Master Lawdog

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.

omnimuffin said:

The AI Voicegen stuff works very well with voices that already have effects on them, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeNNRnCQNGQ

It’d be good for a Kylo modification, but not a Palpatine one.

Not to go off topic, but could someone tell me someplace else how to acquire Speech Synthesis/Voice-Cloning software and Deepfakes?

It would be fantastic if we could get this edit to win “Favorite Edit of the Month” over at fanedit.org.

JakeRyan17 said:

That was a celebrated film, which makes a huge difference. The worse a film is received, or the more BTS drama, the less likely deleted scenes are to be released.

Also, Star Wars, as a franchise, is able to repurpose and retcon stories across all media very easily. It’s far more likely that deleted plot elements crop up in other media.

It’s less work, more money, and less critical blowback for them to release the OT Theatrical Cuts, or to not release the deleted scenes. The amount of fans that would love the deleted scenes is just too small a number.

I suppose so, though the Prequels got a lot of really good deleted scenes released on DVD and Blu-ray, despite how much hardcore fans tore them apart too. You are correct about the reception and behind the scenes stories affecting that happening, but I still think it could happen, with it being Star Wars and all. More deleted scenes were released for the Prequels on the Blu-ray release than the original DVD releases, but it could be due to Lucasfilm being run by George Lucas at the time, and not Kathleen Kennedy. As for the dreaded OOT Trilogy release, I still think they’re contractionally obligated by George to not release them.

JakeRyan17 said:

It still would be spending money to release things that people “already have”.

People already purchased or subscribed to Disney+. That’s where the focus is. There’s no upside to releasing deleted scenes for a maligned film, it’s either “nothing can save this film” or “the film is worse for not including these scenes!”.

There isn’t a big petition or movement like with Justice League, and even then: it would be far more lucrative to release the 4K OT Theatrical Cuts, which also has more people begging for than these deleted scenes.

I don’t really know. Avengers: Endgame had some deleted scenes released in the Extras section on Disney+ that were not featured on its Blu-ray release. Anything is possible.

Anything is possible. Rogue One and The Rise of Skywalker could see deleted scenes released, it just all depends on what Lucasfilm decides to do for the foreseeable future. It could happen once the criticism over the Sequel Trilogy has died down, so let’s hope The Mandalorian can get those folks to calm down. Fingers crossed for the deleted scenes, still.

I made a whole video on unreleased deleted scenes for all the films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdh18wpeD3M

Actually, I’m going to look up the film’s screenplay to see if any deleted scenes are featured in them. I’d love to know how they played out too when they shot them.

EDIT: I’ve looked, and I can’t find it online. One day, maybe. At least the comic and novelization detailed some of those scenes.

How come you don’t intend on adding the commentary track to the Rey Nobody version, Hal?

djonesed said:

nl0428 said:

I was told that if you star the item, drag and drop it into a folder you create, and download the folder, it will work.

not having success with this so for

This video will help you out, as it did for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TkjVbcP7-8

Hal 9000 said:

Cool! That commentary… ain’t, ain’t my best. Lol

It’s okay, once we get everything done, along with the Rey Nobody edition, we’ll all be incredibly satisfied. I also saw you listed me in the Special Thanks section. I feel really honored and proud to be credited as helping one of the best Star Wars fan editors along with Mike J. Nichols, Adywan, Harmy, etc.

Just got the 1080p version from Google Drive! I cannot wait to listen to your commentary track, Hal!

I was told that if you star the item, drag and drop it into a folder you create, and download the folder, it will work.

I don’t get it, the copy feature still isn’t working for me.

EDIT: I see what the issue is now.

The biggest problem that I’m having is making a copy. It says that the process is running, but it doesn’t seem like anything’s happening, as it used to be an instant process in the past.

Brewzter said:

AFAIK the only things we’re waiting on are jonh’s haircut for Luke and kewlfish’s crackly lightsaber (hopefully), but v1 is releasing very soon without them.

Awesome! I really can’t wait to listen to that commentary track, and I especially can’t wait until it’s on fanedit.org. Your edit of Return of the Jedi has yet to make its way up there too, Hal.

Wait, I’ve been busy working on one of my own edits, is the edit finally done?

Really, the only things that need to be done to perfect the 2020 Blu-ray discs is to re-color them to match the original colors, ever so slightly (Adywan did some great work on Return of the Jedi), and add some film grain to the video. Also, going back to these once Adywan’s HD version of A New Hope and Return of the Jedi are out and do some nice changes/additions would be nice too, whenever those come out.

Its kind of a mixture/hybrid of blue and indigo.

What about DominicCobb? Also, I love the idea of recoloring the Force lighting to its original purple color.

Here’s something really interesting that I found out about the SyFy extended version of Order of the Phoenix. The deleted scene of the Slytherins bullying a first year uses an extended piece of The Room of Requirement piece of music that does not show up on any soundtrack release.