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swagbeditor
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Star Wars: A Galaxy Betrayed – A 3-in-1 edit of the prequels - Released
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20-Jul-2016, 5:33 PM

Thanks for watching, I’m glad you liked it!

First let me say that I don’t know when or if I’ll get around to making further tweaks on this. My initial motivation to attempt this project was the assumption that I wouldn’t get another chance after my daughter was born. I did the majority of the work in the summer of 2014 and after she arrived that fall progress slowed way way down. I would like to make additional edits and cleanups to this eventually though, but who knows when that could be.

That being said, let me address your feedback!

1 original 20th century fox logo and Lucasfilm logo

Maybe. I think I would only want to do this if I could somehow make the picture quality and effects feel like they came from the OT era. As it stands now I think it’s okay to use the newer logos since the rest of the film is clearly of its time and not from the 70s/80s.

2 remove/ Matt out r2d2 from padmes room

Yeah, this is a good idea. He wasn’t very useful in that scene in the original cut and since he’s even less prominent in this edit it makes sense for him to just not be mentioned.

3 the Imperial March during the transition is executed very well but the audio on that is noticably different

Unfortunately true. I had the most problems with the audio of the edit but I’m glad it turned out at least as well as it did. I noticed on the YouTube version that this sequence and the Episode I scenes are louder than the rest of it. It’s something I had tweaked back and forth in my editing software and thought I had fixed, but apparently not.

4 Although what is left of Grevious is pulled off awsomely, and astonishingly almost believable,(not the chase scene on the lizard that still bothers me but it’s good too_)You could almost cut Grevious and related stuff out of the Movie Entirely, For all you know Grevious Could be the Trade Federation Guy

I tried numerous ways to trim him out but wasn’t satisfied with my results. He’s named numerous times as a McGuffin to move the plot along and I felt like naming him but not showing him felt awkard and removing reference to him entirely made it hard to motivate certain plot developments. Also I must confess I have a soft spot for the big stupid space lizard Obi-Wan rides.

5 I would Cut that robot talking guy with the Vader Voice too, Real Cheesy

Also a good idea. I initially attempted to redub him in the hallway scene with a line like “Our cyborg warrior Grevious will make an excellent general for your army.” to further motivate Grevious’s appearance later. But, like I said before, audio editing is not my forte so that attempt was abandoned. I reverted the audio in his scenes but should have probably looked at just taking him out entirely because he is admittedly pretty goofy.

6 I coulda used just a little more Palpatine pulling the strings but I have nothing specific in mind other than the Maul Palpy Scene from EPI

Yeah I think one of the casualties of cutting so much of EPI and focusing almost exclusively on Anakin makes Palpatine’s puppet mastery and rise to power a little too out of left field.

7 Palpys face after the Windu Fight, Wish there was a way to fix that face, what were they thinking!

Agreed. I had to just make my peace with that. Short of doing some sort of new effect I’m not sure how to get around it.

8 The Choke/Force Push on Padame… Wish he just threw her or something to make it more beliveable her injuries are life threatening. Or just have him choke her out hard

I did try to make his hand movement a little more forceful by reversing the shot where he opens his hand for the shot of him closing it. Plus her fall is sped up a tad, but yeah, there’s just not the footage available to make that scene more impactful.

9 And Just an Idea I’ve wanted to incorporate into my edit is calling them clone droids in the title crawl and having kenobi call it a clone droid factory.

I did something a little like this so that the Clone Wars could still be called the Clone Wars even if you wanted to imagine there wasn’t a clone army. My one successful redubbing was the analysis droid in the Jedi temple. I included him referring to the Geonosians as a “race of insectoid clones” but it’s definitely easy to miss.

10 A dream perhaps… Recolor and redub Jango as Boba

Unfortunately way beyond my current skills!

11 Noticed some studder on the Deleted Scene of the senetors forming the rebelion

This has got to be a side effect of the deleted scenes being sourced from the DVD and the rest from the Blu-Ray but I’m afraid I’m ignorant of how to fix it.

Thanks again for taking the time to watch and comment. Hopefully more people have a chance too!