HS5, I loved those edits. I just watched magnolia's 1.2 re-edit and the balance of the force edit and all the things you mentioned were fresh in my mind. MF's balance is very tight and he has a deft skill for editing. Watch it and use it for your gold standard. You direction may be different than his, he chose to keep it tightest to a story with no plot holes, meaning jar-jar stays in. I too am phenomenally annoyed by his mere presence on the screen. So I appreciate his episode 2 (clone war) to a greater degree, though in either Balance or Clone War his skill and thought is obvious. I agree on a number of your edits and now that I watch them I think a number of the same things as you said. Just two hours ago I was saying it'd be cooler if they just came out swinging the sabers instead of the droid coming out. It'd be cooler if Jar-Jar did not do that jackass cannonball and resurface. Good edits...I like your thought process. Magnolia did something that was very smart which started with 1.2 and he expanded to many of the alien creatures is dubbing over them and giving them better dialogue. I still hate jar-jar's voice even if its not in english (that shrill...rgggh). Did I say I hate jar-jar? I think the Roger-Roger droids, 1. need to not say roger-roger 2. need deep, meaner robotic voices - they have geeky voices that do not intimidate AT ALL. The scary part is while your changes are numerous and thoughtful, Magnolia said he made over 2000 changes, some minor like dropping "umm" or "I think", some major like the voices. It needs to be an ongoing process and there will in fact someday be the perfect edit hopefully. I appreciate your work and would love to see your edit when you work it through, maybe hand it to Rikter or Magnolia even in the form its in now, to give them ideas. Continue the good work. Matter of fact its got me thinking I'd like to do video editing (I wonder how many star wars fans have thought this). BTW that point on Anakin with the auto-pilot was dead-on.