I think your “mad scientist” extensive testing on upscaling the deleted scenes has really paid off! That detail on Obi-wan’s face on the landing platform for example is pretty unreal. I made some comparisons and believe that you have achieved a new gold standard on upscaling these. The shots that no upscale can unfortunately make look good are the establishing shots that are very low detail/ poorly rendered in the original footage (senate dome, Naboo shots). But some detail adding/guessing AI could help improve those.

I would be interested in getting these if you could drop me a link?

Considering how many scenes you cut or shortened I’m surprised you managed to make this 1 h 52 mins long. Of course the movie in it’s “raw” form is the longest of the 6 part saga and inserting deleted scenes back in helps. Excellent work on those by the way, I believe you achieved a new level of detail on them! Personally I would axe much more of the beginning assassination and following chase and keep the asteroid chase but personal preferences and all that…The end ground battle flows well without the Dooku’s war room and some superfluous talking bits.

If I may give a few suggestions for the updated version that I believe you are working on: In the new VFX shot of Obi tracking Jango, you might consider giving Geonosis- planet a zoom out/zoom in- effect instead of it moving up on the screen or adding easing to the motion. When Anakin has a breakdown at homestead and says “Why couldn’t I save her. I know I could have!”, I suggest that you cut the shot just a little bit earlier. Now you can see Anakin starting to move to the left, but it the next shot he sits down, which is a bit jarring cut. Also the voice of Jarjar is little muffled / echo-y in the Padme’s apartment scene. Some AI voice cleaner tool might be helpful with that, at least Adobe has a free one called “Enhanced speech”.

All in all, nice job!

Why is this thread not getting more attention, people tired of AOTC? 😄 Anyway, very interesting list of changes, some of them the very same ideas I have about the movie, and others totally different. Anakin rescuing Padme and droids removed in the factory scene is the only way to go with that scene if left in the movie imo. Then the scene shows Anakin actually protecting Padme (his job) and that act feeds to Padme’s feelings about him.

I’m interested to hear about your DS upscaling process. Did you use Topaz Labs and did you use some new settings to get better results than bryantmh’s deleted scenes? Or some other AI that can reach the Topaz’s quality? Could you maybe post some comparison screenshots?

In any case, I’m interested to check this out so please hit me with a PM!

Very cool to hear about the thought process behind your editing, very educational for the amateur editor like myself. Looking forward to future scene breakdowns!

Sounds cool! Did this combine or recreate multiple efforts to give them a facelift? =D I could take a look.

Sirius said:

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention one thing. There is a Youtuber who further improved the Luke Deepfake made by Shamook, at the end of the second season of The Mandalorian. This Youtuber enhanced the movement of the lips, adding a little more emotion to Luke’s “robotic” expression. Personally, I think it came out really well, and it could look cool in your movie, Acbagel. Here is the link:

https://youtu.be/wk_5QP2NSKM?si=0tUYALSKZ5S6t2z2

While that was pretty good, new tools have popped up since then like LivePortrait AI that could be used to match Luke’s lips to the dialog even more or combined with some voice AI make him speak totally new lines. It can further animate the shots that Shamook made.

Did he ever share the raw files for the Luke- shots here btw? Can’t remember.

This sounds like exactly the kind of subbtle, respectful edit of the movie it needs if you want to see it modernized. I would like to have a link please!

huh did he answer you?
Just assumed it was dead, i didnt see it. it is an old thread after all
PLEEEEEEASE someone link me

Sorry, I had many requests in private messages and somehow I forgot you post(s) and picked up only Jamilion’s request from this thread. You now have a PM.

I made an in-between episode with only the Mando parts that leads to season 3. You can read about it here:

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Mandalorian-Improved-Chapters/id/103346

Although how the season 3 turned out, the footage should probably be part of the heavily edited season 3, similar what mikebailey15 has done.

I would be interested in the The Phantom Menace link as well, please!

Some PMs have been sent!

Here is the shot from HDTV- source. Even in the jpg- format the shot has more detail, for example on Padme’s hair on her forehead and on Anakin’s sideburns:

Here it’s the same with details on Anakin. HDTV source’s grain leaves more detail to the picture. Also the teal tint was introduced on the Blu ray version and was not present in the movie originally and should not be found in BTS and promotional footage:

Schorman has done us all a big favour by meticulously preserving the HDTV version (DVD- version in HD). You can read about it here: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/schormans-HDTV-Star-Wars-Saga-Preservation-Released/id/16702/page/1. I would strongly suggest that for the AOTC you should use the HDTV restoration of that film instead of the Blu ray.

A very commendable project! Your upscale definitely looks more natural with the edges of the distant objects, even if the detail is not increased that much except what the added grain “brings out”. I would be interested to get the links to these please when ready!

About AOTC, are you planning to use HDTV restoration instead of Blu ray since it has noticeably more detail than the Blu ray?

Fullmetaled said:

Alaskan sandman’s project made me wish there was a group a fans that could update cgi in both the prequels and the original trilogy because not all the cgi scenes in the original trilogy were bad.

Fullmetaled, Since you really seem to want updates to CGI, I would suggest to get proactive and organized about it:

-Start a thread, maybe per movie where you list the top 5 (for a start) shots you would want to be updated with CGI. Ask people to mention any fan editors with required skills. Update the thread to know if the work starts on some shot and if/when you get some of the shots done.

-PM the people you think have the skills to pull off CGI- work (more complex than VFX fixing with other methods) and tell your plans to form a CGI- shot pack for everyone to use in their edits.

-Make a cloud storage account(s) (MEGA, Icedrive, something else) and share access to the account/specific files for them to upload their work.

Make it as easy as possible to participate. You would already be asking quite an investment from anyone to produce an all new CGI- shot. EddieDean already has couple of Community Focus Threads for the movies so maybe ask him if he’s willing to help you with this.

PMs sent to Rors and yaoberh.

Cerditodevillapinguino said:

The mkv contains spanish subs?? Thanks in advance 😎

Lo siento, no tiene subtitulo espanol. The movie has only english subs for the alien dialogue. The subs would have taken a long time to edit manually. Since the edit was completed, I have learned there might be some way to do it in the workflow but I haven’t looked into it yet.

Pm sent to MoonDog1999

I must say I’ve been enjoying The Mandalorian just fine in a serialized form through the first 2 season but Acbagel you are right about the disorganized structure of the season 3! You have some very spot on analysis and great ideas above so I would also like the link for your Book 5 to check out what you managed to cook out of the latest season.

In addition to usual fixes, Episode II needs some background replacements for the shots aged most poorly. That would mean building them in some 3d program and since I have not had the time to study such programs yet, it is impossible to give any release date for that project.

I think the bryantmh’s upscaled deleted scenes are considered the best ones “released”. Have you tried PM:ing him and asking for a link?

-Dazman

Thank you for the reviews!

Roo Eee said:

Removing the remarks to slavery was an interesting choice and the reasons for doing so are legit, but I thought it removed some of the weight in Anakin’s mother’s decision to let him go, so I guess I don’t exactly know how I feel about it.

I understand that it takes some weight off the separation but it’s still about mother letting her small child go, although not perfect. And for me losing the badly written slave plot is better than the plot hole between EP1 and Ep2 of Jedi not doing diddly squat to relocate her from slavery. 😄

DeonStar123 said:

I actually really enjoyed this new edit as I have seen it 74 times since acquiring it last year and I have
several close friends who have seen it too.

That’s some hardcore watching DeonStar. 😅 It’s great if you have had fun with it with some friends!

Thank you for the high praise Leovfz!

And PM sent to Roo Eee.

Sharp and stylishly subtle work as always Ady!

adywan said:

One last thing; today marks the last day i will ever rotoscope & enhance a blue lightsaber. I finished the very last Obi-Wan shot (Vader striking him down) earlier today and that will be my last for the Revisited saga. Moving onto green ones for ROTJ. I’ve seen some claim that i just use the videocopilot saber plugin to do the lightsabers, but i can assure you they are all done by hand, frame by frame.

Congrats to not having to touch the blue sabers anymore. Doing saber effects gets tedious real fast, even if one is using the saber plugin, since you have to put in some additional patching to some frames to get the original blade shape.

This seems like straight out of Lucasfilm if they put in the proper effort in the effects. Amazing!

Since PixelJoker was participating in the Kenobi Redux thread I really hope that he is incorporating the great idea from Phase3/Broom kid of Vader getting his helmet sliced by Obi before he buries Obi with the rocks.

(https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Obi-Wan-Kenobi-Redux-Ideas-Thread/id/94986/page/4#1492413)

It would fix the stupid ending of Obi-Wan just walking away from the fight and letting Vader live. This would explain why Obi is not so uneasy in the end scenes because Vader assumes he is now dead. His effects skills would really be needed here to replace the intact helmet with the broken one for those fight ending shots.

Maybe he wants to keep the ending details under wraps until release, but just wanted to remind about the idea. Fingers crossed…

I made some small tweaks to the edit, minor stuff to some color, music blend and last improved lip syncs for Luke. But now it’s online and I have shared the link to everyone interested. I’m trying the new storage site suggested here on some thread. My test with the link failed once but the setting on free version says it should stay up “forever”. So let’s hope the link stays alive.

Hey guys, took a lot longer than I thought but I now have a thread about an Chapter 16.5 of the Mandalorian. It’s here: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Mandalorian-Improved-Chapters/id/103346

This thread is a place for telling about my modified chapters of the Mando series. For now there is only one:

Mandalorian S2.5/Chapter 16.5

This edit is a chapter of The Mandalorian 16.5, set between Seasons 2 and 3. It reunites Mando and Grogu on the Luke’s training planet by combining the mandalorian parts of Book of Boba Fett episodes 5,6 and modified shots of 7 into one episode. With this edit, BoBF can be skipped for those who thought that show just didn’t work. It was a baffling choice to put the reunion into a different show since it’s such a big plot point. 13 modified shots were needed to reunite Mando and Grogu. They go by pretty fast in the final footage. 😅 Some of these were more difficult than I thought initially, so I didn’t get this out before season 3 start as I planned. But this can help with re-watch marathons.

ALSO: No spoilers for Season 3 please! I’m trying to set aside some time to binge me some SW

4K shots of episode 7 were used to make some of the reunion footage. It had to be stabilized in AE because the original reunion happened on the moving cart. The resulting HD image is “zoomed in”. Also the motion blur caused problems on those shots. I had to replicate and delete some frames and animate stills into footage to reduce it’s effects. The result is not 100% authentic but close enough for my taste. Also some AI tools used to help with the result.

In the edit chapter 5 plays out as original on the ring world but the edits begin when landing on Tatoiine to build a custom Naboo N1 starfighter. Jawas are gone and jokes about dating them plus some other silliness that was easy to cut without extensive audio editing work. The test drive and the run-in with the x-wing “cops” continues straight to episode 6 footage and to the Luke’s planet.

The training scenes have been moved around. In the original Luke and Grogu leave the hilltop to go for a walk. When Ashoka takes Mando near them, they are back on the hilltop. In this edit Luke & Grogu start with running/ walking scenes and end up on a hilltop for Mando to see them. In the hut Luke doesn’t give Grogu a strict ultimatum to choose between armor shirt and saber, it’s implied that he just wants Grogu to understand that the training will dominate the jedi’s life and he won’t be seeing Mando much. Ashoka is a more strict one in this edit with the old jedi code. Luke also doesn’t offer Yoda’s saber to Grogu because giving a lethal energy blade weapon to a toddler is not wise teaching. He just shows it to him to give more motivation for training.

There is off course the question of what Mando is still doing on the planet after sent away by Ashoka. This is up to the viewer. Maybe he was still a little upset and was using the lively environment to relax or maybe took a nap on the bench made for him by the builder droids. 😉

There are also a couple of smaller changes:

-I cut Ashoka’s two fan service lines that require knowledge from the animated shows.

-Lighsaber colors for Luke’s and Yoda’s sabers are switched more to pure green from tealish color. Also the effect of lightsaber prop’s dim core is fixed to look like the old school effect:

-Grogu gets his order 66 PTS incident during Luke’s lighsaber training. That way it’s more fresh on viewer’s mind and plays into his choice in the hut to reunite with Mando.

-I modified the training remote to fire smaller lasers and recolored it more to the orange which was the remote’s laser color in ANH I believe. Also the first blast near Grogu is smaller and not in his face so much. The thought here is that Luke sets the remote to smallest setting to compensate for Grogu’s size.

Runtime: 1 h, 9 mins
File: MKV, contains MP4 video and 5.1 EAC3 and AC3- tracks
Size: 4,7 G

My other edits:

The Phantom Menace - Improved Edition: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Phantom-Menace-Improved-Edition-10-years-on-the-forum-edit-Released/id/91544

Avengers: Age of Ultron – Improved Edition : https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Avengers-Age-of-Ultron-Improved-Edition/id/65907

Prometheus - Improved edition: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Prometheus-Improved-edition-Released/id/68622

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - Improved-Edition: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-Vol-2-Improved-Edition-Released/id/73451

Iron Man 3 - Cut and Chromed Edition: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Iron-Man-3-Cut-and-Chromed-Edition-Released/id/87734