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I’ve been looking to start dipping my toe into the fanedit pool and looking for a project to start editing and and try to make a DVD of my own. With the recent Clone Wars movie and series I’ve been on a SW toon kick and ended up dling the Droids full series DVD. (I’m currently seeding the disc on Myspeen if you haven’t dled it yet) I got to thinking that it would be cool if I made a DVD of the missing Droids episodes from the 2004 DVD release complete with special features as a kind of companion to the official DVD.
The episodes missing from the official DVD are episodes 1-4, 9 and Th Great Heep TV special.
What I’d do is edit episode 1-4 into a movie like the two movies from the official dvd and fix some some things with the Great Heep VHS rip.
I’m not sure how I want to approach episode 9 and would like to see what people would like me to do. The Droids series was separated into different cycles. For a few episodes C3P0 and R2 would be with a different set of Masters. Episode 1-4 The Trigon One Cycle, 5-9 Mon Jupa, 10-13 The Adventures of Mungo Baobab and finally The Great Heep was a TV special that takes place before the Mungo cycle. Now with the offical Droids dvd the Mon Jupa movie excluded episode 9 of that cycle. I can approach the episode in two ways. I can either place the episode alone on this set or I can make a second DVD that has the episode added to the end of the DVD Mon Jupa movie. Which do you think would be the better approach?
I just got the program womble and have been playing with editing the first 4 episodes. I’m not really going to do much more than glue the episodes together. Like I said the project is more for a learning experience. There are some points with music cues that I can’t figure out how to edit seamlessly with out losing a large portion of the episode. Plus I still need to play around with wipe cuts and dissolves. The idea is to keep as much of the episode as possible. Although my skills are lacking the edits of these should be an improvement over the entire series DVD. Some of the episodes are vhs rips from when scifi aired the SW toons in the 90s. There are a number of times where you have a little bit of the the SCI-Fi animation returning. Basically little robots restarting the show. That will be gone and also the episode recaps will be excluded as well as the episode titles. I might add the robots as an easter egg and the recaps as Deleted scenes. If anyone else has a higher quality version of the episodes in question let me know.
Now the best part that I hope I can gather together are the Special Features. Here are some Ideas I have , tell me what you think. Any help gathering materiel is appreciated. Also any ideas for features is welcome.
Holiday Special Cartoon
Deleted scenes (The recaps mentioned)
Original Droids Lapti Nek (Changed in the VHS/DVD edit)
Droids/Ewoks Trailer
Droids Toy commercial (I could only find one on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzMGnaetms0
I’m not sure if there are any more. If anyone has a quality version of this ad I need it.)
Commercials that feature the Droids ( The two that pop out at me are the Burger Chef ad and C3P0s. This is something that I need help with and input from more knowledgeable fans.)
Pics of the Toys
Possible- Star Comics and Dark Horse Droids comic series
Possible- Clone Wars trailers (both micro and new series.)
The theme I’m going for is Droids and Animation. With that in mind I’d like to hear what people think would make a great special feature.
Again any help and input is appreciated.
