NFBisms said:

I could probably help out!

You absolute beauty! I’ll be in touch shortly. ❤️

NFBisms and I are now directly collaborating on this and he has the latest raw file. I can’t promise timings but it’s looking positive. I’m so excited to have NFB onboard, he’s been an absolute gent, and has exactly the skills I was missing.

One question for you all: As I’ve said just earlier, I’m now really happy with the flow of scenes through this version. It feels very balanced to me. (And it took absolutely AGES to get this way - this episode has 50 scene transitions and only about two of them are the original ones!) The one thing I can see people taking slight issue to is the question of who learns about the Aldhani heist in what order. As I currently have it, the ISB find out first, Mon Mothma becomes aware (without the rest of Coruscant knowing), then it hits the news on Ferrix, then a few days later it comes out on the Coruscant news.

I don’t personally have a problem with that - I figure it can be reasonably explained as (1) obviously the ISB would know nearly immediately, (2) Coruscant politicians would likely know before the rest of the planet, (3) Ferrix has a far less tight grip on its media than Coruscant (and an imperial presence potentially talking about the new laws), then (4) Coruscant news could well have been deliberately delayed until the Empire got on top of the messaging. I can see it as a potential point of concern for you guys, but it underpins a lot of my current ordering enough that I think the above justification should be enough to allow story flow to be the priority.

Anyone got a major issue with that?

Today, I rewatched two episodes of the series, and I like the pacing of your cut substantially better than what the 40-minute chunks of the original allow. I am looking forward to your final version of movie 3.

Great to hear! I feel similar when watching these- when the A plot is the main focus, and you know it’s going to get wrapped up in this unit of entertainment, the B plot is a welcome pacing break and more interesting.

That’s awesome, thanks RL. Spence has offered too. I’ll see how NFB gets on, but it’s ace to have a little bank of potential collaborators.

Wonderful feedback, Daiyus, thanks.

Good spot on the Mon meeting reference. Realistically there’s very little chance I can reorder the scenes there (the ordering does a lot of heavy lifting for the transitions and flow), but I’ll see how explicit that reference is and might make a light trim if I need to.

Speaking of the pacing of Andor getting off Ferrix and to Niamos, you’re right in that those events happen fairly quickly onscreen and do cover a lot of time. That’s how it was in the original (episode 7 covered a lot of in-world time), and I think I’ve improved it further since we have more of Syril moping at his window (among other things!) in this section to imply days passing, but do you reckon it lands OK this way?

I’m really glad you’re enjoying it, and look forward to releasing the final versions!

Heyo, how’s movie 3 coming along?

Excellently, thanks! Thanks to NFB and RogueLeader, we’re close to a release of a higher quality than I could have put out originally.

1 & 2 are properly smooth now, only needing re-rendering, 3 is vastly improved and just needs some minor addition of score, and 4 is just being mulled over a little further. Full release soonish.

That’s good to hear

This sounds really cool, I’d love to check it out when fully released!

All four movies are completely complete!

Feel free to PM for requests now!

Final movie titles are ‘Convergence’, ‘Declaration’, ‘Prisoners’, and ‘Sacrifice’.

I’m super pleased with the quality of these final (v2.0) versions. NFBisms deserves a huge amount of credit here. He produced over 20 audio transitions, including some covering multiple scenes. He also contributed a major structural piece to movie 4, and an even larger piece of work throughout movie 3, reordering and then fully rescoring whole sections. The last 5% of polish has taken the most work, and I couldn’t have done this without him. His efforts were huge and can’t be understated - thanks so much!

They are, but that’s as they were in the original files. On standard monitors they full screen naturally.

Had quite a few downloads so far - does anyone who’s watched the new versions have any feedback yet?

So far, I have only watched episode 1 with my dad. The only critique, that we have is the very slow second act, but that’s a weakness innate to the first 2 episodes of the series. Maybe you could push some of Cyrils scenes back a little? That would also support his anguish at how complacent everyone around him has become. However, I don’t remember the exact sequence of events, so that might cause some issues.

Episode 3 flows much better now than the preceding workprint 👍

Huzzah! NFB deserves most of the credit there!

Interesting. What would you say are its strengths?