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#1573063
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The Starlight Project Addendum: The Rise of Skywalker (Freeform Brainstorming Session)
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I liked this line from the Ahsoka show “Talent is a factor. But training and focus are what truly define someone’s success.”. I don’t think it has to be “either-or” with the Force. Rey can be unusually attuned to the Force from birth, but that doesn’t preclude anybody from being able to use the Force. I see it kind of like the Ratatouille quote “Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

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#1572387
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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Another Happy Sanding. (Released)
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So I’m seriously considering removing the scene where Anakin tells Padme about his dream and reordering things closer to the “alternative ending” version of Labyrinth of Evil, e.g. Anakin wakes up from his nightmare and goes immediately to Palpatine. Then he talks to Yoda after hearing the story about Darth Plagueis. I’m just worried that it might be too big a departure from the original version of this edit. Thoughts?

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#1571464
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The Clone Wars: Refocused [COMPLETE] + Subtitles for season one!
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g00b said:

https://youtu.be/YPx1kTveXpk

It could be worth contacting this fan animations creator to see if you could incorporate parts of it in your edit!

The opening scene I know you’ve tried to implement a few times in this edit.

And the other footage could be interesting in the finale.

At bare minimum, it’s definitely worth a watch!

I literally came to the thread to post this and you beat me to it. Unfortunately the opening is a heavily cut down version of the scene so I’m not sure how useful it would be. Watching the video makes me wish for an all animated Revenge of the Sith supercut though!

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#1571425
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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Jar Jar Bricks said:

But if you know somebody with a convincing Kiwi accent you might be able to use that new 11 labs feature which basically applies a voice filter.

Funny enough I just tried this with the original Temuera Morrison lines on the Blu-Ray using Battlefront II lines as the voice sample and it worked. It doesn’t sound any better than the original Blu-Ray lines though, just different. We’d need someone with a kiwi accent who can record a better delivery of the lines.

EDIT: Surprisingly, spelling things out phonetically helps a lot. I put some more tests in the folder.

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#1571404
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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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So I think the paraphrased lines for Boba Fett work quite well but just as an experiment, I tried generating the original lines via AI. Unfortunately I don’t think it quite captures his accent but here they are in case anyone wants to use them for anything: https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZ0lO1ZdP0joAi8btkdTnXI07SQgjebUpMX

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#1571386
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The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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G&G-Fan said:

Create an edit of the Yoda-Anakin scene in ROTS to make it so Yoda is a hologram, so that those who rearrange the movie so the political subplot comes before the nightmare can still have that scene.

That’s a really good idea if it could be pulled off, although I’m not sure where exactly would be the best place to slot it in.

I’m not sure if this is radical enough for this thread, but I recently made an edit to ROTS where Padme makes it explicit that Obi-Wan is the one Jedi she trusts to bring in to the proto-rebellion in the senate: https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZSmt1Z52NBGTpLywBESvXhPwogHH1kUyc7

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#1571096
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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Another Happy Sanding. (Released)
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Octorox said:

A Random idea, I wonder if it would be possible to use AI voice cloning to have Padme more explicitly identify Obi-Wan as the jedi she’s talking about in the second seeds of the rebellion scene. I think this might help sell the idea that she has a professional relationship/level of trust with Obi-Wan that Anakin is suspicious of.

I was able to figure out elevenlabs and took a stab at this.

I’ve done a little more tweaking since this, pitched it down a smidge, but this gets the idea across.

EDIT 2: Okay I generated a few more and played around with it, I think this works much better: https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZSmt1Z52NBGTpLywBESvXhPwogHH1kUyc7

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#1570862
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Octorox miscellaneous projects/tweaks of other edits
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So I wanted to make a thread for projects I’ve completed that are just tweaks/custom versions of other people’s edits and not really significant projects that warrant their own threads.

Please PM me if you are interested in any of these projects.

Star Wars Episode V Revisited “Canon Friendly” audio mix:

What I’ve done here is simply taken the official Star Wars Episode V Revisited audio track from Adywan and spliced in a few bits of audio from Hal9000’s Custom Special Edition using crossfades in Premiere Pro. The changes are as follows:

  • Altered Ben Kenobi’s description of Yoda from “The Jedi Master who instructed me” to “A Jedi Master who instructed me” for better continuity with the prequels.
  • Used the 2011 BluRay audio track to use Temeura Morrison’s voice for Boba Fett’s four lines, and replaced some of his dialogue using close paraphrases from two video game sources in order to get superior line deliveries.

Hopefully the splicing of different sources is seamless. I’ve listened through headphones and tweaked the levels to match but I completely admit to not being a huge audiophile. All credit goes to Adywan and Hal for their wonderful edits. This project is provided as an ac3 file to be muxed into Adywan’s edit.

Bobson Dugnutt’s Revenge of the Sith Expanded Edition - sync fix:

Bobson made a great expanded edition of Revenge of the Sith that was built off my extended edition, but unfortunately I noticed two instances in his edit where the audio seemed to be out of sync with the video. I don’t think that Bobson plans to return to this edit, so I went ahead and fixed these issues to the best of my ability for my own viewing pleasure. I did have to shave off a few frames to make it work but I used losslesscut to avoid having to re-encode the video track. This is a great edit for those who want to see every bit of finished deleted material re-incorporated in the film. I still have my own extended edition available as well, but Bobson’s includes more content.

Star Wars Episode IV Revisited 1080p upscale

This one should be obsolete pretty soon. I took the highest quality available version of Adywan’s Episode IV Revisited (PAL DVD9 video synced to NTSC audio) and made a simple 1080p upscale in Topaz Video Enhance AI. Personally I don’t know that this is particularly useful but people have asked me for it so I’ve made it available all the same.

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#1570741
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Jar Jar Bricks said:

The original movie placed the Leia scene after they had sunk down but before they were shown to be okay. I would recommend putting it back there because the whole point of the scene is the characters being worried that everybody is dead.

Please no. It would be adding yet another fake-out peril back to the movie. I agree with Neverar’s suggestion of just cutting the scene. It really is dreadful.

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#1570477
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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Another Happy Sanding. (Released)
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GLogus said:

I am a huge fan of your episode 3, but I do believe it could still benefit from a slightly more “sanded down” version. I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Since you’re asking, I always thought the end (after Obi Wan defeats Anakin) of your V1 dragged a bit and could be further edited down. I will always maintain that your prequel edits are the best out there.

I can see that, but to be honest I’m not sure what I would want to cut. Do you have any suggestions?

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#1570390
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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Another Happy Sanding. (Released)
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A Random idea, I wonder if it would be possible to use AI voice cloning to have Padme more explicitly identify Obi-Wan as the jedi she’s talking about in the second seeds of the rebellion scene. I think this might help sell the idea that she has a professional relationship/level of trust with Obi-Wan that Anakin is suspicious of.

Anyway, definite V2 changes so far:

-Trimmed out Obi-Wan’s “let them pass between us” in the opening space battle.

-Added back Anakin’s “I’m not leaving without you master!” when Obi-Wan’s ship is being swarmed by the buzz droids,

-Cut the scene with Anakin and Obi-Wan vs. the battle droids in the elevator and the accompanying “Roger Roger” joke

-Cut Palpatine telling Anakin to leave Obi-Wan behind on the Invisible Hand.

-Cut down the preamble to the Yoda/Emperor fight to match what L8wrtr did.

-Cut Anakin and Obi-Wan’s dialogue on the floating platforms/robots by borrowing some audio from Spence

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#1569461
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Spence's PT Edits Round 3 (V1 Released)
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SpenceEdit said:

Would everyone be irked if I pushed out a V2 now? I fixed the problems that have been mentioned, but I also found some audio transitions in ROTS that mysteriously vanished without my noticing. Most of them were probably not easily heard, but I noticed and it bothers me. I’m also adjusting the size and amount of grain.

There wouldn’t be any other major adjustments, it’s all audio stuff and/or smoothing out transitions. So if you’re happy with them as they are, you wouldn’t need to download them again.

Not at all, but I do want to mention I caught another muffled line in AOTC when the delete senate scene is transitioning to the Kenobi duel scene. You can barely make out Palpatine’s next line but it’s there in the mix.

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#1568249
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Spence's PT Edits Round 3 (V1 Released)
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Watched the AOTC workprint. In short, it’s a triumph, I think you’ve made the best version of AOTC out there from a narrative and pacing perspective. I was a little skeptical of the decision to remove the asteroid dogfight, but it absolutely makes sense looking at the flow of the edit as a whole. The addition of the training scene from Kenobi works wondering from a narrative perspective, nicely foreshadowing Anakin’s downfall the Dooku fight. While it doesn’t totally match up stylistically, I find it no more jarring the the inclusion of the deleted scenes, many of which have unfinished VFX and have long been a staple of prequel edits.

My only quibble is while The 3PO removal is seamless, it unfortunately makes the edit incompatible with other versions of The Phantom Menace. Just something I will have to live with, I guess.

Very excited to check out ROTS!