Alright. Here’s my review. Keep in mind that I don’t have the Blu-Ray/Hal’s edit memorized but here’s all of the changes I could find and my opinion on them. Without a changelist I’m going to assume that a million invisible edits will fly right under my nose. 😃
The list:
- Different recording used for the crawl. This is a cool change but I don’t know if this recording was the best choice, the ANH whistle bit can still be heard after the crawl but it’s overlapping with Sith’s music and in my opinion doesn’t work. I’d cut the ANH track right when the drums start.
Yeah I actually had it like that for awhile but last minute on this I decided to add back the piccolo solo, just out of curiosity to see if it worked. I think I mixed it too low though, but also I don’t think I’m loving it.
- The crawl is far too wordy, but I like the ideas your going for. This might help you: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Making-a-PERFECT-Crawl/id/50102/page/2. The stars plate you used in the background still has the original crawl faintly visible.
The crawl is certainly flexible and I’m keeping these sorts of things in mind, though not necessarily following these kinds of rules to a T (although looking at that again, I’m not sure which rules I’ve broken?). It is on the long side, but the word count is 88, which is the same as TFA, though all the others are high 70s, low 80s, so I am looking to possibly cut down a bit.
As for the original crawl faintly visible, damn. I just zoomed in and boosted the brightness on my screen, and you’re totally right. Never noticed.
- At around 1:42 there is a white bar on the right side of the frame.
I noticed that, skimming though. Think it was an export error? Not sure.
- I like the music cue used when Anakin and Obi-Wan destroy some droids, but the original score can still be heard while the actual ships are landing
I’m aware, though I kind of think they work together - although I’m not sure if I think that just because I’m used to it at this point. This is definitely the kind of thing I’d like to hear from people if it needs changing or not.
- At 21:14 at the balcony scene there’s some weird audio effect happening with Padme’s voice.
Good catch.
- I would have cut the midichlorians mention.
Honestly forgot that was in there. Might have to do that.
- Music editing gets kinda weird at 1:32:25
Yeah, it’s a tricky transition that needs a bit more work, and I think this whole little segment is mixed a little too loud.
At 5:27 there is a nasty bit of audio in the left channel.
At 25:31 there’s weird audio in the left channel. Again at 25:36.
Music gets weird in left channel at 1:41:35
Ughh, the fuck… This kind of thing really freaks me out, this was all fine in the sequence and I’ve done multiple exports of the whole edit and this has never happened before. Don’t know why, but I’m pretty sure this is actually a glitch with the audio transition effect I’m using on these tracks. So hopefully it’s an easy fix, though unfortunately I’m afraid there may be more instances of fucked up audio like this in there.
Apologies to all I’ve sent this out to because there’s some honestly really dumb issues in this (though nothing crazy enough that you it’s a problem to watch). None of my previous exports were this glitchy, just some bad luck that you guys have to be subjected to it. Very annoying.
I will also say that I’ve noticed the wipe transition is slightly mis-timed at 25:30 (of course this is another issue that has seemingly popped out of nowhere, which is concerning). There’s also a bit of gray at the bottom of the first deleted scene, but that one’s actually my bad.
Anyway, thanks for the notes and kind words!