Now that sounds like an interesting take on things. Seems like a very worthwhile edit. Glad you were able to use my lossless audio output as a starting place. If this is what was put out there wouldn’t be much left for us to do.
In order to have this project consistent with the current best video formatting presentation, Adywan would have to perpetually hold off on ever beginning it. That, or dedicate the rest of his life to constantly redoing the same work.
I feel the pain, or at least a dimmer reflection of it, associated with my own projects. There’s only so far we can go.
No, I have no issue with that at all. It may be unofficial, but consider it sanctioned.
Now that I am starting to turn some of my attention to THE LAST JEDI, I hate to make this edit much longer than it already is. It’s already the longest Star Wars movie, and when I consider that my prequel edits clock it at as low as 1 hour and 50 minutes, I am wondering what else could be trimmed.
I am just tossing this around, but what do you guys think of the idea to borrow poppasketti’s approach to removing the Finn vs. Phasma duel? Compared to the theatrical TLJ, this hypothetical version of Finn’s journey would…
It seems like Finn would still have a good arc this way. The only concern that sticks out to me about the idea is that Phasma gets reintroduced only to die offscreen. I’d rather she not appear in the film at all if we go this way, but this is the way it would have to be. For this reason, I am leaning away from making this change, but I felt it was worthwhile to toss out there for discussion.
Looks wonderful from what I can tell. I’m glad you’re doing this.
Very interesting. Where might I find it?
I don’t think any FX work would even need to be done for the short few shots as Yoda is attacked by clones. We can see that there are two wookiees talking, but there’s extremely little there to indicate one of them is Chewbacca.
I do want to point out that I am still hoping to come across a suitable line for 3PO to replace “I’m beginning to get the hang of this flying business.” I thought his line about “poor little R2” getting into trouble from the AOTC droid factory would work, but there’s machinery audible throughout.
Myspeen is the best option. I can’t really offer them directly because I don’t have endless cloud storage, and all 9 eventual edits will claim close to 400GB.
If anyone wishes to mirror older versions I’m more than okay with that; I just can’t do it myself.
Based on my recollection, I don’t think so. There’s really only two shots there with Chewie, and neither get up close with him.
I completely understand. There are myriad possible combinations of all these things. I started this project with boldness, and have slowly slinked back closer to the original.
And hey, when I knew I was going to do a V6, I wasn’t even planning to revisit Episode 2 at all! There’s nothing wrong with V5, and I begrudge no one who prefers to remain with it.
Looking forward to finishing up Episode 3 as well, then signing an affidavit restricting my OCD self from returning to those three movies!
Yes! If that’s an option then that’s it!
My only concern is that when Yoda is attacked there are two Wookiee’s roaring, so perhaps he can be augmented/disguised just for those couple shots.
I expected a little backlash for that one, but I feel like
A) It doesn’t end abruptly as it did in prior versions
B) It mediates the smoothed over love story and the very next scene where the two are a little cold toward each other
C) It includes a movie trope that goes way back about the woman initially resisting the man’s advances (the #MeToo thing) which is consistent with the love story’s ‘old cinema’ style (and begins to show us that she is denying to herself that she may have feelings for him, as continued in the family dinner scene)
And mutters D) The Phantom Editor saw fit to leave it in for his cut.
All around I felt like it was the right thing to do, though I anticipated some blowback. I’m sorry, everyone.
JEDIT: I actually shortened it slightly, mimicking Attack of the Phantom. I would suggest watching this cut and see how that moment strikes you in context of the whole.
If I were to host a series of movie nights for Star Wars once the saga is once again “complete,” this sounds like what I’d do:
Week 1, Saturday:
Episode 1: CLOAK OF DECEPTION (my edit)
Play a tournament of ‘Episode I Racer’
Week 2, Saturday:
Episode II: THE APPROACHING STORM (my edit)
Clone Wars Microseries, Part I
Week 3, Saturday:
Clone Wars Microseries, Part II
Episode III: LABYRINTH OF EVIL (my edit)
Week 4, Friday:
Rogue One
Week 4, Saturday:
Episode IV: A NEW HOPE (my ‘Custom SE’)
Week 5, Saturday:
Episode V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (my ‘Custom SE’)
Week 6, Saturday:
Episode VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI (my ‘Custom SE’)
Week 7, Saturday:
Episode VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (‘Restructured’ edit)
Week 8, Saturday:
‘Path of a Lightsaber’ montage by Christopher Sherwood
Episode VIII: THE LAST JEDI (my edit)
Week 9, Saturday:
‘The Greatest Teacher Failure Is’ short montage by Heroes Fan Productions
Episode IX: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (my edit, assuming there is one)
V6 exists now, and the HD versions are on their way up to the Google Drive, with torrents to follow. The SD versions are still encoding. I’ve updated the OP with a current changelog, with asterisks denoting V6 changes. I’m very pleased with the final product, and I’d have very few qualms about hypothetically showing it theatrically. In other words, it comes pretty darn close to passing that sort of test in my mind.
Once I’ve gotten everything out the door for TAS V6, I will have to wait on a few things from others for Episodes 3 and 4, and nearly all my source material for Episode 6. So I may jump over to Episode 8 for a while, though would hold off finishing it until after Episode 9 comes out.
And don’t feel the need to make it perfect; I’ll likely try my hand at the audio editing when I get around to it anyway. Just test it enough to satisfy yourself that it’s possible to be done well, I guess.
In case, though… I like to cut off the coin gag a half-beat after the first coin gets inserted, before the alien reacts with anger. Cutting away after about the same duration as the final coin insertion in the original ending.
Thanks for posting that, and I like it overall.
I’d probably leave in Rose’s line onboard the shuttle about the populace being the worse people imaginable.
And I’d leave in a shortened version of the little alien placing a coin into BB8, otherwise it seems like Finn and Rose take 4 seconds to give up looking.
I wonder if Rose’s two lines about fathiers can be removed, but I suspect not.
Watch Pulp Empire.
I think I agree with that overall. I have a version of how the scene could go in my head, but it will probably be a little while before I am able to realize it in a mockup.
Bonus points for removing Rose getting excited about seeing the Fathiers. I imagine it would be more effective to merely see them react to the poor mistreatment of what are essentially space horses Van to set up a miniature Free Willy subplot for them.
Apparently better than the version Ellenshaw himself had access to for his talk at the Academy last week, where he talked about his matte with an image from the SE.
Oof.
I realize my sensibilities about these things for the Custom SE version are weird, but that’s the sort of thing that doesn’t bother me; just a byproduct of making a movie like this. If it wasn’t damage caused from a SE change not being thought out, it just doesn’t seem to get to me.
However, I know I already broke the seal on that as a criteria. So, let me take a look and listen and see what I think. I thank you for the suggestion.
Would you make the trip to that theatre, not knowing whether the theatre will show the '77 version or not, for a chance to win a 4-Disc, Blu Ray, DVD Combo of SW:TFA 3D?
No?
Thank you. The saber duel was one instance of shot-by-shot correction (or creative LUT mixing and application), since what was good for the red saber was bad for the blue. Took a while to do and to refine.
The reason I included the continuity fix for the Cloud City window was because the error was introduced by a Special Edition change. So, while I don’t know which Piett change you’re talking about, I’m not really concerned unless it’s a problem the SE(s) introduces.
Oh, yeah, that’s right… I just modified what I’d done differently and didn’t consider in depth the 2011 source versus Adywan’s 1997 recreation.
The Wampa scene is sourced mostly from Adywan’s Revisited edit, with a few Despecialized shots. I had to do that in order to maximize quality, but reverted some of his new Wampa shots to the OOT.
But thank you; I’m glad you like the final product.
I’d say the movie itself already took us halfway there.
To be fair, poppasketti states that it was a temporary clip to test out how they might look in motion, and wouldn’t reflect a final result.
Personally I’d be all right with a second bandolier (which is still different from how it looks in Solo) and greyed (or otherwise recolored) fur. Maybe he’s… Crunchbrakka or something. Goes by Crunchy.
JEDIT: Of course, his military rank would be Captain.