Book 4 will release tomorrow! Here are the change log notes to peruse in the meantime:

Book 4: The Way (v3 update)

Added new Mandalorian Disney Star Wars intro
New color grading & quality upgrade on Corvus
Entirely re-created the intro with Ahsoka’s battle to set a completely different tone with a new order of events. Rebuilt the SFX from scratch and re-scored everything here. Hope you get chills on this opener!
Cut out some lines between Ahsoka and Magistrate that were overly villainous. Throughout this Act, I have kept the focus 100% on Ahsoka trying to get information out of the Magistrate. No “If you do this I’m going to zap some innocents” as it was just cartoonishly evil, and not at all needed to create tension. In fact, I think it just distracted from what we are really invested in here. All of these intertwining stories that we’ve been building that are finally going to collide. Din, the Jedi, the Empire, the New Republic, Boba Fett! A bland villain plot that is resolved with no drama is not needed. All dialogue and scenes are edited to keep the focus entirely on the main narrative.
Ahsoka ends the conversation by saying “Surrender or face the consequences” and then we cut to Din landing on Corvus, right in the thick of things!
Cut some of Din’s walk through the village and asks about what’s going on with all the poor people. He is now guided straight to the Magistrate from the gates.
Removed some bad wipe transitions.
Removed some lines about how crazy evil the Magistrate is.
Removed some Ahsoka Marvel reaction shots in the town battle.
Rearranged shot order on Ahsoka’s walk down the street to continue building the intensity of the staredown.
Re-edited the dialogue to again keep it focused on the main narrative.
Removed a reaction shot of the troopers shooting at Ahsoka. (Brief rant on this: I absolutely loathe these 3-5 second zoom-in scenes where it seems like our protagonist is frozen in time. They ambush her, start shooting as she jumps to the rooftop, and then we get 5 seconds of random zoom-ins on enemies shooting her while Ahsoka is seemingly standing motionless on the rooftop. It is SO bad for combat pacing. Keeping one fluid scene where Ahsoka is constantly moving without all the zoom-in pauses that don’t appear to actually happen within time itself does wonders for entertaining action sequences.
Re-ordered the battle sequence so Din hides his presence longer before coming in to ambush the remaining guards and begins his faceoff with the sheriff dude.
Re-ordered the sequences between Ahsoka’s duel and the standoff.
Re-edited Ahsoka and Din leaving the village to stay focused on the main storyline.
I have cut Ahsoka’s apparent last-second mind change about Grogu and her unconfidently speculating “Well maybe you could go to Tython”. Now it appears as if she denies training Grogu because she is on another mission, but that she, in her wisdom, knows of another way to still have Grogu be trained as is needed.
Re-edited the travel to Tython so it seems less like a teleport by moving around scene order.
New color grading on Tython
Cut out footage of Fennec’s mechanical belly
Completely reordered the Tython battle, less of a back and forth of Din trying 3 different times to pull Grogu out (and spending like 5 min utes unconscious and then getting up like nothing happened?) and now it’s more a hurried and hectic battle to fend off the stormtroopers.
Cut Fennec throwing her helmet at a stormtrooper
Cut all the reaction shots of the laser coming from orbit, this laser literally freezes in time in the air so we can zoom in on everybody’s face and then continues again once our reaction shot scene is over. Can you tell I hate unnecessary reaction shots?
Rearranged the scene order for the Razorcrest destruction and dark trooper deployment to give us some juicy back-and-forth drama between Gideon and Din instead of all Din and then all Gideon (plus, Kane says “The dark troopers will deploy momentarily” but then they deploy immediately. Now it actually is a few moments later)
Moved Grogu in the cell to in between the travel from Tython to Nevarro for travel pacing purposes.
Grogu’s hand motions for throwing the stormtroopers around didn’t make sense in the show. He’d pull his hands outward but the stormtroopers would collide inward etc. I have fixed all these discrepancies.
Fixed a Disney bug where Mayfeld talks but his mouth doesn’t move (I’ve found a number of these phantom voice lines dropped on top of people. Usually, the actor will be off to the side of the screen and I guess they hope you don’t notice? It’s so easy just to cut around it though, I don’t really understand why they leave them in.)
Rearranged some dialogue between Mayfeld and Cara regarding “Din’s kid”. If you remember from Book 1, Mayfeld didn’t really see first hand Din’s relationship with Grogu, so I’ve edited the dialogue so that he remains in a state of confusion about what is going on.
Rearranged all the travel scenes from the prison world to Morak
Upgraded some shot quality on Morak
Completely cut out the need for Din to take his helmet off inside the Imperial base. Re-edited everything here for a new story presentation of these events.
Cut out some way too blatant missed shots from stormtroopers on the Morak battle
Cara now shoots the Imperial pilot mid-sentence rather than waiting forever.
Re-ordered gameplan for the Gideon ship raid to stay on topic one at a time instead of jumping all over the place (Dark troopers, Grogu, Bridge)
Fixed logical chain of events with the Lambda crashing into the cruiser (distances weren’t matching up between shots)
Tightened up a couple of shots in the Din v Gideon battle
Reduced the amount of blaster shots Gideon gets off on Bo before turning on Grogu
Unified Credits presentation

Shoutout to EddieDean for helping with a lot of ideas for these v3’s! I’ll release Book 4 tomorrow and then move right into continuing work of 5.