Star Wars Episode III: Fall and Rise (* unfinished project *)

Hello i am new to the forums but i have been watching fan edits for a few years now. And as i do editing work at home and i am taking a Media course at college i decided to have a shot at making my own fan edit.

As the title says it is a edit of Revenge of the sith. My edit is called Fall and Rise, fall meaning the fall of the republic the Jedi and Anakin. Rise meaning the Rise of the Empire and Darth Vader.

The final edit has yet to be started all i have are clips that are rough and incomplete basically to give an idea of how my edit would be i’m looking for feedback right now/

Links (Warning very rough and incomplete)

Palpatine revealed

http://www.mediafire.com/?10dx7e72dlnd2rx

changelog

-Some dialog removed

-Reorder dialog from Palpatine

-New music

Anakin and Mace

http://www.mediafire.com/?722v1lqvw4q8d4w

changlog

-The scene now takes place during sunset

-Anakin no longer says “I think” or “Yes master”

-Some dialog removed

-The scene of Anakin and Padme is set during nightfall

-The album version of Padme’s Ruminations has been restored

Mace vs Sidious

http://www.mediafire.com/?fhahn5i37ux8h83

changelog

-Incomplete rotoscoping on one of the Jedi

-Palpatine attacks much faster

-Reordered the scenes of Anakin rushing to the rescue

-New music

Anakins Decision

http://www.mediafire.com/download/y2o3d5jcqibtax3/Anakins_decision.wmv

changelog

-New music

-Removed Palpatines No’s

-Some dialog removed

-Removed Palpatines begging

-Removed the shot of Mace’s saber falling

Birth of Vader

http://www.mediafire.com/download/6kc699ikxol0q61/knighted_darth_vader.wmv

changelog

-Removed “What have i done”

-New music

-Removed Sidious’s “become my apprentice,dark side of the force” blah blah blah

-Removed Anakins Padme BS

-Removed the Yoda scene

-Insted of “I understand master” its now “Yes master” more of a Vader quote

-The shot of Anakin putting his head down is reversed.

-Removed more Padme BS

March at the temple

http://www.mediafire.com/download/lbl3isvql8nib58/temple_march.wmv

changelog not much here

-New music for Vader and the Troops

-The yelling of the lizard thingy has been deepened when falling

Order 66

https://vimeo.com/67085573

changelog

-Scenes re-ordered

-Incomplete rough rotoscoping on one of the padawans being killed.

-Youngling dialog has been deepened and shortened

-Anakin’s saber is Red

-Yoda’s heart attack is now after the younglings scene

-Incomplete purple lightsaber for Yoda

-Removed Jett Lucas

No one?

Patience my friend, in time they will seek you out.

I've been very busy and my laptop is ancient and it's nightime so watching your clips isn't easy at them moment.

I still haven't seen Ady's last clip and I've been following his edits since I signed up here.

I would recommend encoding your clips in something other than .wmv my laptop in it's current incarnation doesn't play them and I haven't had WMP for well over a decade now.

I'm downloading your clips right now, I'll watch them all soon.  You got some good ideas from what I see in the cutlists.  Just curious, What programs are you using to do this edit?

Sony Vegas pro 8, I'm quite good with it.

DTST said:

No one?

lol

Dude, I spent almost 18 months on my last edit and got something like four reviews.  You can't force interest.

TV's Frink said:

lol

Dude, I spent almost 18 months on my last edit and got something like four reviews.  You can't force interest.

Oh, well, I should really write a review then, it was really a great edit.  Don't feel underappreciated!

Ha, thanks!

I downloaded the Birth of Vader clip, but to be honest I couldn't get past the video quality. A 170meg clip that's under 3 minutes in length shouldn't look that bad. What software do you use to edit, and what did you use to convert it to WMV?

I suspect, given the size of the file, that you rendered it out in WMV. If you use Vegas to edit, I suggest that you render as an MPEG4 with Mainconcept AVC, which will produce a huge file, roughly 50 gigs for a full movie. If you have a huge amount of hard drive space you could even render it as an AVI with the Lagarith codec (a lossless codec), but the file will be 100 gigs or so. Then use either Vidcoder or MeGUI to convert it down to a manageable sized MP4 or MKV.

Also, make sure you match the specs of the output to the input. Going by memory I think your video was 1440x1000. That doesn't make sense to me. If it's from DVD it will probably be 720x480, or blu-ray 1920x1080 or 1280x720. Lastly, make certain the frame rate of your render matches the input frame rate - that's absolutely vital.

Please don't be dispirited by this post. We were all newbies once (some of us still are) :)