adywan said:I'd also like to ask you if you work in the film industry, a film school student/ graduate or have no connections whatsoever
He asks this in sincerity, because one of the first "negative" reviews was from Mojo_LA who is a Hollywood VFX artist that worked on BSG and Star Trek (among other things). His only real FX problem was the TIE scene which is explained here (before Ady did some tweaks to the shot, I believe).
As he explained:
Ady and his small team have done incredible, very professional work. It's 95% to the same standards we work towards on prime-time TV shows. I was very serious when I said that Ady could use his edit as a resume and get a job at probably any effects studio in Hollywood. I know I would hire him!
And this is a guy with real experience and a job in the industry, who actually offered to use his render farm to help fix what he thought could be better!
Editing wise, he didn't care for some of the changes:
I like most of what Ady did, but my friends and I were horrified at the music added to the saber fight in ANH. It doesn't belong there and is a far worse change than anything Lucas ever did. I'll take a 100 Greedos firing first over THAT.
Hamfistedly laying music behind it doesn't appreciably change it or make it better, so why not just leave it be?
Most of what Ady has done to his cut DOES help it, but I think in a few spots he suffers from "kid with a new toy" syndrome and is finding every last change he can make just for the sake of it.
But that was his opinion. Of course, comparing adding music to Greedo shooting first instantly changed the tone on the board and he ended up leaving. We lost a good possible resource that day.
Not sure why I reenacted "The Tragedy of Darth Mojo", except to point out that we've been through this before with someone who knew what they were talking about.