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Dom's Useless Prequel Edits — Page 2

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DominicCobb said:

it’s the second time we heard that track in the film (trying to reduce this kind of repetitive tracking), and second because this is the birth of Vader - let’s hear his march.

I love that I don’t know this, but when does the track appear earlier in ROTS?

My stance on revising fan edits.

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Hal 9000 said:

DominicCobb said:

it’s the second time we heard that track in the film (trying to reduce this kind of repetitive tracking), and second because this is the birth of Vader - let’s hear his march.

I love that I don’t know this, but when does the track appear earlier in ROTS?

When we first see the battle on Kashyyyk. It’s actually an unused cue from the arena in AOTC. I’m going to try to make it a sort of motif for the clones/clone wars in that film, if I can.

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Well, in that case, I love your take on the temple scene even more. Honestly, great job so far.

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Dom, since you aim at replacing the soundtrack on many scenes, are you going to try something with the AOTC ending in order to remove the Vader’s theme that’s quite out of place here ? I’m thinking about trying myself with Shadow of the Empire soundtrack. Don’t know if feasible though.

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On your first clip i like how Anakin starts “General Grevious” and obi tries to stop him from continuing but Anakin still says his punch line. Music when they fight the droids is great, but the Return of the Jedi scene is so stuck in my head that its hard to separate the song from that moment.

side note: I just notice when Anakin and Obi Wan have Grevious cornered that Obi Wan does that pose with his two fingers out.

I make funny clean ReDub/Edits of movies https://www.youtube.com/user/GeoMFilms

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MalàStrana said:

Dom, since you aim at replacing the soundtrack on many scenes, are you going to try something with the AOTC ending in order to remove the Vader’s theme that’s quite out of place here ? I’m thinking about trying myself with Shadow of the Empire soundtrack. Don’t know if feasible though.

Yeah I want to change that, but it might be hard to get something else to fit.

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I’m currently working on it. Here is a first draft (front channel only) replacing entirely Vader’s theme (but leaving untouched the Love theme).

Link: vimeo.com/250670199
Pass: CloneArmy

(I haven’t cut the scene enough, the audio change only begins around 0:45)

Joel McNeely’s Imperial City surprisingly fits both the editing and the mood of the scene. I still need to smoother a few things as well as the sound level itself but I’m truly surprised it kinda works ! I then need to change the other channels but once one is done it’s more easy. The only tricky thing is that I lose the sfx sounds, and I don’t know how to recreate them. But I don’t really mind that.

(I’m even more mad than ever that the Love theme actually doesn’t fit exactly the editing 😄)

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That does fit well, actually, but I’m sticking with John Williams throughout. And I have a piece in mind, the trick in making it fit is more finding a good way to segue in and out of it

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Huh. It works really well but I don’t see the point? Are you trimming the revelation scene or is this the beginning of a new revelation scene? Is this the scene when Palpatine appoints Anakin to go to the council?

EDIT: Is this just dialogue from the deleted scene?

I must say I am excited for your edit. I have loved all of your previews.

EDIT 2: Holy crap I didn’t even notice that Hayden originally didn’t speak there (in the BluRay version)

Good job!

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snooker said:

EDIT: Is this just dialogue from the deleted scene?

I must say I am excited for your edit. I have loved all of your previews.

EDIT 2: Holy crap I didn’t even notice that Hayden originally didn’t speak there (in the BluRay version)

Good job!

That’s it. Thanks.

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DominicCobb said:

I now present maybe my favorite change I’ve made: https://vimeo.com/256374133

Very good ! I guess you’ve taken the mouth movement from another shot and implemented it here ?

It’s from the deleted scene - it’s actually the same exact take (they digitally closed his mouth).

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Oh, yes indeed ! Sharp eye. I love this extra dialogue, hope it will smoother Anakin’s turn.

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Dom, love your use of OT John Williams music. I know the biggest concern with some people is that they can’t detach those OT moments with the accompanying music, so it might be a good opportunity to use some unused tracks from the original trilogy.

I know aalenfae used an unused track from ANH to replace Duel of the Fates during Anakin’s search for his mother in AOTC.

Another user (can’t remember who exactly) posted a thread where he inserted the unused music from Vader and Luke’s duel from ESB into Yoda’s arrival at the arena in AOTC (without sound fx).

I’m not sure if you used the original music for the Sail Barge Assault or not, but I know there is also an alternate unused version on the soundtrack that might be worth looking at. I’m sure you’ve already put a lot of thought into it though!

I get why some people might not like it, but a lot of these scenes are reusing music anyway, so why not reuse OT music?

Anyway, I really like what you’ve done so far and I appreciate the rules you’ve given your edit to give the films a sense of consistency.

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RogueLeader said:

Dom, love your use of OT John Williams music. I know the biggest concern with some people is that they can’t detach those OT moments with the accompanying music, so it might be a good opportunity to use some unused tracks from the original trilogy.

I know aalenfae used an unused track from ANH to replace Duel of the Fates during Anakin’s search for his mother in AOTC.

Another user (can’t remember who exactly) posted a thread where he inserted the unused music from Vader and Luke’s duel from ESB into Yoda’s arrival at the arena in AOTC (without sound fx).

I’m not sure if you used the original music for the Sail Barge Assault or not, but I know there is also an alternate unused version on the soundtrack that might be worth looking at. I’m sure you’ve already put a lot of thought into it though!

I’ve sort of come to enjoy Duel of the Fates during that scene. I’ll have to see if I can find that clip, but I’m not sure if I’ll actually change that. As for that Yoda scene, that’s an interesting idea. Right now I have a very familiar tune accompanying that sequence (albeit a non-familiar recording).

I definitely considered the alternate sail barge music, but ultimately part of the reason why I wanted to use the track that made it into ROTJ was its use of classic themes. The PT is mostly devoid of the main title and the Rebel fanfare, and I get why, but I mostly see these as generic Star Wars hero themes, and I think adding them to the PT will give them the sort of SW feel that they are missing (especially this scene which is basically the only classic fun adventure scene we get to see with Anakin and Obi-wan together).

I get why some people might not like it, but a lot of these scenes are reusing music anyway, so why not reuse OT music?

Yeah that’s my mentality about it.

Anyway, I really like what you’ve done so far and I appreciate the rules you’ve given your edit to give the films a sense of consistency.

Thanks.

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I’ve basically got a cut done of ROTS. If anyone out there is interested in taking a look and giving some feedback, let me know.

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DominicCobb said:

I’ve basically got a cut done of ROTS. If anyone out there is interested in taking a look and giving some feedback, let me know.

Hi.

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I am as well

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