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EddieDean said:

The Dooku episodes of TOTJ aren’t vital to TCW, as you say, but I definitely think they add value to the prequel movies and work well as a chronological introduction to the franchise and the prequels.

I really hope you enjoy the show!

Totally. I really enjoyed those episodes and was very happily surprised by the whole series.

That’s totally fair 😃

G&G-Fan said:

Drakul said:

I don’t know if your still thinking of doing this but I left the stuff I think would be nice. Personally I’ve never been a hater of this movie. It’s just the Jar Jar antics (not enven the character himself) that annoy me. As well as the midichlorian stuff and a few of Anakin’s childish outbursts.

Then this edit isn’t for you.

I’ve watched his edits before and I like them. He mentioned thinking about this so I’m just providing feedback in case he’s still thinking of doing this.

Hal 9000 said:

For a super canon-friendly, maximalist edit of AOTC, here’s a new change list. Not a replacement for TAS, but a new edit. Here’s what do undo.

Use Sir Ridley’s new title crawl, but with the original AOTC title.

Go ahead and let the camera pan up after the crawl.

Put back Anakin losing his saber and being (more gently?) reprimanded for it. And conversation entering the bar.

Yoda and younglings instead of Mace on platform deleted scene.

Put back little description of Boba Fett.

Put back Obi-Wan and Jango’s dialogue, including name drop of Darth Tyranus.

When Obi-Wan reports to Yoda and Windu, put back Mace asking about the assassination of Amidala.

Maybe work harder to have only R2 leave the ship on Geonosis and save the day, as at least one other edit has done. Ideally not flying, though, as it’d be the only time in the films.

Put back the crowdpleasing saber duel with Yoda.

Sidious can address Dooku as ‘Tyrannus.’

Similarly, just took out the stuff I don’t want.

Use Sir Ridley’s crawl but stick with original TPM title.

Put back the battle droid dialogue to one other, starting when they talk before going into where the Jedi are. (Can still remove “destroy what’s left of them”, but keep “roger roger”)

Have them go underwater to Otah Gunga, but trim it up however you can. Only use the first part of the submarine trip.

Put back the scene descending the steps inside the palace discussing political exposition.

Put back jar jar in the droid bay, but ideally remove “how wude.” (If you can remove all three of its instances, great, otherwise leave 2.)

Make sure to include “sitting ducks.” But can still trim up Ric being so delighted by that little droid.

Put back line, “No more commands from her highness today.”.

Recreate the theatrical version of the engine startup sequence for the most part, but still remove “me no watchin’”

If any cuts remain to the farewell to Schmi, undo them.

Put back Qui-Gon’s line, “Tell them to take off!”

Put back scene on Naboo where the Viceroy sits on his walking throne, originally removed because it references the underwater trip to Otah Gungah.

Put back scene where Obi-Wan apologizes to Qui-Gon and Jar Jar emerges from the swamp. Be sure to remove added line over shot of company approaching gungans.

Put back whole scene between the Naboo and Boss Nass, including Jar Jar’s hesitancy and cowering.

Make it so Anakin still promises Qui-Gon he’ll hide in the cockpit. Make sure to include line referencing this. He can still look like there’s no autopilot.

Put back full death of Qui-Gon scene and follow up conversation with Yoda.

I don’t know if your still thinking of doing this but I left the stuff I think would be nice. Personally I’ve never been a hater of this movie. It’s just the Jar Jar antics (not enven the character himself) that annoy me. As well as the midichlorian stuff and a few of Anakin’s childish outbursts.

And that’s me all caught up! Thanks Eddie for ‘finishing’ the project!
I had gotten all of Smudgers’ movies as they released and so when I came back to the forum to check on status I was sad to see the project ended. That’s when I found your project and honestly, for a fan edit, you completed this in record time!
I think I prefer your episodic format to the movie one since TCW was a series and I prefer to keep it as it was. I downloaded your season 2 last night and will grab the rest in the next couple of days!

EddieDean said:

Tales of the Jedi thoughts!

OK, so I’ve just watched through the six Tales of the Jedi shorts which were just released. Firstly, they’re all brilliant. Lovely little vignettes, and I hope for more. But, importantly, they’re all very relevant to The Clone Wars, or at least the prequel era.

I’d appreciate any additional thought you guys can afford here:

Thoughts!

For me Life and Death is hard to put at the beginning of the series because the tone of TotJ is overall very somber compared to the more bombastic TCW, and we don’t really care about Ahsoka in the beginning so the story doesn’t hit. I wonder if maybe it could be around the time Ahsoka leaves the Jedi Order, with “many years ago…” type of flashback. I think it could be poetic to see her discovery as a Jedi as she leaves the Order.

I like your idea for Practice Makes Perfect. It’s hard to cut it since it works so well together and takes us from showing how Anakin was a great Master to the point of pure sadness with the final sentence and camera shot.
That said I like your idea of putting it around her model change if it works. The latest scene, though amazing, will probably have to go sadly.

Resolve should probable be cut in 2. The first part right at the end of TCW as a sort of epilogue. And the following part maybe as a prologue to Rebels.

The 3 Dooku epsiode, though mostly great, don’t really belong in TCW. Maybe the 3rd one as a prologue but like you said it works better before AotC.

EddieDean said:

As the next episode renders, I’ve been thinking a little about structuring the finale of the show.

Interested in thoughts here.

Again I don’t know if you’re still looking for feedback but personally I keep the movies separate. I don’t like mixing too much media together because it kind of takes me out of it.
I try to keep the movies as pure as possible just trimming some of the annoying aspects which is why I like Hal900’s edits for the PT (I think I have the v3 or v4 but I haven’t been on these forums in years so I plan to check that after I’m done with your thread). For the OT I watch harmy’s de-specialized edits.

So my plan it to watch your show. Stop where it makes most sense. Watch RotS. and carry on.
I’m also interested in the Son of Dathomir content since I’ve never read that comic.

PS:On page 72, making my way and I grabbed your season 1.

Congrats Eddie!

Inspired by this whole project I just binged Tales of the Jedi and really enjoyed it! I love the heavy, melancholy undertone of the series.
The 5th episode when Ahsoka trains was such a gut punch at the end with Rex saying “Let’s hope all that training paid off” and the final shot. Umph! I just love those episodes in TCW that show us (in a way the movies never did) why Anakin was such a great Jedi and why is so tragic that he falls.
My only complaints is that ep.2 is a bit too heavy handed for my taste. The writing could have been more subtle. And the Yoda like Jedi in ep. 4.

I’m still going to through the thread (page 46 right now) and I love your process and am super excited to watch this. Also my best friend, who never really got into TCW, is visiting me next months and I hope I can introduce him to your edit for great effect!

Now i haven’t watched anything yet and I watched TCW as it released so I don’t have any feedback on episodes. And I know you’ve pretty much completed your project so 1. you’re done and 2. you might have already made some changes but I have a few thought I wanted to share just in case.

1. I actually love “snips” (don’t remember “sky guy”) to me it always felt like a term of endearment from Anakin and made me really feel his attachement to Ahsoka.

2. May I suggest you change the title to Dark ForceS Rising to give a neat like wink to the video game?

3. for the clone anthology part. since they are anthology and shorter burst maybe the the context wall of text could be similar to TWC with just one line as opposed to 6 lines over 2 frames.

That’s it I’m out. going to page 47. see you soon ™

I enjoyed Rebels but that was a fair amount of filler/kiddie stuff at times so I’m very excited to check this out.
Can you send me a PM when you get a sec?

Could someone PM me the link for this one?

Man last I check there were 12 pages… I have a lot to catch up on lol

I’ve watched RoS and considering all the implications I’m back to check your edit status 😃
I have v3 but the jdownload file on fanedit for v3 seems broken, can you PM me?

Sound very promising, as usual!

Same as Ash, I used tsmuxer and then imgburn. I don’t really mind making coasters but I really wish I could burn them to watch them in my movie room.

Hey, me again 😛
So i’m having corruption on all the blurays (DL) I burned for the prequel and TFA as well. It’s like visual artifacts across the board, even on your hal9000 intro.
I tsmuxed both with ‘change SEI’ and ‘do not change SEI’ with same results.
Is this something you’re aware of?

Personally if Rose didn’t exist I’d be happy. i don’t mind the character per say but everything she’s implemented in is badly done. The heavy handed ‘slavery is bad’ dialogue, the stupid block of Finn’s sacrifice, the love/kiss for someone she met yesterday…

I just ordered some DL blurays, I’m burning away 😃

Seems I had some corrupted files. I downloaded everything again and it worked with no issues. Thanks for the help.

towne32 said:

What format did you get it in, and what container are you trying to mux it to in the end?

I grabbed the mkv in multi parts though jdownloader. I had to unzip with 7zip because winrar was giving me an error. I tried to tsmux into an iso but got the error so then I got an old version of mkvmerge to recreate the mkv to see if that would fix the problem but it didn’t.

Hey guys, I had the old 2.0 version so I just grabbed the 2.7 but I’m having an issue with tsmuxer crashing around 37.7% and getting this error message “Matroska parse error: invalid H264 NAL unit size. NAL unit truncated.”

I tried remuxing it with mkvmerge but I get the same issue at the same spot.
do you know how I could fix this?

Maybe I can remove and audio track or 2 to make some room?

Hey Hal, quick clarification. I grabbed v2.1 and also the 4GB WAV file. Is that still needed? If so I need to find a way to mix it in.
Also while I used tsmuxer to make an ISO of Cloak of Deception and when I try to burn with imgburn I get a message that the data is too big for a 25GB bluray. Any ideas how to get around that?