Watching the opening scenes on another thread reminded me of this and forgive me if I’ve already posted it. When the Tantive 4 is being pulled in to the hanger of the Devastator you can hear what sounds like the docking claw scrape the hull and then the film cuts to an exterior shot and the claw hasn’t made contact. If the shots were resequenced you could have the exterior followed by the interior and the scraping sound would carry more impact. Maybe the claw could be slightly animated like its opening in readiness for the ship. Also could Threepio just say “There will be no escape this time”? I’m sure there is a wookiepedia page devoted to why he pretends not to know who Leia is to Luke but he doesn’t need to mention the Princess anyway as she is mentioned in the crawl.
3P0’s line has already been changed to " there’ll be no escape this time" ever since my original edit. The audio on the clips i post of the HD version are always just a temp track because that would be the last thing that i work on after i have finished the video side of things. As for the matter of the sound of something like a clamp attaching to the ship before its even been pulled in, i thought i had mentioned a long time ago that i would be tackling that ( but i may have fogot its been so long now). Anyway i had finished re-editing that scene last year. Very tricky to do though because of where to be able to cut the music cues for it to work, which is impossible to do without editing the music then getting the visuals to work with the new edit and then rebuild all the dialogue and foley FX. I have only done a very rough audio track to see if it would work so far and will be polishing it up for the final release
Glad you are feeling better and bearing up Ady.
There is some missing music from the sequence although only short.
A timpani roll after “There will be no escape (for the princess) This time”
This is not a suggestion for you but I re-arranged this whole bit quite a lot with success and some bits not being so fluid but passable. It meant cutting the footage down to be shorter with a few short additions overall decreasing running time. There is quite a lot wrong with the order of the shots over this whole part already indicated C3P0 “what’s that” should be after the clamp attach. I will leave it up to you how you choose to tackle it. But may the missing Timpani Roll make you question it’s deletion.
Plot-wise there is only 1 inconsistency of which 2 should be seen…
My opinion is there are small things missing and too much footage