Hi everyone,

I've been reading these boards for a month or so now; and finally got motivated to make my own edits of the prequels. I've started on TPM, and have a complete edit (minus new crawl) in Premiere. I've only done test exports so far rather than the full job; I either need to get a new HDD to export to AVI, or trust Premiere's MPEG output. Any advice on that would be great actually.

Here's the details on the edit:

--The Phantom Menace - 21st Edit--
Video: PAL DVD
Audio: 5.1
Inspired by Mag's BOTF, but without all of the dialogue changes

I know that there are a fair few edits flying around now, but none of them seemed to offer exactly how I would like the prequels to play like; cut out the bad acting and pointless scenes, try and restore some OT style humour to the cuts, all without making wholesale changes (like Mag's) that make it either incompatible with the other movies, or a different movie altogether.

I've made literally hundreds of A/V changes in the process - don't really fancy listing them all right now. Here's the basics:

- cut Jar Jar's _vocal_ stupidity - I've left a few 'background' visual gags in.
- cut most of the bongo sequence, added waterfall instead
- edited Anakin in a similar style to Mag's edit
- totally re-mixed pod cleaning/pre-race/race
- removed the gap in the Maul/Obi fight where Obi's seemingly left hanging for minutes. That always seemed totally ridiculous to me - why didn't Maul finish him off?
- Midiclorians are gone

If anyone's interested in taking a look at the edit I'm hoping to get it uploaded at some point (once I've got it out of Premiere of course). Also, if anyone could offer a crawl-replacement service that would be great as well - I've only got 3DSMAX as my rendering option, and I'm not 100% happy with the results.

SOLO