Hal 9000

Very interesting. I’m grateful for your continued efforts and am confident the end result will be solid.

JEDIT: Disregard.

The “hey” and chuckle both sound like great ideas. I can imagine showing L8wrtr’s TPM (to include the necklace), my AOTC, and your ROTS to an audience that might not be as receptive to Padme surviving the trilogy and might like to see more than one person’s take. In other words, this will be a great alternative edit to my own Ep3 for those who liked it aside from the ending, of which I’ve heard from many.

Thank you for that explanation.
Just an idea: What if we follow Rey as she continues to run away from the castle and talk to BB8, see the TIEs and run off. Then Finn sees the Destroyer and runs to ask Han about Rey. Cut to (either sunset TIE shot or) Max’s basement where they are collecting the saber to search for Rey.

Thanks, Spiphisser!

Welcome, and thank you for lending your voice.

If I follow you, this is the mockup video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWP1FJQyF6A&feature=youtu.be

I can’t say I disagree. All things considered, this might be the best template to adopt for this scene going forward. Might need some slight tweaking since we aren’t going with TIE fighters in the establishing shot with the Destroyer. If we go this route, which seems like a good idea, I will see about using the TIE sunset shot elsewhere in the edit.

When I used it, the term was a shorthand to get my point across about saving Finn from the tentacles. I truly don’t get the hubbub. Rey’s a good character and protagonist, but I think she’d have benefitted from fewer abilities and fluencies.

I agree with y’all, so the rathtar sequence will be untouched for this project.

WHO DID THIS TO MY FREAKING SPEEDER

Aside from those two puzzle pieces and the deleted scene, that leaves one more question, which I will submit for discussion.
The rathtars are something that many people have trimmed. A proposed trim of this scene for this project would be to cut from, “What do they look like,” “They look like that!” to Han telling Chewie, "I’ve got the door, cover us!"
It would remove Finn being wrangled by a rathtar tentacle and Rey coming to save him.
Now, I want to be respectful to the intentions of this project, so I would prefer to err on the side of leaving the scene alone, unless there is near universal desire for this particular cut to be made. (Remember, this ain’t my edit!)

^Okay with keeping. 😉

Great! I am okay with the TIE sunset shot and, "Those beasts!"
It might be good to export a version of the audio for the sequence that includes both, “They’ve found us,” as well as, “They’ve done it.” But I expect to go with your new line.

The invasion sequence audio is a missing piece, and I hope the deleted scene will be usable. We haven’t got too terribly far yet to go, thanks to you all.

Excellent work. I think the only piece of the puzzle is some replacement score audio from Sir Ridley for the First Order appearing over Maz’s Castle.
EDIT: At least, I think that was the plan. I apologize; I’ve been busy with the actual, real job lately.

Sounds too noisy to me. I prefer the original music edit, I think. Besides, not really in the M.O.

Heh.

Wow! Hit me up when you have any sort of test version to check out. Sounds wonderful!

DominicCobb said:

Hal 9000 said:

DominicCobb said:

Hal, if you’re reading this, were the blu-ray deleted scenes ever upscaled like the DVD ones?

No; none of them struck me as useful at the time. They were not presented well, at any rate.

Did you do the upscaling? I thought it might have been someone else (Dr. Dre?).

Most are definitely worthless. But there are a couple fun bits in “Elevator Antics” and I think “Changes to the Constitution” should definitely have been in the film. What do you mean by not presented well? Is the picture quality much worse than the DVD ones? I haven’t watched them in a while.

DrDre did the upscales at my request, and I didn’t pass along any of the BR scenes. They are unfinished and rough compared to (most of) the DVD deleted scenes.

Don’t sell yourself short. I shared your exact motivation with doing my prequel edits. (This time; not the 2006 edits.)
Use every and anything of mine you like; it’s part of the textual lineage now.

DominicCobb said:

Hal, if you’re reading this, were the blu-ray deleted scenes ever upscaled like the DVD ones?

No; none of them struck me as useful at the time. They were not presented well, at any rate.

Sounds pretty effective. I am interested to see how this shakes out. Great job putting thought into your plan of attack.

Yes, that is correct. Unfortunately, the establishing shot from the deleted scene itself was very much unfinished. I figured it’d be okay to try and get away with using two different establishing shots of Palpatine’s office and hope no one notices. But, you are correct.

This project’s stated goals included not changing the “prequel” nature of the films, and so just as with TPM, the audience is expected to have already seen the OT.

I believe all four scenes involving Yoda using a lightsaber were intended to be funny, especially his duel with Palpatine. It’s hilarious, and breaks up the more serious duel it’s intercut with.

We’re just a couple of knuckleheads with NLEs and libraries of scrolls to curate.
But, having done the work, we enjoy hearing from you and discussing the now finished works.

Has anyone actually watched Labyrinth Of Evil with the included Backstroke Of The West subtitles? If so, how was it for you? Sort of like the “irrelevant subtitles from Henry VIII on the Holy Grail DVD”?