FWIW, I look forward to hearing as much as you care to share about your editing choices. And you have whatever permissions you feel you need from me to do anything you’d like.
Thanks Hal, I’d definitely need your permissions if I wanted to put these out in the wild as the majority of the work is just straight up yours.
I think I discussed this with you in a PM awhile back, but, in short, Episode I is yours (with a couple slight tweaks), Episode II is yours (with some bigger tweaks), and Episode III is basically a hybrid of yours and L8’s (primarily L8’s structure with your within scene editing; with some additional tweaks).
ROTS is the big one that I’ve spent the most time on. It’s pretty much the only one where I’m adding/replacing music, in about 10 different spots of varying length. Another thing I’m doing that I’ve never seen done before is removing the Order 66 montage. I’ll put a video up of that when I finish the audio.
Across the three movies, I’m also doing a relatively rare thing - scene by scene color grade. It’s nothing too crazy, and there’s not a unified goal beyond simply “make it look better.” What that means for me varies scene to seen. It’s a bit more of a filmic look (with grain added), but ultimately it’s what I like, so I think it might actually skew a bit more modern in some places. I’ll post comparison pics eventually. You can actually see the grade in the clip I posted, but it’s pretty slight in that scene (plus I didn’t upload it in HD and Vimeo isn’t the most accurate when it comes to colors).
I’ll probably post a more comprehensive cutlist at some point.