ForceGhostRecon

Looking forward to checking this out!!

I’d love to preview this! 😃

lantern51 said:

I am currently in the process of uploading what I hope will be the final version of this cut. This time, nothing is dropped in and has been worked over to flow with the rest of the movie. I also added my own cut of the SC 38 footage. I will make a cut/change list and post it in the future.

On a personal note, I got a reminder that in a month, my annual subscription for my editing software is due. So that means that next month I will have been editing for 1 year. I have never done it before then. I was inspired by some fan edits of The Force Awakens. So I gave it a try and taught myself how to use the software and how to do different editing tricks. My edit; The Last Jedi: A Spark of Hope, was the result of everything I have learned up to this point.

I hope you will enjoy my work. Let me know what you all think, and yes I’m always open to constructive criticism. I don’t know everything and other people have great ideas that I wouldn’t have thought of.

I’d like a link to this - would love to check out the new ideas

What are your plans for Rey and Luke’s first meeting?

Is there a difference between v1 and v2 other than color?

lantern51 said:

OK, quick update on V3. I had a hard time finding the line I needed to re-dub a spot, so I recorded it myself. I then ran it through a few filters to smooth it out and fit with the rest of the audio. So now I’m working on the score and then she is done. Score takes me some time because I’m very picky about setting the right mood. Those who have seen my cut of TLJ know this.

I definitely wanna check this out when it’s ready!

Youtube comments are getting pretty crazy. Ivan has evidently hypnotized an army of TLJ-haters into adamantly defending his edit… one guy (a self-proclaimed monetary contributor to the edit) said he has ‘seen fanedits before and most are sh!t’ but ironically, thinks Ivan hit the ball right out of the park. yikes…

Adywan’s breakdown is spot on.

The title “professional film editor” has officially lost it’s luster…

BitDrifter said:

Can someone send me a link to v2?

Can someone send it to me too?? please

BMadden said:

I downloaded it before reading the comments here. I might just move the file to my Recycle Bin now. I still think ForceGhostRecon’s TLJ edit is the best one I’ve seen yet. 😃

I appreciate that endorsement! I think the reason that edit came out so good is the community really gave good feedback with good suggestions - it was a great collaborative effort and my job was ‘clean’ execution 😉

OutboundFlight said:

Ivan’s crowd appear to be largely TLJ haters- those who despise a vast majority of the changes made. That isn’t a bad thing in it itself, there are some people who think that here, and we all get to respectfully share our opinions. But when surrounded by a community that continues to hate upon hate you get into a situation where anything is better.

My assumption is the praise does not come out of the edit’s quality. The people are only interested in story. They don’t care if the audio is odd or the cuts on dough, or even if the story contradicts itself as long as it directly fixes their issues with Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson the edit is a masterpiece. If it creates new problems, eh who cares.

My greatest worry now is towards the children of those in this community. When (more likely if xd) their parents show them Star Wars for the first time, Episode 8 will be called “The Last Jedi Re-Edit”. 😦

Lol He didn’t think to give it an appealing name. May as well just called it ‘The Last Jedi Fanedit.’

I agree people just WANT to like it because they hate the original. I personally thought the original was terrible, but I don’t hate it enough to accept this turd as a replacement.

the crazy train is rolling full steam ahead… I’ve never seen so many people praise a fanedit so highly. A really sloppy fanedit no less…

“clueless” is an understatement…

holy Hell.

WitchDR said:

Just from looking at the comments on Youtube, I can tell that almost every one of them thinks that Topher Grace is the only one to ever edit the prequel trilogy.

These people are absolutely clueless to there being any sort of fan-editing community. Probably for the best though. Too much attention would only bring a shut down from Disney.

I got the same vibe reading the comments… it’s the ONLY explanation for them thinking this guy’s edit is like the second coming. really crazy…they feel like he’s doing God’s work… like people thanking him for all he has done… lol nuts.

SilverWook said:

Is it being called the final version or a work in progress?

He says he is going to re-release once he’s done with the fight scene, which honestly was the most appealing part of this project to me personally. I actually think he should’ve scrapped the full-movie re-edit and focused on remaking the fight scene (similar to Sc.38 Reimagined) because the edit is actually really rough, to put it mildly.

Very sloppy overall.

Here is his plan for reworking the fight… a static wide shot with him and another dude composited in. It actually sounded possible before but upon seeing the work he released, I’ve lost hope for this fight scene.
https://youtu.be/oONpx1YCwbs

ChainsawAsh said:

That’s all pretty much the impression I was getting from the earlier clips he posted.

It’s a lot worse than I thought it would be.

sooo… this has been released. and the result of all that hype is anti-climactic to say the least. I actually wanted to like it… and the hype made me expect CLEAN TOP QUALITY work. The Luke voice-overs are very cringey…with some kind of reverb effect… audio levels all over the place throughtout the film, muddy cross-fades, video game footage…geez. And then there the addition of the 3rd lesson Caretakers Village scene… he used a low quality source and the frames jump all over the place like video streaming online in 1999…definitely a quality drop from the rest of the movie. No serious editor would use such a bad quality clip. And to be honest, all the other edits he made have basically been done before at this point… and done better. I’m trying to be as constructive as possible and not insult, but this is really amateur work. The best thing to come out of this was ImmersionVFX’s work on the green saber.

I’m interested in seeing a new take on this. For me, the Clean Cut was the ideal supplement to the original (unbiased opinion… lol) but there are definitely some alternate ideas bouncing around that I would love to see… Holdo’s hair being changed to brown is one and Kylo training is another… I was recently sent an AWESOME clip of Kylo ‘finishing his training’ and I’ve yet to see anyone implement this idea into an edit:

https://youtu.be/YWayIOy4UQU

so good! I’d love to see guys give this a shot

poppasketti said:

I’m not sure if EvenSteven wants any more talk about Holdo’s hair (if so, let me know and I can take down this post), but since there’s been discussion here, I think changing her hair to brown is doable using colorista in After Effects, which has secondaries and power masks.

Here’s a sample:
https://vimeo.com/278972236
pw: fanedit

This would still require going shot by shot and animating the masks, but it does seem doable.

Oh man, this is the ONLY thing that would make me go back and update my Clean Cut… lol but i’d need all her scenes done and that doesn’t seem likely.

lantern51 said:

Version 3 is coming. I think I have a cool idea for adding the R1 footage of Vader to this.

I’m working about 55 hours a week at my real job, and working on an edit of TFA. So be a little more patient. The link to V2 is still available…

I’m definitely interested in checking out another way to incorporate R1 Vader footage!

lantern51 said:

Version 3 is coming. I think I have a cool idea for adding the R1 footage of Vader to this.

I’m working about 55 hours a week at my real job, and working on an edit of TFA. So be a little more patient. The link to V2 is still available…

I’m definitely interested in checking out another way to incorporate R1 Vader footage!

Any progress on this? super excited to check this out!

oojason said:

Acbagel said:

The Edit is being released this Thursday on his YouTube channel. I have been following Ivan for a long time and have seen clips of his edit, many of his new scenes are quite good.

Well, some of it is, apparently…

(From the end of his ‘The Re-Edit is Done! Tune in on Thursday’ youtube video:-)

“I mean it’s still not completed… because I still er… need to shoot the fight. But as least, y’know… 90% of it - you’ll have. And later on I’ll release the same Edit - but with the fight. Erm… yeah. That’s it.”
 

Ummm well the fight was the only major undertaking and main selling-point of this edit. Everything else he’s offering can already be found in other existing edits to be honest (except for the Luke actor’s voiceovers)… anyway, so without the new fight scene, there really is no appeal… only hype. I think a lot of people just aren’t aware there are already good TLJ fixes out there already

There was a guy who actually edited 1 through 6 pretty cohesively, focused on Anakin and then Luke in relation to Anakin (if that wording makes sense). It’s not a perfect edit but good for reference - it was 3 hours long and the quality was so-so, but it was called The Redemption of Anakin Skywalker. I don’t want to post the link to his edit, but here is his facebook page for reference for anyone interested. https://www.facebook.com/TheRedemptionOfAnakinSkywalker/

I’d like to check this out!