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Post #482440

Author
ChainsawAsh
Parent topic
Return of the Jedi - The Spence Final Cut (Released)
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Date created
10-Mar-2011, 3:03 PM

Haha, glad you liked my mini-review, Spence.

One more thing I wanted to add:

While the editing was pretty flawless, there were some technical issues I noted, such as audio sync being off for some shots (usually not by too much, though), one glitch in a shot with the added Death Star (camera starts moving at the end of the shot, but the Death Star stays in the same position), one shot that should have had the Death Star in it but didn't, and the credits and menus are at the wrong color space (0-255 instead of 16-235), making the player-generated black bars brighter than the hard-encoded letterbox black bars.  Also, your added credits start playing over top of the credits that are already there.  And in the shot of the lightsabers crossing in front of the Emperor, the cores still aren't quite white, and you can see that weird point where they cross, like in the '04 DVD.

Sorry, I just figured I should mention everything I had a problem with (and believe me, these technical issues are the ONLY things I took issue with, I have no complaints about the editing itself) before I write my otherwse-glowing review of the actual edit later.  Not trying to sound negative, I promise - just some constructive criticism in case you decide to go back and improve anything later.

Oh, and in your "abandoned concepts" video, you say you're going to show us both versions of the Luke/Vader/Han/Lando intercutting climax (which was really cool, BTW), but then you only show us the first one!  (Small, insignificant complaint, I know.)

Also, the "Duel of the Fates" trailer looks freakin' awesome.  It got me really excited for that edit.