Hal 9000

I played with replacing the “Noo” with the one from 2011 ROTJ, but it couldn’t be isolated and probably would’ve made it worse anyway.

Thanks for the kind words, jarbear! Helps me feel that doing a V6 has been worthwhile. I suppose the Wookiee noises could be happening offscreen, but I do see what you mean. At least Chewie and Yoda don’t get to add to the implausibility of the story.

Broken record again, but I’m stoked to watch this ahead of IX. Or at least a workprint or whatever you got by then.

Lossless audio on its way up.

You got me double checking the Vader scream, as I was worried I’d made a mistake. However, as planned, the alternate ending version has the Russian version.

Thanks, Mala! I will get the lossless audio up there soon. Your list sounds good!

And I have no idea when the FE.org listings will return; I haven’t heard back after reaching out to multiple people.

ROTJ is a good way off at least. The workprint is all I can provide. The assembly is complete but almost all footage are from placeholder sources.

And I will publish an updated TLJ workprint soon, but I’m hoping to get one more thing for it first.

LOE V6 and the alternate ending version are now available in all their usual places.

ESB has been fixed and is available where it was before. Again, only the 1080p mkv and DVD versions were affected.
Currently encoding ANH!

ChainsawAsh pointed out to me an issue with ESB’s Custom SE recently. I neglected to crop out the black bars of the 1080p frame when applying the color correction, leading to several places in the film during which the empty borders of the frame become brighter or bluish.
I’ve already fixed the problem and am encoding new video streams for the 1080p and DVD versions. (The two 720p versions are immune because the frame was cropped.) I’ll get these out there once I’m finished with LOE in a few days and then move onto getting ANH’s Custom SE out there for those wanting to include it in a pre-IX viewing.

As Luke and Ben head toward Docking Bay 94, an R1 unit can be seen hobbling by in the distance.

Never would have noticed; never won’t again.

Or Crunchy.

The laugh came from the same source as the line.

Fair. However, it is the only thing we hear of him in that particular environment.

Used subtlety, I bet that’d be a very nice enhancement.

No, that shot originally transitioned into R2 in the hangar. And the shot of the Jedi emerging from the elevator followed after the Super Battle Droids being fried.

If anything, you’re hearing a slight squeak or sound of R2 shuffling along.

lol

“Sometimes there’s crap no one can fix.”

poppasketti said:

Ok, here’s the next pass, with phasma now appearing in the first shot as well. I think (hope!) this gives it a moment to sink in and maintains continuity while remaining subtle.

https://vimeo.com/365373837
pw: fanedit

Looks real good.

That’s a nice trick about copying to one’s own Google Drive. I added that to the FAQ file listed at the top of the ‘Hal 9000 SW edits’ directory.

Also, please refer to that FAQ file for a tip on another place to find these if the Google Drive is currently stalled out.

As obsessive as I can get about certain things, the reality is that I can’t be steward of this metaproject forever, and so with V6 I fully intend to set the prequels down and just let whoever wishes to take up the craft going forward cull whatever they wish from them. They’ll be my ultimates, of course, but there’ll never be an end of the line.
Even if IX ends up requiring me to go back again, say if the plot crucially involves midichlorians or something, I’d probably just reckon those as V6.1.

Well, that certainly means a lot coming from you.

While the changes to V6 of the prequels have not been unanimously well received, I think it was worthwhile to give them another go. I’m really happy with the end result. Was it worth all that it ended up figuratively costing me? Probably not, but at least I accomplished a goal. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to halfway enjoy sitting down and watching 1 through 9 of the complete Hal9000 presentation of the saga when it’s finished. Anyone can join me. I’ll bring chee-toes.

But why would Vader head a criminal organization?

Well, a brief brownout just ruined about 24 hours’ worth of encoding. Might be a little while before the last two versions are deployed.

Oops, just updated the OP to list V6 changes.
Sir Ridley and Snooker deserve to be praised for the robot!

And yes, I understand a bit of what must go through Lucas’ head. Movies get maid over the course of a few years, and then that’s it.

Jackpumpkinhead said:

Hal 9000 said:

The 1080p and DVD5 versions are now available in the usual places, with the 720p and TinyEncode versions to follow in a few days. I’ll work on getting the ‘alternate ending’ version out after that’s done.

sorry for being behind on this, but is in the ‘alternate ending’ version?

I’m caving into years of requests for a version in which Padme still dies. It’ll be identical to LOE up until the medical droid comes out. From there it’ll be the theatrical release, save for removing the line about ‘losing the will to live.’

The 1080p and DVD5 versions are now available in the usual places, with the 720p and TinyEncode versions to follow in a few days. I’ll work on getting the ‘alternate ending’ version out after that’s done.