Hal 9000

That’s discouraging to hear, but I don’t have any advice. 😐

Apparently $30 is how long I have to hold out to adopt a new technology.

I chucked the (not very reliable) optical drive and kept my 1TB HDD.

Incidentally, I just installed my first SSD into my MacBook Pro. Restored from my backup, and started her up.

Oh my God, it’s like a brand new computer! This will be dramatically less frustrating to edit with.

Thanks for saying so, and I’m always glad to hear these are being enjoyed. Ep3 can be a doozy for people who enjoyed the first two, so I’d be curious to hear your reaction to it as well.

I just liked it when I saw it from Nev, since it reappropriated footage that was cut. My thought process wasn’t really much more than that.

Or a movie!

PM sent

V4 is uploading to the Google Drive right now, same place as before. Once I have the chance I will work on getting it elsewhere, too.

TLJ has everything we need.

A hyperdrive malfunction kills everyone.

I’m planning to try doing that.

(OT.com): “We held out to the end.
But the fan editing community has lost all its hope. TROS will have no deleted scenes and is frenetically paced. The spark is out.

A nerdy silhouette lumbers in

“Hal.”

“I know what you’re going to say. We changed our avatars.”

(Hal9000): “They’re nice that way… OT.com, I’m sorry.”

“I know. I know you are. I’m just glad you’re here, at the end.”

“I came to face TROS. And I can’t save it.”

“I held out hope for so long, but I know a satisfying conclusion is gone.”

“No story is ever really concluded.”

Hands OT.com a bottle of hard apple cider

(FE.org): Hal9000.

Hal winks

Walks out onto the salty tears of disgruntled fans.

(TROS): Stop! I want every abrupt scene transition we have to optical wipe at that man.

Scenes fly by at a breakneck speed, nearly as fast as within the movie itself

(Disney): That’s enough! Do you think you got him? A puny fan editor is nothing, our goal is to punish the fan base within that mine.

… blah blah blah …

(Hal9000): Every word of what you just said was wrong. Star Wars fan edits are reborn today. The collective metaproject is just beginning. And I will not be the last SW fan editor.

Smash cut to YOU laying into place a tricky audio patch to an edit point inside a NLE

I would like to apologize for the following.

If I had way more free time than I do, it might be a fun (if ambitious) idea to do a novelization of that script.

Nah. I actually like the quick Mustafar opening. (I mean, if it has to be quick.) He kills people to get a thing, and we understand it’s to lead him to his next destination. Starting directly with Exegol would only make it more rushed.

I guess I could send those to you if you like. But I ended up doing a lot with them. A given scene, or shot, might have 33% of one LUT, 75% of another, and 20% of a third.

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I’ll make a note of it. Might be an excuse to give this one an alternate track like the others.

lol

Just noticed something… Jabba turns down a chance to do the right thing but Vader ends up being redeemed.

The germ of all the flaws of all the Star Wars films that would follow can be observed in ROTJ. It’s also my favorite of them all.

That’d be ideal. If we’re lucky there’ll be enough released material to contrive a partial reversion to an earlier form of the movie, sort of like my edit of ROTS.

Jeez, I wasn’t paying close attention. Is that a sequel to Clerks, or in continuity?

I’m not sure shoehorning in offscreen Carrie dialogue would be helpful, but might be worth taking a look at. I’ve never seen Clerks but wasn’t it made 1991ish?

And thanks for saying that about the synthesized or curated nature of the prequel edits in particular. I guess it’s like a communal soup that many have nevertheless drawn from and further modified in our own bowls. I feel similarly with some of the ROTS edits that have been produced since mine.

As I was reading the Jedi beacon activating and spreading to other planes, I heard the score from Return of the King as the beacons of Gondor are lit.