Finished my first watch. Overall, I loved it! With a little more polish, your edit might replace HAL’s as my definitive ROTS.

I’m going to watch it again and take more specific notes for you - this time was just a “sit back and watch” run, if you will.

General notes: As others have said, the color correction is too contrasty - too much black crush, especially in the opening scenes and a few others (Windu and Anakin before Windu sets off to arrest Palpatine is a good example). Some of the added dialogue is too quiet, and some of the new “interrupts” don’t quite work. The audio seems slightly out of sync at times, too. I’m also not a fan of some of the Artoo stuff you left in the Invisible Hand, and I’m still not sold on the “Roger Roger” bit, but those are personal preference things, not technical feedback.

I love the sequence of events after the rescue of the Chancellor, particularly your placement of the Rise of the Rebellion deleted scenes. I also liked your inclusion of Anakin confessing his dream to Padme, which I didn’t expect.

I, for one, loved the new ending. Personally, I’d cut to black on Vader’s exhale instead of after. Let the exhale SFX play out over black, and after a moment of silence, have the credits fade in.

Oh, and one subtle thing I have to mention that I loved: the spliced in reaction shot of Anakin as Palpatine says “Once more the Sith will rule the galaxy” - it does a great job of showing the conflict still in Anakin at that point.

Overall, amazing work! Just needs a bit of polish to be perfect.

Oh, and thank you for cutting “I have the high ground!” Always hated that.