Poppasketti, glad you like the second clip, I really do hope that I can help in some way and thank you again for giving me the nudge to get my own edit started.

I kind of agree about the rolling skimmer being a bit much, I don’t know if there are any other damaged skimmers that can be used instead - especially one moving from left to right. This one was flipped horizontally and I had to remove the mountain range from the “wrong” side. The Poe reaction shot is also flipped which introduces more continuity errors but I don’t think it’s so obvious?

Initially I thought removing the skimmer from the wide shot would be a piece of cake, but my first attempt was so bad you could see the mountains wobbling around in the background! I know I can re-do that shot myself to a much higher standard but if you give it a go, be very aware of the cloud of dust that kicks up into the air. I left it in but it looks silly without the second skimmer and should also be removed in my opinion.

I genuinely didn’t notice any issues with smoke or shadows from your previous video. If I could suggest one alteration, I would add a laser bolt going through/past the skimmer in the first two frames of the sequence. I tried this myself and it looked quite nice just to emphasize that the AT-AT shot Finn down.

One last thought; I had a play around with the big wide aerial shot of the two crashed skimmers where we can see a tiny Finn running to aid Rose. This is a beautiful shot and I think it would be quite easy to switch skimmers and make it look like Finn is running away from the skimmer on the right. This gives him more time to get to Rose and sells the geography of her crash a little better. Removing or reducing the rubble from the skimmer on the left though is hard because the shot pans round. However I reckon you might be able to do it justice.

Thanks again and good luck with the continuation of your edit, I look forward to more updates.