I’m leaving the ending alone; to me it would be a mistake to remove it in a fan edit. But it’s just MHO.
Here are two clips required in order to remove BB8 with the [Rich Evans] AT-ST [/Rich Evans]. The only problem, apart from potential less-than-perfect editing, is that we do not see BB8 explicitly rejoin our heroes until Poe cuddles him on Crait. Might be okay, though. I took a lead from Buzzclub (the German TLJ edit thread guy).
https://vimeo.com/263272913
and https://vimeo.com/263273045
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Just a small criticism of Phasma 2. The audio crossfade is a little heavy from when they’re running to the shuttle to when they blast out of the shuttle bay and the music gets “mushy”. I did a quick cross-fade right on the cut and the score flows more smoothly I think:
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