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Hal 9000

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#1291481
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Star Wars Episode II: The Approaching Storm (Released)
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Well, the time for suggestions for TAS is past, but I welcome your thoughts anyway.

I don’t think it’s a problem to only have Anakin list two qualities. When Padmé asks about love, he merely contrasts it with possession, then goes on to use a preferred term.

I am skeptical that lowering the pitch of Jar Jar’s voice would be seamless with all the ambient sounds and music; I couldn’t even begin to apply it well to Amidala in COD.

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#1291054
Topic
Star Wars Episode II: The Approaching Storm (Released)
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That’s how it’s supposed to work, but from a certain point onward the films fall drastically out of sync from about halfway through to the end. It’s been all three prequels, even though I never changed primary sources for Ep1.
Even if a ‘reconnect media’ worked perfectly at this point, it wouldn’t align with me fixing it manually before.

Supposed to be easy. And if this was a fresh project that I did correctly and straightforwardly, it probably would be. I have so many nested sequences for the prequels, which I now know is a supremely bad idea for FCP7. It crashes very often when any of them are opened, no matter how much I clean out of them; those nested sequences are just part of what has to be there to get the projects up and running. If I did want to go back, I might as well create the whole video stream from scratch, manually searching for each shot or section between edits and painstakingly checking everything, and I don’t have it in me. Not after just doing close to that for V6 for 2 and 3.

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#1291014
Topic
Star Wars Episode II: The Approaching Storm (Released)
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Before anyone asks, I would like to address this recent post from Schorman13 in which he announced an update to the source material for this fan edit (and LOE): https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/schormans-HDTV-Star-Wars-Saga-Preservation/id/16702/page/5#1290777

While I welcome an update to his project, I cannot reconcile the idea of manually reconnecting each separate clip in the movie to my existing timeline and all the headache-inducing logistics involved with it with the seemingly mostly academic improvements to be appreciated. My FCP7 timelines for all three prequel edits are so convoluted and barely able to be reckoned with, like a house on fire and on the verge of collapse while you hurry to gather precious belongings.

In other words, my life situation makes it necessary to pass on revising my AOTC edit. I wish this update had come 6 weeks sooner, but I have got to move on. I know you’ll forgive me, and it does pain me not to pursue the best for this project, but I am happy with V6 and have never noticed any issues with the source material. If I went to the, what for me now would be a very tall order, trouble of remastering it yet again it doesn’t seem like there would be much benefit at all.

LOE is already ready to go, so even though the same issues would apply in a lesser degree, I reach the same conclusion for the same reasons.

I remain happy with TAS being complete in finality, and look forward to bringing LOE into the same state soon.