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Hal 9000

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#909314
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Star Wars Episode II: The Approaching Storm (Released)
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For Episode II, the biggest one is the different primary video source. The transfer is far superior to the BluRay if you ask me, for the color alone.
There are nips and tucks, but I included an additional deleted scene (the extended arrival on Naboo), which also allowed for shuffling some of the order of scenes and use more of the original theatrical wipe transitions. Of course, there’s also better looking upscales for the deleted scenes.

That’s all the big things I can think of at the moment; I’m not sure myself anymore. I’d recommend getting it if you want to have these on your go-to list.

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#909309
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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - Faster, More Intense! (Released)
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MalàStrana said:
(working on the subtitles allows me to exactly know has been removed by Hal, and he’s really cut down some terrible dialogues that should never be heard in any subsequent fan edit 😃 )

And translating those subtitles from ‘Google Translate slop from French’ to readable English makes me realize how garbage some stuff still is. Especially having to type out Jar Jar’s dialogue.

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#909237
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Star Wars Episode II: The Approaching Storm (Released)
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V4, the final version of this endeavor, has been released. Look for it in the usual places, remembering it sometimes takes a while to appear on FanEdit.info. I’ll get the upscaled deleted scenes out to you all very soon, along with English and French versions of MalàStrana’s subtitles (or Project TeeSeeFourteen). I do also still hope to someday do an encode of V4 using Eman’s regrades when they get finished. Nonetheless, it’s done.

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#909080
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TV's Frink's Star Wars Fanedit Upload Request Thread In Which You Can Request That I Upload A Star Wars Fanedit And I Will Respond Yay Or Nay (CHECK FIRST POST BEFORE MAKING REQUESTS)
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TV’s Frink said:

A bunch of my recent reuploads have finally shown up on fanedit.info. I’ll update the first post with the details when I have the chance, but you can sort by date uploaded to find them fairly easily.

Awesome. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

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#908615
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Star Wars Episode II: The Approaching Storm (Released)
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MalàStrana said:
Curiously when the scene is back to the theatrical version the picture quality stays low. Why didn’t you use the HD material of the original version here ? (sorry if you have already explained your choice).

Because it never goes back to the theatrical version. The shot where R2 follows them up the stairs to the little bridge is not the same; the theatrical version has the shuttle parked right there, whereas the deleted scene had it park far away and is therefore missing from that shot. There was no part of the theatrical version that was able to be mixed with the deleted scene. Also, I just used straight upscaled DVD footage for the two establishing shots of landing on Naboo because they fall between two upscaled deleted scenes anyway.

Good luck with the subtitles. We’ve got a “Project TeeSeeFourteen” started, apparently.

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#908257
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Star Wars Episode II: The Approaching Storm (Released)
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That must have been an oversight; the youngling scene is still very much removed.
Schorman’s source appears a bit ‘rougher,’ with more noise and varying levels of quality. But the colors are perfect.

Sometimes the scene one would think is the problem ends up working well when the film is changed around it.