potty meister said:
TPM - Spence’s edit is my goto version. I agree with others for keeping Otah Gunga pretty much the way Spence did it. I’ve seen other edits where it’s cut completely and I feel it totally screws up the pacing. Personally, I don’t mind some of the two headed announcer stuff. The theatrical version is too much but trimmed the right way it works well. The pod race in Spence’s edit is extremely well done.

I’m getting near the Pod Race so just wanted to dump my plans for it. The plan is… I’ll basically start with Spence’s edit then…

Remove any Jar Jar silly antics.
Remove the two headed announcer (sorry to those that like him). You will hear him faintly in the background at times as I can’t completely cut out his sound or I’d lose important chunks of the race.
In Spence’s TPM thread a lot of people requested to remove Jabba. I can do that. However I will keep his “gong” sound to signify the start of each lap. I’ll also throw in a subtitle “Lap 1”, “Lap 2” etc… as there is no announcer telling us.
For the rest we’ll see as I dig into it more.

I am also dropping Anakin’s voice slightly (Pitch -2). It still works. Just makes him sound just a little darker / more mature. Very slight though.

I have two rough drafts of the first 2 sections ready to go if anyone wants to review and provide feedback. I’m not really wanting to change creative decisions as that will be hard to go back and redo. I just need to make sure audio, transitions, sync, etc… is good. If there’s anything I’m missing.

Part 1 - Negotiations - ready for review
Part 2 - Escape from Naboo - ready for review
Part 3 will be Tatooine before the pod race.
Part 4 will be the pod race
Part 5 might be a post pod race Tatooine section or I might throw that in with part 4.
Part 6 will be Coruscant
Part 7 will be back to Naboo (might split into two parts).

Splitting into parts is just for review purposes.