Hal 9000

I still find Palpatine’s survival deeply thematically unpalatable. (Unpalpable?)

I hope I’m wrong, but I think the pitch will be that when he exploded with blue energy in ROTJ, that was actually just time travel exhaust as he flung himself into the future.

Hmm, as I type… sounds sort of like Samurai Jack.

I just hope the whole thing feels thematically appropriate, but my cynical tendencies see this as unnecessary. I always thought Dark Empire looked stupid compared to the novels, since it just undoes and redoes ROTJ, but then again there’s been plenty of exactly that in the ST so far. I would think it’d be more congruent to figuratively re-defeat Palpatine rather than literally. My concerns aren’t how it makes sense logically, but thematically. But, we’ll see what happens.

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nl0428 said:

Hey, Hal. I thought you had said that you weren’t going to add these edits to fanedit.org.

I wasn’t, but then I did. I figure there’ll be a few people who would like to check them out and wouldn’t be aware of them otherwise.

Very interesting. Similar idea of software trying to work on the footage, but you craft the references directly onto the footage.

I remember thinking TLJ’s Yoda looked like Yoda himself had a Yoda puppet on his arm.

Could one deepfake one puppet onto another?

Maybe that’s how he looked in his 820’s.

RogueLeader said:

I still think it’d be cool way to open your edit just to set it apart more, but how do you think you make it clear that it was a flashback that BB-8 was having?

A harp riff, obviously.

In theory I’ll be putting out a ‘DrDre ESB color correction’ version of ESB once he’s generated all the necessary individual LUTs to his satisfaction.
For my Custom SE version I just had him do enough for me to be able to mess around with them and get things good enough. I wasn’t necessarily going for a sense of accuracy per se, though the 1997 colors for ESB are what feel best to me subjectively. The Hoth nighttime scenes are a bit bluer than that, though, to better meet the (mostly) Revisited version of the Wampa scene I used in the middle.

Yes, I am planning to make that change. Seeing Phasma’s corpse sells the idea well enough for me.

Thanks for saying so. 😃

Not hardcoded; does your player not have an option to turn them off?

Hmm… as good of a rationalization as any.

+1 on seamless musical transitioning.

And I like that the blur intensifies during a gust of wind.

User ‘Luke Kenobi’ recently pointed out to me in a PM that the end credits on the DVD version freeze partway through. While not the worst thing in the world, it needed to be fixed. I have just replaced it with a fixed version on all the usual places.
Only the DVD version was affected.

ANH is live!

I’ll update the OP with full details for ANH and ESB.
I probably won’t revisit ROTJ after Adywan finishes his Revisited project, since there’s nothing I feel cries out for me to use, cool things though I am sure he’ll do. I do hope to use his upcoming color corrected BluRay transfer as my primary source.

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.