I just updated the torrent and Google Drive listings for this project, to replace the glitched commentary track with a fixed version. If you don’t care about the commentary track, you can stick with what you already have. (I just fixed and re-muxed in the commentary track, nothing more.)
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.
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.
Thank you for clarifying that. If I may ask one more question about AOTC, is the video stream in the same sync as V1? It seems like the changes for sync have been applied to the audio rather than the video.
Very nice! I’ll have to re-source my ROTS edit I haven’t encoded yet.
I’ll have to debate whether to go back and remaster my edit of AOTC. It sounds like the majority of the film would be 100% identical, save for the bits and pieces that relied on the UK stream. How much of the movie would you say does so? Could you perhaps give an example of a scene that contains material from that source so I can take a sharp look and assess?
Congratulations on your hard work and delivering an update to this massive project!
Part of me would be very happy to see Luke and/or Kylo Ren interact with Anakin.
I’m glad you mentioned that, because that shot hadn’t jumped to mind as I considered Chewbacca’s presence in the movie. I’ll see if poppasketti can alter the color of Chewie’s legs in that shot also.
Nope.
I don’t want to include it as an alternate track, but to see whether there are any tweaks that would be good to make that would utilize it.
Nothing to worry about; there may be nothing to gain from it but I thought it’s worth asking about. 😉
Thanks!
Anybody have any ideas for potential uses for an isolated score track? Any dialogue removal requests?
My brain is fried most days right now but wanted to ask for any input in case anything good comes up.
Is anyone here in a position to update me on the Skymaster project? Is it still set for an imminent release?
I could imagine a ‘2010: The Year We Made Contact’ David Bowman-esque ghost, morphing or changing appearance of age every time we see him. They could have Luke do the same to help normalize it. (Hell, or Obi-Wan, too, I guess. Might be a little weird for Yoda to, but still possible.)
^ Someone should try DeepFakes for that Mace scene.
I can say that TPM does look and feel like a movie, if a boring one at times. It has a little of that feeling that older classic film productions used to.
The other two feel video gamey to me, and it can’t just be 35mm vs ‘Cool For The Time But Probably Not The Best Choice For A Highly Anticipated Blockbuster Super Duper Digital Camera.’
The soundtrack doesn’t have an appropriately low-key rendition that fit nicely into the scene. At least not that I remember. It was a while ago.
Yeah, I couldn’t find anything that seemed better. It transitions during the point at which the music came to an abrupt halt anyway, to coincide with the kiss being cut off suddenly.
It’s the HDTV capture from schorman13, for reasons expressed earlier. Given the look of TAS, the deleted scenes used, and even the brief Boleyn footage, I think it’s a little better source to use. Not all-around better, but better for cohesion.
Looks great to me, too, especially since it’s only a brief two shots it needs to work for.
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+1 for TPM as best and ROTS as worst prequels
This is an enormous “if,” but if they do, may as well go balls to the wall.
To me it’s too late for IX to introduce or do anything radically new, so I’m just hoping for a thematically appropriate conclusion to the stupidly-now-called “Skywalker Saga” (“because now we want Star Wars to include space-stuff that has nothing else in common but their titles”) in the vein of “see, kid,
I knew you could do it, and the lessons you learned along the way will always help you.”
Basically, if the whole saga is ANH, IX would be the part when Luke flies back down to the Rebel base and hears Ben tell him, and the audience, “The Force will be with you… always.”