Hal 9000

Been playing with Jackpumpkinhead’s crawl generator, and wrote a crawl for TFA based in part by ones in this thread:

Episode VII
THE FORCE AWAKENS

Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen in secret from the ashes of the fractured Empire.

Failing to convince the New Republic of this looming threat, General Leia Organs mobilizes a brave RESISTANCE to gather allies from the farthest reaches of the galaxy.

Desperate for her brother’s help, Leia has sent her most daring pilot on a covert mission to Jakku, where a clue has been discovered to the whereabouts of the last Jedi…

Thanks for the word of approval.
This crawl does away with the problematic comment about on the “years vs. generations” thing that the prequels got into about the Jedi. EU material harmonized them, but I think it’d be better to not comment on it in the crawl.
I didn’t like how I used the word “planet” twice in the same sentence in the current crawl, but any synonyms felt odd.
This version touches on the heart of the political stagnation TPM tries to get at, and hints at the Sith coup being plotted. “It is a time of decay in the Republic,” comes from the rough draft of TPM.

I’ve been playing with Jackpumpkinhead’s custom crawl generator for TFA, and figured it would be worthwhile to encode new crawls for the prequel trilogy. I am not going to put out another version just for this, and have no plans to do so aside from using an eventual source by Emanswfan. However, I can go ahead and generate new crawls and lay them in place so they’ll be ready to go if that day comes.

I’ve redrafted a crawl for COD, and I’d like to get your feedback. Be as picky as pedantic as you can be.

Episode I
CLOAK OF DECEPTION
It is a time of decay in the Republic. Against the backdrop of dissidence and corruption, a menace lurks in the shadows of the galaxy.
 
Attempting to capitalize on the government’s complacency, the nefarious TRADE FEDERATION has seized the peaceful planet of Naboo with a blockade of deadly warships.
 
With the newly crowned Queen desperate for help, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to end the conflict…

I wouldn’t trust Kevin Smith farther than I could throw him.

Lol, I wasn’t concerned about your own interest for my particular edits. I just wanted the OP to know that my Ep3 is suitable for a machete order viewing, rather than somehow less so than 1 and 2.
Mixing and matching edits is a great thing. I can imagine a get together for the site and watching three different editor’s takes of one film each for the prequels, then the OOT in one form or another.

Or, if you stick with my Ep3, you’ll have it match Leia’s account of her mother in the very next film watched.

I’m sincerely hoping you were able to do something even better than before regarding the restructuring of the Starkiller Base subplot. I’d love a preview!

I just bought TFA in HD on iTunes to get access to the commentary, and I don’t see it anywhere. Can anyone confirm they’ve gotten the commentary through iTunes? It’s a bitch to try to return a movie and get a refund.

The answer is that the admin checks in and updates things rather infrequently. In the meantime, please to be PMing me requests for Ep1 links.

I’ve been checking this thread daily, and would hope to continue if the discussion moves to a private thread.

I used Schorman’s Episodes II and III because of the colars.

Every once in a while I try to upload them to YouTube. I should probably give up.

Anyone seen the two or three new deleted scenes listed anywhere besides the new BR? Are they bundled with the new iTunes release as well?

Very nice. Even though I prefer intentionally varying the crawls from film to film rather than having them as uniform, this would still be useful in generating the receding STAR WARS logo free of aliasing.
Nice work!

For Episodes II and III, what is currently listed is the final version.

Updated listings have been submitted to FanEdit.info, and will be listed once the admin gets around to it.

The fixed version has been submitted on Myspleen, along with a link to just the fixed audio file itself for those who would prefer to mux it in themselves. I am uploading zip files to Mega, and will submit an updated set of DLCs to FanEdit.info once that’s finished.
If you can’t get to Myspleen and want just the fixed audio file on its own, PM me.

Fair enough; I’ll re-re-revisit that scene and see if it can be smoothed out.

It’d be a godsend for my Restructured edit if they included the scene between Kylo and Snoke before adding the CG mask. Someone could rotoscope it relatively easily.

That’s all right; I’ll just start with the main audio track in my timeline, and re-remove the music. That’ll be the safest way to proceed. No idea on a timeframe, but it’s on my to-do list and will represent a major ‘open loop’ until I take care of it.

I just verified the issue you are reporting, on the alternate audio track.
Well, crap damn. I’ll have to fix that. Please let me know all the spots you noticed this in as you watched the film. Thanks for reporting, and I’ll get a fixed and re-muxed version going.

Well… then I have no idea. 😕

OP. 😃

For those authoring the BluRay version to disc with TSMuxer, you need to select “Do Not Insert VUI/SEI Data"

Yeah, it looks like the site has yet to be updated after I submitted the new links.

Aside from a few tiny things that I addressed while I was at it, the difference is the audio. V4.1 fixed an audio issue affecting all prior releases, in which the left and right channels are identical, making it a weird sort of mono surround.
I didn’t want the final product for people to be V4 + muxing, so I did a minor point release.