vicioust1000 said:

These look amazing. When do you plan to release?

Sometime next year.

szopman said:

ExpandedUniverses said:

szopman said:

Any chances of uploading it on vimeo? 😀

Sorry, probably not. I don’t have a Vimeo account, but I’ve seen they have a history of taking down fanedits from their website. I don’t want to risk any copyright trouble with these fanedits, so I’m just sharing them discreetly via private messages on here.
Are the MEGA links not working for you?

Yeah, for some reason its not working 😔

Do you know resilio? If ExpandedUniverses grant me permission, I would share it with you.

ExpandedUniverses said:

Also, I wanted to ask if you enjoyed CORRUPTION ON MANDALORE? You gave a pretty good review of PATH OF THE PADAWAN, so I just wanted to see if you felt the same way about this installment.

It was worthwhile to watch, the story seemed fluent except at one point if I remember correctly: doesn’t have the timestamp at hand but as we hover over the Jedi temple and than cut to padme, ashoka and anakin walking. Is it inside of the Jedi temple? The cut doesn’t feel like it is the case.
It would have been nice to see some training of the clones („bad batch“), but this would have been something for the first episode.

TheAlaskanSandman said:

Broom boy!! Test shot for Anakin having a sunset moment. Though im thinking of locating it closer to town or in town. Possibly from his back yard while working on podracer.

Nice idea, visually it could be more than pleasing 😃

As before i´ll mention technical aspects of your edit, since content wise it is and should be your own thing.

Your additions and corrections for episode I are working so far.

Episode II - Corruption of Mandalore

• Crawl --> maybe without the exclamation mark. SW never used this kind of thing, but if you want to keep it, just do so

• Transitions:
  –> 0:22:49 - too abrupt
  –> 1:04:30 - perhaps use an audio fade out/fade in to the next scene
  –> 1:46:25 - hard abrupt cut
  –> 1:48:12, 1:48:12 - same here
  –> 1:49:18 - use a audio fade out or fade in
  –> 1:50:47, 1:53:44, 1:57:14, 1:57:54 - same here

Damn, you are fast 😄 Now i have to watch epsiode I again first^^

Just awesome, you’re just awesome.

I wonder how long we have to wait for the season 2 trailer😀

Thanks for the update, still have to watch episode II🤪

IlFanEditore said:

I’d LOVE to see your version of the original triloy.

We’ve to be patient, in a pm he stated realistically he’ll be finished some time next year.

Damn, that is awesome. You’re a welcome addition to this community. How long you’ve been working in the digital art segment?

ExpandedUniverses said:

I made the opening crawl using an app so I didn’t have any control over the angle. I thought it looked the most accurate of the crawl creators I could find though.

I also have no idea how to pan down from the crawl to space, especially since most Clone Wars episodes do not begin in space. But I definitely would’ve like to have smoother transitions from the crawls if I was more skilled in editing. Smudger9’s edits are really good with space transitions but I’m nowhere near as skilled of editor as he is lol

Ah, ok. Of course you don´t have to be able to edit like smudger9 😄 Step by step.

I had to cut a lot of footage because during that fight a lot of dialogue references the clone-traitor plot from the original episode, which wouldn’t make sense here since I cut that storyline. Ventress’s floor thing was cut kind of weirdly originally too, but it was broken up by the clone scenes I removed. I also cut the silly sequence where Ventress throws books at Obi-Wan and Anakin (like that’s going to do anything to a Jedi lol).

Mh, fair enough. Didn´t recall the episode exactly, but seems to be a tough one for editing.

Sorry, but I didn’t edit the main content of those episodes. The council meeting scene doesn’t exist unfortunately, or else I would put it in there.

Unbelievable 😄 What did they thought by writing this.

This is just another problem with transitioning between episodes without the narration. Obi-Wan’s call for help is never shown in the episodes, only mentioned in narration so I couldn’t use it. I’ve noticed that this show is a bit hard to edit into films because major plot points are introduced via opening narration pretty often.

Same as above 😄

That’s where the original episode ended. I think I just need a fade to black and then maybe cut to the Republic fleet emerging from hyperspace outside Geonosis for a better transition.

That sounds good, audio fade out is also important. It ends abruptly.

I’d probably just add a fade-to-black here. I should have utilized the fade-to-black technique more when making this film, because it works well to show a passage of time and makes for an easier transition between episodes. The following installments are better about episode transitions I believe.

thumbs up

I use iMovie on my iPad, which definitely isn’t the best editing software. It was only allowing me the 720p .MOV option so I had to go with that. Though I would’ve liked to render in higher quality, it just wasn’t really an option with my software.

kind of sad, but not your fault. You´re not obligated to purchase a video editor.

Tomorrow i´ll be watching epsiode II and provide my impressions.

So, I finished watching Epsiode I - Path of the Padawan:

First of all, i lift my hat. Really great work. The story per se flows insanely good, I personally never got bored, right amount of humor left. I am happy.

I have some minor issues. You already stated that you’re aware of some unfortunate transitions here and there. So my observations:

• opening crawl
  did you use the right angle for the floating text? It seems off. Also the text disappears to fast, let it fade more. If necessary use additional footage for a transition from the floating text to the space or a new scene

• Obi-Wan and Anakin fighting Ventress
  it is obvious there is footage missing e.g. as ventress is Running up the stairs and the next shot is, that she’s sitting and lurking both to come closer. Add footage back in.

• 0:51:11
  Beforehand they talking about to go to a council meeting and than there is a cut to an mission briefing. I’m afraid this don’t work, you’ve to add the council meeting.

• 1:12:04
  Anakin told the clone to make the ships ready, to be prepared if obi-wan asks for their help. You should add his call for help, because it is strange to see Anakin and Ashoka at the medical station and in the scene afterwards onboard of the ship. The same counts for master plo koon. The transition at 1:12:57 is too hard, somehow make it smoother.

• 1:12:32
  did you do some kind of color correction? If so, the whites are too bright

• 1:34:12
  the cut to the new scene is also too hard. Add footage of obi-wan, anakin, padme back in and make the transition smoother

• 1:54:59 to 1:55:00
  again, the cut is too hard, add source material and fade smoothly

Anything else is fine and works well, from my perspective

Some other questions:
Which application do you use for editing? Is it possible for you to do 1080p? Could you render with less compression, so the files will be bigger but contain more quality (e.g. up to 10 Gb per episode) and use mkv as target file?

jonh said:

V2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18a2L-J2DoSwCi7gJBnv3kTJe0YgQJHPy/view?usp=sharing

Very good 😃
I share the nitpick above.

I read over the crawls again and found two tittle things, I think are unnecessary:

Path of Padawan
„been causing many problems for the Jedi Order…“ - try it without „many“, doesn’t feel sw like.

Fate of the Republic
„The REPUBLIC is completely unaware…“ - same here, don’t use „completely“.

Both are an emphasis, that isn’t needed. It doesn’t add more tragic to the context. Simpler is better.

I appreciate your project, it’s a hell of work.

I think there all working fine now, also there keep your own ideas intact. That’s the important thing here.
And yes, you’re right, we’ve seen maul before. So forget about that comment.

jonh said:

Hello!!! how are you?
I am looking forward to seeing the progress you have made !! 😃
sorry for taking so long to get back, it has been a summer full of work …
here I have the final shot of luke, leia and ben;)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ntpAvvC9J7W20Rftnnn0A-ttmcnRrSLO/view?usp=sharing

Nice work. Ben looks very strange though. What source is that?

My thoughts on the crawls:

„Path of Padawan“:

• „…over the past few weeks…“ I think something like „over recent times“ or „in the recent past“ would fit better for Star Wars atmosphere.

„Children of Dathomir“:

• why „Dark Side“ in capital letters? In my opinion it is unnecessary since we already knew who Asajj is.
• „…has concocted…“ It is a nice word, but not very common, „…has forged…“ is the better choice in my opinion

„An untamed evil“

• don’t recall surely but isn’t it the first time we will see maul after episode I? If so you should leave out Mauls Name, just end it with „his lost brother…“

„Fate of the Republic“

• unbekwonst? uncommon, distracts from reading further (at least for myself as non native english reader/speaker), perhaps „Without the knowledge of the republic…“ or completely rephrase it.

Other than that, I’m impressed. In my point of view good choice of the right amount of context for the individual episodes.

Looking forward to your edit.

What do you intend to use as a source and which quality? Especially for the audio.

So, i figured i will leave my 2 cents in this thread rather than cluster up the thread for Film IV.

As almightycutie stated, this kind of ending is very pleasing (bran kills the night king), although you have to figured out a believable vfx when arya is killed, i like the idea of some blood specs on the NKs face.
I´m in favour of bran being the NK in the end and prevail against the humans, but in your idea with him fucking up kings landing i see one major problem, at least for my idea (in my head): Wouldn´t it be more suitable to let daenrys attack only the red keep before they wage war against the army of the dead? Of course sadly you´ve to cut scenes like tyrion and jamie in the tent, but from a narrative standpoint it always felt more logical to me. since the NK is the great villian everbody is afraid of. So I’m torn, because the scene with Tyrion and jamie in the tent is just perfect and emmy material .

EDIT: what would happen after? What about Daeny? because she sure hell won´t give up her “rightful” throne.

Love that you´ll release the original score and yours with lotr!

Anjohan said:

TAL V2: As promised.

I did promise you all a V2 after some reflecting and analysis, both on my part and the audience’s. I also promised you 5.1 audio channels and to listen to feedback. This has been the priority.

I can therefore announce that V2 is officialy in the works, and that a great deal of major decisions have been made:

• The major re-scoring is heavily trimmed down, and as much of The Phantom Menace OST that i can keep, I will keep. This does not include score additions that made the film better and that was greatly liked - such as The Invasion of Naboo.

• ALL bugs, errors and weird scenes will be removed and/or fixed.

• The additional scenes with Maul in the forest, killing Jedi, will go. Too fanfilm-y. The scene with him talking to Sidious MIGHT be kept. Let’s see how it looks once worked upon.

• The new scenes that DID work, like the opening - Maul talking to hologram Sidious on Tattooine - the ending battle sequences, The Invasion of Naboo etc. will obviously be kept. These made the films a lot better, and were changes that were indeed a welcome one.

• I’m open for adding back in some deleted scenes.

But most importantly, I’m very much opening The Ancient Lore feedback stream again; so do come with suggestions, and loads of them, if you please. 😃

My goal is still to make this into the best, and most radical, The Phantom Menace film there is.

HAIL Anjohan!

What do you use as a source?
I think Bobson Dugnutts Theatrical Reconstruction is phenomanal in all aspects.

krausfadr said:

Version 2.2 will be released today with current pending PM requests sent.

August 27, 2020: ver 2.2 released to fix a video cut error on Exegol when Ren takes the elevator down to see Palpatine. Also now released in 3 different filesizes in High Quality, Good Quality, and Tiny Encode Quality.

All video encodes begininning with ver 2.2 customized for the content with manually defined zones in the encoder command line to increase bitrate (and quality) in specific darker scenes, especially on Exegol. Even the tiny encode file is surprisingly decent for its filesize. Recommended quality to download is Good or High, depending on your bandwith.

Fantastic, will grab the high quality and will let you know about anything that occurs to me.

smudger9 said:

Here is the trailer
https://youtu.be/wyFzIJkC8dY

I like the trailer to diplay/inform about your work, but it isn´t a trailer which leaves a non-knowing third party grabbing or desire it, if that is your goal (my personal opion). Nonetheless, can´t wait for your tremendeous series to movie edit.

Damn nice smudger9, great poster work. Looking forward to your trailer. The last 5% are always micro management and that’s time consuming to the sky^^

krausfadr said:

CMMAP said:

Don´t know if iam hallucinating, but at 0:27:02 - 0:27:10 (knights of ren round-shot) there is some kind of flickering at the head of the knights of ren (not all of them but 2 or 3, if i´m correct).

I hope you’re not hallucinating. I did not change that scene in any way.

Maybe compression issues? Would like to know from others, maybe there is something wrong on my side.

Don´t know if iam hallucinating, but at 0:27:02 - 0:27:10 (knights of ren round-shot) there is some kind of flickering at the head of the knights of ren (not all of them but 2 or 3, if i´m correct).

TheAlaskanSandman said:
I have also been looking into the pros and cons of the 4k versions and whether they are worth it. They are not. They were filmed in 2k and upscaled. So doing mine in 1080p and upscaling would be equal. Plus, movies never render vfx above 2k, even if the movie was shot in 4k. So after the research and debate ive decided to stick with the bluray copies, but may try to use their atmos soundtrack.

Personally, got no problem with that. The upscaling isn’t needed.
If you want to use the atmos track, make sure it is real atmos. Often the studios use this as marketing bate and there is no real atmos track or at least only just one or two scenes.