It’s funny because that scene in my edit is almost half the duration of the original, if we count from the moment the first lightsaber slices a droid to when they deactivate the lightsabers. (27 seconds vs 14 seconds). I guess I could try to make that shorter, I just don’t know where.
If you want to know where the edits are in the rest of the intro up to Grevious’s first appearance:
- I changed “Master” to “Obi Wan”
- Cut “crawling with buzz droids”
- Added “General Skywalker, ready to engage” from a clone as they get into position
- “I’m gonna go help him out” exhange cut
- Cut “Missiles!”
- Cut “Buzz droids…”
- Cut Obi Wan recapping the mission before “we’re running out of tricks here.”
- Cut “Hold your fire, you’re not helping” and “You’re right, bad idea” exchange
- Cut Obi Wan telling Anakin to go on without him and “Not leaving without you, master”
- Cut “You’re going to get us both killed” from Obi Wan
- Replaced R2 scream with more neutral R2 noises
- Cut “The shields are still up!” exhange
- Cut Obi Wan leap out of fighter
- Cut R2 leap from fighter
- Silenced droids
- Cut extra shots of them just slicing droids
- Cut “I sense Count Dooku”
- Cut “Stay with the ship” exchange with R2
- Cut “Just as Count Dooku predicted” from Grevious
It’s at this point most people check out, because I kept in (an edited down version of, at least) the elevator sequence and even added more banter between O/A.