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Thanks for the feedback, Miasta, and to Rikter too (naturally!). When and if you watch ep. 2 all the way through, I think you'll see a lot of similar choices made between my version and Attack of the Phantom. One in particular, in the re-instated dinner scene with Padme's family, there's a reaction shot of Anakin to Padme's "he's not my boyfriend" line that I was shocked to see was handled in an identical fashion, having seen his version only after I'd completed mine. He goes a bit farther in certain areas, removing the asteroid chase (unless I'm mistaken... sometimes it's hard to keep all these edits straight) and simplifying the search for Kamino, while I think I overhauled the love story a bit more than he did.

Glad you liked the elevator scene being cut in ep. 3. That was one thing I was a bit nervous about, thinking it might be too abrupt. But while I enjoyed the elevator scene when I first saw it in theaters, there's something about it that doesn't stand the test of repeated viewings for me, and they already spend time vivisecting tons of battle droids in the hangar, and the elevator scene is pretty much just more of the same. The hardest thing for me with ep.3 was trying to remove Palpatine's mention of midichlorians in the opera scene... I've seen ADM's edit, but I forgot how he did that, and didn't have it around for reference. I eventually was able to grab a bit from before one of Anakin's responses and use it as a reaction shot to mask the edit of Palpatine's dialogue. Sometimes all that slow paced talking comes in handy.
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"This is a sandwich I do not think will be delicious."


This made me laugh so hard.
I am NOT a committee!
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I'm keen to get a look at these edits, just the idea of the removal of the race announcer made me feel good.
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Episode III will be up in the next week or two (I have a few batches of beer fermenting and a new recipe to try this weekend) BUT I should have the cover done and the torrent uploaded soon.

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Got all three of these in the mail today via PIF. THANKS, STOSSMO!

Can't wait to watch them.

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Just got to see "Rise Of The Sith." I really like the new ending.

Do you have any other projects you're working on?

Thanks again for sending me your first run of Episode II - I've given it out to several other folks and they all loved it.
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Glad you liked it, Andy!

Nothing else I'm working on at the moment, besides a comic book project of my own. The only thing I have thought about doing further with these is perhaps a dual layer version with some tiny little fixes of mistakes that got through, mostly because of my inexperience in working with video. It'll probably have to wait until I have a new computer though... doing test renders of mpeg2 video on a G4 is a maddening experience.

Definitely looking forward to Infodroid's project, though.

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Okay, I watched "Rise of the Sith" today, Slumberland. Excellent job!

I loved the pod race without the announcer! You'd never know he was ever there. It took skill to pull this off, and you did it.

And the way you cut "weesa goin' hoooooome!" was terrific, because I always hated that, and I've tried to cut it before, and I remember it being extremely difficult. I appreciated your manipulation of the music to make that transition work.

The trims at Palpatine's pad worked much better than I thought they would. I was skeptical about this at first, because I love all of Palpatine's scenes. But, you don't lose anything that isn't explained later. I actually think you made it flow better and it added some tension to not know that the Republic really wasn't what it once was until after Amidala witnesses it's malfunction. It also suggests that Palpatine believes in the system, where before it seemed like he was trash-talking it, then saying "I want to be Chancellor". Now, when he promises to end corruption, it seems like he's playing to her and manipulating her further. It's amazing to me that such a simple cut, which you probably made for pacing reasons above all else, adds so much more depth to that part of the story.

And of course the very end shot of the movie was perfect, it's something I always wanted to do. It's the way they should've ended it in the first place.

While being a pretty conservative edit, and not quite as radical a cut as I think this film needs, I still think you've made some very good decisions and executed them seamlessly. And while a person who truly hates TPM won't be impressed by this version, I think it goes a long way in making it watchable for those who only had minor problems with the film.

So, great job! I'm looking forward to watching the other two.

--ID

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Anyone want to help their old pal Sluggo out with a PiF?
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I will, Sluggo!

I'd be more than happy to.

PM me your address.


--ID

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I SHOULD have episode III up this weekend but I also need to pull a motor so we'll see

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Ooooh, I'd be very interested in hearing what changes were made for Episode III, which is very hard to edit!

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently.

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Thanks a ton for the feedback, Infodroid! Glad you liked some of the changes. I banged my head against that "weesa goin' home" for a long while.

Hal, as for my Episode III changes... let's see, it's been a while. I remember cutting a lot of what I thought were silly lines during the opening battle. I removed the business in the elevator on Grievous's ship completely. The scene with Palpatine and Windu after the crash landing is removed. All the scenes between Anakin and Padme are shortened, but two in particular were removed. The balcony scene and the one where he accuses her of sounding like a separatist. There were things I liked in the latter, but overall I thought things worked better once it was gone.

Mostly it's a lot of little stuff. I didn't do nearly as much to Episode III as I did the first two. My main beef was that I felt like it took too long to get going, so most of my changes are in the first half. I did remove the part from the Anakin/Kenobi duel where Anakin says "from my point of view the Jedi are evil!" as it seemed like thematic notes from the script margins somehow got mistaken as dialogue... it's just too pedantic. And lines like "only my new powers can save you" had to go, in my estimation. Ugh.

All three of my edits are somewhat conservative, in that they don't try and fundamentally change or re-order the story. But I wanted to attempt a more complete "de-awkwardization" than I'd seen attempted in other versions.

Again, thanks for the taking the time to check these out, folks.
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Yours sound like a very good set of edits!

When I can, I'll try to catch the torrents and check them out.

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently.

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Currently Uploading/Seeding on THE PIRATE BAY:

Posted on 11-19-06

STAR WARS Episode III - Fall of the Republic - Edit by Slumberland (DVD5)

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ENJOY!!!!

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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All three Slumberlands are available on Rapidshare as well. I can't say exactly where in this forum, and that fact alone is probably clue enough for most as to where to find them. :-) Otherwise, feel free to PM me and I'll point you in the right direction.

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In my quest to try to find my preferred Ep2 edit, I had high hopes for this one. However, the thing that really ruins this for me is the video quality, my preferred edit really can't be any less than DVD quality, and this does not look good even compared to other fanedits.

So my question (obviously) is: does this exist anywhere with higher image quality? I got mine from fanedit.info btw.

 

And yes, I do enjoy resurrecting three years old threads. ;)

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I don't think it is available in higher quality.  Slumberland seems to have disappeared from the fanedit scene.  And FWIW, I agree with you - this is a great edit with disappointing video quality.

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I have to say that watching it on my computer monitor it looked fine.

The picture quality would only become an issue on one of those really enormous screens that you youngsters seem to all have.

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I only have a 30" HDTV and it's noticeable.  Keep in mind it's not bad per se, but it's also not DVD quality, unlike almost all current fanedits.

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Frink -

If the video quality was where it needed to be, would this be your preferred Ep. 2 edit?

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I think so.  It was one of the first edits I watched so my memory is a little hazy, but I think I'd probably give it a slight nod over JasonN's.  However, I did prefer JasonN's idea of making Dooku a rogue Jedi instead of a Sith.