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Thanks, man.

Thanks, jonh! And thanks for providing the alternate Obi-Wan shot. I like how the added glow makes the slight aging applied to Anakin a little more noticeable.

Jake, did you do anything fancy to do those cross fades?

Shaped like CGI dinosaurs.

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Just parent and child, yes.

Gotcha. Axlanian is putting one together already, and I’m planning to just add any additional submissions myself, even if they have to be a little quieter maybe. If you’d like to try that’d be fine, but just know he’s also already been getting that going.

Sure, I can update that. Were you wanting to play around with them?

Edit: done.

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I would prefer to keep the Rey-Ben saber pass not to have the cross fade because it telegraphs something it might telegraph too strongly what’s going on. I think the moment invites the viewer to be a little unsure if they’re communicating at first.

I could imagine having two or three of these as Leia reaches out to Ben, though. Nice idea!

Hmm, or maybe as Leia reaches out to him before losing the will to live…

Thanks for continuing to give this attention and care. I like how you have Luke lowering his arm while vanishing. It reminds me of how in the Trek movies they made a point to have people move while the transporter effect is going on, so it feels more convincing and because they could at that point.

I’m happy to use what you’re happy with. The close up of Kenobi seems weird to me, it feels different than the other three. Any reason for that change over the initial version you did?

Nice! What was the source of the music? Did you slow down the speed yourself or was it like that?

It’s a nice surprise, for sure! It’ll be nice at some point to watch through the whole set.

I’m not going anywhere, just magnetically sealing the SW project for my own good.

I tend to obsess over things, and setting a boundary for myself would be healthy. Maybe some other non-SW project could come up, but for me I have considered these to be a few long-term projects rather than hobbies. They just… went on for a long time!

Both, once TROS:A is finished.

I imagine I’ll go on a self-imposed break for at least a little while, but I’ve got no reason not to hang around here. I’ve already been here 17 years!

Hey, save it for the end. Lol

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Have attachments, and avoid spirituality because the first time someone gets angry everyone else dies.

Thanks, guys. I say that not because I haven’t enjoyed this! Just that it’s important for it to have a definite, approachable endpoint.

And anyone is welcome to send in audio clips right up until the last minute! I should be able to fold an indefinite number in, worst case being very quiet.

And I’m tentatively planning to have the DOTF over the duel in an alternate audio track at least, so please send anything you have in mind, SkeletonPack!

Adywan is an order of magnitude more of a powerhouse, working with all aspects of moviemaking. I just drag things around in a NLE and ask people nicely for things.

I apologize for the bump, but I wanted to declare, for my own sanity, an official ‘seal’ against further tweaking:

I will NOT revise this project any further, regardless of good ideas, new resources, or perceived flaws unless each of the following condition is met:

• Genuine HD versions of the DVD deleted scenes become available (no upscale)

This goes for all three prequel films. I won’t bump each one.

Consider this a binding magical spell that can’t be broken without that condition being met. An absolute prerequisite.

On a personal note, thinking back over my long history jacking around with this set of particular movies, I really feel like it’s time to stop. I can’t keep doing this and the obsession needs to end.

I’m going to see this project through, and give it as good a release as we can. I’ll even hold out in order to release an alternate ‘Rey Nobody’ cut.

But once it gets laid in place, there will probably not be a V2. Any and everyone will be more than welcome to take it and run with it to tweak and do with what they please. I’ll put out a lossless audio export and all.

But I have to make a decisive break with this when this is over. Otherwise I’ll see imperfections and be tempted to get sucked back into it. It served a purpose earlier in my life that was helpful, then I went back to it to do it right in 2013, and I’ve been pretty focused since. The prequels have been given several passes, the OT is about as reasonably good as I ever thought they’d be, TFA is wonderful, TLJ is nice, and TROS will be more fun. There will always be unfortunate aspects of them, imperfections, and issues. But I need to let go of them and let them lay.

I thank you all again for continuing to make this last hurrah surprisingly fun, but that’s what it’s going to be.

Here’s a quick mockup of using the unused score for the moment in TFA. I don’t think it’s nearly as effective, and it doesn’t sync precisely to it. It would require me to do a whole new release and encode and all of that, which I reeeeeally do not want to do. And it would only downgrade that movie anyway.

https://vimeo.com/426097526

It doesn’t fit with the music to keep it in, this or any other musical piece that was considered.

It might not be so bad to just put the unused music in TFA instead. I wouldn’t have to do a new render, just audio and remux, and then distribute. If I go that route, I would probably wait for TROS to be completed just to make sure there’s nothing else to do.

If I can tonight, or whenever, I’ll mock it up to make sure it doesn’t, y’know, ruin the TFA moment or anything.