Hal 9000

Given the restructuring of the film this project implements, the only way to remove Snoke’s identification of Kylo’s parentage would be to remove the first Snoke scene entirely. We wouldn’t meet him until a smash cut to after the interrogation scene. Even if it weren’t outside the scope of the project, it’d be a little tough to pull off at the same time as the other stuff.
But the nice thing is that this edit will be available to any and all whom would like to take or modify it further. That’s part of why I’d like to A) make it solid and seamless, and B) stick to the original focus.

Personally, I’m not interested in anything like that. It’s really about the SKB restructure in all its elegance, with a few subtle things in the same subtle vein.

That’s some really great work. I’m very open to the idea, slightly stretching the goal of the project though it might.

Sounds like a great philosophy of Vader; I really do look forward to what you end up producing along these lines.
Since you asked, my idea with LOE for Anakin was that he becomes involved in growing tensions between his loyalties to the Jedi Order, Palpatine, and Padme. He’s tossed around for a while, then Palpatine springs this nightmare on him as a manipulation. From that point on, he leans toward Palpatine and has to make the final decision when pressed during the ‘assassination attempt.’ All along, he never appears paranoid (a byproduct of changing his storyline in reshoots IMHO) until we see him talk with Padme on Mustafar, after he has steeped himself in the darkness. It’s really not that different from what ROTS was going for with Anakin, just restructured to have it make more sense, arguably reaching closer to what the pre-reshoot version might have been. In my version, as in the original, Anakin still carries that ‘slave’ mindset, seeming to crave someone being a master over him. Your version will be quite different, in subtle ways.

Sherman said:

Do the covers I made for v1 need any updating for v2?

That’d be good, to include the final list of changes, and include credit for those who will have contributed since V1. Once that stuff has been compiled, I’ll request it; thanks!

Sir Ridley said:

Progress! Here’s the latest version of the Maz’s castle sequence. Thoughts?

https://youtu.be/TqZeT7FN0c0

Very nice! Unless anyone else points something out, I don’t see anything wrong with it!

Thanks for the feedback! Some of those ideas had been considered, agonized over, and decided upon in favor of what you see in the final version. I sometimes err on the side of keeping something the same as the original when it comes to a plot point, the major exception being Padme’s fate at the end of the trilogy.
The subtitles are all baked into the final versions of the edits, so feel free to translate them to Spanish if you’d like. I won’t be re-releasing them just to include that, but I’m sure there’d be a few people who would like to have them.

Lossless .mov’s would be stellar.

Anything lossless should be fine to output; ProRes is what it’ll be turned into for use.
And if you are able to place Ren’s face on additional shots from that Snoke sequence, that’d be even better!

I don’t know if not seeing the sun being drained as the x-wings approach is an error necessarily, but either way it’s not a problem introduced by our meddling, so I’m unconcerned by it.

PM me these things, people, please.

The star was still being drained during the X-wing assault in the original version.

Excuse me, no. I misspoke. I just need Sir Ridley’s work now. 😃

I think that sums it up pretty well! I’m excited for the end result; I’ve done all I can until Sir Ridley and NeverarGreat submit their puzzle pieces to have assembled, previewed, and released. I think V2 will be a substantial improvement thanks to these two.

PM sent

Handman said:

Would there be anything left?

+1; You’d have to rewrite the scripts.

FanEdit.org has been around for a long time, and has always been very clear about warding off piracy. With my own projects, I’ve felt comfortable featuring my real name in the edit’s credits, along with my voice as commentary in a separate audio track. I always run the anti-piracy warning at the front of the movie, hard-encoded into the file itself, as well as repeated on any text or descriptions that come along with it. Given the track record FanEdit.org has had so far, and relative popularity as a hub for this sort of thing, I think as long as you respect the rules and maintain a consistent position against any of the obvious things that would make copyright holders angry, you’ll be fine.
And, if you are just talking about downloading and watching fan edits, you’ll be fine anyway.

😃

I’m afraid the gradual fade back into proper surround at the ending of the sequence will be inevitable; it sounds much more seamless this way than not doing so. However, I will not do this for the Snoke scene right beforehand, for the reasons you outline. I will, however, have the Left and Right channels (front and rear sets) gradually become less polarized instead, to have a similar effect without letting cats and dogs live together by having dialogue in all the channels.

Here’s an updated clip of the SKB explosion. NeverarGreat has done more to pan the sound effects across the channels, to sound less centralized. He’s addressed the brief dip in the wind sound effect right as the music changes, as MalaStrana noted. As before, the audio during Rey and Leia’s hug very gradually fades from a stereo upmix back into the 5.1 soundtrack. Similarly, I’ve now very gradually crossfaded the audio in the two scenes prior to the Falcon scene from 5.1 to stereo, in preparation for the essentially-stereo SKB explosion sequence. It’d be a little mucky for a professional job, but it does help me ears better accommodate the new audio.
https://mega.nz/#!KZIFQLhS!2RjCIk8OTxvkInUT3wsYs5sUMmvvd3tfAfyIEZ4rrDY

NFBisms said:
I’m reaching the unnecessary editing portion of this process

RUN! Run before it’s too late!

I believe it’s from the shudder droid factory action sequence.

Now you’re talking! It’s the only way to be happy with this stuff.

That would be really cool.

I dislike the unnecessary inclusion of the Death Star as part of a very abrupt slideshow of placing everything neatly how it is as ANH begins.
Unfortunately, I think the scene feels ‘edited’ when we have Tarkin joining Palpatine to gaze out the window and miming “I’ll leave you two to it” without the Death Star.

ANH: A Star Destroyer’s sirens and lights go off, to signal Leia to pull over, but she decides to make a run for it.

ESB: Vader buffs and polishes his helmet.

ROTJ: Lando passes an awkward job interview with Bib Fortuna.

TPM: Yoda delivers a stern philosophical lesson as the camera slowly pans over to a toddler who isn’t paying attention, whom Yoda scolds as, “Obi-Wan!”

AOTC: Captain Typho makes obtuse predictions about how much danger Senator Amidala faces as they depart for Coruscant.

ROTS: General Grievous sits in the break room on the Invisible Hand, eating a hot pocket. His eyes water as he hacks and coughs after a piece is lodged in his throat.

TFA: Lor San Tekka plays a game of holochess with Death, loses, and flees. Death comms Kylo Ren.