G&G-Fan

ArtisDead said:

This sounds very interesting after reading the entire thread. Really interested in seeing all of your corrections. Might I get links? Thanks!

Tony

Thank you very much! Yes I will send you the link.

TestingOutTheTest said:

Why don’t you plan on doing the Disney/sequel trilogy?

Because I’m among those that dislike it. I liked the Force Awakens but it’s two sequels make me realize that they never should’ve made the trilogy in the first place. I’m not making edits for it because they can’t be edited in a way that would be satisfying to me. The prequels had some issues with execution (though I think they nailed it with ROTS) but the stories themselves and their ideas were amazing. The lore that has come about because of the prequels is incredible. I can edit them into great movies. The sequels on the other hand are fundamentally flawed, they just undo the first 6 movies with way worse characters and stories. The first six movies feel like a continuous story, but 7-9 don’t feel congruent with them at all. It’d be like if I wrote a complete story that came full circle with all loose ends tied, but then somebody else came in and added on to it in a way that made the events of my story completely pointless and then redid it all but worse. I don’t consider it canon to my Star Wars edit-verse (my personal canon in which these edits are in). Mandalorian, Vader Comics, Rogue One? Hell yes. Love those. In fact because of those I think Disney’s acquisition of Star Wars is overall a good thing, especially with what they’ve done with Vader (making him the most powerful Sith instead of a sad shell). Sequels? No.

Anakin/Vader is my favorite movie character of all time and IMO the center of Star Wars (he’s front in center of the image I chose on the front post for a reason; for me, Star Wars is Anakin’s story. That’s not to say I don’t love the other main characters in the prequels and originals, I do, but to me Anakin is the core). His story is incredible and one of the best ever conceived for a fictional character. The fact that they legit made his entire story irrelevant with the new trilogy is almost personally insulting to me.

I know it may seem counterintuitive to not make edits for films you hate but make edits for films you like, but to me, I’m much more willing to put time into improving a film I like but feel there are flaws I’d like to remedy vs. a film that I flat out dislike for fundamental reasons. Even if IMO a movie is just ok I’m still willing to experiment with it to see if I can make something that I really like, rather then a movie I flat out dislike.

That edit’s version of the Alderaan destruction scene is the best

Just curious, is your copy of SC 38 downloaded YouTube or do you have the uncompressed file? Since I support FXItInPost on Patreon I have a high quality copy for my own edit.

Thanks for being understanding.

Is there one of the two you prefer?

Honestly, the only reason my Revenge of the Sith edit isn’t out yet is because my editing program is being a real bitch, it won’t load the audio from the scene where Obi-Wan tells Padme about Anakin all the way to the end. And this isn’t the first time it’s been fussy like this, sometimes I’ll load up a project and the audio just won’t work. In those cases it usually fixes it after reinstalling but for ROTS it’s just too stubborn. So I’m getting a new editing program. I was using VideoPad Editor and now I’m going to try out DaVinci Resolve.

I apologize for this, I know the wait has been kinda ridiculous considering my ROTS edit is bit more lax then others, but that’s what’s been going on.

I’ve also been kinda debating something on Return of the Jedi. Since I’m moving the Dagobah scenes to earlier (after the scene with Vader on the second Death Star) as a way of having it so Luke got more training from Yoda between ESB and ROTJ, I’ve considered two ways to have the rescuing Han plot line work:

1. Show Luke leaving Dagobah after those two scenes using ESB footage (Yoda’s death and his talk with Obi-Wan’s force ghost are back to back, as in the actual movie) and then wipe to C-3PO and R2-D2 arriving at Jabba’s Palace and have the rest of the rescuing Han plot line be the same as the original (except I’d move the Emperor’s arrival to after Han is imprisoned and before Luke arrives so it doesn’t take too long for us to see what the bad guys are up to. Plus going from the Emperor and Vader discussing Luke to Luke arriving at Jabba’s palace I feel work’s quite well).

2. After two Dagobah scenes, we wipe to the evening shot outside the palace and then cut to the SE max rebo band intro (not Jedi Rocks, but the little jazz number before it; this little bit is fun and this quickens the pace I feel; this would also be done for option 1) before cutting to the scene of Leia turning Chewie in. C-3PO, though not R2-D2, is already at the palace (opening crawl says he’s there along with Lando as a part of Leia’s plan to infiltrate Jabba’s palace). Then after Han and Leia are captured and imprisoned, we see Luke leave Dagobah, then Emperor’s arrival, then Luke’s arrival at Jabba’s palace (and therefore R2 as well), and the rest plays out like normal.

I see benefits and negatives to both. With option one I can retain the slow buildup of Jabba and his palace and it also wouldn’t have it so we’re kinda just dropped in the palace and so later on R2 just kinda happens to drop in and we have to assume he came in with Luke (though I don’t feel like this would be much of a problem to be honest). With option two I feel like it could quicken the pace and also makes Luke’s plan make more sense; instead of everybody coming in one at a time and it relying on everything going wrong beforehand (like, if Jabba accepted the bargain for the droids, was Luke planning on actually giving up the droids, even though they’ve proven very valuable and R2 has his lightsaber inside him? And if Leia successfully freed Han without getting caught, are they leaving the droids there?), it’s “Leia had a clear plan but it failed so now Luke has to come to save everybody”.

I also noticed that the film was kinda compressed, have you fixed that?

I apologize if I’ve already asked, but would anyone be able to provide me with Adywan’s color corrected version of the 2011 ANH Blu-Ray?

May I ask what was used to do this upscale?

I’d still love to see one of the OG ANH:R, not only because it seems like it’s going to be a long wait for the 720p version but for preservation. There are some things that are going to be changed for the 720p version after all. Honestly if I can figure out how I’d be willing to do the upscale myself.

Artifacts free version? What do you mean?

Darth Muffy said:

Could we maybe use the new Video Enhance AI software method to enhance the current Adyan Editions till HD versions are about ? 🤔

I’d kill for an HD ANH:R

I really love the color grading, it actually makes the movie look almost new.

Uhhhh, why? It makes perfect sense for Dooku to get an extremely skilled bounty hunter to be the template for the clones.

Very nice work! Still very excited for ROTJ:R and ANH:R HD.

That image of C-3PO falling should be a meme, I loled when I saw it

Forgive me if I’ve already asked this, but is the edit idea of Vader saying “Your mother once thought as you do” rather then “Obi-Wan…” still happening?

Also I have a suggestion: maybe during the saber duel, when Vader walks down the stairs after having thrown his lightsaber towards Luke on the railing, he uses the force to pull his lightsaber back to him, which explains how he gets it back.

Will there be a 1080p version of this? My computer can’t watch 4K videos.

krausfadr said:

I’ll make this deal with you G&G-Fan, when Adywan releases his edit in HD, I’ll consider incorporating limited parts of his edit. If he only releases a 1080 I’ll be very selective about what I would upscale.

That sounds awesome! Thank you!

When Anakin kills Dooku in ROTS, it’s edited so that Dooku shoots first right before Anakin slices his head off to not make Anakin look like a cold-blooded killer.

May I ask how this edit is going?

I do have a couple suggestions. I think it would be really awesome if this edit added the lights on Vader’s chest box to be consistent with the rest of the saga, and fixed the Luke lightsaber jumpcuts. I also think replacing the bland original white Death Star plans with the red Attack of the Clones ones during the Rebel briefing would be really cool.

Oh okay, Adywan and Possessed did it for their edits so I just wondered if you would be able to do it as well. I was thinking about possibly using your edit as the base for mine.

Just to confirm you know what I mean, notice the difference on Vader’s chest on the Blu-Ray vs. Possessed’s edit

It’s great to hear that you’re fixing the lightsabers though!

Huh? The three lights are on the same place on Vader’s chest plate in ANH as they are in the rest of the movies, they just don’t ever blink red.

krausfadr said:

what’s wrong with vader’s chest?

You know this?

The three lights on the top left blink red in every movie except A New Hope.

I think it would be really awesome if this edit added Vader’s chest box lights and fixed the Luke lightsaber jumpcuts.

For anybody looking for the Spence Final Cut edit of Return of the Jedi, I managed to get my hands on it from a fanedit.org member so you can ask me.

I’m looking forward to seeing the new VFX

I know the one for A New Hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1d3QWsyk0