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It’s still a bit silly, but I think it sounds marginally better. Makes it seem more like he’s in pain from overexerting himself with the force vs. just sad about Padme.

Bingowings said:

TheFirmament said:

I don't know why Adywan would spend any time fixing the Prequels after finishing the OT. They're so forgettable. Best to count them as a lost cause and focus more time on the OT.

Further to my recent answer here I would add that they are the most broken.

You can't really change much story wise with the first two films because they are narrative speaking pretty sound movies.

Jedi and the prequels allow increasingly more room to be creative because anything you do to them will be seen less like vandalism.

Not sure that I really agree with Jedi. It certainly the weakest of the OT and not a great film by any means but it still holds a nostalgic place for a lot people. Frankly, I wouldn't want ROTJ:R to significantly depart from the Revisited goal of "what the special editions should have been" with any major narrative changes. If it does, I hope that a "Purist version" is at least provided.

SilverWook said:

Before people start really flying off the handle, try thinking in universe for a moment. Design flaws aside, the Death Star is an effective weapon for scaring planets into submission. And flaws can be fixed.

The know how to make one doesn't magically go away. It's like a nuclear weapon, once the genie is out of the bottle, somebody sooner or later is going to want to build one.

And how do we know this one belongs to the Empire? They aren't the only ones with a copy of the original technical readouts. ;)

Also what is up with Leia's hair? I'm getting a Mom from Futurama vibe here.

 I can't agree more with this. If weapons technology that can destroy entire planets exists it would seems stupid to not follow up on and improve that technology. It would be like if after WWII we decided that Atom bomb was old hat and never developed nuclear weapon technology any further. While It may seems lazy from a storytelling perspective at first sight, we don't know how exactly the weapon will factor into the film, that plot structure could be quite different.

An interesting video essay on Abrams visual style and how that might relate to Star Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=980&v=7tx5z1kAFwQ

This is a really good edit with a lot of interesting ideas. My main criticism is that the audio overall is pretty rough with inconsistent levels and the original score popping in and out but there's only so much you can do with the elements that are available. I also think that someone who didn't watch the original movies might be a little lost since the narrative kind of jumps from place to place. Overall though I really dig the tone, minimalist style and efficiency of storytelling. If I ever take a stab at editing the prequels again I will surely keep this one in mind for inspiration.

I'd be interested in auditioning for a part again if you have any openings.

Hey Nanner Split and Harmy, any news on the Blu-Ray release with menus? I don't mean to bug you but I'm really excited by the prospect of having slick professional blu-rays so I can pop them in and show off Harmy's great work.

I'm sorry but the AOTC color correction done by Ady just looks too cyan to me. The whites like Dooku's hair and Padme's outfit look cyan pushed. NeverarGreat's looks better, but still not quite right.

Yeah, I remember seeing this edit years ago and took another look at it just now. It's very ambitious but very rough. It's definitely sort of a workprint or proof-of-concept.

The bar sequence is great. Probably my favorite part of the edit. Also it innovated the exchange of "I think he's a she" "In that case be extra careful" which I emulated in my own edit.

Pretty simple reason. I deleted all of my original files a while ago because I wasn't satisfied with where I was getting and abandoned the project. Luckily I kept a copy of a more recent workprint than the one I had previously released and was able to make some final fixes and cleanup off of that. However, If I wanted to make more radical changes I'd probably need to recreate the project from scratch

I may consider a v2 with some simple changes if many people point something out that needs fixing or could be improved, but nothing radical at this point.

As as for tying Qui-Gon in at the end, I just couldn't do it in a way I was satisfied with. Adding the final scene on the Tantive IV just added too much to the running time (truly only a couple minutes but I was trying to get as close to normal Star Wars length as possible) while adding too little to the narrative.

I will consider it if I do ending up creating a v2

And...surprise! Final version of this is up on myspleen and will be viewable on my Vimeo page as well (Keith Bress). I wasn't able to accomplish everything I wanted but I decided to bite the bullet and just clean it up a bit and release what I had. Hopefully it can at least serve as inspiration to other editors.

Bumping just to say that this edit is officially dead. Unfortunately I just couldn't get things to work as well as I wanted to. Edit was still coming in way too long and the narrative and character development still felt way too rushed. I think there's only so much that can be done with these films but of course I'd love to see someone prove me wrong.

So this is an entirely seperate project then? Any updates on what you guys plan to do on the Hobbit side of things?

Not really sure if this is the place to ask but does Kerr still plan on doing "Arkenstone Editions" of the other Hobbit films? I watched the first one with some friends and we all loved it. It was their first fanedit experience. 

Not sure if anyone posted this yet but here are some official hi-res stills and they look less teal/orangey.

Am I the only one that sees the "Darth with the red lightsaber" thing as an integral part of Star Wars? I grew up with the Knights of the Old Republic games as an essential part of my headcanon so I can't really dismiss that.

It's suffering from many of the same problems, but not all of the problems. Many aspects like the acting and production design are still very solid.

NTSC for film based sources is 23.98, not 29.97, so it's closer to the original than PAL.

For me Harmy's blows everything else out of the water. While it is reconstruction, meaning it's not frame for frame the original celluloid, the PQ difference between it and other preservations is staggering and makes for a vastly superior viewing experience. If you're more interested in a pure transfer of the original film, Team Blu's work is very solid, but when watching Harmy's, nothing every stuck out to me as clearly manipulated or recomposited.

I like L8wrtr's best overall, although I wouldn't necessarily call them definitive.

HAL's are a bit more lenient on pacing and a bit less aggressive with cutting.

I personally still like Kerr's episode III the best although it's only available as a SD DVD.

Q2's I would only try if you want the OT "secrets" preserved although that's never interested me. 

Seciors Episode I is interesting (I haven't watched it front to back but it does some bold things), his Episode II doesn't really work for me at all however.

The blu for ROTS and TPM are pretty good (although Phantom Menace does have some significant visual changes from the theatrical). I'd go for the HDTV broadcast version of Clones however, since the Blu-Ray has weird colors and some inexplicably rearranged shots.

...That said. I'd personally go with fan edits.

Yeah, that's really it. The skin tones are more saturated and warm and the blues have been pushed to turquoise, I think that's what gave me the orange/teal impression.

It's interesting but It doesn't look very OTish to me. It reminds more of a modern orange and teal grade.

If the prequel films didn't show the transformation from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader I would have no interest in watching them. To me, the idea of preserving the twist is crazy, people watched the prequels in the first place because they wanted to see how this happened.

Ok, so there is a mono mix but it was paired with 16mm prints which probably weren't as widely shown in theaters. Afaik there are no major differences between the 16mm and 35mm mixes right?