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Trooperman
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The legendary "Starkiller Ranch" Thread
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Date created
2-Aug-2007, 12:13 PM
It's great to see things going on in here again And thank you for posting all of those clips, Commander Couarage! They are a really good start.

I was impressed by the Dooku sequence in the theatre - I agree that it doesn't need much work to be good. If there's a way to cut out Dooku's backflip and have him walk down the stairs instead (I think footsteps in the sound mix were mentioned in another thread), then that would be great.


I'm running out of time to edit Star Wars, but I think finishing the Ranch saga is very possible. I think Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back are wonderful as is, but a viewer could swap in any number of the OT.com edits in their place (especially Adywan's).

Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side is finished in content. Adywan and I will are working on the audio, and when that's done the film is done. I'm very excited about that.

Episode III: Just thinking about fixing the whole Grievous section of the movie gives me a headache, but I'm thinking that the scenes featuring Anakin would be too much fun not to do it myself. I'll probably finish those scenes myself and then send them to another editor who takes them and puts them into a final cut. This other editor will figure out the whole "Does Grievous=Maul" issue. Or maybe there's a way to cut him out completely, I don't know (although that would make an extremely short movie). It's a big pain and I think I'm already burnt out on that problem. But I'd really like to do the dramatic scenes with Anakin.

Figuring out if Maul=Grievous clears the way for Episode I. By then MagnoliaFan's new version of Balance of the Force will be out, and I think that perhaps for time's sake we should use this as a starting point (with his permission) and get the SOTDS voice actors back to do the Nemoidians. 3PO can't be introduced (he first appears in Ep. II). Something must be done about Jar-Jar. Really, though, you can do almost anything with this movie because it's not really tied in to the others much at all.

All that's left at that point is a non-mandatory edit of ROTJ and the saga is complete.

So there are two movies left that will require a lot of work, one of which I will be helping with. And the remaining movie (ROTJ) should be a much quicker job.....