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Post #224641

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musicman
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The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
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Date created
6-Jul-2006, 12:40 PM
First off, wmgan, I sent you a couple PMs. Let me know if you need me to resend them (I'm sure you're a pretty popular guy about now!).

Second, I have been meaning to put in my 2 cents about ADM's prequel edits. I was given the SL versions of Vergence in the Force, Path to the Dark Side, Clone Wars, and Revenge of the Sith by Miasta a month or two ago. I must say, I really enjoyed them! You did some great work.

I don't have a lot of time to comment, but the cuts in Vergence in the Force were very good--the arrival at Otoh Gunga flowed very nicely, and the flag parade and Anakin's destruction of the battleship were much better without the poop jokes and accidental exclamations.

Path to the Darkside was also very good. The love story was very smooth here, and it was just overall very enjoyable. It was also a good move to cut the stuff about the decoy saying she failed and everything.

I hadn't seen the Clone Wars cartoon in its episodic form, but you did a good job of cutting everything together. It flowed very naturally.

Revenge of the Sith was AWESOME! The reinserted cut scenes REALLY helped, setting up the Rebellion, and explaining why Bail is so prominent in the last half of the movie. Before I felt like I was missing something when Bail arrived at the temple--what was he doing there? But now it makes much more sense. I actually liked the Qui-Gon stuff a lot! I got chills when Yoda arrived on Dagobah. The only thing I could see is maybe making Qui-Gon's voice a little quieter--he seemed a bit on the loud side.

There wasn't much that I saw negative. There were a few times when the whole screen went white (cutting to the morning of the race in VOTF, the transition to Anakin's nightmare), but could that be because it's single layer, or could it be my copy? At one point I skipped straight to Anakin's nightmare, and it didn't do that. It was weird. And the musical transition to the first cut scene on Naboo seemed just slightly off. If you add a little reverb to the first cue as it's fading out, then it should sound better. And I liked the home scene on Coruscant before the nightmare, but that's just me.

Overall, great work! I look forward to seeing your work on the OT.