Daiyus

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Could I please get any updated links? I’, really looking forward to rewatching Book 4.

Could I get the link for Book 3 please?

Could I please get links to the updated versions?

That is incredible work. I’d happily watch the entirety of RotS as Clone Wars episodes instead of live action after watching that.

I definitely agree that the swift passing of time plays out much better now, with Syril at home with his mother, ISB adapting following the heist etc. It’s a much more believable passage of time and you can see things happening day by day. I think you’ve done an excellent job with it overall, and can completely understand why the scenes sit in the order they do. I think this may be one of the reasons I noticed the Luthen/Mon/Tay disconnect so prominently, so that in itself is a testament to how well it works.

EddieDean said:

• I’ve completed the reordering for Movie 3. It’s far, far better paced now, and time passes consistently in all three plotlines, including around the time jumps, multiple scenes in a single day, and references to the timeline. I’m happy to call this scene ordering ‘final’, as it tells this story nicely - as nicely as the other three movies, at least. Everything gets its due the three plotlines are well balanced throughout.

I’m currently about half-way through the third movie. I binged the first two last night, and absolutely loved them. You’ve done a fantastic job, and the plot lines flow wonderfully. Andor really does work so well as movies.

The only wrinkle I’ve felt so far throughout the third movie is the timeline for Mon Mothma; when she’s talking to Luthen the night after the heist asking if it was him, they talk about a meeting with a “saviour to access your family funds” scheduled for that evening. This feels like she’s referencing the party scene where Tay Kolma is introduced. As it stands in Workprint 2, Cassian manages to go to Ferrix, spend the night, leave the next day, get to Niamos, establish a casual relationship (days/weeks?), get arrested and get sent to Narkina-5 before that meeting happens.

I know balancing the timeline against plot pacing is something you’ve been grappling with heavily, and it’s not an easy task. This is the only thing I’ve noticed so far that made me ask questions instead of being completely drawn in. Overall one could argue the meeting Mon was originally referencing fell through, which is why she called Tay and it’s taken some time to set up the meet? Or maybe a little trim during the morning scene to make it just mention the reschedule, without the “it’s tonight” line?

I’d just like to say again how much I’ve enjoyed watching these so far. The little character moments that typically get cut are so welcome to see in this less radical cut. I can’t wait to finish 3 and watch 4.

fernferro said:

i’m really interested in seeing this, the bad batch season 2 entertained me more the mando S3!
i think the most intriguing part of the series if what the empire is doing everywhere,the transition of the Republic to Empire.

I agree with this. I often watch the whole Saga in chronological order, and going from RotS and the last few Clone Wars Refocused episodes straight into Solo is a bit jarring now. It needs Bad Batch to fill in those really juicy political transition pieces.

I’d really like links to your updated versions please. Can’t wait to see how they’ve turned out after all your hard work.

How about “Discontent” for movie two?

It describes Mon Mothma’s home life, and the internal politics of the ISB. It also reflects the views of the few natives that still go to watch The Eye on Aldhani.

For me, Andor strikes very much at the double edged sword of rebellion. Other Star Wars stories focus on heroics, and saving the day with a general leaning towards happiness. There triumphs and tribulations, sure, but nothing shows the bleakness and hardships required to make effective political change as much as Andor.

I think Luthen’s monologue hits exactly the right term “Sacrifice”. “Andor: Sacrifices” probably wouldn’t work, but something along the lines of “The Price of Rebellion” might be more towards what we’re looking for.

I’d definitely like links for these as they become available please. They sound perfect!

Andor is definitely a series that only needs a light touch. The idea of keeping all of the content but making concise chunks out of it all sounds amazing. There’s some objectively phenomenal edits out there for this series, and full credit goes to those authors, but every time I try one I feel like I just want to watch the full-fat version again. I’d be very interested in seeing your vision for this presented.

SpenceEdit said:

Daiyus said:

There was an audio shadow we noticed from one of the deleted lines during the podracer build; you can just hear C-3PO’s line about Jar Jar being an odd creature. I think the only continuity error I noticed was during the podrace; Anakin does his barrel roll over Teemto Pagalies, but then a few shots later we see Anakin moving up the field to pass him again down the canyon.

I’m having trouble locating this audio shadow, you wouldn’t be able to pinpoint where it is, would you?

Sorry it’s taken a while to get back to you, it’s been a mad few weeks. I’m definitely going to have to accept egg on my face at this point, because upon hunting for it this morning I can’t find it again either. I’m not quite sure where it came from on my first viewing, but I can only apologise for the inconvenience.

So I finally got round to watching TPM with my daughter. It’s amazing how we didn’t feel like anything was missing. I thought I’d feel the lack of C-3PO or midichlorians, but it works really well. Jar Jar is one of my daughter’s favourite characters (one of the reasons I wanted her perspective, she’s 11), and she really appreciated the slightly more deliberate, but clumsy version of him. So many editors try and remove him entirely, but we felt this was a great balance.

The additional scenes were great, I really appreciated the probe droid deleted scene, and the fist fight. Keeping Maul out of the picture between Tatooine and Naboo is also brilliant as it lends more weight to Ki Adi Mundi’s “draw out the queen’s attacker” line.

Anakin’s role in the battle of Naboo is now much more consistent with the character, which is great, and his destruction of the command ship allowing Padme to turn the tables in the throne room is inspired, albeit I felt that scene comes in a little abruptly. Is there any way to use some of the battle shots in the throne room but mask the blaster fire to show the droids breaking down before launching into Padme’s “new treaty” line? It only needs a couple of seconds I think.

There was an audio shadow we noticed from one of the deleted lines during the podracer build; you can just hear C-3PO’s line about Jar Jar being an odd creature. I think the only continuity error I noticed was during the podrace; Anakin does his barrel roll over Teemto Pagalies, but then a few shots later we see Anakin moving up the field to pass him again down the canyon.

I know the above is a bit picky, but please be assured that overall we had a great time, and this is now our favourite version, so it’s going into our anthology playlist. We can’t wait to see your AotC and RotS edits!

I’d like to have a watch of your Phantom Menace edit, please. It sounds really good!

Their whole design was giving me Knights of Ren vibes too. Could be an interesting backstory to tie into the sequels.

Acbagel said:

It’s looking like Ahsoka can be turned into a 1-2 movie experience. I believe it is intended to run chronologically concurrent with Mando S3 content? I’ll get to Ahsoka one day, especially if there happen to be any crossovers with Mando. When this site was down I started playing with the first couple of episodes. Combat is much better than other shows, but man even there we’re getting lightsabers flip-flopping directions between cuts and other goofs. Baylan’s hallway scene was very sloppy, but it will be fixed one day!

I think it is running concurrently, yes. I believe that Ahsoka helps Din with Morgan, then goes to Luke. Once we’ve had Din watching Grogu from a distance with Ahsoka, she leaves Luke (“will I ever see you again”), that’s when she’s off to collect the map, so Ahsoka S1 fits in right in-between B5/B6, or alongside B6/7. I can easily believe it’s taken Baylan from Book 4 to the end of Book 5 to track Morgan down and rescue her kicking off the events of the Ahsoka show.

It’ll be interesting to see how Sabine’s arc plays out. We’ve already been told that her family died in the Purge, during their first tenure as Master & Padawan; it’s even hinted by Baylan that the reason they died is connected to Ahsoka. Sabine is a Mandalorian, with connections to the Mandalore of old, so I’d like to think that if she survives Peridia and comes back, she’ll be somewhat interested in what Din & Bo-Katan have been up to. That’ll be the Mandalorian link between the shows at least. Be interesting to see what happens in the final 3 episodes!

I’d be interested in a link please.

I would just like to throw my hat in the ring to say I respectfully agree with EddiDean with regards the the BoBF content, now that I understand your intent with that content.

There’s some absolute gold in there, and I felt the original intent if this project was to meld the best of both series.

I was in many ways hoping you’d expand into the Ashoka content so that we could watch a refined New Republic era with all the various major plotlines intact, melded together in chronological order. Of course, this was entirely wishful thinking on my part and no expectation is implied.

Back to the topic at hand, as Eddie has said, it’s your project, and I’ll respect whatever decision you make, but if we lose that much Boba content I feel it will be detrimental to my personal viewing enjoyment, and potentially your audience more broadly.

I’m definitely on-board with some restructuring of the N1 test flight, pull over and pirate dogfight scenes. It was about the only sequence of the film that felt a little out of whack for me.

In my opinion, they both (or one or the other) need to happen before R5 is put in the fighter, as despite your best efforts, Grogu’s bubble is too visible in the pull over sequence. That means a clean flight away from Tatooine after landing and retrieving R5.

Both scenes end with the use of the boost, and I honestly don’t think the pull over scene adds anything new that previous scenes or the pirate dogfight don’t. The pirate scene shows the fighters manoeuvrability and speed capabilities without needing to repeat that by escaping from the X-Wings, and we already know Teva has a soft spot for Din following the ice-planet/spider debacle. The only problem is context of how the pirates know it’s him in an unregistered ship. Maybe a spy in Mos Eisley and line to reflect that from the pirates?

As for your proposed Book 6, that has me very excited. It’s an extremely different way of working through the content, and I think it’ll work overall. I’m particularly interested to see the monster battles being re-framed as Bo-Katan training the clan. My only concern there would be that the ending of Book 5 clearly showed the Mandalorian Clan being offered a place on Nevarro. How are you intending to frame that Bo-Katan is taking them off world for these training runs? Or why they haven’t yet moved to Nevarro?

Can I get added to the “people who want a copy” list too please? I’m so excited for this one!

Awesome! Sounds great. Can’t wait to see it in action.

Update: I really like what you’ve done with this. You’re right, the music works really well going from the bike to Vader, and the fade transition from the Inquisitor to Ezra is much smoother. Great work as always g00b.

g00b said:

Daiyus said:

I think my main feedback for the Familial Bonding episode is the jump between ending the Fighter Flight arc (which I like as is by the way) and moving into the Phantom scene is a bit jumpy. That’s where the episodes naturally break, but I don’t know if there’s some transitional shots that can be recovered from somewhere to link the two by showing the Phantom being launched or something in between? Maybe some kind of “onto the next mission” voice over?

The only other part I feel is jumpy is the very beginning of the first episode cutting to Ezra on the rooftop, although I’m not sure what/if anything can be done about that.

Overall I think you’ve done fantastic work g00b, I hope I don’t come across overly critical. I’m looking forward to each V4 episode as they come out.

Thanks for the feedback Daiyus! All feedback is welcomed by me. It helps make the edit better and helps me grow as an editor. You also don’t come across overly critical!

I agree that it can jump sometimes (especially these episodes BC Ive essentially cut half of them!) I thought about a bridging scene or something but I couldn’t find anything worthwhile so settled for a wipe. Wipes tend to signal a passage of time in Rebels, so that’s good enough for now I guess.

Ive also changed that cut with Ezra on the roof a few times 😂. Originally, it was a fade but because of cutting I’ve got so little footage there it wasn’t worth it. Eventually and reluctantly, I chose to just have a regular cut so you can see the grand inquisitor.

For both cuts, I’d love any ideas/bridging scene ideas, to use to smooth them out.

Having re-watched the official Rebels introduction (first time I’ve done that in a while!) I think you just need to include the bridging shot of Ezra on his bike following the Star Destroyer, then swiping onto the rooftop before the logo hits. I think the problem would be trying to fit all that in with the Grand Inquisitor and the opening with the planetside Star Destroyer, rather than the original space ones.

Perhaps opening directly to the Grand Inquisitor/Vader, without a Star Destroyer set-up and then flowing into the planetside Ezra/Star Destroyer intro with the bike, then wiping to the rooftop? I’m not sure what would be best for pacing or thematically, but I do think going from the bike to the rooftop somehow would smoothen the introduction.

This is looking great. I’m very excited to see the changelog for Book 4, let alone the actual edit! Having a whole movie without Grogu will hopefully make the reunification an emotional moment, rather than the disappointing flip flop it is in the original material.

As for the Boba sniper scene in Book 3, a “grab the armour” line from the scavengers would tighten this up brilliantly, I think it’s an excellent idea from DarthMeme.