https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uu2edqdbiI
The unfinished “Amendments to the constitution / Palpatine’s Machinations” scene is actually usable now that these guys showed how it could be edited.
Maybe even darkening the shadows would help.
Oh brillant scene it is ! Does it exist in better quality that could match the other deleted sequences (it’s from the bluray set, so might be ?) ? If so I would love to see it integrated in an extended cut 😃
I like that scene as well. The quality is okay. The main thing that keeps me from using it is that the masking of actors in front of the Coruscant skyline is really atrocious. I did include a scene in my Episode II edit with some poor masking but this is even worse imo.
I feel like you could probably find away to cut around the offending aspects. What you’d need though is the scene to be upscaled like the DVD ones.
So Dom actually did it for his cut 😉
Ha, you’re right. It was something on my mind for awhile. What I realized was that it wasn’t just poor masking in some of the shots that was a problem, it was actually that the background was actually a different image in the deleted scene vs the theatrical. My solution was basically to use none of the deleted footage (save for Anakin’s mouth), only the audio.
The other thing with that scene is you run the risk of redundant dialogue (Palpatine says a few of the same lines in a later scene). So you have to cut around to make it work.