LOST I - Genesis

I love any thing Lost,great job Radzinsky looking forward to your future edits wether there lost related or anything else.I cant imagine taking on editing lost,so much going on but Radzinsky is doing a great job with it.
Namaste

This was an amazing fanedit! I decided to watch this fanedit before I watch the actual season normally. It was a great decision. Radzinsky has done an amazing job with this fanedit and I'm looking forward to watching the next installments in his LOST fanedit series.

If you haven't seen LOST yet and your LOST video discs are sitting on your shelf collecting dust, then I would strongly recommend watching Radzinsky's fanedit.

Summary -

Excellent edit! I definitely look forward to the rest of this series.

Quality - 10

Both the DVD5 and the 1080p MKV have my seal of approval.

Editing - 8/10 visual, 10/10 audio

Solid work here. Only real thing to look at is the opening credits that appear throughout. If you're using an HD source you can easily crop out the credits without losing too much in quality. I also suggest you edit in 1080 but render in 720. That way when you zoom/crop the quality loss will be absolutely minimal (if done corre0ctly). As it is now the credits thing isn't stopping it from being approved, I strongly suggest you try to remove them but if you don't it's just a difference between an 8 and 10.

Narrative - 9/10

The structure worked 100%. I especially enjoyed how you played certain episodes out side by side. And kudos for Jack's flashbacks in the beginning. At times it felt episodic but that's unavoidable with this type of edit.

Enjoyment - 8/10 (original Season One is 8)

I really enjoyed this, it reminded me of why LOST was such a great show. And it's always great to look deeper into earlier episodes once you know the end.

I want to start with the audio issue. I know a previous reviewer said they had a problem but the Admins didn't find an issue. I've double checked and made notes of everything and am confident in my findings. (Note I'm running off my HTPC via an encoded output through an optical digital cable to my receiver which decodes the signal.) My receiver states that it's Dolby Digital EX but what it's decoding isn't separated properly. The center channel is coming from the rear surround channels and the other 5 speakers sound like an even mix of all 7 channels (including center).

However please note that when I switch to a non-encoded analog signal output my receiver decodes it as Dolby Pro-Logic II (as selected) and it plays properly with dialogue from the center, effects in the surrounds and music and other effects primarily L+R. I tried this with both VLC and the PLEX media center with the same results.

That's pretty much where my skill set ends and I don't understand how a direct encoded DD signal is all wonky but when it's reduced to a 2ch analogue signal it is then decoded properly. Also note that when I first started watching this (in the digital encode) the first audio effect of the Lost 'thud' (as I call it) was very loud and blew out my front right speaker (and scared the cat). I used one of my rear surrounds to replace it so now I'm down to 6.1. BTW, the 'thud' was only an issue when I originally played it as a digital encode before switching to Dolby ProLogic II.

I'm confident in stating there is something awry with the audio and it could be some corruption in the digital encode that doesn't find its way to the analogue downmix. OR Perhaps it only effects certain setups with different types of audio ins/outs/cables/decoding methods, etc.... BUT this is the only title I've had this problem with and I've had this setup for 4 years now. In any case, on to my review....

I finished watching this last night and I'm mighty impressed. On the whole I felt the flow was nice, both the audio and video edits were relatively seamless and the picture quality was great.

There's quite a bit about Lost I enjoyed when it aired but I had major problems with many of the lead characters (who I found to be extremely annoying) and the long drawn-out flashbacks. All that is gone now and I can enjoy it and I look forward to the other fanedits of this series.

I just have 2 minor issues with the edit. I wish the credits could have been avoided and I know it would have been difficult to achieve. I know cropping would have diminished quality which would have been just as bad I think. Just wondering if they could be blurred? I've seen it done before to good effect. My other issue was that the pacing of the last 45 minutes or so felt rushed and there was no real build-up to an exciting cliffhanger, but it could have just been the fact I knew what was coming.

Those are minor qualms, however, and on the whole I thought this was great and will be watching it again as my DVD's sit all alone on the shelf collecting more dust. Thanks Radzinsky!

I have never been able to get through LOST no matter how hard I tried. I found the pace of the episodes extemely slow and the mysteries of the plot not sufficiently mysterious to keep my attention. KUDOS to Radzinsky...you manage to keep my attention at last. Your edit has converted me and I look forward to seeing what you can do with the other seasons.

Credits didn't bother that much but I agree with the other reviewers that croping those scenes would push a perfect product to perfection nirvana.

Keep up the great work!