Hal 9000

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.

Wow, thank you for that. As always, I’m glad to hear of them being well received and living up to their goal of functioning as an opening day replacement for the originals in the mind of the viewer.
And just to repeat myself, I’m just adding to an ongoing project and very little of what I’ve done really originated with me. But it’s good to see people enjoying the results regardless.

That Grievous hologram is a really good idea and looks totally convincing.

Steven_TheFarce said:

Hey fellow galactians! I am Steven Hightower! Acclaimed professional film youtube reviewer. Here is my review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. My opinion is not only clamored for, but asked for too.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/d93SbwRBUJY

Wow, what astoundingly poor taste.

Oh, I don’t doubt that at all!

Hundsdorfex does great work, having contributed a few important shots to my edits. Not to carelessly add to the pile, but I know some people would have liked to see a variety of saber colors in the prequels, or thought it was weird for Sam F*%#%^ Jackson to be the only combo breaker.
One idea that was tossed around when starting my edits would alleviate this with a minimum of work involved. It would take two minor characters and give them their saber colors from the EU. During the battle on Geonosis, Plo Koon’s saber would be yellow and Ki Adi Mundi’s would be purple. We see both of these ignited prominently, and they don’t appear very much. And if you like, one or two other random background Jedi we see for one shot could have a yellow saber. The lady Jedi who had a red saber in the EU never has it ignited onscreen. (Ki Adi Mundi’s would need redoing in Ep3 as well. And one might want to give a yellow blade to one of the Jedi who accompany Windu to arrest Palpy.) For a minimal amount of work you’d have someone else with a purple saber, a few yellow ones, and keeping the majority as being blue or green.

fullmetal777 said:

I’d rather watch bith clone wars tv shows

That’d be interesting, but would probably require subtitles.
One more thing that held me back from enjoying Clone Wars (2008) and Rebels is the ugly and unappealing animation. If a few of the main highlights were novelized, I’d honesty prefer to take in the story that way.

For what it’s worth, I sure don’t.

joefavs said:

I don’t want to watch the prequels by myself.

Those are the sort of good instincts that save lives.

Started in June!
June was Cloak Of Deception (My Ep1 edit)
July was The Approaching Storm (My Ep2)
August was Labyrinth of Evil (My Ep3)
September was Star Wars - Despecialized
October was Empire Strikes Back - Despecialized
and November will soon have Return of the Jedi - Despecialized

I also read a lot of SW books spread throughout chronologically.

Thanks! That’s a valid point, though I did remove Qui-Gon telling him to stay in the cockpit and made it look like Anakin only got in there when he saw Padme needed help. You might get what I’m saying by comparing it to the original version of the scene when the duel with Maul begins. (I also trimmed Qui-Gon’s like so he tells Anakin to hide but doesn’t emphasize it by repeating himself. He’s gotta tell Anakin something before taking him into a war zone!)
Your sister’s concerns are valid, though I don’t think she knows what a force to be reckoned with the prequels are! Thanks for the feedback.

Red Leader destroys the Death Star.

Glad you finally let the OT.com crowd know about these.
They’re entertaining and should make for a few hours of fun. I mean, I listened to them.

Awesome, thanks for posting!
Reencoding is one way to make it fit to a disc.
I was hoping to have V4 out before TFA, but it depends on Schorman’s schedule, but V3 is adequate in the meantime; it’s what I watched with some friends during our own pre-7 viewings.

The thought has crossed my mind of someone swapping their eye color, but no one’s crazy enough to actually do it… are they?

John Williams did a fantastic job with the prequels, and so I’m happy to leave the music alone for the most part. Even if there are a few things I’d have liked to do, it’s prohibitively difficult to pull off.
I’m not so sure the plot point of having Padme survive Episode III will be readily contradicted in future films. In order to contradict it, they would have to be very specific. One could say Vader killed Padme, which is true enough because she eventually succumbs to her injuries. One could talk of them taking Leia to live on Alderaan as Bail’s daughter, which would also be true enough. They would have to specifically say or allude that she died in childbirth to pose a problem. They could allude to Leia’s uncanny ability to remember people or see visions, and that wouldn’t even be a problem, either.
I’m sure there’s probably already been a book or comic or something from the new EU that contradicts what I’ve done in my edit. That’s okay; anyone making an edit their go-to version will need to adjust how they filter these details out. I’d be more concerned with films contradicting it, especially the “saga” films. But I don’t really see that happening, since again, it would need to be very specific. And why would a future film feel the need to allude to it in such a specific way, when ROTJ so blatantly contradicts it? I would imagine they would allude to the events in a vague enough way to not remind people of the contradiction. I could certainly be wrong, but I don’t see why the saga films especially would need to go back to Padme dying in childbirth.