About the video: I had trouble encoding the review file. I'm not sure why. I've done my previous encoding at work, but my new edit station at home is still largely a mystery. Can you point out which shots look very fake? I'd like to see what you mean.
C3PX, it's probably the xvid codec I'm having trouble wiith. I'll see if I can come up to speed on that. I think we are of a very similar mind on how the birth of Vader left so much to be desired. I'm gonna need to chew on the Obi-wan abandonment thing. Not sure I want to bite off an attempt to digitally create a dead and burning Anakin.
It's sad that effects are needed to bridge a bad story. Without effects, either Obi watches him die, or he leaves him to a likely grim fate. Would've been nice to hear some kind of Jedi philosophy on this somewhere earlier in the Prequels; the simple belief that Yoda put forth in ESB would've sufficed: "Once down the dark path you start, forever will it dominate your destiny". Should've introduced that idea with fallen Jedi Count Dooku.
I was initially going to attempt what the Phantom Editor had done with Episode 2, and merely re-edit, with minimal manipulation of shot content, the movie into a more serious, sharp film. But other ideas have crept into my head, and I feel the story needs more than that to be more of the Star Wars film I wish it had been. *sigh*