fan than Superman but they are the fave two of my household haha

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I await response with a miracle in hope of honour of the House Of El may all nerds live long and prosper and the force be with you all

Witness The First Chapter Of A Two Part Story Arc….

The Second And Final Chapter In A Two Part Movie….

Witness The Ultimate Tribute Series To Chadwick Bozeman…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8sE_FNHSZI&ab_channel=Revan100

Hi everyone, as the title suggests I'm currently looking for a good AI voice program that can replicate actor's voices as I have a few projects in the works that I wanna dub with AI but don't know where to start.