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The first thing I want to say here is - I LOVE John Williams. The majesty of his soundtracks are one of the only things upon which the entire Star Wars fandom seems to agree, and the music has always been a prominent part of each film’s emotional journey.

But because of this, a lot of fan editors, including myself, have run into an issue in which making even a minor change to a scene will completely throw off the timing of the music. In addition, broader edits which reduce the screen time of certain characters or locations sometimes result in certain musical motifs seemingly going to waste.

But if we were able to alter a film’s music without removing any of the overlying sound, then we could edit the movie and the score independently and not have to make such compromises.

This has already been done to many scenes - some having had their SFX tracks be partially released on the “Star Wars Soundboard” flash game, and others having been reconstructed from scratch by fans for one reason or another.

I’m creating this thread so that all of these edits can hopefully be found in one place, starting with everything I’ve found so far:

If you’re creating a fan edit and you decide make a “no music” version of a scene, please consider posting it here so that other fan editors won’t have to make their own if they ever decide to do the same.

Also, I spent a while looking and couldn’t find one, but if there’s already a thread like this please tell me and I’ll move there.

You’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Am I making Carrie Fisher’s ghost proud?”
Well, are ya, punk?

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My own feeling is it should stay in here (as StarkillerAG said above - it will likely have more relevance for Fan Edits) - though it has also been added to both the…

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Nice work, Ed Slushie 😃
 

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Would be nice if someone did all of the fights & space stuff like this. Or just do all of the movies like this

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Ed Slushie said:

The first thing I want to say here is - I LOVE John Williams. The majesty of his soundtracks are one of the only things upon which the entire Star Wars fandom seems to agree, and the music has always been a prominent part of each film’s emotional journey.

But because of this, a lot of fan editors, including myself, have run into an issue in which making even a minor change to a scene will completely throw off the timing of the music. In addition, broader edits which reduce the screen time of certain characters or locations sometimes result in certain musical motifs seemingly going to waste.

But if we were able to alter a film’s music without removing any of the overlying sound, then we could edit the movie and the score independently and not have to make such compromises.

This has already been done to many scenes - some having had their SFX tracks be partially released on the “Star Wars Soundboard” flash game, and others having been reconstructed from scratch by fans for one reason or another.

I’m creating this thread so that all of these edits can hopefully be found in one place, starting with everything I’ve found so far:

If you’re creating a fan edit and you decide make a “no music” version of a scene, please consider posting it here so that other fan editors won’t have to make their own if they ever decide to do the same.

Also, I spent a while looking and couldn’t find one, but if there’s already a thread like this please tell me and I’ll move there.

This is absolutely awesome and would be such a benefit to what i would like to achieve with my Revised Edits of the Prequels. Much thanks to you and any who can contribute to this. I wanted to look into that Nvidia thing from the other thread but don’t have the required stuff to make it run.

Muclunkey!
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Prequel-Trilogy-Revised-Trailer/id/70831

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I don’t know. Is there a way to check the sound specs of a youtube video without downloading it?

You’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Am I making Carrie Fisher’s ghost proud?”
Well, are ya, punk?