IlFanEditore

I really wanted to like this.
I didn’t.
I didn’t even manage to finish it.
I liked the dreamy short sequence before Finn wakes up, but the Battlefront footage looks awful and completely useless, and the voiceover sounds terrible. Almost all the music additions have problems, and I found Luke’s new phrases extremely boring and predictable.
I’m really sorry for this, but I was expecting something way better.

Of course this is just a test.
I love the Yoda/Palpatine duel, but this Yoda diminishes the stature of OT’s Yoda, so I’d like to keep the duel without the problem of character development.

Peter Pan said:

IlFanEditore said:

Here it is.
Again, I really need suggestions on how to improve it.
https://vimeo.com/342544011
password: fanedit

Yoda uses Force Projection to fight Palpatine. The reason is that while Yoda is on the asteroid meditating, he’s witnessing everything that’s happening, and he hears Palpatine in his office saying: “Tell the captain to ready my shuttle. I sense Lord Vader is in danger”.
Yoda knows that Kenobi is going to fight Anakin, and if Palpy goes to help Anakin, Obi Wan is doomed. So he uses the projection to stall the Emperor, just like Luke in EpVIII.

*Color Correction (not finished).
Volume still needs work.
Less cringe from Anakin.
Shortened duel. I removed the way-too-fast parts, at least wherever I could.
I tried to remove the parts where Yoda and Palpy’s lightsabers keep their contacts.
Final music, which I think is kind of ok, but tell me what you think.
Yoda’s voicover from previous movies or previous moments from this movie.*

I liked that you cut most of the dialogue from the Anakin vs. Obi fight, it worked extraordinary well in combination with the music and voiceover.

Apart from that I think you should cut the Yoda‘s fingernails losing grip part, it is just to much physical interaction for a projection.

P.S.: I would try to remove the ray shields that protected the mustafar station and explain the massiv volcanic eruptions because of Anakins rage, this would be more fate of the universe like and Anakin would appear much more like an all powerful Chosen One. It would also suit him talking about his new powers, overestimating them and eventually leading to his downfall.

Thank you. Yes, Yoda’s hand will definitely be removed.
Also the Anakin rage thing, it sounds really intriguing. I will work on it.
What about the projection itself? Does it work? Is it believale enough? Acceptable, at least? Or is it a disaster, lol?

Here it is.
Again, I really need suggestions on how to improve it.
https://vimeo.com/342544011
password: fanedit

Yoda uses Force Projection to fight Palpatine. The reason is that while Yoda is on the asteroid meditating, he’s witnessing everything that’s happening, and he hears Palpatine in his office saying: “Tell the captain to ready my shuttle. I sense Lord Vader is in danger”.
Yoda knows that Kenobi is going to fight Anakin, and if Palpy goes to help Anakin, Obi Wan is doomed. So he uses the projection to stall the Emperor, just like Luke in EpVIII.

*Color Correction (not finished).
Volume still needs work.
Less cringe from Anakin.
Shortened duel. I removed the way-too-fast parts, at least wherever I could.
I tried to remove the parts where Yoda and Palpy’s lightsabers keep their contacts.
Final music, which I think is kind of ok, but tell me what you think.
Yoda’s voicover from previous movies or previous moments from this movie.*

Damn, lol.
I’ll upload it somwehere else ASAP 😉

FINAL DUEL AND YODA’S FORCE PROJECTION TEST.

I’ve already tried to edit the third act many times, with previous edits.
Obi Wan - Anakin duel is way over the top.
Yoda - Palpatine is better, IMHO, because the two actually use the Force to fight each other. But Yoda’s flipping is still annoying.

So here’s my new test.
Yoda uses Force Projection to fight Palpatine. The reason is that while Yoda is on the asteroid meditating, he’s witnessing everything that’s happening, and he hears Palpatine in his office saying: “Tell the captain to ready my shuttle. I sense Lord Vader is in danger”.
Yoda knows that Kenobi is going to fight Anakin, and if Palpy goes to help Anakin, Obi Wan is doomed. So he uses the projection to stall the Emperor, just like Luke in EpVIII.

https://vimeo.com/342544011
password: fanedit

Ok, I really need feedback and suggestions.

1. Color Correction (not finished).
2. Volume still needs work.
3. Less cringe from Anakin.
4. Shortened duel. I removed the way-too-fast parts, at least wherever I could.
5. I tried to remove the parts where Yoda and Palpy’s lightsabers keep their contacts.
6. Final music, which I think is kind of ok, but tell me what you think.
7. Yoda’s voicover from previous movies or previous moments from this movie.

Another short test for EpIV.
It looks awful, but with a frame-by-frame masking I think it would look cool.
What do you think?

https://vimeo.com/341187607
password: fanedit

Episode IV scene test.

Ok, right now I’m working with Episode III.
But after a long time I played The Old Republic again, and after watching its “Return” cinematic trailer I imagined the Obi Wan death scene in EpIV played in a similar way.

So here is a VERY, EXTREMELY rough test.
I simply added the original “Return” audio to the unaltered scenes in EpIV, but with a whole different cut.

https://vimeo.com/341119852
password: fanedit

Tell me your opinions about this idea. 😉

Wow, I find some of these ideas really really interesting.

Thank you very much. I think I’ll follow your suggestions 😉

First crawl.

https://vimeo.com/340889781
password: fanedit

Any suggestion is welcomed 😉

Thank you!
I’m actually trying to add that to this edit.

(Original poster by “1darthvader” on Deviantart)

Here’s the third edit of my (probably) full 1-6 saga edit.
First things first, Revenge of the Sith is one of my favourite SW movies. I’ve never been a PT hater. This trilogy is surely worse than the OT, but I never found it horrible, not at all.
I always loved the political aspect of it, the scale of these movies, and most of the acting performances (mostly McGregor, Portman and McDiarmid).
The only things that I really didn’t like about this trilogy are:

1. It looked way too different from the OT.
2. The two main plot twists (Vader in ESB and Leia in ROTJ) are ruined, if you watch the movies in episodic order.

Just as with the other two edits, I’ll try to fix it.
Right now I don’t have a complete changelist, as I’m just working on the new crawl, but the movie will have a complete color correction. It will probably be less strong than the one in Episode II, because in my EpII edit the CC in some parts was just too much.
Just as in the previous edits, I’ll add other music tracks wherever I can. And I’ll try to hide the “Anakin becomes Darth Vader” point. If I will work on ANH and ESB, I’ll surely remove any mention by Obi Wan about Vader being his apprentice.
Anakin will actually turn to the Dark Side, because I don’t think it would work to kill him off before that (I am uncapable of working with VFX, but even if I could make it look like Anakin dies in the Jedi Temple attack, killing off the main character off screen would suck, cinematically speaking).
I’m still wondering about keeping or removing the Yoda-Palpatine fight scene. If I can make it more grounded, I will keep it. Otherwise, that’s gone. I’d like to keep it, because it would sound ridiculous for the strongest Jedi ever to run away and not even try to fight the supreme bad guy…

Anyway, more details coming soon 😉

Wow, that’s a whole new level.
It really really looks like it could be a prequel to the Originals.

“You’ve seen the end of Kenobi”.
Vader to Tarkin after the MF leaves the DS.

Titles: The Son of Skywalker, Reign of the Empire, The Heir of Skywalker…

I’m quite excited about this 😄

First of all, I can’t thank you enough for this feedback.
Now…

1. I surely will return to this sooner or later, and I think I’ll put all your suggestions here. Yoda looking at Palpy will be removed.
2. About the Jedi Archives… that’s my idiotic mistake. I changed the color in the first part as a test. Then I was satisfied, but I forgot to continue. And I realized that only when the edit was already uploaded -.-"
3. Everything else… you’re right. Some parts in CC will need some extra work, and Dooku turning back at the end aswell.

Anyway, all the music additions are from the OT, or Rogue One. The tracks during the assassination attempt, during the first part of the “asteroid” chase and the battle of Geonosis are all from Rogue One. And yes, during the second part of the asteroid chase the track is from TLJ (battle of Crait).
Thank you again! 😉

I love it like it is 😉

Amazing.

EDIT RELEASED.

PM me for links.

I finished it.
Well, personally I’m quite satisfied with the result. The Color Correction usually works, I like the title and the new music tracks.
I think the process that builds the love story between Anakin and Padmé is at least acceptable: less cringe, less Anakin talking.
I feel that everything is more grounded. No Jedi being like semi-gods. They have supernatural powers, but they are more believable. During the chase sequence, Anakin does not fall for miles from the speeder-car before reaching the bounty hunter. During the Obi Wan/Jango fight, Kenobi does not use the rope like he did in the original. The over the top droid factory sequence is gone, replaced by the Dooku/Padmé deleted scene. The duel with Dooku is shorter, and Yoda does not fight, but we can see him as a strong Jedi because he saves Kenobi and Skywalker (maybe I will make him fight against Palpatine, as a single duel in the whole saga where Yoda uses the lightsaber, because Palpy is too powerful).
Obi Wan is not Anakin’s master. They are friends, and Kenobi is older and wiser, but they are the same. Two Jedi Knights, that’s all.
Of course C3PO does not appear until the end, in the marriage scene. I don’t think we need an introduction. He is one of Padmé’s droids. That’s all.
I tried to show Palpatine as a good guy. We should not have any doubts about him, during this movie. I don’t know if I managed it, but when he speaks I added “positive” music tracks, like the Force theme or the Alliance theme from ROTJ, to make the audience believe he is a good guy.

It’s not revolutionary, it’s not perfect, and there are some problems which I noticed myself (some color correction and the deleted scene having a poorer quality compared to the rest of the movie, first of all). If I will return to this I will change something. But at least for now this is it.
Of course these are MY opinions, but considering that I’m the one who made the edit, I’m not a reliable judge for this.

PM me for links to Google Drive 😉
I’d really really really like to have some feedback.

Wow, just wow.

Well, I actually loved this edit! I love the different pacing, and especially how you treated both Luke and the First Order.
Bravo 😄

Ending test.

This is just a test. I like this music (it’s the track from the last Game of Thrones’ episode), but it’s too different from the classic JW style.
Anyway, I was just trying to have a different montage, showing the meeting Dooku/Palpy as a plot twist…

https://vimeo.com/333819053
password: fanedit

Simply amazing.
Please, consider releasing it as a full edit sooner or later…

Lol, thank you.
To read English is one thing, but to write it so that it sounds ok as a Star Wars crawl is totally different, haha.