Hal 9000

Very glad to hear you enjoyed them! Let me know how 3 goes for you, it’s a doozy.

Elchango said:

Hi could I get access to your fan edits please?

Thank you.

Just responded to your PM.

See the FAQ on the Google Drive. The quota message is always temporary, and the edits are in higher demand with TROS nearly upon us. I seed the torrents but can only do so from behind my VPN. Please try again later with the Drive.

Not saying I’m a fan, just that I can appreciate ANH’s but not ROTJ’s.

(I included ANH’s in my project mostly because I didn’t want it to feel at all jarring after going 100% with the SE battle up to that point.)

Lol, nice.

I predict Kylo Ren will cut Rey’s head off.

I can understand what the praxis wave adds to ANH, with the soundtrack mirroring its visual oomph. I’ve never felt that way about ROTJ’s.

The following contains spoilers from The Mandalorian…

There were a few shots related to Mos Eisley that could potentially be useful.

Well, don’t count on me for it. My free time is next to nonexistent.

SwimmingBird27 said:

I’ve always found that a Tarantino style bounty hunter film would an interesting prospect.

This is the way.

https://youtu.be/9dDU8PJXgsM

crissrudd4554 said:

Article on visual changes.

https://thedigitalbits.com/featured/articles/sw-new-hope-disneyplus-4k-2019?showall=1

Very nicely done!

Being mistaken for Adywan isn’t something to take offense to.

Not to mention jettisoning half of Carrie’s final (and wonderful) performance.

He’s SuperShadow in heat.

Maybe someone will post cam footage of a theater crowd reaction to ‘maclunkey.’

That’d certainly save me the trouble; the unorthodox (or perhaps overly orthodox) opening is all I’d want to tweak.

Lol, you guys

Well, I’d certainly welcome a full-throttle encode if you’d ever do one.

All I really want to do is slap in the original opening, free of fanfare and crawl, and somehow include your ‘The Coaxium Heist’ title, but otherwise leave it alone. Just to have it fit in with the other movies. I love this edit and I love that I don’t have to trudge out into Solo myself. Thanks again for the great work here.

If anyone reading this is so inclined, PM me if you’d like to replace the original shot that contains the “Solo - A Star Wars Story” with one that says “The Coaxium Heist.” I think that’d be pretty sweet, and I’d love to just toss out a version with merely an alternate opening.

lol, well I’m glad I could save you some trouble for a change.

It will be appearing shortly at the normal Google Drive link.

And hey, be my guest to mock up such artwork. 😃

Rogue One changes (Hal9000)

This is Version 4 of this project.

(The only difference between versions 3 and 4 is to take advantage of Burbin revising his work on compositing Shamook’s deepfaked footage of Tarkin and Leia to take advantage of superior source material provided by Shamook.)

I love Rogue One. It’s honestly the most visceral fun I’ve had in the theater in the past few years. It was the first Star Wars film not to have me feel apprehensive, being the first spinoff film. It was ‘extra credit,’ and so I felt free to enjoy the good and not be bothered by parts that didn’t work as well. This edit is in recognition that a few tweaks would help the film, though.

This fan edit is largely a diet version of DigModification’s own Rogue One fan edit. But, since I made it for myself, may as well share it in case it would hit the spot for anyone else.

5.1 DTS audio (thanks to ChainsawAsh)
5.1 640kbps AC3 audio
English, Spanish, and French subtitles (Spanish provided by Burbin)
Chapter stops

(No title crawl has been contrived, location labels have been left alone, and no feathered wipe transitions have been employed.)

• Used opening logos and title cards from The Last Jedi, replacing zoomed out versions used originally.
• Used deepfake work of pioneering YouTubers to enhance the visual FX for Grand Moff Tarkin and Princess Leia’s apperances (OriginalTrilogy.com user Burbin has stitched together workable source material for this, drawing from the work of YouTube deepfake ‘practitioner’ Shamook.)
• Borrowed a shot TM2YC modified to offset a shot that centered on a glass of blue milk.
• Removed introductory scenes to Cassian and Bobdi. We cut from Jyn in prison to the jailbreak. We then meet the other main characters as she does. (Wobani label moved to establishing shot of transport)
• Removed showing the audience Cassian’s instructions to kill Galen Erso. By removing this conversation as well as its reiteration in a later scene, it adds weight to Jyn’s comment about trust going both ways and keeps the audience in Jyn’s perspective.
• Removed other Bohdi scenes until the band of heroes meet him in the dungeon of Saw Gerrera.
• Removed a line from Cassian en route to Jedha that felt out of place (thanks to DigModification for audio)
• Muted a line from K2 to let silence make for better humor.
• Removed announcement on Jedha about the missing cargo pilot.
• Removed the cringe-inducing cameo from Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba.
• Removed a cutaway to Jyn and Cassian to show Baze mowing down troopers in one unbroken shot.
• As Krennic prepares to execute the scientists, removed line, “Fire!”
• Trimmed Bohdi’s hesitation in assigning the new makeshift crew a callsign when pulling away from the Rebel base.
• Removed a redundant line as Jyn notes they are trapped on the surface of Scarif.
• Modified R2-D2’s red/blue light to match its style of appearance in ANH (FX by Burbin)
• Removed Jyn’s line to Krennic, “You know who I am,” as he appeared sincerely not to.

Damn, yeah… I know what did that. It really is for a split second before anything comes on screen. It’s not worth what it’d take to fix, so I’ll leave it. 😕

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Thanksgiving always felt Star Warsy to me, even moreso since they moved the release dates to December.

Gonna watch TFA (then TLJ another time), and look forward to maybe watching all the saga films next year, the first time viewing with all 9 in mind.