Will there be major differences between the movie(s) and episodes?
Major? Not really but there will be differences.
There’s the obvious differences like different aspect ratio, film grain and opening crawl (or intro text) and how the credits are presented (traditional vs concept art). There are also some differences in the middle of the film versus how the second episode starts (just for flow purposes).
For example, the movie cuts from Hera with the TIE defender parts from the end of S04E07: Kindred to her talking with the Rebels in S04E08: Crawler Commandeers. The episode however ends in it’s normal place for S04E07: Kindred and the next episode opens normally with S04E08: Crawler Commandeers which then cuts to the scene with Hera at Yavin later on. This was mostly changed because of the difference of format and has some very slightly different cuts due to differences of things needing to be covered (e.g., I don’t need to emphasise the lack of rebels soldiers in the movie because we haven’t stopped watching, but in the episode it’s better to do this. There’s also some expositions cut from the episode as it was better to cover it in the intro text). But this is the biggest change between the movie and episode variants.
I think the movie is the better way to watch this ark but that’s probably because I’ve spent the time to reframe every single shot for the new aspect ratio hahaha
==> Thank you for the continuous hard work. Always appreciated.
No worries there! I’m just excited to get these cuts out there! They’ve spent a long time cooking that’s for sure.