After some further tweaks, I am going to go ahead and consider all three of these “released”, at least as a version 1. I’m happy to make more tweaks as we go and people make suggestions or find issues I may have missed.
So I was at least able to get these done before the end of the year!
Massive thanks to everyone who go involved in the thread and helped push these to their best possible versions. I really enjoyed working on these films, and I’m very pleased with the result. I think we’ve ended up with a tight, connected, exciting trio of films.
I know there’s a lot of choices in fanedits of these films, but these versions unquestionably feel like “me”. All of my editing strengths, some of my editing weaknesses, and my general stamp is all over them.
Other than the removal of 3PO from films 1 and 2, there’s nothing else that breaks the canon, so you can slot these into your preferred viewing as long as you can deal with that. However, this project was viewed as a whole the entire time, and the three edits work together as a unit.
I’m now going to complete my very conservative preferred versions of TFA and TLJ so that, along with 4K77-4K83 and The Final Order, I now have my full preferred way of watching the entire Skywalker saga. The circle is now complete.
If you don’t like my more radical, canon breaking “Final Order” edit of TROS, you can replace it with HAL’s Ascendent version without there being any inconsistencies.
I hope you enjoy it, and please PM me if you want the links so we don’t get too many “link please!” posts in the thread.