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Replace Luke during his final confrontation with Kylo at the end of TLJ with Admiral Ackbar.

Sure, that’s possible, too.

FreezingTNT2 said:

Can you PM me a link to your edit please?

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The music during the story being told by the orphan slave kids on Canto Bight at the end of TLJ is similar to the music as Luke is being born in ROTS. I wonder if John Williams was making the point that Luke has been reborn as a legend or symbol of hope.

Eman, I’d be curious about your candid opinion of the HDTV master we have from schorman13 for AOTC. Head-to-head, how does it do compared to the BluRay?

In the original scene the two final shots of Anakin are together, and the scene transitions from there. The shots of Padme had to be placed in the order they are in order to do what else needed to be done to end the scene.
I think it would feel a little abrupt to just eliminate the last shot, though. But, fair enough. I can take another look, but I doubt it’ll feel as smooth.

Yes, the most recent clip I posted reflects what I’m intending V6 to look like.

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It looks like the SD DVD master, with all its characteristics.

I use one of the two shots for one and the other for the other, no repeats.

Thanks; I will revisit those with careful ears and see if anything else can be done with them.

It’s similar to Cathy’s edit, but longer.

Over the establishing shot of the diner, we hear Dex say, “He-heyyyy, ooohh, buuuddddy.” We cut to the two of them sitting themselves down into the booth. Dex asks, “So, my friend, what can I do for you?” And the scene plays out unedited from there.

I like that it includes a line from Obi-Wan seeming to disparage droids. That dovetails with me removing him ever calling R2 by name in Ep3, to alleviate his apparent amnesia about R2 and 3PO in ANH.

It may not be for a while, but I will do an earnest mock-up of that idea and see how it fairs. I certainly wouldn’t want to actually put out a V3 until seeing IX, but I could imagine exporting a workprint for anyone interested if I do decide to implement that idea.

Well, I was able to use some time this weekend to complete V6 of Ep2 in my timeline. I’m going to focus on getting my ESB ‘Custom SE’ out the door next, to make sure nothing groundbreaking emerges for this project until then. I’ll need to redo chapters, resync subtitles, and a few other things like that when I get back around to it.
Hopefully by then Angel will have been able to complete the two or three things he’s doing for LOE V6.

jarbear said:

From the current discussion, I am probably more curious with Sir Ridley’s work on having Anakin’s lightsaber retract showing he has his lightsaber but is surrendering … that is the simplest and probably the better way to go.

Here’s the shot in context, if you’d like to take a look. We’re lucky to have Ridley around. 😃

https://vimeo.com/342642767

So do I. Once the seal broke, some of the things I know deep down aren’t seamless or convincing cry out for correction. The theme of V6 has been putting back little things and edges. But yeah, this is getting a bit silly. Hoping to wrap these soon, take a break, and get all 9 wrapped middle of next year.

I’m having a hard time picturing what you’re suggesting, nightstalkerpoet.

And while I am not going to put back in Nute Gunray calling for Padme’s head for the reasons I posted about earlier, I did just redo the musical transition and I think it’s at least slightly better than it was, all while reinstating Dooku using the number ‘ten thousand.’

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

An idea for shortening the droid factory scene…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS3IqlyAtBo&feature=youtu.be

Is the machine arm thing supposed to have hit Anakin so hard it broke a chunk of his lightsaber off? I’m not sure what’s going on; I don’t think it works.

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

^ I can take a look (and listen) about Obi-Wan snooping around the Separatists’ meeting. My only concern is that Nute Gunray specifically stating he is holding out for Padme’s head may gently undermine TAS’s goal to imply Dooku is assassinating Padme due to secret loyalty to Palpatine. (It doesn’t make sense to the investigators, but it makes sense to us because we know this.)

I agree his sequencing works very well, along the route of leaving the action sequence out. At this point I’m resolved to including an abbreviated version in the name of having something that feels legit. I know there’ll be a couple more (quick, minor) groaners to come in service to that goal.

Didn’t he remove it entirely?

Few thoughts while I have a quick moment to duck in here:

Of course I don’t mind people sharing hybrid versions. What have my projects been if not hybrid versions?

Sir Ridley sent me the needed shot of Anakin’s saber retracting, implying he surrenders when Jango shows up and probably has it confiscated later. I feel like we are lucky the musical transitions could be contrived to fit as well as they do, and I don’t think it’s probably worth it to press it further by including Anakin breaking his saber. That bit with the cutting machine and Anakin happening to get his arm stuck in an arm-sized thing feels cartoony to me.

For V6 I am hoping to err on the side of things feeling polished and suitable for theatrical exhibition. There will be a few bits and pieces thrown in that aren’t the most savory, things removed in prior versions, in the interest of this.

nl0428 said:

TM2YC also revealed the Jedi the same way The Phantom Editor did by digitally painting out the lightsabers in the background in one shot of Dooku.

Unfortunately, the final product of TM2YC’s edit is rather low quality, and looks poor when one shot is placed alongside the others. He also used the BluRay source, so any alterations I make to get it in line with my source material makes it suffer further. I do like the idea of that change, but I can’t really use TM2YC’s work to do it. (He did a great job; it’s just that his output doesn’t gel with what I’m using.)

Well, here’s my full raw list I’m working from:

[Possibly remove audio for line “I’m not sure how much longer I can hold off the vote, my friends”

Readd the last part of Jar Jar introducing the jedi at Padmé’s HQ

Fix lack of audio channel 6 from 9:41ish to 12:06ish, perhaps just lazily copying channel 5]

[Put in “easy Jedi business go back to your drinks

[Try to remedy the abrupt scene end after “But I am grown up - You said it yourself”]

Include abbreviated Dex’s Diner, and original zam death line

[Place lines from Jamila scene about staying in the lake country to refugee transport scene]

[Fix the audio during landing platform deleted scene which abruptly goes to 2.0 stereo; the beginnig and end of the scene are okay]

Consider suggestion about ep2 continuity error from using lake house to establish Padme’s family house

[Consider using Mala’s version of Anakin leaving to look for Schmi, which has no dialogue]

Undo Dooku’s modified line of “a thousand more systems”

Replace 3PO’s line about never having flown before.

[Maybe reorder scenes like Q2 has it for where the droid factory used to be]

[Put in Yoda saying he is going to go visit Kamino]

[Put back in Mace sneaking up on Dooku in ep2]

[Look into TMTYC’s recreation of the Jedi reveal in the arena from AOTP]

There is a shot of Anakin in pain from lightning that should be moved away from right before Padmé in the sand to just before leaping to save Obi-Wan

Fix video glitch in middle of end credits