Hal 9000

Thanks very much! The family dinner scene is hardly cinematic gold, but I agree with the fan editors who preceded me in including it for its value in demonstrating some suppressed infatuation on Padme’s part. In AOTC, it seems like Padme can’t stand Anakin until she abruptly falls for him. This deleted scene bridges the early “you’re just that little kid” stuff and their “bonding” on Naboo before Anakin has his nightmare. In AOTC, she seem to loathe having him around, she kisses him and immediately regrets it (probably because he’s such a moron), she has to make up a reason for him to leave her alone (“I’m a senator”), and then transitions into falling in love with him as he confesses to genocide.
However, one thing for us to consider about the family dinner scene is that in my edit of ROTS, we do not see her family at her funeral. So… yeah, there’s that. I’m still inclined to keep it for its use in showing Padme having feelings for Anakin. It also gives a touch of resistance to them, so their romance doesn’t seem 100% linear. (Since I had to remove so much of the “we just can’t be togehter because of x y z.”)

Start playing the edit in your DVD or BR player. Once the certain scenes begin, eject the disc and put in the original. When the sequence is over, put the edit back in.
Pretend they’re LaserDiscs. Everything’s better on a LaserDisc!

But really, dedicate just a few hours to looking into how to edit together video clips. You wouldn’t need anything fancy at all, just splitting a video into clips and then rejoining them.

This trilogy of edits just seems to have a checklist of disliked moments cut out. I wouldn’t expect someone to see this and feel like they just watched a polished film.
I kept Vader’s “NOOO” precisely because it was too jarring to remove while keeping the rest of the scene. Most YouTube work I’ve seen (at least for single film edits; I don’t really care for 3-in-1’s) just cuts things wherever and may or may not smooth over the audio and apply a wipe transition. The Anti-Cheese versions are far from the worst, but the murky world of FE.org has collectively put out much better work, though aren’t as enticing as clicking on a YouTube link.
ImperialFighter, please let us know if you find anything in YouTube that’s well done, though.

It’d be rather easy for you to use even something like QuickTime to cut/paste together a hybrid version from mine and the original.

Jar Jar is cut about as much as average, I think, but Padme still dies.

My old ones from 2007ish did.

Very nice. I’d be interested in hearing any specific reactions or thoughts, even if they don’t pick out any specific differences.
Did you all watch the six films in release order, then?

That’s right. I’m waiting on Schorman’s V2 release of his source material, because I want V4 of my project to be final.

Yes, and they’re a way to artificially make Anakin seem special.

Check your PMs.

I’ll have it out ahead of TFA:SE.

cranyx said:

Harmy do you know of any ETA on when 2.0 will be done? I know it probably won’t be before TFA, but I’m just curious.

Facepalm

Not that I think what you posted is inappropriate, but I’m officially out of this thread. See you all on the other side!

Yeah, that file appears to be missing in action… for some mysterious reason. I’m re-zipping and will re-up the 1080p version, however, the .info guy takes a while to list it. Until then, anyone who sees this can PM me for help.

PM sent. For the record, the files all appear to be up and fine, unless anyone else can report having any issues with getting them.

FanEdit.info is the best place to find them, and includes a FAQ with instructions.

Not too late to read some post-ROTJ EU. Last dance with Mara Jade.

Non-serious idea. Use this scene to have Padme screaming during the Taintive conversation, pleading to have her baby boy back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ZtDr6CqD0

DominicCobb said:

My god yes! You cut out “I truly deeply love you”! I think that’s something I’ve been asking for since the work print. This is now probably the best prequel fan edit ever.

I went back and just tried the whole scene again with a fresh canvas. It just so happened that I was able to cut it so the crossfade to the swell of music as they are carted out happens at pretty much the same point between the first and second go-round of the love theme. It was perfect, but it only happened by scrapping the prior version.

towne32 said:
There’s a little bit of static (I think) that ramps up during the pause between “my life” and “I love you”, but it’s not a huge problem.

Very good catch! You found one of the seams. I’ll see what I can do to minimize the odd musical creep, without having the background geonosian noises rising and falling conspicuously.

Perhaps you could try creating a directory in the same folder with that exact name. Just a guess.
EDIT: You also might try using “The Unarchiver” for Mac. It’s what I use, at any rate.

Hehe. I’m glad it was something simple.

DominicCobb said:

Hate to be that guy but extracting isn’t working for me. I’ve tried archive utility (Mac) and unrarx, but I’m getting error messages on both. Am I using the wrong program? Why aren’t the files rars?

I’m not sure why that’d happen. What errors are you getting? Make sure none of the files are missing, too.

V4 love pledge scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb84CexYXoA&feature=youtu.be

It’s possible Ep3 may be ready soon but most likely Ep2 will not. It just depends on when Schorman’s V2 release happens.