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My Return of the Jedi Edit (WIP, Rough Workprint Released)

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Like many fans, I see ROTJ as the weakest link in the original trilogy, mainly due to the bad pacing of the second act, the Ewoks and the prequel-esque “humorous” moments. But I also see that it lacks a sense of scale that I’d appreciate from the finale of such an epic saga. With Revenge of the Sith and recently Rogue One added to the series, Return of the Jedi is comparatively lacking in the aspect of scale, something I don’t think should happen as the capstone of the OT.

I hope to make an edit of ROTJ with a longer runtime, around 2.5 hours, and a larger scale. This means adding more content portraying the overall conflict/battles/campaigns of the Rebel Alliance, and its effect on the Galaxy. Essentially, finding places to put snippets of battle footage, taken from fanfilms and other Star Wars media, throughout the story in a way that doesn’t feel forced. The second way to add to the length and scale is by adding extra footage to the battle of Endor, to up the epicness of the trilogy’s final space battle.

I’ve made a rough edit earlier that cuts out the prequel humor and a LOT of the content regarding the Ewok Village in the second act, but that leaves the movie at a little less than 2 hours. This means I’m going to need to pull a lot of content from deleted scenes and fanfilms to bulk the runtime. This is the part that’s going to be tricky. I’m going to have to use clips from fanfilms of a higher quality, and use color correction/grading, custom sound editing, and other visual tricks to get the fan film clips to blend seamlessly with the regular footage. I know getting it to look EXACTLY like the ROTJ footage would be impossible, but I’m hoping to get it pretty darn close.

Right now I’m mainly toying around with different ideas and concepts, so any input and help is greatly appreciated! I want to see what people think about different concepts, and ways they’d improve them to fit better with the look, tone and feel of ROTJ.

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This is my first concept, the extended battle of Endor. I tried to distribute the new clips throughout the original battle footage instead of clumping them together into one long extended battle section, to not destroy the pacing. Also, when it cuts to the shimmering water, that signifies a cut to the Endor ground battle or Luke’s duel.

https://vimeo.com/353469572

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It’s still very rough at the moment, with really only visuals and some music. I didn’t want to get too far along with adding everything yet and have it turn out a lot of stuff doesn’t work, or have someone else suggest a completely new idea.

I used Battlefront II footage, the Lost Starfighter, Eckhart’s Battle of the Dreadnaughts, and a few other VFX test projects. I plan on using dialogue from different Star Wars games, including dialogue of Wedge saying to take out the two Star Destroyer towers on the bridge from one of the Rogue Squadron games. I believe that once some of the dialogue is in the place, the new battle footage will be a lot easier to follow in terms of what’s going on.

I would love suggestions on how I should keep color correcting the new footage. So far I’ve generally decreased contrast, slightly increased saturation and added a slight blue tint, but I would love more specific suggestions on how to make it look closer to the real ROTJ footage (i.e. decrease contrast more, less brightness, add a bit of grain, add a bit of a sharpen filter, etc.).

Any advice to help make the final product all blend seamlessly into the final movie is much appreciated! And I would also really appreciate it if someone with more VFX experience could help a bit, mainly in adding background ships to the footage from the Lost Starfighter. It looks kinda weird to suddenly go from a dozen star destroyers to one in the span of a few seconds. Even slightly blurry 2D images would probably work.

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Can we please re-insert Luke building his saber and Vader calling to him? There are restored versions, with replaced mattes and all and they look pretty good!

The rebels storming the shield generator would be a great addition too.

Ewoks shooting blasters would be pretty great as well - I saw someone insert scenes from the old Ewoks movies and it worked pretty well. The hardest part will be making the image quality consistent throughout the film.

Vader fading away after he dies would be pretty cool too. I’ve seen this done in a few fanedits before.

Another great idea,
which I’ve also seen done before, is to put Luke on Dagobah in the very beginning of the movie. This really tightens up the timeline imo (this would require a crawl change as well)

Anyway, these are just a few ideas. Good luck, looks interesting!

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Can we please re-insert Luke building his saber and Vader calling to him? There are restored versions, with replaced mattes and all and they look pretty good!

The rebels storming the shield generator would be a great addition too.

Ewoks shooting blasters would be pretty great as well - I saw someone insert scenes from the old Ewoks movies and it worked pretty well. The hardest part will be making the image quality consistent throughout the film.

Vader fading away after he dies would be pretty cool too. I’ve seen this done in a few fanedits before.

Another great idea,
which I’ve also seen done before, is to put Luke on Dagobah in the very beginning of the movie. This really tightens up the timeline imo (this would require a crawl change as well)

Anyway, these are just a few ideas. Good luck, looks interesting!

The first three ideas I’m all looking into. I would love to know where I can find restored versions of the lightsaber building deleted scene, those would be excellent resources. The Rebels storming the shield generator is also something I’m definitely adding in, there’s a version on youtube with VFX and SFX that I’d use. In regards to Ewoks shooting blasters, there will small snippets where they do that, replacing them using sticks and rocks. I plan on using Adywan’s ROTJ revisited as the starting point for this edit once it comes out. There will be Rebel ground combat on Endor, so I plan on almost entirely removing the Ewoks from the battle outside of when they initially saved the captured Rebels. Hopefully Tydirium is also released soon, as I can use that infantry combat action as well and hopefully have a trooper battle that rivals the Battle of Scarif.

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Any advice to help make the final product all blend seamlessly…

It’s hard to blend because the cinematography is different, specially CGI.
My best advice is to work with the deleted scenes from Jedi and perhaps a few takes from the Ewoks movies.

It’s possible to restore the original space battle sequence, and that changes the pacing a bit - see the link to my thread below. You can also throw in General Madine and add the Jerjerrod subplot to add more scale to the movie.

Please take a look at some of my ROTJ experiments, might be helpful:
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/My-ROTJ-fixes-and-changes/id/67046/page/1

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EditModd said:
Any advice to help make the final product all blend seamlessly…

It’s hard to blend because the cinematography is different, specially CGI.
My best advice is to work with the deleted scenes from Jedi and perhaps a few takes from the Ewoks movies.

It’s possible to restore the original space battle sequence, and that changes the pacing a bit - see the link to my thread below. You can also throw in General Madine and add the Jerjerrod subplot to add more scale to the movie.

Please take a look at some of my ROTJ experiments, might be helpful:
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/My-ROTJ-fixes-and-changes/id/67046/page/1

Thanks for the ideas and resources! In terms of getting the footage to match, because it’s quite different, it can be very hard. Even if I can’t get it perfect, I’d like to know what I can do to at least make it blend more, and see how that works. I’m willing to overlook a few deviations from the original style if I have good fanfilm footage that I want to put it, but I’d just like anything to get it closer to the actual footage aesthetically, whatever would improve the fanfilm footage to make it look like the movie.

Essentially, even if it won’t look perfectly like the actual ROTJ footage, I’d at least like the clips of fanfilm footage to look like a better match (I know color correction is one way to do this). Also other things like changing contrast and lighting. Even if the cinematography differs, I’d like to achieve the basic look.

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Edits that add fan film footage aren’t really my cup of tea, but for some reason your thread sparked my imagination so I thought I would share some ideas with you. I definitely think it will be impossible to blend fan film footage seamlessly with the original, but I think if you, and anyone who watches this, can accept that, then we can have a lot of fun with it at the very least.

I think there might be a few more ways that can help make the difference feel a little less jarring.
You’re already looking into ways to regrade the fan film footage to feel more “filmy”. I’d definitely say keep doing research on that.

I’ve never tried this before myself, but another way you might be able to make the CG space battles blend more with the original footage is to cut frames out of the CG footage. I think sometimes the new footage looks too smooth in comparison, so maybe experimenting with that could find something that works well. The ships in some of the new footage move a lot faster than in the theatrical film, so slightly slowing some of those shots down might help make it feel more consistent.

There is a bit of deleted material you could use to help extend the runtime of the film, if you’re basically wanting to make a Return of the Jedi: Extended Edition with as many deleted scenes and new scenes as possible, with overall pacing being less of an issue.
You can probably notice that a lot of the deleted scenes are extremely grainy. Having old grainy footage AND new footage next to each other will likely be very jarring, so maybe you could add a ‘grindhouse’ grain to the entire film, which would be easier than trying to clean all of that footage up.

And I know you said you are going to remove many of the silly moments to your edit, but I would definitely would suggest being a little picky regarding what you remove, since you’re going for a long runtime. So if any of the Ewok antics are somewhat passable for you, I would consider keeping it in. I would definitely keep Wicket and Leia’s first scene together considering that is worth a few minutes of runtime. I know you plan on using Ady’s ROTJ and Tydirium fan film footage, but it could be years before either of those will be complete, so if you want to release this anytime soon, I would suggest making a version of this edit without those in mind. Because of that, I think there is a lot from the Ewoks that I think you could still use during the battle.

Some notes regarding the test clip you showed:

That shot of the inside of the Falcon flying around the Star Destroyer is not high quality enough to use in this edit at all, I would suggest cutting it.

I’d also suggest not using that music you’ve inserted the latter half of the clip. I honestly would only use music from the original trilogy, and MAYBE the Shadows of the Empire soundtrack or Gordy Haab’s Battlefront soundtracks if you were just desperate.

I would also use less, or none, of the X-Wing interior shots with the fan film actors. I feel like it doesn’t match the way the pilots in the OT were filmed. I did like seeing the Rodian pilot that is in the original cut of that fan film.

If you should be picky about anything, it should be less with ROTJ itself and more of the fan films, in my opinion. Because, if I understand you right, your thesis statement for this edit is “To create a greater sense of scale to Return of the Jedi to make it a more epic finale to the original trilogy.” While we want to add more to this last film, I know you still want it to feel like Return of the Jedi. Obviously deleted scenes fit rather well already, but more would need to be done to the fan films in order to accomplish that. Obviously regrading them is a good first step, but I also would add film grain, use ONLY OT music (and maybe Shadows of the Empire/Battlefront), cut shots that don’t fit the ROTJ cinematography when you can, and TOTALLY rebuild the audio from the ground up using OT sound effects.

So with that in mind, here are some ideas I have for you.

This is definitely a radical idea, but I think this could help add to the runtime and add to the sense of scale.

Originally, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, was going to start with a opening montage of battles happening across the galaxy. We see a fragment of this with the Order 66 montage. From what I understand, we would’ve originally seen most of these planets in that opening montage, then later return to them for the Order 66 sequence.

Maybe you could implement this idea into ROTJ for your added runtime, as well as to add a sense of scale to the Galactic Civil War. I was thinking you could build this idea off of the Special Edition ending of the film. In that ending, we see a montage of Bespin, Naboo, Tatooine, and Coruscant all celebrating the death of the Emperor. So maybe we could see these planets being attacked/liberated by the Rebellion at the beginning of the film in a 3-5 minute montage.

You could use footage from Destroyer to show Bespin being liberated, and some footage from Battlefront 2 for Naboo. It might be hard to seamlessly blend game footage with other footage, but you can try.

For Coruscant, I had a bit of a different idea. First, you could have an establishing shot of Coruscant city or specifically the Jedi Temple (which is now the Emperor’s Palace by the time of OT) from one of the prequels, then use footage from Rebellion to imply that they’re sneaking in to attack it. You could reuse the shot of the bomb at 1:05, then cut to something like this, one of the temple towers blowing up,then some of kind of Imperial reaction shot, then cut back to an exterior of the smoking Jedi Temple from Revenge of the Sith (perhaps the establishing shot used when Yoda and Obi-Wan sneak back into the temple). If that temple explosion test is too low quality, you could just have the shot of the bomb, then hard cut to a close-up explosion, then to Imperials running around or reacting to the explosion with klaxons blaring.

I wouldn’t worry about Tatooine since we visit the planet earlier in the film and they free Tatooine from the biggest crime lord on the planet!

You also could use some footage from Battlefront 2 to show Sullust being liberated, since the Vader mentions the Rebel fleet amassing near Sullust in the film. Maybe you could insert a shot of a volcanic-looking planet in the Rebel fleet establishing shot, or you could see a glimpse of it outside the hangar as they’re getting ready to leave. The Battlefront 2 campaign also has cool shots of the attack on Fondor shipyards that could be use for the montage, either implied as Coruscant or just a random shipyard. Not sure if they would fit though.

After this 3-5 minute montage (I would find one good music track to use for this montage to help you edit it together), I would cut to the first scene of the film with Vader going to the Death Star. And since we saw a montage of the Empire losing battles and being attacked, it might add to why the Empire wants to build another Death Star. The growing rebellion and the necessity of the Death Star could be touched on in a new opening crawl as well.

An additional idea could be to recontextuallze portions of Odyssey as them intercepting the information that they’ll use for the Battle of Endor. In the fan film, when he goes to the Imperial console, you could replace the visual information on the screen with something more relevant to film, like an image of Endor and the half-complete Death Star. Maybe this could be a short action sequence as a midpoint of the movie, right before the Rebel briefing. If you do this, you might want to remove any mention of Bothans from the briefing since we never see any.

For the Battle of Endor itself, I think what you’re trying to do now, by adding more to the space Battle, is good. You also could use footage from fan films like Scout and Bucketheads to add more to the ground battle as well. Again, this will take a lot of cutting and tweaking to make this not feel extremely jarring with the original footage.

There is also some deleted footage that could used for the battle, like the Mon Calamari or Sullustan Pilots, the shots of General Madine, or the Rebels on the Millennium Falcon. Maybe Madine can be killed by the Death Star destroying his ship.

Keep in mind that there are quite a bit of deleted scenes you can use throughout the film, too. If you want to beef up runtime I would use as much as possible. You could transition from the first scene of the film to Vader calling Luke as he builds his lightsaber. Reinsert the entire Moff Jerrjerrod subplot (also, audio of the Emperor giving him the command to destroy Endor does exist), and maybe use snippets from the sandstorm without the dialogue.

If you’re using the young Hayden Force ghost, perhaps you could do a flashback in the style of TLJ (with the sound effect that pulls you into the flashback) when Obi-Wan tells Luke the truth about his father. That way a hypothetical first-time viewer would get the context of what his father looked like before he turned, so they know that young man at the end of the film is the ghost of Anakin Skywalker. You could space out Obi-Wan’s dialogue a little to add extra time for the flashback and a few extra seconds to the overall runtime (you could also give the Prequel footage a filmic look during this sequence and try to use shots with little CGI). This could be done even if you don’t keep the young Force ghost, but just an idea.

This is all I can think of so far. Again, I think the big things to remember is to be forgiving when it comes to cutting footage from ROTJ, but be merciless when it comes to what you keep from the fan films. I would HIGHLY recommend rebuilding the audio for these fan films from scratch, and completely reinsert brand new sound effects and music that feel more appropriate to Return of the Jedi. This might also be necessary for snippets of the actual film in order to blend new and original footage together better.

Here is a longer video about trying to match the filmic look using digital footage. The latter half of the video focuses on the post-production side of things, and he uses Davinci Resolve, which is a free editing and color grading program that you could use too. This might be useful when it comes to trying to match the ROTJ-look. And since you’re using deleted scenes, I would look into using a grindhouse overlay for the sake of having a little more consistency.

If you’re serious about this, don’t wait for Adywan’s ROTJ:R or Tydirium, because it’ll probably be years before either are released. I would just to jump right into it!

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First of all, I want to say thank you so much for this long, detailed help post. I really, really appreciate it!

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Edits that add fan film footage aren’t really my cup of tea, but for some reason your thread sparked my imagination so I thought I would share some ideas with you. I definitely think it will be impossible to blend fan film footage seamlessly with the original, but I think if you, and anyone who watches this, can accept that, then we can have a lot of fun with it at the very least.

I think there might be a few more ways that can help make the difference feel a little less jarring.
You’re already looking into ways to regrade the fan film footage to feel more “filmy”. I’d definitely say keep doing research on that.

I’ve never tried this before myself, but another way you might be able to make the CG space battles blend more with the original footage is to cut frames out of the CG footage. I think sometimes the new footage looks too smooth in comparison, so maybe experimenting with that could find something that works well. The ships in some of the new footage move a lot faster than in the theatrical film, so slightly slowing some of those shots down might help make it feel more consistent.

Interesting idea! I’ll give those techniques a try.

There is a bit of deleted material you could use to help extend the runtime of the film, if you’re basically wanting to make a Return of the Jedi: Extended Edition with as many deleted scenes and new scenes as possible, with overall pacing being less of an issue.
You can probably notice that a lot of the deleted scenes are extremely grainy. Having old grainy footage AND new footage next to each other will likely be very jarring, so maybe you could add a ‘grindhouse’ grain to the entire film, which would be easier than trying to clean all of that footage up.

I’ve heard there’s already versions out there that people have cleaned up, if true, those would be my first choice.

Some notes regarding the test clip you showed:

That shot of the inside of the Falcon flying around the Star Destroyer is not high quality enough to use in this edit at all, I would suggest cutting it.

Yeah, that was Star Tours footage with a Falcon cockpit greenscreen over the top, I agree it isn’t the best, I’ll definitely remove it.

I’d also suggest not using that music you’ve inserted the latter half of the clip. I honestly would only use music from the original trilogy, and MAYBE the Shadows of the Empire soundtrack or Gordy Haab’s Battlefront soundtracks if you were just desperate.

Some of that music was Gordy Haab, some was the unused Sail Barge track, and some was fanmade sounddtracks I’d found. I think the fanmade soundtracks made it all sound off, since the instruments sound more artificial in those. I plan on using familiar cues from the OT mixed in with Gordy Haab’s music, so the soundtrack is mostly original and not associated with other scenes in the OT, unless the OT theme is appropriate to what’s happening on screen in the new fanfilm footage.

I would also use less, or none, of the X-Wing interior shots with the fan film actors. I feel like it doesn’t match the way the pilots in the OT were filmed. I did like seeing the Rodian pilot that is in the original cut of that fan film.

Also noted! One of the cockpit shots is from a battlefront commercial for the X-wing VR, that one was probably the best of the bunch. I’m also waiting on Howard Day’s animated battle scene, his CGI looks almost exactly like old ILM models, it’s crazy. This is some of his work, it’s phenomenal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaBC_GZ8MvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SnTOLfVJBw

Originally, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, was going to start with a opening montage of battles happening across the galaxy. We see a fragment of this with the Order 66 montage. From what I understand, we would’ve originally seen most of these planets in that opening montage, then later return to them for the Order 66 sequence.

Maybe you could implement this idea into ROTJ for your added runtime, as well as to add a sense of scale to the Galactic Civil War. I was thinking you could build this idea off of the Special Edition ending of the film. In that ending, we see a montage of Bespin, Naboo, Tatooine, and Coruscant all celebrating the death of the Emperor. So maybe we could see these planets being attacked/liberated by the Rebellion at the beginning of the film in a 3-5 minute montage.

You could use footage from Destroyer to show Bespin being liberated, and some footage from Battlefront 2 for Naboo. It might be hard to seamlessly blend game footage with other footage, but you can try.

It’s so funny that you bring this up, because I’ve been working on a montage scene like this for the past week, and I’m posting up a rough edit now. It has Odyssey and Destroyer and some others, cut-down and re-contextualized. I meant for this to be a mirror of Order 66, except showing the Rebels rise up against the Empire (sometimes successfully, sometimes not) all across the Galaxy after having been given a rousing speech by Admiral Ackbar (all made with Battlefront audio), who calls for the Rebel cells across the Galaxy to do anything they can to divert the Empire’s attention away from their impending attack Endor. Instead of in the beginning of the film, I was planning on putting it the middle of the film, placed between when the Ewoks capture Han and Luke, and when they are all brought into the village. This is mainly because the second act can be pretty slow and boring, and needs something to make it feel exciting.

Here’s the link for it:
https://vimeo.com/353849351?activityReferer=1
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For Coruscant, I had a bit of a different idea. First, you could have an establishing shot of Coruscant city or specifically the Jedi Temple (which is now the Emperor’s Palace by the time of OT) from one of the prequels, then use footage from Rebellion to imply that they’re sneaking in to attack it. You could reuse the shot of the bomb at 1:05, then cut to something like this, one of the temple towers blowing up,then some of kind of Imperial reaction shot, then cut back to an exterior of the smoking Jedi Temple from Revenge of the Sith (perhaps the establishing shot used when Yoda and Obi-Wan sneak back into the temple). If that temple explosion test is too low quality, you could just have the shot of the bomb, then hard cut to a close-up explosion, then to Imperials running around or reacting to the explosion with klaxons blaring.

Interesting idea! I might try a rough cut of that soon.

You also could use some footage from Battlefront 2 to show Sullust being liberated, since the Vader mentions the Rebel fleet amassing near Sullust in the film. Maybe you could insert a shot of a volcanic-looking planet in the Rebel fleet establishing shot, or you could see a glimpse of it outside the hangar as they’re getting ready to leave. The Battlefront 2 campaign also has cool shots of the attack on Fondor shipyards that could be use for the montage, either implied as Coruscant or just a random shipyard. Not sure if they would fit though.
Battlefront II footage is great when it comes to ships, vehicles and environments, the only problem is when the footage shows humans, it just doesn’t look right.

After this 3-5 minute montage (I would find one good music track to use for this montage to help you edit it together), I would cut to the first scene of the film with Vader going to the Death Star. And since we saw a montage of the Empire losing battles and being attacked, it might add to why the Empire wants to build another Death Star. The growing rebellion and the necessity of the Death Star could be touched on in a new opening crawl as well.

In the Coruscant scene I’m working on right now, with Battlefront audio and Vader: Extinction footage, Vader reports on the growing threat of the Rebellion to the Emperor, who then remarks that their resistance will be futile, and that their homeworlds will all burn - the scene then goes to the new Death Star. My completely out there dream for an opening scene would be something that would have to be filmed. It would be Vader leading Stormtroopers against Rebels in a backwater city, something similar to Mos Eisley or Batuu but colored gray. One of the problems with ROTJ is some people consider Vader less dangerous than the other films, and showing Vader being ruthless on the battlefield as both a warrior and a commander would help his image. It also gives an extremely exciting opening, and parallels Luke’s scene on the Sail Barge where he takes out the skiff guards. This way we see both Luke and Vader show their prowess above the average trooper, and wonder even more how intense their face-off would be and who would have the upper hand. This scene is also much more in-line with Disney’s new canon version of Vader, who’s extremely powerful and consistently gets his hands dirty on the battlefield.

For the Battle of Endor itself, I think what you’re trying to do now, by adding more to the space Battle, is good. You also could use footage from fan films like Scout and Bucketheads to add more to the ground battle as well. Again, this will take a lot of cutting and tweaking to make this not feel extremely jarring with the original footage.

Thanks for the ideas! I currently plan on using bits of both.

There is also some deleted footage that could used for the battle, like the Mon Calamari or Sullustan Pilots, the shots of General Madine, or the Rebels on the Millennium Falcon. Maybe Madine can be killed by the Death Star destroying his ship.

I’m hoping on using the deleted Endor footage once Howard Day’s animated battle scene comes out, for pilot footage.

Keep in mind that there are quite a bit of deleted scenes you can use throughout the film, too. If you want to beef up runtime I would use as much as possible. You could transition from the first scene of the film to Vader calling Luke as he builds his lightsaber. Reinsert the entire Moff Jerrjerrod subplot (also, audio of the Emperor giving him the command to destroy Endor does exist), and maybe use snippets from the sandstorm without the dialogue.

Do you know where I can find versions of these that are a bit more cleaned up?

This is all I can think of so far. Again, I think the big things to remember is to be forgiving when it comes to cutting footage from ROTJ, but be merciless when it comes to what you keep from the fan films. I would HIGHLY recommend rebuilding the audio for these fan films from scratch, and completely reinsert brand new sound effects and music that feel more appropriate to Return of the Jedi. This might also be necessary for snippets of the actual film in order to blend new and original footage together better.

I definitely agree about rebuilding audio from scratch. This will be done last, after making sure everything fits to a high enough standard visually.

Here is a longer video about trying to match the filmic look using digital footage. The latter half of the video focuses on the post-production side of things, and he uses Davinci Resolve, which is a free editing and color grading program that you could use too. This might be useful when it comes to trying to match the ROTJ-look. And since you’re using deleted scenes, I would look into using a grindhouse overlay for the sake of having a little more consistency.

Thanks for the link! I downloaded resolve about a week ago but the problem is it won’t let me import any video files onto it to be edited.

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This is some of his work, it’s phenomenal.

Not bad but the camera work is nothing like ROTJ. Unless you replace all of the effect shots it will not blend, in my opinion.

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It’s so funny that you bring this up, because I’ve been working on a montage scene like this for the past week, and I’m posting up a rough edit now. …

The problem here is continuity regarding places and characters. But yes, some fan films might work. I’ve tried having the rebels fake capture using fan film footage (see my thread) and it can work.

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I know I’ve been gone a long, mainly waiting on Adywan’s ROTJ: Revisited and Tydirium, but those could be years away, so I plan on making a Version 1 with the Disney+ release of ROTJ as the base instead, and then just drop in Adywan’s edit in as a replacement over its corresponding ROTJ footage once his edit comes out. I’ll try to post little snippets more regularly of things I’ll be adding into the film. Once again, the goal is to expand the movie be more of an “epic” in scale and add more focus on the war between the Empire and Rebellion. This won’t exactly be easy to do well and in a way that blends well with the rest of the film in terms of look, pacing, flow, etc. so any help or input on this project would be greatly welcomed and appreciated. I currently have two small scenes to expand the movie’s runtime in the works: an added Battle of Sullust between the Dagobah scenes and the Rebel fleet meeting, as well as a Boba Fett action sequence/side quest, which will be placed somewhere in the early Jabba’s palace scenes, which tend to be slow.

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I know I’ve been gone a long, mainly waiting on Adywan’s ROTJ: Revisited and Tydirium, but those could be years away, so I plan on making a Version 1 with the Disney+ release of ROTJ as the base instead, and then just drop in Adywan’s edit in as a replacement over its corresponding ROTJ footage once his edit comes out. I’ll try to post little snippets more regularly of things I’ll be adding into the film. Once again, the goal is to expand the movie be more of an “epic” in scale and add more focus on the war between the Empire and Rebellion. This won’t exactly be easy to do well and in a way that blends well with the rest of the film in terms of look, pacing, flow, etc. so any help or input on this project would be greatly welcomed and appreciated. I currently have two small scenes to expand the movie’s runtime in the works: an added Battle of Sullust between the Dagobah scenes and the Rebel fleet meeting, as well as a Boba Fett action sequence/side quest, which will be placed somewhere in the early Jabba’s palace scenes, which tend to be slow. (I accidentally posted this from an older account I don’t use anymore not focused on edits, so I’m posting it again from the real account to clear up confusion.

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Really, dude? Using two alt accounts to share your editing suggestions twice? Maybe if you just said what you wanted to say, without using an alt account to say the exact same thing, people would actually listen to you.

My preferred Skywalker Saga experience:
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This is a rough draft of the Battle of Sullust, which will take place between Luke’s visit to Dagobah and the Rebel Fleet meeting where they have a briefing about the second Death Star. It’s stated in the movie that the Rebels were gathering above Sullust, and also it’s in the new Disney canon that the Rebels sent in a smaller force before the larger fleet arrived to clear out any Imperial remnants. This also gives Han one last opportunity to fly the falcon in action. Unfortunately, the footage I have of Han is from the Holiday Special and isn’t of the highest quality. If anyone knows of a restored or upscaled version of the Holiday Special I could use for this edit, it would be greatly appreciated. I’m going to completely redo the sound effects for this battle, and then use a score from either Shadows of the Empire or one of the Gordy Haab Battlefront OSTs. I’ve lowered the contrast, increased lighting and added a sharpen filter to make it look more realistic and match the rest of the movie, but I still need to add film grain.

Here is a link to the work-in-progress Battle of Sullust:

https://vimeo.com/497052181

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Here is a very rough draft/storyboard of what the final extended space battle sequence is going to look like. There are gaps where I would prefer more pilot and cockpit shots and chatter, which I hope to find in other fan films, or, if necessary, have help with shooting cockpit sequences and using people to volunteer as voice actors for the project. Some of the clips have been color corrected and sharpened to make them blend more with the original footage, other shots haven’t. Film grain, sound effects and music will be the last things to be added to this edit. The link to the edit is below. Remember, it is far from finished and very rough.

https://vimeo.com/518290482

password: fanedit

The YouTube channels Skyforge and Howard Day have also recently been releasing extremely high quality content, and more of that will be added to the final battle if it’s fitting (i.e. proper class of ships fighting, the planet in the frame is something that can be color corrected to easily match Endor, etc.)

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I am interest in your edit, great work so far.

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I’ve assembled a rough workprint of this edit! There’s a real emphasis on rough, as there still needs to be lots of audio work done, and I’m waiting for other fanfilms to be released so I can add in more footage to sections like the ground battle of Endor and the space battle. The fan film footage also needs to be colored corrected, have grain added, and and new audio put over so it blends with the original footage of ROTJ. PM me for a link if we want to see this rough workprint.

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Could I get a link to the workprint?

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I sent you a pm asking if I could get a workprint of this? thanks

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Please Sir could I have a workprint?

Everything after Empire Strikes Back is shit.

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Loving these ideas. Count me as interested in a workprint.