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smudger9 said:

My plan is to go back and update these 4 edits, including English and French subs once I’ve finished updating my Mandalorian edits.

Awesome, Smudger! Thank you greatly! Will make your Andor films a perfect option for saga rewatches!

Side note, I really wish Disney had made a greater effort to bring Jimmy Smits in for this series, especially since they used him for Obi-Wan. The one blemish on the otherwise perfect addition of Andor to the PT-RO-OT saga… I do wonder if Andor would flow fine if Bail’s scenes were completely excised.

Third on subtitles for these… If anyone does make subtitles, please DM me!

Hey Hal (and anyone with editing experience who would like to chime in!), could you please explain what David Kaylor did with “Star Wars: The Final Cut” to make the film look washed out compared to the Custom Special Edition? The left still is from the 15 GB 4K “Final Cut”, the right still is from the 30 GB 1080p Custom Special Edition:

https://imglinker.pages.dev/img/bofvjrvkk8si281lpmlqd

Also, would you be please articulate some of the main distinctions between his “Final Cut” and your Custom Special Edition (besides Anakin’s force ghost) throughout all three films? I believe both of you use Project4k and oohteedee as sources; David also used your Custom Special Edition as a source for some scenes.

Thank you so much for crafting the highest quality version of the Star Wars Saga, Hal. Appreciate you!

DigMod said:

Jose Hidalgo said:

Hi, how can we check if we have v1, v2 or whatever ? I’m supposed to have v2, but I’m not sure.

This post was from October 2019, so if you downloaded the file after that point and it has the updates listed below it’s v2…or whatever 😛

DigMod said:

I’ll be releasing a v2 of this edit that addresses a stutter as the Falcon takes off, adjusts the starfield movement during the transition scene to Mimban and adds an explosion to when the first uncoupled train cars hit the floor of the ravine. Here’s the fixed Falcon takeoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxViUwSwB8
I’ll post again when the file is available. I’ll also update the spleen.

Jose Hidalgo said:

Still looking for subtitles BTW : there are only about 7 Billion people on Earth who don’t have english as native language, so… ^^

There is only one me that doesn’t know the languages of those 7 billion people who don’t have English as their native language and would appreciate any help in producing what you are looking for (I’m not sure if that is English subtitles or language specific subtitles?). If you have the means to do so, 7 billion people, plus one, would be grateful 😉

Hey DigMod, I see another member in this thread, Yuri_Kenobi, has made subtitles, and I PMd him but he hasn’t been active since 2021. I tried contacting you through the contact form, but it seems the email is an auto-reply email. Do you happen to have a subtitle file for The Coaxium Heist? This is the only Star Wars fanedit in my collection that doesn’t have subtitles; it would be greatly appreciated if you could please PM those over! Thank you!

(Posting in the thread just in case anyone else who has the subtitle file could PM me. Thanks all!)

Honestly, the only thing I’m hoping for is an announcement that Kennedy is officially out and someone who has the wisdom of Gary Kurtz is in. I doubt we will see a high quality theatrical (or new, properly edited SE) Blu-ray until then.

True… I’ve been a lurker on these forums for quite some time now, but you may have just inspired me to try my hand at the fanediting process, haha. I hope my comment didn’t come across as ungrateful. I just completed a SW marathon with your prequel/sequel/RO edits (with David Kaylor’s final cut OT and TLJ Rekindled) and it was absolutely fantastic. Dare I say I shed a tear… A few times… Thank you for helping to reinvigorate and sustain my love of Star Wars after the atrocities committed by Kathleen Kennedy and company. I was genuinely depressed regarding the state of the fandom for a minute there. Shoot, even Andor season 2 wasn’t all it was touted to be…

Just one last suggestion - after watching your YouTube interview, you really should consider making a Star Wars / pop culture news and review YouTube channel. They are only getting more popular and can be monetized… Considering your history, expertise, and clout, you probably would gain a sizable audience if you posted regularly. Anyway, thanks again Hal.

While we’re all throwing ideas around, I would just like to say what keeps these edits from being “perfect” is the Hal9000 intro and the different titles. The Hal9000 intro distracts from the viewing experience with the 20th Century Fox fanfare compared to your quick fanedit disclaimer message in your other edits. I don’t necessarily mind the different titles as they reference the tie-in novels, but I prefer the AotC purist version simply due to the fact that the CGI in the deleted Obi/Mace scene is distracting and Mace is completely out of character, and having Attack of the Clones as the title instead of The Approaching Storm irks me.

If you replaced the Hal9000 intro with the disclaimer to match your other edits and changed the purist edition back to The Approaching Storm (or create separate “purist editions” with the original titles but updated crawls) that would make these edits the definitive replacements to the prequels.

Hey NeverarGreat, just wanted to make you aware that the subtitle “May the Force be with you.” doesn’t disappear throughout the final scenes.

Hal, I hate to be yet another voice in this thread complaining about something, but I can’t help but notice the subtitle for Yoda’s final line “Begun, the Clone War has” doesn’t disappear in both your preferred and the purist edition throughout the final scenes of the clone army and wedding. I also found it odd that NeverarGreat’s TFA Starlight also has this issue with the final line “May the force be with you.” I don’t know if it’s on my end (I’m watching with VLC), but I’m guessing not because your other edits don’t have this issue (CoD, LoE, and Rogue One.) Thank you for all of the effort you put into these edits!