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chyron8472
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Help: looking for... Best Original Trilogy/Prequel Edits for newbies?
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25-Apr-2013, 1:08 PM

I'm now watching Kerr's Episode 3 (Dark Force Rising), and it is indeed very good. The cuts are decidedly better than L8wrtr's, and perhaps even on par for me with Q2's.

It makes me consider going back to look again at L8wrtr's Episode 3, but remembering L8wrtr's inclusion of Chewbacca and the WTF moment with Yoda being suddenly safe from the troopers keeps me from actually bothering with it.

I noticed that the voices on Kerr's NTSC DVD5 are higher pitched than normal, and the dialogue seems to be very slightly faster. I slowed down the playback speed in VLC to 90% and it seemed better. The pauses in dialogue when have conversations certainly felt less rushed. Padme's voice still sounded half an octave too high, though. I even opened Q2's Ep3 to compare them, and Q2's voices are indeed lower (ie. normal). I think this may be due to a bad PAL to NTSC transfer (which I don't know how to fix, if it's even possible).

 

On the other hand, Q2 used the Blurays as a source for his edits without color-correcting them, which is also apparent in various scenes throughout his PT trilogy. I also confirmed this my comparing the opera house scene between Kerr's and Q2's.

The color problems in Q2's are not as annoying to me though as the sound problems with Kerr's.