^I've been playing around with a rough edit of TPM for awhile now, and I used that same idea about Maul arriving during the sandstorm to help speed things up as well and I think it works quite well as a means of speeding up the Tatooine sequences.

Speeding up the entire movie was what I wanted to do, and to that end also cut out the original meeting with Wato - I cut from them entering Tatooine to the Feds talking to Sidious then back to Qui Gon on the radio to Obi Wan asking if there is anything on the ship they can barter with.

I also cut the entire opening down so that it went straight from the crawl to the Fed ships landing on Naboo and heading straight into the palace, but I don't think that idea would be useful for this edit, since the Fed stuff at the beginning is needed with the new Star Forge stuff Spence is adding.

In any event, I'm really looking forward to this edit :D