I’ve had Jeten San Hett redo the crawl more than once already, and I’ve already sent him the AI file, so I can’t really change the crawl at this point, although I would have liked to take your suggestion and change “Ten years after the election of Palpatine” to “Ten years after Palpatine assumed power of the Galactic Senate.” As for the title, my favorite at this point really is “Shroud of the Dark Side”. However, that is a very good point about the repetitiveness of the titles. Since I really like “Revenge of the Sith” as well, it seems that the only other option would be to change the title of Episode I. Maybe “Vergence in the Force” like ADigitalMan did. Or here’s another thought- remember how the original SW crawl didn’t even have an episode number or title for 4 years? Maybe Episode I doesn’t even need a title besides Star Wars, coming first in the series. That’s a crazy thought, but still… anyway, I would rather change the Ep. I title than the Ep. II title.
Such as cutting Windu telling Anakin to ask Palpatine about Padme leaving Coruscant. Now it plays as Anakin going to tell his friend and mentor the good news about finally getting a mission of his own.
Exactly- that was a big one.
Palpatine: So…they’ve finally given you an assignment.
Anakin: Yes.
Palpatine: Your patience has paid off. Etc.
Be warned, Jar Jar sounds like yodeller in it.
Is that right? Luckily, if I were to get hold of this DVD, the German audio is supposed to be 5.1 surround so it should contain nice clear readings so that I can lower the pitch separately from the music and everything else.
Does anyone know if you can use German Amazon (amazon.de) from the US?
I'm glad you and MF got in contact and collaborated on the Syfo-Dias solution. I look forward to be surprised by something in this edit!
Ha ha- actually, you'll be surprised by more things than you think- there's quite a bit of stuff I haven't revealed to anyone, because it works so well and I don't want to change it.
This edit will have far more alternate music than any other. Often it's an artistic decision, but sometimes it's out of necessity because of scene transitions or dubbed lines. It could be that I liked the original music just as much but could not use it due to the lack of the complete soundtrack. I was able to get a lot of unreleased music from the surround channels on the DVD, but there are quite a few cases where the voices leak through. In those cases, I have to find a completely new cue, dig out the center speaker track (with the voices) and go from there.
Landing in the steam vents on Geonosis to middle of droid factory scene- practically done.