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Ideas for my own Prequel Trilogy edits

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I’ve been thinking about creating my own fan edits of the PT. Unlike other editors, I mostly want to keep the creative and narrative integrity, and I don’t want to do such things like dubbing the aliens with new a language and adding subtitles, like others have. The problem is that I don’t know where to start, what programs to use, and if it’s even possible to do absolutely everything on this list. Could someone please help me?

Across the Trilogy:

Use Adywan’s 20th Century Fox logo from The Empire Strikes Back: Revisited.
Change the starfields and planet exteriors to more high resolution versions.
Have them be in 4K HDR.
Keep the lossless Dolby Atmos mixes.
Re-rotoscope the lightsabers and have them omit and reflect light onto surfaces.
Change the lip movements of the Neimoidians to better match the words.
Redo the opening crawls with the ST fonts.
Redo the end credits so that the starfields are there throughout the entire thing.

The Phantom Menace:

Add a field of grain to the whole movie.
Remove some, but not all, of Jar Jar’s antics.
Remove the power cord lighting up the bulbs on Queen Amidala’s dress.
Fix the shots where Obi-Wan’s Padawan braid is on his left ear instead of his right.
Remove or reposition the inconsistent shadows in some shots.
Maybe cut some parts of the pod race so it doesn’t get too boring.
Use the trailer version of Padmé saying “Get to your ships!”
Lower Yoda’s voice a little.
Change the Mace Windu double near the end to actually be Samuel L. Jackson.

Attack of the Clones:

Change the the color of the fabric that Padmé is packing, as it changes from red to blue between shots.
I may or not add the scene with Anakin meeting Padmé’s family. The problem is that it’s too different in picture quality compared to the rest of the movie, and I don’t think there’s any way to make it work with the lossless Dolby Atmos track.

Revenge of the Sith:

Fix the continuity error of Padmé’s nightgown pearls being tangled in one shot.
Fix the shot where Palpatine has Anakin’s lightsaber handle, a holdover from a deleted scene.
When Anakin lands on Mustafar, add the black glove back to his right hand, as he puts his hood on.
Maybe replace Vader’s “Nooooo!” with the Russian version.

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Attack of the Clones:
Change the the color of the fabric that Padmé is packing, as it changes from red to blue between shots.
I may or not add the scene with Anakin meeting Padmé’s family. The problem is that it’s too different in picture quality compared to the rest of the movie, and I don’t think there’s any way to make it work with the lossless Dolby Atmos track

Hal 9000 did a great job adding scenes with Padmé’s family, modifying their quality and making them feel like the rest of the film. So you could take Hal’s The Approaching Storm fan edit as a reference for the deleted scenes you want to include. In general, I recommend you to take Hal’s fan edit as a reference until the kiss scene in the lake on Naboo, after which you can continue with the rest of the film as it is, but deleting the scene in wich Anakin confesses to Padmé that he killed the Tusken.

Revenge of the Sith:
Fix the continuity error of Padmé’s nightgown pearls being tangled in one shot.
Fix the shot where Palpatine has Anakin’s lightsaber handle, a holdover from a deleted scene.
When Anakin lands on Mustafar, add the black glove back to his right hand, as he puts his hood on.
Maybe replace Vader’s “Nooooo!” with the Russian version.

I recommend you to include the deleted scene in wich Qui-Gon’s spirit talks ti Yoda through the Force. You can find it on YouTube.

«This is where the fun begins!»
(Anakin Skywalker)

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Actually, I don’t think it’s possible for me to do all of this. It’s just too much. I wanted to give it the same quality as Adywan’s stuff, but I guess I can’t live up to that high standard.

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I’m not sure if it works for everything you’re planning on, but I use DaVinci Resolve for editing. It’s free unless you want to spend $300 for the studio version (which you might if you want to add film grain).

If you want to go Adywan-level, I’m not gonna lie. That’s a challenge! But I suppose you can always start by installing and learning Blender. I’m a fan of Blender Guru’s YouTube channel, so here’s a link to lesson 1 of his Blender 3.0 tutorial. I hope you find it useful:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoXOplUvAw

I have altered Lucas’ visions. Pray I don’t alter them any further.

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Adobe After Effects or Nuke (and Blender or similar) are going to the sort of things you’ll want to look in to for fixing continuity errors, changing lightsabers and the like. More experimental tools like EBSynth could also be useful. For making things higher resolution, Topaz Video Enhance AI is your best option short of recreating the elements from scratch. Adobe Premiere or DaVinci Resolve are the most common consumer tools used for cutting together video.

I don’t believe it’s possibly for consumers to put together Atmos mixes yet, so if you’re going to alter the actual runtime of the movie (add, remove or retime shots such that the audio needs changing), you probably won’t be able to maintain the Atmos mix because it won’t be in sync anymore. Ditto for changing Yoda’s voice and things like that.