Thanks for the kind feedback, and I’m glad to have published my thoughts via the commentary.
It’s funny… I felt as though I was emotionally expressive during his death scene, but in listening to myself afterward I sound totally deadpan!
The zip files have been replaced, save for the 1080 version, which is on its way up now.
Who’d have thought the built-in Mac OS zip utility would cause such problems! Recompressing all versions now, and I’ll swap them out on the Google Drive once they are ready, using the same utility I used before.
Hi everyone. Haven’t been on the site in a while, so I wasn’t aware about the progress of the project. I’m excited to hopefully watch this soon! If you still would like me to make a cover, I can do it in a couple of weeks when I get back from holiday.
P.S. Hal, if you do need me to make any posters or Blu-ray covers for an edit, don’t hesitate to PM me.
Sherman! You’re not dead! Where’s my droid?
Natedug put together some terrific cover artwork, modeled after your TFA:R covers. So in a way, you already have.
Well, needless to say, the movie file shouldn’t be corrupt. Are you saying you have a .mkv file but it’s having problems? Can anyone confirm downloading the zip file for the 1080p version and playing it successfully? I can recompress and reupload if needed, but would prefer not to if it won’t help.
The Internet has changed since the days of 2005ish. It seems that the initial reaction to this particular fan edit of TLJ has been to conflate it with the no-women cut, the petition to remake the movie, and other unhelpful garbage.
Even though I think anyone who listens to my commentary track would easily see that those are far from my intentions, I probably could have made the edit’s documentation a little more forthcoming about what the edit is NOT trying to do. Honestly, it didn’t even occur to me that such a thing would be necessary, given what fan edits have been up to this point. With this film’s reader-response dialogue, I should have anticipated the need for doing so.
I have added an addendum to the “intention” portion of the documentation, in the hopes that this project not be so easily assumed the worst of due to an intertextual sense of hatred toward the film for morally questionable reasons.
People are right to point out that most of the changes I’ve made are nitpicky and unnecessary. Of course they are; I wouldn’t have produced this edit if there wasn’t some sort of ‘critical mass’ of changes to get it started. But, while I am at it, I’ll take care of things here and there. I am not going to alter the changelist, as I could type at length for each change. The reality is that people who are predisposed to view any fan edit as anathema will reject it out of hand, and the only way for those interested to assess it is to invest the time into viewing it themselves. It’s merely an alternative; fan edits are not destructive of the original version.
As my commentary track makes clear, I like this film a great deal, which is why I want to produce an edit like this, as opposed to doing nothing. I’m preaching to the choir, but wanted to reflect on the initial reception this edit has gotten on the Internet at large.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Have you seen “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”? There’s a scene in which a British person snaps when the main character refuses to pronounce the word correctly.
This movie is a work of art which was difficult for me to swallow. I’ve come around to it, and now enjoy it quite a bit. Just wanted to let you know that my fan edit, released today, contains a commentary track. If anyone wants to watch the movie while I drone on, you’re welcome.
To sum it up in one sentence: “Luke continues to teach me things.”
Refer to the Reddit post (any of them, since they each contain a link to my master folder) for download links!
The DVD5 version is up, with the 34GB 1080p version to follow. Both are listed via torrents as well. The 720p mp4 and TinyEncode versions are being encoded now, and will probably be along in a few days.
Well, I found myself with more to say than I thought. Since I never shut up, I don’t really need to do much editing of what I recorded! Hopefully you enjoy listening, but at the very least I enjoyed recording it. I’m hoping to get everything together and have these uploaded inside of a week.
Hoping to finally have the chance to record a commentary track tomorrow, then I can get things moving toward distribution.
Haha, wow, crazy to imagine someone in the theater thinking that.
Both edits can be found on Reddit. If you can’t find it through searching, send me a PM. TFA is obviously all finished, and there’s a workprint of TLJ up.
Due to some issues people have been having, I have replaced the multiple zip file archives on the Google Drive with single zip files. Hopefully this will allow people to get them with fewer problems while continuing to avoid copyright takedowns.
Due to some issues people have been having, I have replaced the multiple zip file archives on the Google Drive with single zip files. Hopefully this will allow people to get them with fewer problems while continuing to avoid copyright takedowns.
It’s really old and hasn’t had much activity in a long time.
Yes, getting close. Applying the LUT made dark parts of the picture look crushed so I made a rudimentary color correction instead to make it look less yellow-green, careful not to go too far.
I’m just waiting on subtitles and then I will need to do the write up and then get to packing and distributing.
I’m also hoping to sit down and record a commentary track. I didn’t record one for TFA:R both because it was a relatively simple restructure which others helped with and because I expected it to be the only ST fan edit I’d be doing!
Yeah, what Ash said. There are deleted scenes relegated to 1080p, and the prequel edits of mine will be forever locked at 1080p, so I wouldn’t be in a big hurry to go to a lot of effort and headache to spearhead a 4K version.
Good thing is that anyone who is able could relatively easily remaster the video stream using a 4K source.
Is it expected for this LUT to cause an apparent strong degradation of picture in dark scenes? I am using FCPX to apply and render it. When rendered either as a master file or any other destination format, this particular scene looks poor. (Another portion which looks very poor is the first several seconds of the film, where the blackness of the opening is riddled with video noise.
I have uploaded a clip to take a gander at, linked to below. If it’s an issue with my program, perhaps I could approximate the look you achieved by eyeballing the color correction tool. Could you describe the fundamental alterations you put into this LUT? (Increasing brightness, reducing green highlights, etc.? Not necessarily those precise things, of course.)
Thanks for your attention.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tSb4PJLbiE3DZLRHkqDWnsjfWLopveLQ
JEDIT: Nevermind. I was using V3, and was not aware that there was a V4. It was my mistake, but all the same, it might be good to update the OP. Love the regraded look, and am happy to use it for my TLJ fan edit. 😃
JEDIT 2: It does seem harsh on blacks though. Space in particular has more noise than before applying the LUT.
Our ties have been mutually broken. May as well lock this thread or leave it alone in order to distance ourselves from any target from the Mouse.
This hobby is very much not something that generates income, but if it were… Man, I could have retired by now. 😉
JEDIT: I missed an opportunity to say “Would that it were…” D’oh!
I just hope this doesn’t become the catalyst for shutting down the fan edit community.
That’s what concerns me as well. I don’t care about whatever he wants to do, but his lack of discretion could potentially hurt us all collectively. And I really don’t feel great selling merchandise related to a fan edit. This is quite different than chipping in so Adywan or Harmy can get a graphics card or something to dedicate to their projects.
…No, I won’t be doing that.
Also, why the twins theme??
I don’t know… the fan editing community has pressed into a position of caution throughout the years.
I’m just shocked at all of the money he’s getting via his patron site. I don’t mean any offense, but he hasn’t really shown anything that rivals Adywan or NeverarGreat, SirRidley, or Hal’s work.
I didn’t want to say anything, but I’m glad someone did.
JEDIT: Regarding the principle of having a Patreon for a fan edit project in principle, not anything about any particular amount.
Turns out LUTs are very easy to apply in FCPX. So the plan is to render out lossless video from FCP7, and encode to distribution formats from FCPX after applying DrDre’s color correction.