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- #372835
- Topic
- A new edit of Empire Strikes Back (Released)
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/372835/action/topic#372835
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Sorry for the lame title of this thread. I’ve been toying around with the idea of doing my “perfect edit” of The Empire Strikes Back in anticipation of ESBR. There’s a few things that just drive me nuts about the 1997 version. Here’s what I want to do:
- Remove shot of Wampa writhing in pain with its arm cut off
- Restore Vader’s original line of “Bring my Shuttle” when leaving Bespin
- Removing additional shot of Vader walking to the shuttle
- Removing Vader’s shuttle arriving at Super Star Destroyer scene (I would deleted the shuttle flying to the Super Star Destroyer scene too, but the music cut is too jarring, unfortunately).
- Keeping the new Emperor scene from 2004.
- Removing Luke’s falling scream, yet again.
Here’s the elements I have:
- Adywan’s 14 gig color-corrected version
- Wookiegroomer’s 40 gig color-corrected version (for new Emperor scene)
3)Adigitalman’s Edit of Episode V (with Bring my shuttle line-will need to re-encode at 640k Dolby)
I have the following software available for use:
TsMuxer, Sony Vegas, DVD Lab Pro, Sound Forge 9
I’ve done some basic editing at DVD level before but don’t have a clue on where to begin for HD editing. Unfortunately I don’t have any knowledge or time to properly learn Sony Vegas so I’m hoping someone can briefly, if possible, walk me through this.
Essentially, the work itself shouldn’t be too difficult. I think TSmuxer will let me cut segments out of the M2Ts files although I’m not quite sure how to do it. I just want to cut out the few shots, re-encode the DVD audio for the Bring my Shuttle line to 640k and replace the audio in that scene to what it was before, and then finally–rejoin the files.
Does anyone have some ideas on the easiest way to go about doing this? I plan to post this to Usenet once completed! 😃