Wow that’s amazing! It says a lot that you’ve got people hyped for the prequels 😄
I adhere to idir’s idea of releasing a more conservative edition that retains the visual or stylistic changes (sabers, explosions, Senate broadcasts, etc).
Thank you haha i think the sequel trilogy helped show the pro’s of the prequel haha the prequels really do have a good story. I just think the digital fx weren’t ready yet and Lucas should have help directing. Just too much for one man to focus on and i think the films suffered from his split attention. (vfx, sound, music, writing, directing, art direction, etc)
So far there are the 3 planned cuts, but ill likely put the scenes up individually for people to do with as they please. The sabers ill just include as a separate overlay file so the movie can be color graded as they want while not interfering with the sabers. (The sabers on a black screen that you set as a screen in compositing.)
The purist cut won’t have deleted scenes for example, and some people may still want those scenes. As one of the deleted scenes from ATOC will likely be a news broadcast. So the differences between the two version will be substantial enough to make it a pain providing all the scenes any other way.