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Neerb said:

One thing that may be tricky about adding the trees, besides the technical aspect, is that the trees in the overhead forest shot look nothing like the ones in the Kylo fight.

With just those two scenes, I haven’t thought it’s that big a deal so far, as it goes by fairly quickly and in a real movie could just be one of those technical inaccuracies you gloss over the first time you see it.

However, if we add trees to the castle shot, that’s going to draw a lot more attention to it depending on what trees are added. If the castle trees look more like the trees in Kylo’s fight, then will the overhead shot of a totally different forest in the middle stand out too much? Or if the castle trees look more like the trees in the overhead shot, is that longer exposure going to make the Kylo fight stand out more and make it clear that the previous two shots are fan-added?

This was really noticeable to me when people inserted the Battlefront II footage but I don’t think the trees in the overhead shot look so different as to be distracting. If I were to try adding trees to the Castle shot, I’d try to match the overhead shot as it’s at a similar angle/distance.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Burbin said:

I gave it a shot to turn off the lights
https://vimeo.com/508165510

Perfect! I personally don’t think the shot NEEDS anything else, but it wouldn’t hurt to try putting some cracks in the castle. Again, as far as I’m concerned, that should be final, though. Thank you.

It’s definitely an improvement but I still think you need some trees. Otherwise the two landscapes look totally disconnected to me.

CaptainFaraday said:

What was the reason to cut Grievous’ line “I’ve been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Dooku”? (Sorry if this has been discussed long ago, I had a look but couldn’t see it.)

I always thought that was a great line - it reminds me of Lao Che in Temple of Doom telling a very confident Indiana Jones “…to the poison you just drank!” and watching him have this “oh shit” moment.

Obi-Wan has dropped down to take Grievous by surprise, quipping and joking because he thinks he has the upper hand, then Grievous pulls out not one but four lightsabers and tells him he’s been trained by the guy Obi-Wan couldn’t defeat twice, and Obi-Wan is thrown into a difficult fight.

I think Matthew Wood’s line read is so good on it, and I always miss it whenever I watch LOE (which has otherwise completely replaced the theatrical cut as my preferred version to watch).

Hasn’t Obi-Wan battled Grevious numerous times by this point though? I know Hal’s edits aren’t super concerned with the extra-filmic stuff but I never got the impression, even before watching Clone Wars, that Obi-Wan was unfamiliar with the fact that Grievous is adept at lightsaber combat.

Do you plan to do anything about the fact that Grievous is basically a completely different character in the Tartakovsky Clone Wars? NumeralJoker1 was able to redub him entirely with Matt Wood lines in the Coruscant arc but I imagine that would be a bit harder for the rest. He’s also all-around more competent and fearsome in Tartakovsky’s series in a way that doesn’t gel with his portrayal in Clone Wars or Revenge of the Sith, where his primary character traits are checks notes moustache-twirling and running away from fights.

Battlefront II has a ton of lines for him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9p_S9wzd4k

Neerb said:
Oh, yeah, and if you cut all of Kijimi, the movie becomes laughably short compared to the other Star Wars movies.

Yeah I was thinking that it would make the movie more like an epilogue more than a proper episode, which personally I’d be fine with. The other points are good though, and again it’s probably not a discussion for this thread.

Papa’s_rod said:

This video explains perfectly why i can’t enjoy this movie with the 'Rey palpatine" plot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrMM33uHAo8

Great video. Probably not for this edit, but I wonder how feasible the idea of having C3PO translate the dagger on Pasaana and completely cutting Kijimi from the movie is. I think the biggest issue you’d run in to is Chewie. I don’t know that it’s feasible to completely remove him from the rest of the movie.

Hal 9000 said:

Since you reminded me, I went ahead and replaced the DOTF snippet with the actual OST in higher quality. I put it in place where it was, and extended it backward to the beginning of the track.
What do you guys think? Too heavy?

https://vimeo.com/506528635

I think this works great.

nl0428 said:

I still personally think the music from the Darth Maul scene in Solo doesn’t really fit it all that much. DominicCobb used an instrumental version of Duel of the Fates for his edit. It actually wasn’t that bad.

Strong disagree. I think the Solo music works much better and feels less over the top.

I never understood why Super Battle Droids have squeaky voices in this movie, and not the deep voices they are usually presented with. I guess this is the first piece of Star Wars media in which they speak so it could have been that the deep voices were just something they came to later when making The Clone Wars. You also have the regular Battle Droids sounding pretty different in every movie.

I wish I had that level of talent but alas I do not. I know we have some VFX Jedi on these forums though.

If you have any desire to make this edit less “half-assed”, there’s some interesting little trims in alterations in TM2YCs “When Rebels Dare” that could be ported over. I’d have to go over the cutlist again but it might be worth taking a look just to see if anything strikes your fancy. Overall, I think your feelings about Rogue One are much more positive than mine though, so I understand if you want to keep things minimal.

I agree that the shot of the castle could use something more to feel integrated into the rest of the scene. I think some trees would certainly help. I also think it might make sense for the lava flow to be dried up and the castle more ruinous if possible.

Hal 9000 said:

I didn’t realize it was finished either. Could you direct me to download links for them?

I had/made some time this evening to tend to this project. I added the Death Star duel saber footage from Luka Frik, and the Coruscant shot. The latter needed an audio extension so I patched that. I borrowed DominicCobb’s idea to merge two sequences that were split of Rey landing on Exegol and making her way toward the Emperor. I removed Sith-eyes Threepio mentioning that the spot must be approached “from the Southern shore.” And I removed Rey’s mother calling her by name, which was easily done without issue. (I like the idea from TFA lore that Rey named herself, borrowing from the X-Wing helmet she had. If any future EU stuff depicts her name going back to birth, this won’t contradict it.)

I tracked the timing adjustments made to sync, so hopefully I can adjust the commentary, subtitles, and chapters without a bigger fuss.

Felt good to get this more in order. And although I don’t know when, there will come a Rey Nobody alternative version.

Nice! Did you have a chance to check out how DominicCobb ordered the scenes under the sand pit on Pasaana? I thought it flowed a bit better, but you might disagree. I noticed in his workprint that he slightly slowed down the last shot of Kylo Ren in the briefing scene, which allowed for a little more dead air after his line I thought made the transition to the next scene feel a bit less rushed.

Afaik the crackle saber isn’t fully done. I think that’s it.

Watched the first episode, and mostly dug it. I feels a bit like something’s missing from the Anakin/Ahsoka relationship but I’m not sure what. I echo others who’ve said Anakin goes from mad at her to reconciling pretty quick. If you fix the framerate issues and clean up some of the transitions I think it’ll be a pretty great way to introduce someone to the series. I’m going to keep going with the others.

I actually like the “For Skywalker” and “We believe in you Poe” lines. They don’t sound fanedity to me at all. They could easily have been ADR’ed and inserted into the original film and I wouldn’t have batted an eye.

Honestly I don’t think it should be distinctive. I think it should mirror Kylo’s as closely as possible to show that Rey is in danger of embracing the dark side. The audience should make the comparison between her saber and Kylo’s in their head.

Hal 9000 said:

• Can Rey’s mother not mention her name? We all liked the idea that Rey named herself, per the X-wing helmet’s Aurabesh translation in TFA.

You could accomplish that by emulating DominicCobb’s cut of the fight on Kijimi. I think it would work even for a Rey Palpatine cut and you’d get the added benefit of removing “They sold you to protect you”. You’d also have to remove “my parents were strong, they protected me from you” later in Palp’s arena though.

The other edit I’ve been trying to accomplish is getting Padme to name-drop Obi-Wan in the second “Seeds of Rebellion” scene but I haven’t been able to find suitable audio. I tried poaching her saying “Master Kenobi” from Attack of the Clones but it had too much background music and not the right inflection.

So, since I updated my extended edition of ROTS, I’ve been working on this again. I’m trying to rework the “Plot to Destroy the Jedi” deleted scene into something that isn’t redundant with the war table scene (The reference in The Clone Wars kind of convinced me to keep it). Here’s what I have right now: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lhItqeRBSgVbRQnN3Jc_wfIzPvP0hg4D/view?usp=sharing

Unfortunately in the surround mix you can hear some whispers of Yoda’s original dialogue in the other audio channels. Does anyone happen to know where I can find the music that was originally used in this scene? Was it something from Episode II?

EDIT: Sorry, just fixed the permissions on the link.

G&G-Fan said:

Yay I can’t wait!

The drive link says “You need access”.

Sorry about that! Try it again.

V3 of this Extended Edition is in the process of uploading with the following changes.

-Improved audio quality due to working with (mostly) lossless or high quality sources and encoding at a higher bitrate.

-The rear surround channels are fixed. Audio should now play properly in all 6 channels.

-The deleted scenes have been swapped out for higher quality AI-upscaled versions by bryantmh

-Using some creative editing, the 3rd “seeds of the rebellion” scene has been integrated at a different point in the film. I was always annoyed by how it broke up Obi-Wan’s escapades and I hope this placement flows a bit better.
Here’s a clip: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1larmejsFPZ8qMJ4fY6mjR9kUonhwBmbo/view?usp=sharing

I’ll let everyone know when it’s up so you can send me a PM.

Hey all, I just watched Linday Ellis’s excellent video series on The Hobbit which sparked an interest in checking out the best fanedits for these films. I watched Kerr’s Arkenstone edition of An Unexpected Journey years ago and quite liked it, but never checked out his other cuts. I also have a copy of the Maple Films 3-in-1 edit but haven’t watched it in full. What are considered the best edits these days? I’m not a book purist so that aspect isn’t important to me, I just thought the films as released were too bloated and unfocused.

As for Lord of the Rings, I’m someone who has a hard time deciding between the Theatrical and Extended editions. I feel the pacing is better in the Theatrical versions but the Extended Editions include some bits that I think are essential. Are there any edits that hybridize the two?

Hey there, do you have any plan on releasing a newer version of this featuring the AI Upscaled deleted scenes Hal implemented in his V7 edits?

DominicCobb said:
Alright I’ll go through some of those but in general I’ll just say, even though my edit is coming after Hal’s and we have some changes in common, it’s not supposed to be an alternate “Rey Nobody” version of his, we worked on ours in parallel for the most part and have different goals. I still haven’t even watched his yet in full! Shame on me I know, but basically point being this is an edit of the original film, not of Hal’s edit, so that’s why you might be seeing a lot of discrepancy. And no worries if there’s changes you prefer in Hal’s, I hope once I’m done people feel free to mash up what they like about mine and his.

Of course, I understand that you have different goals with your edit and I wasn’t trying to imply you should implement everything Hal did. Honestly, the fact that I brought in comparisons to Hal’s edit so frequently is because I haven’t watched the theatrical version since I saw it in theaters (only once). I bought the Blu-Ray and instantly started watching Hal’s workprints, so for better or worse anything closer to the theatrical is going to stick out to me.