JasonN

So after much debating, I've decided to make my version of TPM (which is called "Attack of the Federation") a part of these edits continuity. This edit is my attempt to take the best aspects of the various TPM fanedits out there (Phantom Editor, Slumberland, ADigitalMan, Magnoliafan, ect) and combine them into one great version:

EDIT: Added the cutlist to the first post of the thread.

Last month, I released a new "2.0" version of this fanedit in DVD format with many improvements made to the edit's content, along with its audio/video quality (I've updated the fanedit info on the first page to include the new changes/edits): 
http://fanedit.org/401/

Here's a preview clip (Morpheus's fight with an Agent):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD3woiML1f0

vaderios said:

How about this?:

Its more menacing and its cool to have a sith (apart from Mr Vader) 

Eh... no, I'm perfectly fine with Sidious and Vader being the only Sith in the plot.
(I'm mean, they're suppose to be like a secret society, right? Wouldn't be much of a secret if every enemy turned out to be a Sith, I think...)

ben_danger: The method I used for the clip shown was to go in frame by frame and paint the lightsaber a different tint by hand. The program I used was Bauhaus Mirage (the predecessor to TVPaint), which is kinda like a mix between Photoshop and After Effects. Granted, it's not the fastest method, but it gives me the best and most accurate results (using vector masks in Vegas was a lot quicker, but the final image isn't as good-looking in my opinion).

Octorox: I thought about making it green, but for the Twilight of the Republic (AofC) edit, I kinda wanted Dooku's lightsaber to be a different color than either Anakin's or Obi-wan's. Because of that, I carried over the same purple lightsaber over to the The Black Knight Rises (RotS) edit to maintain series continuity.

And here's the finished "Obi-wan/Anakin VS Count Dooku, round 2" from EP3, where I've completely rotoscoped Dooku's lightsaber from "Sith"-red to purple (since he's still a Jedi and is not a Sith in these edits):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dis36Z-I4iI

Those that have seen my previous "Shadows of the Old Republic" edit will probably remember this edit - Obi-wan's space battle with Jango's Slave-1 (still one of my favorite edits that I've done):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBwyUh0UD94

Now this scene was not part of my "Shadows" edit (since it didn't really work within the context of that edit's story), but this is when Anakin is denied the rank of Master on the Jedi council and is tasked by Obi-wan to find out the truth behind Palpatine - I've edited it to further develop the Jedis' suspicions of Palpatine (also added the deleted scene "A Plot to Destroy the Jedi?" back into the film, although I'll probably change the scene transition to something better), ro increase Anakin's anger toward the Council, and to remove any mention of the "Chosen One" prophecy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyXLdj6mOg

Bingowings said:

The idea of redubbing the Trade Federation is great from Magnoliafan (though I don't like the garbled speach used in that edit the subtitles making them darker slave traders is genius). Keeping Jar-Jar a funny clot but actually funny (from Slumberland), Anakin is better in The Phantom Edit (here I reach the outer edge of my Phantom Menace edit knowledge). ADM made a great job of putting deleted material back in.

Giving the battledroids sinister voices is something that has yet to be pulled off convincingly in my experience (though trimming has been done well in a couple of the versions I've seen).

Hopefully when Adywan comes to do his he will borrow from the best and add his own polish as Octorox suggests.

Maybe I'll take a look into doing such a project after I finish my "Starkiller Saga" edits of Ep2 & Ep3 (though I might be dead tired of SW by that time).

As for the droids, I actually liked the idea of removing their voices like Phantom Editor did in his edits.

Bingowings said:

The reason we are here is because sometimes a director, editor or studio exec can be so on top of a project they can't see the forest for the trees (or the planks in the case of some actor performances).

The Phantom Editor showed that even without access to the cutting room floor it is possible to improve a scene by cutting even more (look at his take on Anakin's Force test scene) and some of the deleted material that is available does arguably work better than some of the material that wasn't deleted (a prime example being the Mace/Obi Wan conversation scene which was deleted from AOTC vs the Mace/Obi-Wan/floating Yoda scene that wasn't).

So even without Adywan's Adobe skills it is possible to work wonders with what is already to hand.

Which is exactly the point of my last post.

Bingowings said:

If you watch Slumberland's take on the Gungan scenes in TPM, Jar-Jar is still Jar-Jar, Boss Nass is still Boss Nass (no re-dubs or subtitles) but they work as designed much better (I wrote this elsewhere on here Jar-Jar actually made me laugh for the first time in a decade thanks to having the majority of his silly scenes removed, it improved the slap-schtick timing).

Hmm, I haven't seen Slumberland's edits yet, but you've peaked my curiousity (a better Jar-Jar would be great, but hopefully that also extends to a better Anakin as well)

colubra09 said:

The problem is, no matter how good the ideas, unless fan editors start to raid movie studios for all those deleted scenes there won't be enough material to reshape a story, and then it takes a pro like Adywan to make it into something to rival the official director's cut.

Even if there are numerous deleted scenes, that doesn't mean there will be enough footage to tell a better story or that those scenes are an improvement to the story - it all depends on the decisions of the filmmakers/studio and what they choose to film/edit/CG/etc in the first place. I also don't understand why you'd bring up an edit/s needing to be as good as an "official director's cut" since being a DC is no indication that the film will be better (hell, you could argue that Lucas's 2004 DVD release of SW was his "director's cut"...)

Original Info:

Lately, I’ve been reading the e-book version of The Secret History of Star Wars (http://www.secrethistoryofstarwars.com)

 
and thinking a lot about the Prequel trilogy and what they ultimately mean towards the original SW films. In going over these thoughts, I’ve realized something important about my previous attempt at a SW Prequel fanedit, Shadows of the Old Republic:

I’m not really as satisfied with it as I thought.

Don’t get me wrong, I do like some of the work that I did on that edit. However, as a narrative work that details the events prior to Star Wars, I think that that story does work better as a series of films… abit, ones that could be greatly improved over it’s original “Lucas” forms. Therefore, I’ve decided to go ahead and create my own versions of The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. 
 

FanEdit Information

Type of Fanedit: True Fanedit
Intention With This Edit: To combine the best aspects from other TPM fanedits along with my own concepts/edits to create a definitive version of “The Phantom Menace”.
Original Titles: Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
New Title: Star Wars: Attack of the Federation
Original Runtime: 133 minutes (2 hours, 13 minutes)
New Runtime: 106 minutes (1 hours, 46 minutes)
Time Cut: 29-30 minutes
Time Added: 1-2 minutes
Software Used: Sony Vegas 7 (video editing), Adobe Photoshop CS2 (image editing), Bahaus Mirage (compositing), Adobe After Effects 6.5 (compositing), Sony Sound Forge 8 (audio editing), Sony DVD Architect 4.5 (DVD authoring)
 

Major Cuts/Edits/Changes.

10. Added a new title crawl (developed from an After Effects “Star Wars title crawl” sequence originally created by Taolar)
02. Major cuts/edits to Jar-Jar Binks, Anakin, Padme, the Gungans, and the Trade Federation
03. Removed all references to midichlorians, Anakin’s virgin birth, or the Chosen One prophecy
04. All scenes featuring Sidious’s now has his face from under his hod removed and his voice has been altered/lowered to conceal his identity
05. All Battle Droids’ voices have been removed (with the exception of one scene, where the voice is needed for plot purposes)
06. Removed dialogue redundancy throughout the film
07. No “Planet Core” sequence (both first and second parts)
08. Removed a lot of redundant dialogue by Ric Olie (aka “Captain Obvious”)
09. Took out the Viceroy’s “Now there are two of them!” line followed by his croony’s “We shouldn’t have made this bargin”
10. Removed Jar-Jar’s redundant scene with Padme cleaning R2
11. Removed Jar-Jar stepping in sh*t
12. Added in Watto humming the “Cantina theme” in his first scene in the film (audio taken from Magnoliafan’s “Balance to the Force” edit)
13. Added Watto shouting “You break it, you buy it, eh!” line to Jar-Jar (audio taken from Magnoliafan’s “Balance to the Force” edit)
14. Added the deleted scene of Anakin beating up Greedo back into the film - it now serves as Anakin’s character introduction to Qui-Gon
15. Removed the “Jar-Jar antics” at the Skywalker table
16. The Pod Race has been patterned after Slumberland’s cut (with a few additional tweaks/edits of my own)

• No two-headed alien “sports announcer” commentary
• No scenes of Jabba the Hutt
  17. Added the deleted scene of Qui-Gon cutting down the probe droid back into the film
  18. No mention of Queen Amadala being “elected” in the Senate scenes
  19. Anakin does not talk after the “No Sir” line during the Jedi Council’s testing
  20. Took out Qui-Gon’s description of Obi-Wan to the Jedi Council to “sell” them on making him a Jedi Knight
  21. Numerous cuts to the Battle of Naboo sequence (Gungan army, Padme’s group, Anakin in space)
  22. Padme’s “Get to your ships!” line has been replaced with the voice that was used in the TPM trailer
  23. Anakin’s ship is no longer on autopilot (now pilots of his own choice)
  24. Removed Qui-Gon asking Obi-Wan to train Anakin at his death
  25. Removed Obi-Wan’s “I gave Qui-Gon my word” line to Yoda on training Anakin at end of film (Obi-Wan now decides to train the boy on his own)
  26. Corrected the bad match-cut of Anakin turning his head at Qui-Gon’s funeral 
  27. Added “Faneditor’s credit” to the end credits

 
FanEdit Information

Type of Fanedit: True Fanedit
Intention With This Edit: To combine the best aspects from other AofC fanedits along with many of my own concepts/edits to create a definitive version of “Attack of the Clones”.
Original Titles: Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
New Title: Star Wars: Twilight of the Republic
Original Runtime: 142 minutes (2 hours, 22 minutes)
New Runtime: 90 minutes (1 hours, 30 minutes)
Time Cut: 54-55 minutes
Time Added: 4 minutes
Software Used: Sony Vegas 7 (video editing), Adobe Photoshop CS2 (image editing), Bahaus Mirage (compositing), Adobe After Effects 6.5 (compositing), Sony Sound Forge 8 (audio editing), Sony DVD Architect 4.5 (DVD authoring)
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Major Cuts/Edits/Changes

01. Added a new title crawl (developed from an After Effects “Star Wars title crawl” sequence originally created by Taolar)
02. Major cuts/edits to the Anakin, Padme, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Jango, Shmi, and Count Dooku characters
03. Tried to edit the Obi-Wan/Anakin relationship to be more akin to a elder brother or friend relationship (much less of this constant “my young padawan” or “yes Master” crap)
04. Jar-Jar only speaks twice in the film
05. Re-edited the “Zam Chase” and “Hiding in Alien Bar” sequences 
06. Edited Zam’s final lines to include subtitles about the Kamino System (eliminating the “toxic dart” subplot)
07. Removed the “Dax’s Diner” sequence
08. Removed the scene of Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Mace Windu walking in the Jedi Temple
09. Removed the scene of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and the younglings training
10. Added the deleted scene of Obi-Wan talking with Mace Windu before leaving for Kamino back to the film
11. Tried to refined and streamlined the Anakin/Padme relationship into an actual romance
12. Added the deleted scene of Anakin meeting Padme’s Family back into the film
13. Boba Fett is not a clone of his father, Jango Fett
14. Jango Fett’s helmet now has a voice modulator
15. Re-edited Obi-Wan’s space fight with Jango in the asteroids
16. Completely removed the “Shmi Skywalker captured by Sandpeople/Anakin turns to the Dark Side” subplot - Anakin now arrives on Tatooine to find his mother already dead and buried
17. Removed Jar-Jar’s speech to the Senate
18. Completely removed the appearance of C-3PO and R2-D2 in the “Droid Factory” and “Coliseum” battle sequences
19. Added the deleted scene of Padme facing Count Dooku back into the film
20. Re-edited the fight sequences of the “Droid Factory”, “Colosseum”, and “Geonosis Battle” scenes
21. Count Dooku is no longer “Darth Tyranous” and has absolutely NO connection to the Sith - he is still a Jedi (abit a rebel Jedi) in my Prequel fanedits
22. Re-edited the duels between Obi-Wan/Anakin and Count Dooku
23. Dooku’s lightsaber has been rotoscoped purple instead of “Sith red”
24. YODA NEVER FIGHTS COUNT DOOKU
25. Added “Faneditor’s credit” to the end credits

 
FanEdit Information

Type of Fanedit: True Fanedit
Intention With This Edit: To combine the best aspects from other RotS fanedits along with many of my own concepts/edits to create a definitive version of “Revenge of the Sith”.
Original Titles: Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
New Title: Star Wars: The Black Knight Rises
Original Runtime: 140 minutes (2 hours, 20 minutes)
New Runtime: 101 minutes (1 hours, 41 minutes)
Time Cut:  44-45 minutes
Time Added: 4-5 minutes
Software Used: Sony Vegas 7 (video editing), Adobe Photoshop CS2 (image editing), Bahaus Mirage (compositing), Adobe After Effects 6.5 (compositing), Sony Sound Forge 8 (audio editing), Sony DVD Architect 4.5 (DVD authoring)
 

Major Cuts/Edits/Changes

01. Added a new title crawl (developed from an After Effects “Star Wars title crawl” sequence originally created by Taolar)
02. Major cuts/edits to the Anakin, Padme, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace, General Grievous, and Palpatine characters
03. Tried to edit the Obi-Wan/Anakin relationship to be more akin to a elder brother or friend relationship (much less of this constant “my young padawan” or “yes Master” crap)
04. Count Dooku is no longer “Darth Tyranous” and has absolutely NO connection to the Sith - he is still a Jedi (abit a rebel Jedi) in my Prequel fanedits
05. Dooku’s lightsaber has been rotoscoped purple instead of “Sith red”
06. Removed the subplots of “Jedi not being able to marry” and “Anakin keeping his marriage to Padme is a secret”
07. Re-edited Anakin’s post-nightmare talk with Padme to heighten their relationship and remove poor acting
08. Removed scene of General Grevious arriving on Utopa and speaking with Sidious
09. Edited the “Jedi spying on Palpatine” subplot to better reflect the Jedis’ suspicions of Palpatine, increase Anakin’s anger toward the Council, and remove any mention of the “Chosen One” prophecy
10. Added the deleted “Plot to Destroy the Jedi?” scene back into the film
11. Trimmed the “Opera House” scenes a bit to remove Anakin being caught about spying on Palaptine and to remove the dialogue regarding midiclorians
12. Added the deleted “A Stirring in the Senate - Bail’s Office” scene back into the film
13. Re-edited the “Mace VS Palpatine” duel (along with the following “Anakin’s choice” scenes) to remove redundant elements and increase drama
14. Re-edited the “Order 66” sequence to include the Clonetroopers attack on the Jedi Temple and Anakin’s encounter with the younglings
15. Rotoscoped Yoda’s lightsaber to be purple
16. Removed Obi-Wan/Yoda’s attack on the clonetroopers outside the Temple
17. Added additional children screams to the audio during the hologram playback of Anakin attacking the Jedi Temple
18. Completely removed the “Yoda VS Sidious” duel from the film
19. Re-edited the final battle into a single duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin
20. Removes Padme “losing the will to live” reference
21. Padme now gives birth to only Luke
22. Cut and re-edited the “Birth of Darth Vader” sequence to remove overtly ‘stupid’ plotpoints
23. Replaced the shots of the WIP Death Star from Vader’s final scenes and replaced it with the planet Coruscant
24. Film now ends with Padme, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan/Luke sequences
25. Added “Faneditor’s credit” to the end credits

The AVI version is now available (check the first post of the thread or go to FE).
:)

The audio problems have been fixed, but it took longer than I thought it would - I'm re-rendering the ac3 file now and will re-render the Xvid avi version this afternoon.

If all goes well, the final avi version will be available for Rapidshare download by Saturday-Sunday. :)

The release has been slightly delayed due to a rather odd problem with Vegas: every time I try to render out the ac3 file, the audio track for Jango's voice gets out of sync and is moved to 15 minutes later in the sountrack, making the resulting ac3 file unusable.
Hopefully I can figure out this problem in time to get the xvid version released by Wednesday.

I finished up the Star Wars crawl this morning and the mpv and ac3 files is being rendered out of Vegas as we speak (which is what I'll use to create the Xvid version).
The Edit is now 150 minutes and 37 seconds (or just over 2 and a half hours).

Akwat Kbrana: I've been working on it since early June, so it's been about 4-5 weeks. On the "Obi-Wan vs. Anakin" scenes, yeah, a lot of the indoor lightsaber duel was removed - and yes, the "Chosen One" subplot was also removed completely from the story.

GoodMusician: If you're talking about the end of Episode 1 and 2 segments being "skitsafrenic", it might seem like that to you because a lot of the plot for Episode 1 and 2 have been re-edited/restructured, so it probably is confusing to watch without the rest of the film to provide context.

PSYCHO_DAYV said:

OKAY, I REALLY WANT TO SEE THIS ONE.  ABOUT HOW LONG BEFORE IT'S AVAILABLE?

 The DVD version will take a while longer to produce and put online (I'll have to send it to another individual to get it on Rapidshare), but I hope to have the XVid-encoded AVI version out by sometime next week.

Can Be Found Online At:
http://fanedit.org/8997/

Notes:
Originally based off a very rough cut of EP1 and EP2 by jra166, this fanedit was my first time working with the Star Wars Prequels and combined Episodes 1-3 into a single movie film which rewrote the story to have a major focus on Obi-Wan during his life in the Old Republic and a secondary focus on the young Jedi Anakin's fall to the Dark Side and rise as Darth Vader. Initially, I was not at all satisfied with how this edit turned out, which is what led me to work on the films individually and create my own fanedit trilogy of the Prequels instead. Much later on after learning new editing techniques and getting requests from several viewers, I decided to come back to the SOTOR edit and revise it for a V2 release, re-editing the fanedit into a movie about the past of the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi which I am much more satisfied with.

FanEdit Information
Type of Fanedit: True Fanedit
Intention With This Edit: This is a single film with a major focus on Obi-Wan before his life as a hermit on Tatooine and a secondary focus of his apprentice Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side and rise as Darth Vader.
Original Titles: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
New Title: Star Wars: Shadows of the Old Republic
Original Runtime: 418 minutes (6 hours, 58 minutes)
New Runtime: 147 minutes (2 hours, 27 minutes)
Time Cut: approx. 271 minutes
Software Used: Sony Vegas 7 (video editing), Adobe Photoshop CS2 (image editing), Bahaus Mirage (compositing), Adobe After Effects 6.5 (compositing), Sony Sound Forge 8 (audio editing), Sony DVD Architect 4.5 (DVD authoring)

AVI Release Information
- Resolution: 720x320
- Audio format: 5.1 Dolby Surround
- Language: English 

Major Edits/Changes
- Added a new "Star Wars" title crawl
- Cut and trimmed up the lightsaber duels throughout the film to reduce slow moments and increase tension/drama
- Cut and removed various redundant, excessive, childish, or otherwise "stupid" elements from the plot and characters

Episode 1 Cuts/Edits:
- Plot now focuses on Obi-Wan arriving on Naboo with his master Qui-Gon Jinn to aid in the Naboo Rebellion against the Trade Federation
- The Queen Amidala and Padme Amidala are now sisters (in other words, they are not the same character)
- NO YOUNG ANAKIN
- NO JAR JAR BINKS
- No visit to Tatooine or Pod Race
- While the Naboo Rebellion is taking place, the Queen has traveled to the Galactic Senate to remove the Trade Federation from her planet (being aided by Senator Palpatine)

Episode 2 Cuts/Edits:
- The Episode is now divided between 2 subplots:
1. The First story focusing on Obi-Wan investigating Queen Amidala's assassin and discovering the Clone army, Jango Fett, and the Separatist Rebellion
2. The second story focuses on Anakin, the beginning of his relationship with Padme, and the death of his mother
- Obi-Wan has no connection to Anakin Skywalker, nor is he Anakin's master until the beginning of Episode 3
- Anakin arrives on Tatooine only find his mother already dead and buried (no Sand People subplot)
- Owen is now Anakin's younger brother
- Boba Fett is NOT a clone of his father, Jango Fett
- Jango Fett's helmet now has a voice modulator

Episode 3 Cuts/Edits:
- Cut down the opening space battle
- Removed and edited nearly all of the Anakin/Padme reunion sequence (now they just embrace each other, followed by fading out to Anakin's nightmare)
- The subplots of "Jedis not being able to marry" and "Anakin keeping his marriage to Padme is a secret" are cut from the story - it is now known (and acceptable) that Padme is Anakin's wife and that Anakin is her child's father
- The "Jedi spying on Palpatine" subplot has been removed
- Added the deleted "Plot to Destroy the Jedi?" scene back into the film (which replaces a similar scene that occured between Mace and other Jedis)
- Trimmed the "Opera House" scenes to only be about Palpatine telling his story of Darth Plagious to Anakin
- Added the deleted "A Stirring in the Senate" scene back into the film
- Cut and re-edited the "Mace VS Palpatine" duel (along with the following "Anakin's choice" scenes) to remove redundant elements and increase the drama of the sequence
- Re-edited Anakin's encounter with the younglings into the rest of the "Order 66" scenes
- Added additional children screams to the audio during the hologram playback of the Anakin attacking the Jedis
- Completely removed the "Yoda VS Sidious" duel from the film - the final battle is now a single duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin
- Cut and re-edited the "Birth of the Twins/Darth Vader" sequence to remove overtly stupid plot elements
- Removed the scene of Padme naming the second twin Leia