Crimson Maul's - Kenobi: A Star Wars Story RELEASED

RELEASED I know, I know, it been done multiple times… but here is another one!

My overall goal (like many others) was to make it into what it should have been in the 1ste place: A FEATURE FILM!

For my edit i want to respect the original film makers who created this great show as much as possible. i didnt add any music, but i did do some very slight color correcting

I shuffeld around some scenes, cut out some scenes and deleted 95% of episode 4.

Changed the personality of a obi wan , reva and fifth brother a bit, and tons of others stuff that i dont want to give away just yet.

What many others didnt do was to create a logical bridge (no offense) from episode 3 to 5 (if they deleted epsiode 4 too). and i believe i created a beatiful way to acomplish this.

What i DID add was some fun VFX easter eggs that are just there for fun!
Examples of these VFX shots will be shown in the comments below.

Here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/WD0UhDfBXn8

Lastly i want to credit the awsome creators that are helping me with this awsome project:

Star Wars Story (Supervisor & Vocal)
Nick Cortez (Grand Inquisitor Re-Dub)
Darth Porg (VFX WIZARD)
PixelJoker95 (VFX) (these VFX will be available in version 2)
Filmic Crossroads (VFX)
Tricio (VFX)
Acbagel (VFX)
Dewit (Darth Vader)
Shape Shifter VA (Quinlan Vos)
Movies Remastred (Vocal Cameo)
Mikination (Vocal)

Cant wait for your feedback once version 1 will be released! hoping for great suggestions to be applied/altered for version 2 to make an even better edit

The trailer is nice 😃 What do you think will be the final running time for this movie?

TiiN said:

The trailer is nice 😃 What do you think will be the final running time for this movie?

Thx TiiN! Currently its at 2hours and 30mins. My preference would be to cut it 15mins shorter but only time will tell if ill eventually do that.

darthrush said:

Was there any re-ordering or changes applied to the final Kenobi vs Vader duel?

not really, i only added the line thats in the trailer during the duel. the fight is basially the same as it is in the show. what i did want to do was possibly add a ring to the planet, to make it like it could possibly be geonosis, but i dont think that would make sense with the placements of geonosis and jabiim on the star map.

for my edit, i wanted to respect the original vision of the filmmakers as much as possible, i just recut into a feature length film. i took some liberties by adding fun vfx easters eggs that dont effect the overall story, yes. i cut out some stuff to give certain people a stronger presence, yes. but the story doesnt change at all. The darth vader line i added was for me just a missed oppertunity. As we see in rogue one, vader can be funny haha. So adding this line in feels natural

A new person joined the vfx team, just for a fun small thing. Welcome Acbagel!

Acbagel said:

DylanB18 said:

A new person joined the vfx team, just for a fun small thing. Welcome DarthHeisenberg!

Thanks, happy to help! DarthHeisenberg is my name on Discord but I’m acbagel on here. Great trailer for this project and I am excited to see your film soon.

sorry my guy, i fixed it!

i want showcase some of my vfx but uploading a picture doesnt work, could somebody help out?

This is a little attempt to make the POV of the Probe Droid match the one we see in Rebels a bit more:

Rebels:

Original:

Recolored:

I think is the best compromise i can achieve, I didnt want to just use the version we see in rebels cause it would take over the entire screen.

More pictures will be uploaded here in the coming days

This is for an after credits scene, which takes place like 5-8 years after the series where obi wan has a vision of a possible future where maul shows up on tatooine hunting down luke. this was achieved using deepfake, behind the scenes footage from solo and some footage from episode 6 of the series

in my edit episode 4 doesnt exsist, so ive added leia to the first scene of jabiim

new shots of vader created by darth porg using BTS footage

My edit has been released! the link is available in the discreption of my trailer on YT: https://youtu.be/WD0UhDfBXn8

I want to say first that this is an excellent edit. Job well done! The focus is so much more on Kenobi and Vader instead of it being the Reva and Leia show. The training flashback is also very well done with it being split up over the course of multiple scenes. Here are a few observations.

Will you eventually provide a higher quality version? The artifacts from the video compression are pretty clear and distracting.

Something seems off with the overall sound mix. I have a 7.2.2 system and no matter what I do with the receiver the audio that should be on the center channel comes out from other speakers. It also suffers from heavy compression. Anyone else notice this?

At 11:36 it looks like a frame or two from another scene is still there and needs to be trimmed out.

The transition between Bail and Leia talking on the balcony and Leia running out the back door into the forest doesn’t really make sense. One minute they are chatting and the next minute Bail tells his wife she’s gone…for some reason.

I think the shot of Vader in the bacta tank needs a bit more work. Just looks a little out of place imo. Maybe it’s just me. Could the tank be made a little more foggy like in Rogue One? I always liked the extent of his injuries being left a bit to the imagination (even though we know what happened).

The tie fighters around the 1:38:00 mark need more work. It’s a bit distracting in its current state.

Overall I really liked this. Bravo!

potty meister said:
Will you eventually provide a higher quality version? The artifacts from the video compression are pretty clear and distracting.

yeah sadly there is compression, i used wondershare uniconverter when i started months ago. now i use handbrake. i tried replacing the files but converting to mp4 takes ages and the nvidia encode (which is way faster) only allows m4v files which isnt supported by premiere. for v2 im goingto start again from the ground up. using the right converted files. but for now its just fine. it still in 4k and that was my goal.

Something seems off with the overall sound mix. I have a 7.2.2 system and no matter what I do with the receiver the audio that should be on the center channel comes out from other speakers. It also suffers from heavy compression.

i made the 5.1 channels into 6 mono channels which seems like the best option. even pixeljoker does it this way. i exported it as 5.1 so i should be fine i guess. it sounds pretty okay to me.

At 11:36 it looks like a frame or two from another scene is still there and needs to be trimmed out.

i updated the file on drive with this issue removed!

im really glad you liked it, once pixeljoker’s version releases ill use his vfx (i have permission) and maybe take some of his story beats to make it even better for version 2 down the line

dgraham414 said:
I would have kept more of Alderran, in the beginning, to give us more time with Leia. Other than that though, I liked it very much.

Thank you, really appreciate this!

The FX could use some work.

down the line this will hopefully get much better. especially the holocron get get a bit more work.

again thank you for this small review, didnt get many yet so this means a lot!

my fan edit is now available to stream on www.firemerkstudios.com

Thoughts on this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf05Vzwf6Dw

potty meister said:

Thoughts on this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf05Vzwf6Dw

ive seen this, i asked the creator if i could use it! but this would be more for an edit without the ep2 era trainig flashbacks. i like the placemnts of the flashbacks in the original episode, it makes sense. i dont want to delete it from my edit. if i find a way to put certian parts of the flashbacks in other places (where it still makes sense) ill definitly try spikul’s idea. now im waiting for pixeljokers edit to use as a base for v2 so well see where it goes from there