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Post #726197

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Schmendrick
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Star Wars Episode III: Labyrinth Of Evil (Released)
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Date created
6-Sep-2014, 12:15 AM

Do you mean v2 commentaries for Episodes 1 and 2?  Yep, listened to them both.  Enjoyed them.  Curious thing about the 2-channel commentary track in the m4v file.  I have m4v for Ep1 and mkv for Ep2.  With Ep1 m4v there was periodic stuttering of the video stream only when playing the commentary track (AC3 soundtrack was fine).  With Ep2 mkv, there was no video  stuttering at all with the commentary track.  Seems strange, as the 1080p mkv would certainly be more demanding overall in terms of bandwidth.  I wonder if it's just something about the m4v container format.  Or it could be something about the way OpenELEC interacts with m4v.  Anyway, the Ep1 m4v commentary track itself didn't stutter at all, so I got the whole of your commentary.  It was just the video that would occasionally look like it was trying to keep up.

re: LOE v2, You've mentioned having communicated with L8wrtr.  Is it worth reaching out to see how he overcame the issue of battle droid voice removal?  As I said, I didn't notice the issue in his AC3 track and your bridge sequence pretty closely followed his from what I could tell.

Too bad about ROTS master.  I haven't seen you talk much here about planned changes for LOE v2.  Are there bits you planned to restore which would require the master again?  I don't know about Emanswfan's source, have you mentioned it before?

Oh and one question I have in terms of LOE storytelling.  Is there any way at all to allow more time for Padme to travel from Coruscant to Mustafar?  The more I've been thinking about it, I recall having the same thought after watching the theatrical release of ROTS...that despite Mustafar being somewhere in the Outer Rim Territories, and despite the plot device in Ep2 in which Padme says the Jedi will never make it to Geonosis in time because that Outer Rim planet is so far from Coruscant, Padme's travel to Mustafar in Ep3 appears to take no time at all.  ??  I haven't watched ALL the fanedits as it seems you have, so I'm assuming this is just one of those ROTS flaws for which there is not a fanedit fix.  I'd hate to see any radical reshuffling of the scene order, as you've done such a great job putting all that together already.  Just asking the question.