It’s funny because that scene in my edit is almost half the duration of the original, if we count from the moment the first lightsaber slices a droid to when they deactivate the lightsabers. (27 seconds vs 14 seconds). I guess I could try to make that shorter, I just don’t know where.
If you want to know where the edits are in the rest of the intro up to Grevious’s first appearance:
- I changed “Master” to “Obi Wan”
 - Cut “crawling with buzz droids”
 - Added “General Skywalker, ready to engage” from a clone as they get into position
 - “I’m gonna go help him out” exhange cut
 - Cut “Missiles!”
 - Cut “Buzz droids…”
 - Cut Obi Wan recapping the mission before “we’re running out of tricks here.”
 - Cut “Hold your fire, you’re not helping” and “You’re right, bad idea” exchange
 - Cut Obi Wan telling Anakin to go on without him and “Not leaving without you, master”
 - Cut “You’re going to get us both killed” from Obi Wan
 - Replaced R2 scream with more neutral R2 noises
 - Cut “The shields are still up!” exhange
 - Cut Obi Wan leap out of fighter
 - Cut R2 leap from fighter
 - Silenced droids
 - Cut extra shots of them just slicing droids
 - Cut “I sense Count Dooku”
 - Cut “Stay with the ship” exchange with R2
 - Cut “Just as Count Dooku predicted” from Grevious
 
It’s at this point most people check out, because I kept in (an edited down version of, at least) the elevator sequence and even added more banter between O/A.