Thanks very much. I’m obligated to insist that most of what I did was coalesce others’ prior ideas. But it’s always nice to hear the effort was worthwhile.
LOE is certainly a bolder edit than the other two, and mixing and matching my cuts of I and II with L8wrtr’s III is totally legit.
The points you two raise and more are addressed in the commentary, too. I did indeed try to mediate the earlier idea of Anakin’s turn by downplaying the role of his premonitions about Padme’s death, largely because she doesn’t die in my cut anyway.
I am of two minds regarding the Death Star scene. I’m erring on the side of caution, I guess. It’s not part of the story of the prequels, and only appears during the pre-ANH traileresque ending montage. (There’s no reason to involve Geonosis or Dooku; at least here it remains an Imperial project.) I prefer to have Coruscant, technically, but emotionally feel the Death Star is what gives the scene its weight.
However, anyone wanting to hack at my cuts to tweak to their liking, it’d be a quick fix.
(The commentary track was finished before deciding to go with the Russian scream.)
Yeah, I thought the commentary for Ep3 was more negative than the others. I did it after hitting some cider. I had also just reread the novelization, and so had a fresh sense of disappointment in how the film was executed. In fairness, ROTS leaves many things to complain about.
I don’t know, man. The prequels are like aggravating family members. Someone doing what I’ve done has to see the good in them. A conflict.
Did you upscale the deleted scenes yourself? They look really good!
I only had to do them myself for Ep2; Ep1 and Ep3 were done by DrDre. I was pretty impressed with how they look too!
JEDIT: And once the dust settles, I do still plan on syncing the audio to them and releasing the upscaled deleted scenes along with any odds and ends that others might find useful.
Sounds… kind of awesome.
Yes, these commentary tracks are new for V4. And FanEdit.info is the best place to get these, though it often takes a while for the admin to update the listing.
Harmy, you spectacular bastard! I have never seen Return of the Jedi look so good. Everything about this feels so right.
If there’s any justice in the world, Lucasfilm should award you $100,000 for making you do this once they release the OOT.
V4 of LOE has been submitted to FanEdit.info, and should be appearing there soon.
Not quite yet. Should be finished and up either this week or next.
That’s due to the best possible reason: I’m currently uploading the final version (V4). Episode II will soon follow.
Awesome sauce. Really excited to see this. Harmy is king of the nerds!
lol, Vinesauce Joel.
Nice pics; they look like they came right off the 2016 BluRay repackage inserts.
Thank you for that, I really do appreciate it. The edit is out the door, so I’m not going to fix this issue. V4’s it! I don’t doubt many tiny imperfections like this may occur to me in time, but I’ve got to consider this “finished” at some point. 😛
Just kidding. But yeah, that’s unfortunate. I really had to look for a minute before spotting it. Watching the edit, I honestly can only notice it if I stand and look down on my monitor. (And I cannot for the life of me spot it at all on my MacBook’s built-in screen.) I would never have spotted that in a million years.
Nice pictures. I’d like to request Hayden Christensen with no eyebrows.
Great (?) news! V4 of Labyrinth Of Evil exists now, and should be appearing in the normal places within a day or so. Those with Myspleen accounts will probably get it before FanEdit.info does.
The Approaching Storm will be next. This long project of mine is finally coming to a close.
chyron8472 said:
Much of this cover was taken directly from Video Collector’s covers. He said when he allowed me to have his covers that they were for my use and that I couldn’t directly distribute them.
Oh. Well, all right.
ROTJ: Respecialized… except there’s no ESB.
jedimasterobiwan said:
is your edit of tpm out yet?
It passes to you.
I tried but it looks like crap
Touché.
That’s pretty cool. Could you put out a version without the “Extended Edition” label too?
Turn your monitor upside down as you type. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to make it stay that way.
Can you despecialize this cake for me while you’re at it?
This article suggests that to isolate vocals from music you need the original vocal-less soundtrack
Brain melt.
For any newcomers who are trying to burn this to BD using tsmuxer, make sure you select “Do not change SEI and VUI data”.
And remember that for Ep1 to fit on a SL disc, you’ll need to exclude one of the audio tracks.
