Star Wars Episode III: Labyrinth Of Evil (Released) — Page 14

It says “extended” on the spine because their runtimes are longer than Q2’s (for whose edits I have a similar-looking one.) I’m going to include an insert with the features and cutlist info.

I made it yellow because: A) the background on the “official” 9000 series covers is yellow; 2) I wanted to put the battle droid from said covers (or rather from the disc art) on the back; and d) I didn’t want to make the cover green.

Growing up with the OT, I think there was this impression of green sabers being better than blue, since Luke had a blue saber first and a green one later when he was more powerful. And since the OT cover is blue, I didn’t feel proper making the PT cover green (Q2’s is red, though).
…Plus, there are Jedi in Ep2 with gold/yellow sabers.

JEDIT: (by request)

NOTE: Much of this cover was taken directly from Video Collector’s covers. He said when he allowed me to have his covers that they were for my use and that I couldn’t directly distribute them.

That’s pretty cool. Could you put out a version without the “Extended Edition” label too?

done.

chyron8472 said:
Much of this cover was taken directly from Video Collector’s covers. He said when he allowed me to have his covers that they were for my use and that I couldn’t directly distribute them.

Oh. Well, all right.

Great (?) news! V4 of Labyrinth Of Evil exists now, and should be appearing in the normal places within a day or so. Those with Myspleen accounts will probably get it before FanEdit.info does.

The Approaching Storm will be next. This long project of mine is finally coming to a close.

Video Collector says I can share my versions of his covers at my own discretion.

So, here you go.

Click to enlarge.

Just kidding. But yeah, that’s unfortunate. I really had to look for a minute before spotting it. Watching the edit, I honestly can only notice it if I stand and look down on my monitor. (And I cannot for the life of me spot it at all on my MacBook’s built-in screen.) I would never have spotted that in a million years.

Thank you for that, I really do appreciate it. The edit is out the door, so I’m not going to fix this issue. V4’s it! I don’t doubt many tiny imperfections like this may occur to me in time, but I’ve got to consider this “finished” at some point. 😛

I’m staring very closely at my phone from various angles, and I can’t see what you circled there. Only stars.

V4 of LOE has been submitted to FanEdit.info, and should be appearing there soon.

Are the editor commentaries only included in v4?

Yes, these commentary tracks are new for V4. And FanEdit.info is the best place to get these, though it often takes a while for the admin to update the listing.

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MalàStrana said:

@ chyron8472
What software do you use to burn blu ray discs of Hal’s trilogy ? I’m looking for one that would work on PC (I don’t have a Mac), with the possibility to add menu and bonus material.

I do not have Bluray menus for these. Rest assured that /if I did/, I would have put them on the spleen.

I use tsMuxer to mux the mkvs to Bluray folders; I use ImgBurn to burn discs. If you buy blank discs, buy Verbatim. Verbatim consistently uses quality manufacturers to make their blank media.

I’ve used software to make DVD menus before, for a wholly unrelated family project, but I’m not sure it could make Bluray menus.

… Okay, you’ve got me intrigued. I’ll look into what software might be best to use.

JEDIT: Cursory searches for Bluray menu software, even searching this site, indicate multiAVCHD is the best free software, and Adobe Encore is the best paid software for creating Bluray menus. The DVD menu software I had used previously was DVD Styler, which doesn’t make Bluray menus.

Similarly, for ripping movie discs I use MakeMKV; for re-encoding to a reasonable size I use Handbrake with the AppleTV 3 preset, and Video Quality set to 19 for DVD content and 21 for AVCHD/Bluray.

I use MakeMKV because it is fairly easy to use, it rips both DVDs and Blurays, and it’s currently free. I use Handbrake because everyone and their dog whom you ask says that it’s the best for reencoding video files.

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Did you upscale the deleted scenes yourself? They look really good!

Smithers said:

Did you upscale the deleted scenes yourself? They look really good!

I only had to do them myself for Ep2; Ep1 and Ep3 were done by DrDre. I was pretty impressed with how they look too!

JEDIT: And once the dust settles, I do still plan on syncing the audio to them and releasing the upscaled deleted scenes along with any odds and ends that others might find useful.

Okay, wait. I watched v4 first with the editor commentary, and when I got to the Vader scream I was totally looking forward to hearing the Russian scream. But I heard a NOOO!! instead… Wait, what?!? Okay, so I rewound and switched audio tracks. Yeah, it’s there in track 1. So why is there a 2nd non-commentary track? Oh, because Russian is in track 1 but English is in track 2. Hmm. I must not have been paying attention in the thread or something. I didn’t know you’d include both versions. That’s not a complaint, though.

But then… you took out Coruscant at the end. Poop.

Anyway, my only real qualm is that in the editor commentary for LOE you complain and poke fun at the story, in a way that suggests you don’t enjoy the film that much but instead sort of begrudgingly tolerate it. It detracts somewhat from the fun of watching, I feel, when meanwhile you’re hearing someone frequently complaining about it.

Fantastic edit(s) though. Very good indeed.

(The commentary track was finished before deciding to go with the Russian scream.)

Yeah, I thought the commentary for Ep3 was more negative than the others. I did it after hitting some cider. I had also just reread the novelization, and so had a fresh sense of disappointment in how the film was executed. In fairness, ROTS leaves many things to complain about.

I don’t know, man. The prequels are like aggravating family members. Someone doing what I’ve done has to see the good in them. A conflict.