Master Lawdog

I checked out some of the stuff for your workprint. The music used of Kylo Ren approaching Palpatine’s lair was nice, but I also liked the Opera House music you used in your Vimeo clip as well. I think the transitions from Kylo Ren to Rey, and from Rey to the Falcon could have been straight cuts instead of diagonal wipes, as it doesn’t come off as too distractive. I also think the shot of Leia from the trailer added in as the Falcon takes off, while nice, doesn’t seem to work that well for me. The extensions of shots taken from the trailers were nice and I thought the hanger room scene’s reveal was a very creative replacement. I was also surprised how much I liked the addition of an instrumental rendition of Duel of the Fates to the duel. Having Leia call out to Ben in the way you did was nice, but I think it could be refined a bit more. However, I think your workprint is in a good state for you want it, Dom. Just curious if you’ve seen the color correction done in Hal’s edit and was wondering if you were interested in using those CUBE files. Lastly, even though your workprint is in Stereo, I was wondering if the final edit will be in 5.1 surround sound. That’s all I really have to say, but I can’t wait to see it finished. Great work!

darkshadowspike said:

nl0428 said:

DominicCobb released his workprint of his edit. He presented a very creative alternative for the hanger scene for a Rey Nobody version.

:0 link please!

Might be best to PM Dominic for the link, as it doesn’t feel right to provide the link to a workprint from someone else.

PM Dom if you want to see it.

DominicCobb released his workprint of his edit. He presented a very creative alternative for the hanger scene for a Rey Nobody version.

Hal, if you’re planning on a V5 for this edit, try adding in the original piece of music John Williams composed when Rey uses the Force on the lightsaber. I did an attempt on it a while back.

https://vimeo.com/470457783
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Hal 9000 said:

Unless you’re going to watch them on a better setup than I have in my home, V6 ought to be fine if you don’t want to wait. lol

That said, V7 has now fully arrived for COD and TAS. I have not yet gotten to work on LOE.

You said it would be V6.1. It isn’t too much of a V7 since the changes are incredibly minor.

DominicCobb said:

The Kylo reveal has been a real bugbear for me and the thing that ultimately stalled the edit back in the summer because I wasn’t happy with my solution. But after seeing RogueLeader’s take in the “Rey Nobody” thread, I have an idea for something very similar that should work. As for the Palpatine scene, it’s pretty straightforward, just removing mention of their relation.

I did takes on them a while back if you want to check them out.

https://vimeo.com/440435237
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https://vimeo.com/440436663
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Hey, Dominic. Whenever your edit comes out, I do have a question regarding the scenes where the mentioning of Rey and Palpatine’s becomes apparent, such as when Kylo Ren reveals it or when Rey meets him on Exegol. How will those play out with lines removals and such?

Hey everyone. Just letting you all know that fanedit.org has opened its poll to vote for Favorite Edit of the Month for November 2020. It would be fantastic if this edit won due to all the hard work that we’ve all put into helping Hal fix Episode IX and incredible VFX work put into it.

spideronfire said:

Thanks for making these awesome edits, hope you continue 😃

I will be doing all seven books, so yes. Hoping to complete Goblet of Fire this Christmas.

I hope we’ll get to see your edit soon, Dominic! Take care and stay safe out there.

StarThoughts said:

These are great! The sound effects, ambience and music are very tastefully done, they add quite a bit to the experience but don’t overwhelm.

I’m looking forward to hearing the next four books.

Thank you!

eks11 said:

I just listened to a few moments and what great stuff

thhnx for this I will finally get to sit down and listen in full after all these years

Keep up gt=reat work also stay safe

Thank you so much! I’m hoping it won’t take too long to get the rest done, but I’m also working on other projects as well.

Darth Muffy said:

The audio additions on these Enhanced Edition edits really adds another level to the them, nice work.

Thank you very much! I’m hoping to get Goblet of Fire done around this holiday season.

Been able to find ways to get around these issues, even though it’s still not perfect. Also, I’ve gotten voice actors to dub in scenes 4Kids deleted.

I just brought it up as a suggestion, I do agree with you on the technical side of lightsabers, Hal. I did have a feeling someone brought this up, though.

Well, anyways. I had an idea for the crackly saber, which I’m not entirely sure if you have this intention in mind, Hal, but here it is.

We all know exactly why Kylo Ren’s crossguard saber has an unstable blade. Symbolically, it reflects the internal conflict in his character. Now the scene in The Force Awakens where he attempts to use the Force on Anakin’s saber and flies towards Rey shows that he is not worthy to wield the Skywalker lightsaber, due to his place on the Dark Side, despite being a part of the family line.

The decision to make Anakin’s saber have an unstable blade in this edit is to obviously connect with how it broke in half in The Last Jedi. I figured, what if the kyber crystal forged back together properly once Rey hands it to Ben on Exegol to symbolize that his internal conflict is no more, and that he is now worthy to wield it. One last fizzle, and then the proper blade should do it for VFX. Afterall, Rey did heal his scar when healing him on Endor.

May the Force be with you, Hal. I was going to suggest a creative decision about the crackly saber once Kewlfish is back to bring you it, but I guess I should save it for another time.

Hal 9000 said:

nl0428 said:

You think you’ll make a trailer for your Sequel edits like you did for your edits of the Prequels, Hal?

I played with the idea a couple weeks ago but found I didn’t have the right time and energy for it. For that prequel trailer I really just overlaid clips to the TFA trailer’s music. I think if I were to, I’d do something similar with another film’s trailer music. But it didn’t work out when I last sat down with the idea. Idk

You could do the same in terms of overlaying clips to the music of The Rise of Skywalker’s trailer.

You think you’ll make a trailer for your Sequel edits like you did for your edits of the Prequels, Hal?

Just curious, but how did you manage to upscale Adywan’s 720p edit to 1080p, Hal?

How come you reverted back to the original opening logos?

Hal 9000 said:

Well, I have included it in order to resolve the error in favor of the SE since Adywan’s Revisited was based on the same primary source. This time that’s not the case and the two didn’t really work when put next to each other, so I reverted it to the OOT version of that shot.
Fortunately the Emperor scene worked perfectly well, being in a separate environment.

Okay. Is this because Adywan’s Empire Strikes Back project was 720p? On a side note, isn’t funny how YouTube doesn’t consider that resolution to be HD anymore?

Octorox said:

nl0428 said:

Hal 9000 said:

I no longer use Adywan footage save for the Emperor hologram scene.

Wait! What about the part where the Special Edition screwed up their enhanced background. After Lando betrays Han and Leia to Vader, Adywan changed the background with the existing Special Edition background for consistency.

I don’t think that was ever part of this project. If you want those kind of fixes it’s best to just watch Revisited.

No! Hal did incorporate that in his edit of The Empire Strikes Back.

Hal 9000 said:

I no longer use Adywan footage save for the Emperor hologram scene.

Wait! What about the part where the Special Edition screwed up their enhanced background. After Lando betrays Han and Leia to Vader, Adywan changed the background with the existing Special Edition background for consistency.