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This is very belated, but I feel like I meant to ask about how I implemented flashbacks in my fan edit of ‘Attack of the Clones.’

Before the scene of Anakin telling Padme about dreaming of his mother, I showed a scene of him winning the Podrace and thus his freedom, and then a scene of him saying goodbye to his mother.

Before the scene of Dooku interrogating Obi-Wan, I showed the scene of Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon dueling Maul. However, I think I went too far in showing Anakin destroying the Trade Federation ship, especially considering that this flashback is supposed to be from Obi-Wan’s point of view.

All in all, do these flashback ideas work, more or less?

If not, how can I use flashbacks in AOTC in a way that’s efficient?

PM sent!

Lately, I played around with editing together the ‘WandaVision’ series as if it were a three-hour film.

This means that I ended up cutting a ton of fun stuff.

At the same time, I feel like I managed to get to the meat of the story in a way that’s still presentable and fun.

You can PM me for a link.

May the Force be with you!

I’m really enjoying the ideas in this thread.

In particular, I love the idea of adding in K2 units in the backgrounds of Imperial environments.

K2-SO was such a funny dude.

4throck said:

Adding color to the Emperor’s shuttle creates a strong connection with the prequels.
And of course solves the problem of reusing the same shuttle on ROTJ again and again 😃

That looks really nice!

Does anyone know if that Sheepish dude from YouTube released his TPM edit yet?

He’s released a ton of great videos about it, but I seriously want to see the finished edit!

NFBisms said:

If you’re working off of New Canon Cut, you absolutely have quality problems. xP

Only in the sense that I felt a need to cut the 30 minutes between Padme’s “I’m preggers” reveal and the opera house scene.

Good news, everyone.

Currently watching my own fan edit on my phone from a link I shared with a friend while making dinner in my apartment, and…

I see absolutely nothing wrong.

Have a great day.

Thanks for your interest.

First, I need to get the quality improved.

JackNapier said:

Sounds fascinating

Thanks! Would you like a link to watch my fan edit?

Also, regarding the continuity error, when I see it myself using a time stamp, I may or may not care too much.

I could leave it in as a kind of Easter egg.

Right now, I’m mostly concerned with getting the quality back up.

Instead of linking to a compressed video, maybe I should try uploading the original video?

Thanks.

I was just hoping for a time that I can use to refer to in the video, as in 0:00:00.

SandMTV said:

There is a contunuity error when Ahsoka and Rex are looking at the door is sparking Rex is sitting at the table and Ahsoka is nest to Rex and two shots later, Rex stood up and grabbed his helmet and Ahsoka approaches the door.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

What’s the time for that?

UPDATE:

Someone has let me know that the quality is kind of low.

All I did was compress the video using HandBrake and uploaded that compressed video to Google Drive.

Would anyone have any suggestions to improve the quality?

Maybe I should try uploading the original video to MEGA?

EDIT:

Specifically, SandMTV said,

SandMTV said:

It is in 360p. And if I go anywhere when the film stars plays, it loads for a long time. When I restart the film it goes to the beginning.

Hal 9000 said:

What about General Dodonna in Rogue One?

What about the droid attack on the Wookiees?

TL;DR:

Cut about 30 minutes out but also inserted most of Siege of Mandalore arc, giving it a runtime just under 3 hours.

OP:

Today, I would like to present a fan edit that I’ve been tweaking and re-editing again and again and again until I finally am 100 percent satisfied with it.

Basically, I started with the New Canon Cut of ‘Revenge of the Sith’ by NFBisms as a solid foundation.

Then, I cut most of the Battle of Coruscant so it seems like Anakin and Obi-Wan head straight to General Grievous’ battle cruiser.

Also cut a couple of quick shots of Grievous so that the audience ends up seeing him at about the same time that Ani and Obi do.

Also cut about 30 minutes of scenes after Anakin’s secret reunion with Padme at the end of Palpatine’s rescue, leading up to Anakin’s talk with Palpatine at the Galaxies Opera House.

I cut all of that footage because I’d always felt that those scenes were way too dialog-heavy without actually moving the plot forward; in this way, I feel the pacing is much better.

1251isthetimethati, a Reddit user, has a video that helped me download all of the scenes from the Siege of Mandalore arc from ‘The Clone Wars.’

Unfortunately, because I really wanted the intro titles to be seamless and everything, I didn’t include the intro to the Mandalore arc.

However, I did include it as a post-credit scene of another fan edit I did, Episode 2: Labyrinth of Evil.

In this edit, I did my best to integrate the Mandalore scenes with the original ROTS scenes while also keeping up the pacing, which means I kind of had to snip off some footage toward the end of a sequence, etc, but I also used wipe transitions where I felt they would work well.

You may also notice that Anakin’s assignment to spy on Palpatine is basically given off-screen, again, for pacing reasons.

There was a point where I was looking for the end of Obi-Wan’s fight with Grievous, and I realized it occurs after the scene where Palpatine reveals himself as a Sith to Anakin.

To me, such timing feels out of place, so I moved the end of that fight to an earlier point where we see Grievous escaping on his motor bike.

I mean, sure, Obi defeats Grievous before Anakin informs Palpatine that Obi has engaged Grievous, but a fight can escalate more quickly than Ani can receive a play-by-play of it.

Toward the end of the credits, I inserted Obi-Wan’s message from Rebels.

At the end of the credits, we can also see the final transformation of Darth Vader.

Another note: It must seem insane, how many times I’ve edited this film, but I feel that I’m finally 100 percent satisfied with it.

Eyepainter, I’d like a link to your fan edit of Episode 2.

Also, sending you my condolences for your family situation.

Oh, okay.

I learned something new today.

I still need to download epub so I can read this.

Personally, I’d prefer a PDF, to be honest; that’s just me.

sade1212 said:

I’d enjoy a PM too. Have you considered doing the ROTS novelisation? I’m not sure if that’d be a bigger task or not. What I’ve read of the novel always really interested me, but I felt it was a shame that it couldn’t reference Ahsoka or TCW because of being released in 2005. You might have to get a little fanfictiony because I doubt there’s a smooth way to include thoughts of Ahsoka otherwise.

I SO want to do this!!!

I’d be just fine with re-typing everything in Word using manuscript format too.

EDIT:

Heck, I already re-wrote the novelization of ‘The Force Unleashed,’ except I made it more fanon in that I replaced Starkiller with, well, my own user name.

Also made the female lead a Twi’lek named Jettana Ademordna.

Also switched the narrative to present tense.

Yeah, I’d be interested.

Did you write it in manuscript format?

I’ve known of The Phantom Edit; it’s just surprising to believe that it’s been such a long time.

Hal 9000 said:

Thanks for the kind words and I’m really glad you enjoyed it! The effort was far from “single-handedly.” Still, happy to be the ambassador for nearly 20 years of fan edits of this particular movie.

Twenty years of fan edits? That’s a long time.

Nice videos!

I just really like the idea of inserting a mid or post-credit scene of Luke coming in to pick up Grogu.

So far, though, each conversion attempt keeps losing the audio, so I’ll put this on the backburner.

UPDATE:

Thank goodness for YouTube!

I was just now able to download an MP4 of the sequence of Luke coming in and picking up Grogu.

Like I said, I plan on making it a post-credit scene in ROTJ.

I’m a bit busy with something else at the moment, so it’s going on the backburner just once more.

Thank you, sidshady12, I appreciate your advice.

You’re right, VLC is just a program; looks like the file format is mkv.

I’ve tried importing the .mkv file into Audacity, but that wouldn’t work.

Also, I’ve converted it to a .avi file, and the audio was lost in that.

Converting it to an MOV file right now to see how that works out.

Excuse me, I meant VLC, not AVI.

My video of the episode is in VLC format, and I had trouble converting it to MP4 without the audio getting converted with it.

It’s odd.