EddieDean

Ooh! Certainly worth keeping an eye on.

I’m optimistic. Sounds like the first episode of Star Wars Tales from the Underworld features Ventress after the plot of her cut Clone Wars episodes that became a novel instead. It looks like there’s a plot point from the books that they’re undoing (I won’t be specific due to spoilers) but if it does that I may make an edit of it which doesn’t acknowledge the plot point they undo, so it can smoothly avoid the novel (and thus work cleanly as a continuation of TCW:R) for those who haven’t read the book.

Ooh, new animated show is going to be a Maul show! Love that, there’s still so much to this character to enjoy.

JoyOfEditing said:

EddieDean said:

Please keep all your edited shots well organised and on hand, I can see the community being very interested in building up a library of options!

Way ahead of you, Cap’n! Phase3 and I are tag-teaming on quite a few effects shots/restorations at the mo’, and I’m already beginning to organize a library of all of the work we’re doing. Not sure exactly how it’ll be hosted, but we’re recomposing/restoring shots from all six of George’s films, so there’ll be plenty for folks to play with.

Much appreciated, that’s awesome!

Please keep all your edited shots well organised and on hand, I can see the community being very interested in building up a library of options!

MK, I prefer to keep control over my own distribution, especially of Clone Wars Refocused (since it’s best understood via a spreadsheet, among other things). But I’d be happy for you to incorporate a link in your DB directing people to PM me or to my thread.

There haven’t been any major edits since 2022, and the project is pretty much mature and complete, but I still gather every bit of feedback. I don’t expect to need further polish, but I do welcome and record all feedback just in case the whim takes me when I have a rare chunk of time. I had hoped to make some changes earlier this year but it didn’t pan out. Subtitles are still being worked on by collaborators though, those are getting added as they’re available.

Goob, are you cutting out the helicopter blades? I found an elegant solution in my Rebels Ahsoka-focused movie.

Amazing! Do you mind if I host those alongside the movies? Crediting you, of course!

That’s really awesome. Definitely seemed like you were more than amateur! St. Andrews is a lovely town- great beaches if they’re not full of jellyfish! I’m an Edinburgher, currently on holiday at Loch Tay, so I know the area! 😉

It’s good to have you with us, I think the community would agree that we’re really enjoying the fresh eye you bring with your videos. Star Wars editing, especially of the prequels, has gone through a couple of phases, each growing on the last, over the last couple of decades. I’d argue we’re in the third phase of that right now with AI voice lines and so on being available, and a lot of your cuts are novel even in this fertile environment.

Your goals are interesting - also novel, they’re a bit more aligned to the mythological/poetical narrative language than we’re used to - but I think it’s likely we’ll see edits stealing many of your scenes in future. Something a little more aligned to canon, perhaps Hal’s detail + Spence’s pacing + your scenes + elements of restructuring from all three, with a dash of new CG and AI voicelines, could be very appealing here.

You absolute beauty!

Are you doing any colour work on these? I remember about a year back you’d changed the colours on some versions, and finding some of it a bit stark. And are your black levels changing from the original through your pipeline?

Oh, and side question: Are you preserving the resolution shift with the Krayt Dragon reveal in the relevant movie?

This is all excellent, Joy. You have a great eye. What’s your editing background?

Wonderful! I can’t take credit for the structure of s01e09 and s01e10 - I stole it wholesale from Smudger9! But most of the rest of the restructuring is a combination of my ideas and those shared by the excellent collaborators in this thread. Gotta credit Smudger where it’s due though! 😉

You’re out of the weaker content now, so it should just get better and better from here on!

Season two subtitles have been added, thanks to g00b ❤️

Sounds excellent. Have you settled on what you’re keeping of BoBF (present day) and Mando season three?

Yeah, big points for bringing a new perspective to editing and adding to the discussion here Joy. And your micro-edits within scenes are very impressive too. You might enjoy reading Hal’s Rise of Skywalker Ascendant thread (https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Rise-of-Skywalker-Ascendant-Released/id/71835), that one’s the most impressive project from the perspective of having so much collaboration on it.

They wouldn’t have complete narratives that way. The request there has always been for extended versions.

valaquen said:

EddieDean said:

Folks, not quite a promise as who knows how life goes, but it looks like I’ll have some time coming up soon to put a bit more work into this. Is there anything I’d previously promised, or anything else relevant to TCW, that you guys would like me to prioritise? (For example, minor fixes, extended versions of episodes, etc)

I was wondering if you managed any work on this? Your edits are top notch.

Unfortunately not - life’s got away from me again. I’m still interested to hear any priorities, and I record them all, but I don’t know when I’ll get back to this. I definitely consider the project open still, though.

Now’s a great time for anyone to give feedback on the current four episodes, especially around flow/narrative/time jumps/scene ordering. If anyone’s planning a rewatch of this before season two, collect your thoughts and drop them here and I might make some revisions in order to have the full nine movies in their best possible state once they’re all done.

Well, Lucasfilm have just announced that season two will be released with three episodes each week, which appears to completely confirm that it’ll effectively be four movie-length arcs each made of three episodes.

Time to get ready to edit it as such and complete this project!

You’re out of the woods - the first two plus Assassin are the weakest. Rest of the season is good to decent, and then it’s properly great. I’d be interested to know what you found interesting about the early discussion!

Really excellent! Easy subscribe. The thought processes are fascinating. Are you intending to release full movies, or if not, I’m sure this community would love access to your raw scene outputs!

Yeah, it’s one of those things I think where canon should be determined by cultural weight. We recognise Hayden’s Anakin more than Shaw, so despite the questions it raises, I’d always advocate for Hayden.

The tricky one is Padmé’s death. I can’t determine which has the strongest weight in the cultural hivemind - “I remember my mother” versus her dying onscreen in childbirth.

Not that I’m aware of, but I haven’t been looking out for it.

Hal 9000 said:

Had an idea for a small tweak, which I implemented in my editor. I swapped two R2-D2 sound effects during the scene where Luke meets Obi-Wan, so that he now responds to Obi-Wan saying he never owned a droid with a “sad beep.”

Love it!