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Fortunately, something like this can be done in FCPX so I was able to do it while having some downtime, since I don’t have to boot into my other OS like I do for most of my fan editing stuff. (God help me the day FCP7 is beyond my reach forever.)

So I’m exporting a candidate, if everything looks right. I followed your directions, with a few tweaks I had to make when facing the reality of what’s there:

• The fireside scene keeps a few more lines than what you suggested, though still removes mention of the kiss, because otherwise there’d be an unavoidable ugly audio transition with the music.
• I reordered scenes as they are in TAS surrounding Schmi’s funeral for the same reasons I did when working on that project: you can’t go from arriving with her body straight to the funeral. So, those few scenes are put in the order they are for TAS. This also involves losing Yoda and Mace reacting to Anakin’s rage, and the first line of Cliegg’s eulogy.

Everything else is as described: Losing the lakeside scene and using the truncated fireside scene, reordering scenes in order to remove Anakin confessing to Padme, and nixing the Dooku v Yoda duel.

Shaw. It’s Anakin as he should have been, at the apparent age he is in his unmasking. Anakin redeemed, rather than Anakin regressed.

Add a floating styrofoam cup of coffee to the conference room scene in ANH. Just floating all around throughout the scene.

Sure, that should be easy.

All sounds good to me, man. I’ll do this when I can get to it, and I haven’t been able to do any of my own stuff in over a week.

If there’s a missing frame, I’d imagine he would be able to reasonably borrow it from the DVD (or upscale) and fill the rest in with information from surrounding frames. Absolute worst case just duplicate a frame to keep sync with audio.

That would also make for zero awkward scene transitions.

I can’t promise a specific timeframe, but I’ll add it to my fan editing to-do list for once my current work on TROS is finished. I’ll plan to output as ProRes video and audio, which you can process or encode however you’d like to. Again, once I hand it off to you I won’t plan to keep it around forever on my end.

Also, to anyone reading, please don’t consider this open season on requesting a ton of slightly modified versions of my fan edits. That’s what the ProRes output I make available is for, so that anyone could take my work and tweak it however they’d like or stripmine it. Malgus presented a simple idea and disability preventing him from achieving it, expressed with sufficient detail that I believe he would if he could.

All said, I hope this scratches the itch for you!

The grass is always greener, so we could very well have been sitting here wishing it had instead been a six-part miniseries. Granted. However, I do feel compelled by the idea of what this would be like as a single anthology film. For one thing, it would easier to include in a watch-through of the main saga. Harder to imagine a presentation of the films but with a miniseries thrown in as well. Maybe that’s more of a formatting thing. Or maybe I am a little OCD.

I mean, I could attempt whatever order of scenes you like, but I can’t promise they’ll sound great.

Here’s the scenes in this part of the movie, so please arrange these in order:

• Obi-Wan arrives on Kamino, speaks to prime minister
• Lakeside kiss
• Padme visits her family (deleted scene)
• Obi-Wan tours the facility and sees the clone troopers
• Meadow picnic
• Obi-Wan questions Jango Fett
• Sunset dinner, leads right into fireplace scene
• Obi-Wan reports to the Council in the rain

In TAS, they go like this:

• Obi-Wan arrives on Kamino, speaks to prime minister
• Padme visits her family (deleted scene)
• Obi-Wan tours the facility and sees the clone troopers
• Meadow picnic
• Obi-Wan questions Jango Fett
• Sunset dinner, [replaced fireplace with lakeside kiss]
• Obi-Wan reports to the Council in the rain

As you can see, the only changes in TAS are to replace the lakeside kiss with Padme’s family, and then replace fireside scene with lakeside kiss. Shifting things around further than this would likely result in ugly scene transitions. Usually better to stick with the theatrical if it can be helped.

You could always do two audio tracks, one with added score and one without, I suppose.

I prefer Anakin’s Dark Deeds. For Obi-Wan this is not yet “omg it’s Darth Vader bum bum bum buh buh-bum, buh buh-bum,” but rather whatever Anakin has turned into. It harkens back to his moment with Padme in ROTS of reckoning with what Anakin has done.

Or… how would it perhaps go to start with Anakin’s Dark Deeds, but switch to the piano Imperial March when he begins killing people? (Maybe skipping into the main part of the theme without the preliminary percussive buildup.)

I’m not sure I’m following the order of scenes you have in mind. If the fireplace scene is to be retained, it would be best to leave the original transition into and out of it.

TAS basically replaces the original kiss by the lake scene with the Padme’s family deleted scene, then uses the kiss later to replace the fireplace scene.

What order of scenes do you want to have? Let me know and I can try to make that happen, but it can be rather tricky to get a decent audio transition and sometimes that limits what I feel good about.

Fair enough!

The sunset grading for that scene was meant to replace the fireplace scene. If you like that placement for the kiss scene, though, I could try to have it fade into that scene, though it would break it up. I’d recommend letting me place it earlier, either where it was to begin with or swapped with the meadow sequence.

And I can export it as ProRes, if that works. Or mp4.

So you’re talking use my edit of AOTC up to the kiss, which you want to be as in the theatrical, and then the theatrical AOTC for the remainder of the movie except to still remove Anakin’s confession?

I could throw that together for you in whatever file format and approximate size you’d prefer, though I won’t hold onto it after passing it along to you. I must say it’s a weird request, like the first half of the movie is fan edited and the second half more or less isn’t. But, I could do it. Just let me know what specs to shoot for.

What a privilege. Sounds great.

Would also like to see these.

jrs81 said:

Wanted to make an opening suggestion with a pretty bold idea. Forgive the rough edit, just through this together quickly. Needed a star field and keeping in line with TESB and ROTJ, I wanted to open this Obi-Wan movie from an imperial perspective. I imagine a scroll with something like this:

"Darth Vader continues his search for Obi-Wan and has created his own personal Jedi Hunters, Inquisitors.
The ambitious THIRD SISTER has come up with her own secret plan to find KENOBI…

https://vimeo.com/716590202

Also includes a new introduction to Leia.

Very efficient! I like it.

Vader giving Kenobi the ‘Hook’ treatment? Disappointed in his ‘war’ with him and wanting him to prepare for a good fight?

I feel it’s better where it is, given the pieces I have to work with, including establishing shots and music. I do see your point but it screws over the pacing to toss in between Palpatine appointing Anakin and the Jedi Council.

Some very good stuff this episode from a “keep it ambiguous when Padme died” perspective.

Also a subtle reference to the old idea that Owen and Obi-Wan were brothers.

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I’d recommend making the saber(s) 50% between a close match of ROTS and ESB.

You mean you don’t already have the whole thing mapped out?

This guy gets it. 😃

That it’s already too late