I'm going to work on two openings. For one, I've flipped the shot of the Queen's ship escaping from Naboo so the top of the frame contains stars, and am currently trying to track it right with the descending shot from the opening crawl so it looks like we're panning down to Naboo. It looks fine going down, but when the shot pans left I run into problems, but I'm working on it.
Another opening starts with the ambassadors passing by the camera, cut to "what is it?/kill ambassadors" scene, kill ambassadors, show queen asking about ambassadors, show Neimodians denying it, "does she expect an attack blah blah" "disrupt all communication down there," show the Queen being worried "check the transmittors" that whole scene, show invasion--or splice it with "check transmittors" scene maybe, show Queen captured, show Queen escorted, Jedi pop out of no where, somehow get them onto the ship without the lame "where are you taking them" scene which has never been re-edited right before.
The ending: If I go ahead and cut out the celebration, which I'm leaning toward more and more, I'll borrow the music swell from the final scene in RotS to smooth out that transition, and I'll cut all dialogue between characters during the funeral to make it more "final."
DVD menus...ugh I wanted to use the ones from the official dvd for consistency sake, but I have no idea what to do with "starswars.com" in the corner. Maybe I'll work on my own, maybe I'll put real effort into it.
I just got confirmation on my check from a contest I won awhile back. I can get some new equipment like a new HD and a DL burner so I can actually finish this project, and be able to work on other projects without slowing down on others.
Oh yeah, and wookiewok, I swear "wesa going home" is gone.