NeverarGreat

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I was thinking the Ascendant v1 sequence, but that will do in a pinch, thanks.

I can handle the Mustafar Biomes shot, no worries MR.

JEDIT: I know there have been plenty of mockups of the first few shots of the film, but if someone can link me one so I can get a feel for the speed we need to match, that would be great. 500 pages is just a lot to comb through 😉

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Oh yeah, I’m basically just taking Restructured’s changes for the end of the film. Thanks for pointing that out 😃

The Biomes footage is quite leisurely in pacing. I had to speed up the Falcon shots quite a bit in my edit to get them looking right for a JJ production, so ramping the speed of Mustafar is a good idea IMO, maybe do a speed ramp from the distance then slow it dynamically to the spot where the TIE’s fly overhead.

Neigh it is, then 😃

Truly. I considered keeping it, since I’m sure the audience would like to know what the hell is going on in that mysterious masked head. 😛

JEDIT: Speaking of that moment, in the previous versions I had the sounds of child Ben running, but like the aforementioned line I felt it was too on-the-nose and with the vehicle flythrough footage I figured that was more than enough to get the point across. But someone has told me they prefer the child sounds, so what does everyone think, yay or neigh?

Maz Kanata has written every Star Wars crawl in universe for her serialized History of the Galaxy and Destiny of the Whills.

Since I don’t have a finished V1 for Star Wars Day, I decided to release another workprint (v105) which has all of the latest changes. It’s now in the folder with the rest, so if you have the link to any workprint you have them all.

The only changes still outstanding at this time are:

-The two Restructured changes foreshadowing Palpatine in TROS
-Tweaking the Starkiller firing shot from Finn and Rey’s POV
-Removing the casual Resistance officer from Leia’s mourning
-Adding brief Sith Eyes to Rey in her battle with Kylo

Also, keep in mind that everything past the Starkiller destruction will be reverted to Restructured for the Starlight Standard version, in order that this edit can be watched alongside the sequels with no continuity issues. The unfinished Luke vision is still in the workprint however, so just ignore that when giving feedback 😉 . The extended Starkiller Destruction and Luke Vision ending will be saved for another version of this edit to be released at some point in the future, which I’ve described in the first post of the thread.

I think that’s it. Happy 25th everyone!

Exactly. A lot of retrospective prequel defense is coming from a place of nostalgia and analyzing done years after any of the people defending these films have actually consumed them as a piece of entertainment - in my humble opinion, of course.

I believe so. It is originally used in Ben and Han’s confrontation in TFA, which is why I used it here as sort of a leitmotif.

Semi-relatedly, I realized after creating the effect of Kylo watching the shield going down that it could serve as a bit of a metaphor for his emotional state at this point. It’s a bit of a reach, but it works for me 😉

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Whoops! All Disney’s Original Vision

-A Fanedit by Testing123

May the 25th be with you, everyone 😃

JEDIT: Also, happy Towel Day to all fellow Hitchhiker’s fans out there!

There is color correction to every shot, but maybe not enough in some places.

Hal 9000 said:

NeverarGreat said:
Though you might want to avoid watching this edit when it’s done unless you are resigned to port more changes to Restructured 😉

I take this warning seriously.

Ha!

stevepaynter said:

So with everything you’ve learnt with that deleted scene in removing timestamps do you think you will ever tackle the Finn and Phasma fight scene from TLJ?

youtu.be/UzeIb-TZo_I

I’m not nearly skilled enough to recreate that scene, unfortunately.

JEDIT: Happy Star Wars day everyone! Sorry I couldn’t get the entire project finished by today, but at least the biggest change is now complete. 😃

Here’s the Kylo Deleted Scene integrated into my edit in what I’m hoping is a final form:

https://vimeo.com/554594484

Password: fanedit

If this is acceptable there’s just those couple of shots near the end of the film to complete (as well as any Restructured changes I missed)!

Just want to pop in and say how much I love the latest puppet show! It’s turned out better than I could have imagined.

bbghost said:

stevepaynter said:

Yes, the more hints of Palpatine’s return the better I reckon. If you think there are more parts of the movie where a Palpatine hint could be dropped that would be cool. Eg When Kylo is communing with Vaders helmet. “I have been every voice inside your head”

FWIW, this is how I’ve tackled this in my sequel edit, though others may want something more insular to TFA itself for a standalone version: https://vimeo.com/549080534

It’s a neat concept, but yeah, I’d stick with something more subtle.

Hal 9000 said:

Whoa, nice work! I know I’m late in congratulating you but that’s really cool.

Thank you! Though you might want to avoid watching this edit when it’s done unless you are resigned to port more changes to Restructured 😉

No, just the shield going down.

Just finishing up the effects work on the deleted scene:

Fascinating. Well I’ll take a loot at including it.

I didn’t realize that was in Hal’s version.

I mean, yes, that would be the logical change to strengthen the Rey Palpatine angle, but it kinda guts the core of the most interesting Sequel Trilogy film. Of course TROS does that later anyway…

Jakku/Tatooine as Force Nexus at least sort of explains why everything important in the galaxy ends up there.

So this is yet another idea for the puppet scene, but imagine if we could put a puff of smoke or confetti popping out from behind the AT-AT after the fireball - that would really sell the comedy part for the kids methinks.