Star Wars: A New Threat (TFA EDIT) (Released) — Page 9

Darth Lars said:

SilverWook said:

These elementary schoolyard level antics really need to stop. Mikeluv80, consider this a warning.

I think there are more than one poster around here that deserves a warning, some more than one.

Seriously, of all the discussion forums I visit frequently, this is by far the least mature – and I think that the actual age of most posters is not relatively low. People should know better. I think it has gone downhill quite a bit only in the recent year.

I know I can be quite crass with some members, but by default I think I’m quite respectful to people around here. However, some people think the relatively laid back moderation is a fantastic chance to slip in vitriolic comments of various types. That is why you notice that it’s a mostly mature forum except for when it really, really isn’t.

Mike knew exactly what he was doing, and made sure it couldn’t be mistaken for something more innocent by telling Frink to Google the first slur. And he continued to post backhanded ‘I don’t care let’s move on’ comments that were intentionally coupled to ‘I don’t care that you’re homos’ to slip in more slurs as his final word (literally, in the end).

I’ll try to post less commentary when the inevitable next case happens, and just do more reporting to mods (which I also did this time). Though I admit that it’s far from unlikely that I’ll someday get myself banned for lashing out at a troll.

Edit: and yes, sorry OP, I won’t post on it again here.

Sorry I didn’t give my feedback sooner but I like what I’m seeing and can’t wait to the finished product.

Going be some delay on v 1.1 finals coming up and that’s been keeping me busy sorry guys college is so much fun:/

Life is life man. Just focus on what really matters.

After reading the posts in this thread, I really do think that the stuff with Mikeluv80 was just a misunderstanding. I wouldn’t go as far as banning him, as I would just giving him a bit of a warning. It’s hard to decipher tone through a keyboard post, and I don’t believe it was his intention to offend anyone.

That being said, I’m really intrigued by this edit, and I look forward to seeing what you come up with. I love TFA overall, but I can agree with the notion of toning down the cheesiness just a hair.

I love TFA as well it is in my top 3 Star Wars films but I do think it needs some working with hence my edit

Absolutely. Looking forward to seeing what you’ve done 😃

I’m starting to view TFA more and more as a fan film the more I think about it. I’m extremely unhappy with the final product, which is funny because I absolutely loved it after the first time I saw it; my displeasure has slowly crept its way in since release.
For this reason I’m looking forward to the fanedit community for it, something I usually completely avoid and stick purely to preservations.
However I’m now coming to see why and at least understand the point of view of all those who made prequel fan edits. While I love the prequels as they are, I’ve started to understand how some fans felt, and their the need to ‘fix’ them in their own eyes.

This edit is so far looking very promising, I look forward to your continued updates (:

V 1.1 Is almost completed!

That’s…kinda sad.

V1.1 will be ready for viewing this Monday!

TK251, I’ll be interested to see what bits and pieces you’ve chosen to alter for this. I’ve only checked out one completed edit of this movie so far, and that was by a guy called ‘Noodle_Finger’ on reddit which came out recently - (I’ll be sending you the link for it sometime soon, and can give it to anyone else that wishes to see it too, if they want to)

It was the first time I’d seen how things looked where placing the ‘superweapon blowing up the planets’ scene after ‘Han’s death’ scene was concerned. I liked seeing it played out that way…but have decided I’ll be keeping the whole complete scene as it is/where it is in the scheme of things for my own ideal cut-list…as I really like the Williams music that plays during that whole sequence, as well as certain shots of Hux watching the proceedings (which I’d have to discard/chop up otherwise). It remains one of my favourite sequences from the movie, and I’m loathe to dilute it’s impact for me. Still, I’ve managed to work out a few other little tweaks and re-arrangements of my own which will make the movie even more to my liking in other ways.

For instance, I’d already decided to shorten the ‘Rathtar’ scene for myself in a very similar way as your Vimeo clip showed - where Rey holds her mouth at what she’s seeing, before she then begins to run off with Finn…and we then cut to the Falcon seen through the doorway as Han and Chewie are firing, as Rey and Finn then appear again. It was nice to see it play out that way in your clip too, and I think that works really well to shorten the overall sequence for the better.

By the way, I’ve decided to make it look like the two gangs are just one gang for the start of the ‘Rathtar’ scene…and I’ll be shortening the whole exchange between them and Han (with no talk of money) to make it seem that they are purely on a mission to find the BB-8 unit on behalf of the First Order. The whole thing zips along quite nicely at this point now, and I’ve ended up rather liking the ‘Rathtar’ sequence in this form now.

I’ll look forward to see how your own version turns out, however.

I would like to see this edit you saw on reddit. I have made more changes to the rathtar scene made it a few seconds shorter. So far I am still debating what I will do.

Almost done with my v1.1 edit just cleaning up a few things and may try to keep Hux’s speech in tack not sure yet.

V1.1 is done for now but I like that idea! I will play around with it later.

So I was exporting v1.1 before I went to sleep and wake up to find that my dad turned my computuer off as it was being loud…

Damn…next time give him a reminder of what you’re doing

Lord Haseo said:

Damn…next time give him a reminder of what you’re doing

Yes, us oldsters need our kids to remind us of stuff from time to time. 😉

darthrush said:

I would also maybe try to do the following in line with your plot restructuring:

-Cut together a star being sucked up with Hux’s speech. I overlayed it with the last section of “Anakins Dark Deeds”. If you want a preview clip, I can upload that. Basically Hux now prepares a speech for the star being sucked up. This is cut together pretty well.

This was the same way that ‘Noodle_Finger’ recut his version, and it indeed works well for anyone that wishes to place the ‘superweapn destroying the planets’ scene after Han’s death - he basically ended the ‘Hux speech’ with the shot of all the First Order troopers raising their arms.

darthrush said:

I would also maybe try to do the following in line with your plot restructuring:

-Cut together a star being sucked up with Hux’s speech. I overlayed it with the last section of “Anakins Dark Deeds”. If you want a preview clip, I can upload that. Basically Hux now prepares a speech for the star being sucked up. This is cut together pretty well.
-Then all references to Starkiller aiming at the resistance or the Hosnian destruction are removed. Believe me, the cuts are seamless.
-But yet I’m puzzled on how to implement the Hosnian destruction later on. I was thinking putting it right after the shot of Rey and Finn desperately shooting at troopers (before Chewie blows exposlives). Then we cut back to Chewie blowing them, then we cut to Poe breaking through the opening and hopelessly destroying the base. We intercut this with Rey and Finn escaping. This entire sequence would be rescored for improved emotional impact. Then you let movie play out as normal except we cut to people evacuating during the lightsaber fight instead of cutting to Poes trench run which would be shifted right before Hans death.

I have done the work for the Hux speech and most of the cuts leading up to Hans death but I am still thinking of how to handle the third act. This could be possibly implemented in V2 of your edit and would really redefine the experience of the movie as a whole.

I would like to see how you handled Hux’s speech it is similar to what I am doing.

TV’s Frink said:

Lord Haseo said:

Damn…next time give him a reminder of what you’re doing

Yes, us oldsters need our kids to remind us of stuff from time to time. 😉

And even then some of you guys just don’t understand our plight 😦

My parents still think I can pause multiplayer