Rise of the Rebellion: A Rogue One Edit (Released)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuQpLeiTAPk

Hey everyone, I wanted to share this edit that will be released this month. I’ve been working on it primarily over at Fanedit.org and it is now at the pre-release point.

Change List:

1. New title cards
2. Custom Crawl
3. Custom pan down and Krennic shuttle flying towards Lah’mu
4. Removed Saw opening up hatch to find Jyn
5. Removed Rogue One Title card, now hard cuts to Jyn waking up as if she was dreaming
6. Removed planet card intro on Cassian’s introduction, it now does a downward pan wipe
7. Edited Informant scene to have the stormtrooper kill the informant instead of Cassian
8. Cropped Jedah planet card to remove text (added sharpening to film)
9. Added iris wipe transition to Jyn’s rescue
10. Cropped Yavin and Rebel Alliance planet cards to remove text (added sharpening to film)
11. Removed second Bodhi scene where he meets Saw
12. Color corrected Tarkin’s skin tones
13. Removed Bor Gullet
14. Added tie sfx to transition from K2 to Jedha pan shot
15. Removed Cornelius Evazan and Ponda Baba
16. Added Battlefront Imperial track to Rebel ambush
17. Shortened Chirrut’s acrobatics and removed his “is your foot alright?” line and human shield antics
18. Removed the cut to Jyn and Cassian to connect the continuous shot where Baze fires at the stormtroopers
19. Removed Chirrut’s “are you kidding me? I’m blind” line
20. Color corrected Tarkin’s skin tones during Jedah DS firing sequence
21. Color corrected Vader’s eyes during his meeting with Krennic
22. Cropped Edu planet card to remove text (added sharpening to film)
23. Rescored Rebel Alliance meeting with Force theme
24. Removed Bodhi’s stuttering when asked who is stealing the imperial ship
25. Cropped Scarrif planet card to remove text (added sharpening to film)
26. Color corrected Tarkin’s skin tones
27. Cropped scene with R2 and 3P0 to remove them from the shot and reworked surround track to eliminate their dialogue
28. Rescored Star Destroyer collision (Scrambling the Rebel Fleet & airplane collision/crash sfx)
29. Color corrected Tarkin’s skin tones
30. Color corrected Vader’s eyes when he is watching the Rebel fleet be massacred
31. Trimmed Vader’s awkward hand gesture of choking rebel soldier and then motioning to fling him to the side. (it just looks too fan filmy for me)
32. Color corrected Leia’s skin tones
33. Fixed audio volume transition into credits
34. Added custom edited/fanedited credits
35. Added grouped name credits to shorten credits and have them end on the the musical finale (the original doesn’t for some reason)
36. Added custom title cards to ending

Source: Official BluRay
Edited using Sony Vegas Platinum HD 13.0
Release July 2017
Anticipated release formats: 15gb 1080p MP4

Original Run Time 2:13:57
Edit Run Time 2:11:41

Special Thanks to (in no particular order):

Moe_Syzlak, ironman23, hbenthow, TVs Frink, ThrowgnCpr, mrbenja0618, ssj, TK251, krlozdac, darthrush

Walt Disney and LucasFilms ltd
the fanedit.org and originaltrilogy.com communities

Here’s some draft versions of scenes
Crawl w/ newly added Lah’mu pan down and shuttle. I’d love to hear suggestions on the crawl: https://vimeo.com/218372702
Cassian More Ethical Retreat: https://vimeo.com/224603413
Skin Regrades (Tarkin and Leia only): https://vimeo.com/219340923
Less Confused Bodhi: https://vimeo.com/224802889
Removing red eyes from Vader: https://vimeo.com/224499713
SD Collision Rescore: https://vimeo.com/218319346

Very intriguing DigMod - and some cool artwork too 😃

Personally, am not sure on the ‘more ethical Cassian retreat’ (I think the original scene gives more depth to his character for later in his speech to Jyn on Yavin IV for his and others’ decision to fight, as well as adding a bit of ‘grey’ to the Rebellion)… and the removal of the Chirrut’s ‘Are you kidding? I’m blind!’ line - which I kind of liked. Everyone’s a critic, eh? 😃

Having said that I’m very much looking forward to seeing it - and very nice work on the skin regrades for Leia & Tarkin too.

btw - could you point me in the direction of your Ep1 and Ep 2 Edits please mate? Would like to see them and how they roll into this Ep3 Edit too.

Oops, sorry for the confusion. I’ve removed the episode # for the crawl in the final version. I’d debated it for a while, but some I’d the crew here gave me the final push to drop it out. These are drafts of a project so the final versions are a little different.

The pan down to the rings was originally what I wanted to do, but the scene moves laterally so it would cause an issue with the pan down movement.

The Cassian edit is more of a personal one. I agree that it is an important shot, no pun intended, but it just always left me feeling unsettled. I know it’s supposed to do that, for some of the reasons you mention.

The nice thing about this edit is that it’s much easier to make different versions when compared to my HttF edit. If one particular edit isn’t to the liking of many, I can easily produce an alternative.

Thanks for the feedback and interest 😃

Perhaps it’s just me, but your crawl wording is great with one exception. I would suggest “Imperial” be added before Director Krennic.

nightstalkerpoet said:

Perhaps it’s just me, but your crawl wording is great with one exception. I would suggest “Imperial” be added before Director Krennic.

Just watched it and I have to agree with you. Thanks!

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

I’m really looking forward to seeing this. It sounds great, and with a few exceptions your edits are the edits I would make to the film.

Thanks for the interest! Which edit choices would you add or remove?

I likes lot of what you have done. Looks good.

I still think from a story telling standpoint that the Krennic/Erso scene in the beginning is better suited as A dream for Jyn as she is on board with Cassian. Start the film with the Death Star cone scene. It removes all time jumps that way. Just cut up the scene into flashes and recolor it like Rey’s force vision or Anakin’s vision.

Thanks for the thought Hardcore Legend. The only issue with that idea that I can think of is that she already has a dream sequence when she is traveling to Jedha. The opening events are an implied dream sequence in this edit. As the hatch opens up to where Jyn is hiding (as a child) there is a hard cut to her waking in the prison as an adult, as if from a dream. We don’t see that it was Saw until later in her Jedha arrival dream sequence.

Right, I would remove the Coruscant dream sequence. It is only important because he calls her ‘Stardust’ but that information can be added to the new dream as a voiceover. As the final words she hears before she wakes up.

Again, this is your vision. Don’t let me hijack it. I just like removing the time jumps and planet hopping and getting right to it.

DigMod said:

Cassian More Ethical Retreat: https://vimeo.com/224603413

As others have said, don’t let me hijack your project, but why would the Stormtrooper shoot the informant, then not Cassian?

I’m assuming the trooper doesn’t know he’s an informant. All the troopers know is that there were two suspicious characters that opened fire on other troopers. Seems like an Empire’s definition of shoot on sight. Cassian was out of sight so he wasn’t shot and he then escaped. I thought about adding blaster flares as he ran away, but thought the sound implied that they were shooting at him.

I’m also not entirely on board with the ethical retreat edit but I urge you to still stick with your vision. I also am very happy to hear that you dropped the episode number from the crawl 😃

I’m onboard with the ethical retreat. The informant seems nervous, but he and Cassian appear to be friends with the more casual way they speak to each other. He’s an honorable person and I think he should be portrayed that way all the way through.

I like the way that you handle the jail scene, but instead of asking if he’s the pilot, I’d keep the scene the same as the original and just jump to having Cassian ask “Galen Erso. You know that name?” That way, Bodhi still sounds slightly out of it as he says “I brought the message. I’m the pilot, I’m the pilot”, but you skip the mumbling.

Like these cuts/changes
But the cassian not shooting informant, I like chirrits I’m blind remark.
Did you somehow remove jyn saving the little girl, hate that part, and where chirrut kicks dirt in the troopers face , cheesy.

Also Rise of the rebellion is a great name for this, glad there is no episode number.

and thanks for fixing all the other stuff, red eyes suck, nor gullet sucks, title cards suck, planet names suck.

Mardukk666,
Jyn still saves the girl. Chirrut’s trooper smack down is greatly abbreviated to remove the Kung Fu-ish antics/cheese. He’s more of a character rather than a cultural figure in this edit.

darth_ender,
I may attempt something later on, but honestly I just can’t bring myself to watch episodes II & III. I’ll most likely leave any prequel stuff for my TV edit ideas. That way I can chop them up to 30-45 min episodes. I’d want to remove as much of Anakin as possible. The Anakin we got just diminishes Darth Vader. I’d rather keep the mystery of Darth Vader than show the disaster that was Anakin. I could even show Obi-Wan fighting Darth Vader with a red rotoscoped blade on Mustafar. He’d never call him Anakin, just refer to him as the Sith. We’d not see Padme in the edits in her wife/mother capacity either, just as a queen and senator.

I am really interested in this edit. Like everyone else on here, I have my own issues with some of the edits you have chosen, but as a whole I love everything you’ve done. I am in the minority that is against having a crawl for R1. I would cut the coruscant dream sequence myself. I would also keep the churrit comedy bits. I would also keep the meeting I’d Saw too. But without actually seeing this edit a can’t say for sure how I feel about the changes you’ve made. Looking forward to it

Hey Digmod, I’m sure I suggesed this already, but the shadows of the Empire Main theme goes soooooooooo F’N good with the opening scene, I had put this theme to an early copy with one of JackPumpkinHeads crawls, and it flowed so well, I fell in love with it. I re-pourposed it to go with your crawl intro. did it real quick, ain’t got much time this weekend so it could defintetly be tweeked to work better but this gets the idea across. I hope you watch it. has a nice peacefull intro, then just enough Imperial march to let you know this guy is an agent of the empire, like everyone wouldn’t know already. Hope you like it. https://mega.nz/#!MWZn0RJB!PP5TXCfJu_KhsXboex72aur1F8rfYK-RGJroYlIRT08

Thanks for sharing the idea marduk. I had tried that it actually near the beginning of creating the crawl. It didn’t work from me personally though. I may have another stab at it though 😃

Any idea when this will be release to the world?

Unofficially it’s finished. I’m just trying to actually get a Blu Ray done this time as it has been requested by a few. Making the menus and everything takes quite a bit of time.

I planned to release a 15gb MP4 and a 25gb Blu Ray. I’ve tried to render a 720p 4gb file, but honestly it looked like trash. I do have a streaming option available for the MP4.

DigMod said:

Unofficially it’s finished. I’m just trying to actually get a Blu Ray done this time as it has been requested by a few. Making the menus and everything takes quite a bit of time.

I planned to release a 15gb MP4 and a 25gb Blu Ray. I’ve tried to render a 720p 4gb file, but honestly it looked like trash. I do have a streaming option available for the MP4.

What are you using to make the menus? I have been wanting to make menus for my avchd discs I am planning and from what I have been able to gather, bluray and avchd are essentially the same just one is a smaller size