Yesterday I spent all day working on my edits after not really touching them for a while. Today I decided I was happy with the preliminary color grade so rendered it. I still need to manually correct certain things by combining the altered footage with the original footage, but the actual palette is pretty much locked at this point. Here’s a sneak peak:

In terms of actual non-color editing, I’ve come up with a cut of the Battle of Exegol that’s good enough for me. I couldn’t get rid of the spirit transfer ritual, but I removed the reference to Palpatine having the spirit of every other Sith in him. This is Palpatine’s Saga, so I wanna keep the focus as a villain squarely on him. The grandfather stuff is obviously all gone, but I still need to come up with replacements for shots I removed where Poe talks about the cannons. I have left the cannons themselves in for my own sanity but they’re never mentioned so one can assume they’re just standard canons, at most comparable to those of dreadnoughts, which does warrant them treating the fleet as such a threat.

The Prequels are done, and the Sequels are just missing various replacement shots. Now I gotta dive into the Originals. Gonna need to look through all the various changes made to them over the years as my buffet to choose from. If I’m feeling brave, maybe I can even pull off a new Death Star explosion to combine the two battle stations as I’d like to, although as it stands I fear that won’t be happening in this coming release. As for future releases, I think they’d only occur should there be some major upgrade in my editing abilities such that I could achieve various changes that have thus far proven to ambitious to pull off. Then again, I might make some minor tweaks from time to time as well. We’ll see.