mrbenja0618 said:

Timstuff said:

I'd be all for inserting some Z-95s into ROTS. Also, some Clone Wars era Y-wings would be pretty kick ass too.

BTW, I finally figured out how to get 5.1 audio to work in Adobe Premiere, and so it looks like I might be able to get started on my fan edit soon. This weekend/monday I'll probably try to see about doing some color correction on The Phantom Menace, since that will be an important component to my edit.

What I want to know is if you figured out a way to replace music. But look forward to hearing more about your edit.

I've dabbled a little bit in music replacement, since I had to use it for some of the cuts and additions I've made. It really depends on the footage you're working with, because in some scenes the music is limited to the left and right channels for the most part, but in other parts if you were to try to cut out the music you'd be cutting out too much of the sound, as well.

Probably the best example is when I reinstated the scene with "Greedo" (minus the part where "Greedo's" name is revealed). The shot immediately after that is when Qui Gon gives Anakin his money from the pod sale. Since the music changes, I had to remove the original music from that scene and replace it with the rest of the song that was in the Greedo scene from the soundtrack CD, and timing it out so that it would sync up. In doing so I ended up cutting out the ambient sounds in that scene, so in order to replace them I actually took some of the ambient Mos Eisley sounds from Episode IV and laid them on top of the new music, and the end result was pretty seamless.

Like I said, in some parts music replacement is quite doable, but in other parts it would be more trouble than it's worth or maybe even impossible. The only way to know for sure is to listen carefully to the channels and see what you can get away with cutting and replacing.