The Gifted Babies

As stated from the blog post made on the 23rd December, a re-edited version of the Cork Christmas Carol would be released. Here’s the embed link:

Differences:

• A new narration was recorded. It was an attempt at a Brian Blessed impersonation gone Patrick Stewart.
• Re-edited title sequence, shortened and doesn’t feature “The Gifted Babies proudly present”, added new credits.
• Improved audio mixing, music volume is lowered in some parts, new sounds are added and the audio in some parts of the film have been run through a denoise filter.
• Video now displays at the correct aspect ratio ( 16:9 )
• Added blur filter, contrast adjustments and a denoise filter ( Mplayer’s hqdn3d ) on some parts of the footage.
• Added end credits and slapped a Creative Common License at the end.
• Added a new snow matte ( North Main Street ) as well as made adjustments to enlarge the projected area of the other snow mattes.
• Fake High Definition video, enlarged to 1280*720 using Lanczos formula.
• Lengthened ending snowfall animation.
• The fact that I edited the film is only mentioned once.

Does this greatly improve the experience of the film? Course not, these can be viewed as minor adjustments that I had to overlook prior to releasing the first edition due to timing constraints. After all who would release a Christmas film in early January? Unfortunately in the editing process, there’s no such thing as a quick polish ( the action itself, not people from Poland ).

3rd edition coming out in for the 25th Anniversary in 2033, in this version Wesley Whines will shoot first.