Fortunately, something like this can be done in FCPX so I was able to do it while having some downtime, since I don’t have to boot into my other OS like I do for most of my fan editing stuff. (God help me the day FCP7 is beyond my reach forever.)
So I’m exporting a candidate, if everything looks right. I followed your directions, with a few tweaks I had to make when facing the reality of what’s there:
- The fireside scene keeps a few more lines than what you suggested, though still removes mention of the kiss, because otherwise there’d be an unavoidable ugly audio transition with the music.
- I reordered scenes as they are in TAS surrounding Schmi’s funeral for the same reasons I did when working on that project: you can’t go from arriving with her body straight to the funeral. So, those few scenes are put in the order they are for TAS. This also involves losing Yoda and Mace reacting to Anakin’s rage, and the first line of Cliegg’s eulogy.
Everything else is as described: Losing the lakeside scene and using the truncated fireside scene, reordering scenes in order to remove Anakin confessing to Padme, and nixing the Dooku v Yoda duel.