Phase3

kg1977 said:

regularjoe said:

I would be eternally grateful for a link to that cleaned up scene if you are of the inclination to share it out.

All,

Here ya go
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AZYzg7yL-_cbVG08FkOm3qaE1FM5HspX/view?usp=sharing

You did a really great clean-up job on that scene - it really looks great! I’m looking forward to when you release the entire edit! 😃

JoyOfEditing said:

Phase3 said:

Many thanks for your kind words! I’m glad that you could use the upscales I did. 😃

Prepare yourself. I think a lot of folks are about to start asking you for those. 😉

Haha that’s totally fine! I’m glad that I can share them. 😃

Dazman said:

I think your “mad scientist” extensive testing on upscaling the deleted scenes has really paid off!

Hahaha I like the sound of “mad scientist”!

That detail on Obi-wan’s face on the landing platform for example is pretty unreal. I made some comparisons and believe that you have achieved a new gold standard on upscaling these.

Thanks very much! I really appreciate that! 😃

The shots that no upscale can unfortunately make look good are the establishing shots that are very low detail/ poorly rendered in the original footage (senate dome, Naboo shots). But some detail adding/guessing AI could help improve those.

Yeah it’s a shame that the backgrounds were never properly finished. I think that fans with experience in Blender and VFX software such as Nuke would be able to replace the backgrounds, however it’s a mammoth task.
I did some tests with rotoscoping the landing platform scene with Obi-Wan and Mace, to see if a different background could then be inserted. To say that rotoscoping is a nightmare of a job would be the understatement of the year haha! I’ll have to leave that job to the VFX professionals!

I would be interested in getting these if you could drop me a link?

Yes of course! I will send you a link shortly. 😃

Dazman said:

inserting deleted scenes back in helps. Excellent work on those by the way, I believe you achieved a new level of detail on them!

Thanks for your kind words!

If I may give a few suggestions for the updated version that I believe you are working on: In the new VFX shot of Obi tracking Jango, you might consider giving Geonosis- planet a zoom out/zoom in- effect instead of it moving up on the screen or adding easing to the motion. When Anakin has a breakdown at homestead and says “Why couldn’t I save her. I know I could have!”, I suggest that you cut the shot just a little bit earlier. Now you can see Anakin starting to move to the left, but it the next shot he sits down, witch is a bit jarring cut.

I like all of those suggestions!
With the new VFX shot, I made the planet move up so as to tie in with the previous shot in the film, which shows the starfighter slightly drifting downwards. I’m happy to revisit the shot – I do like the idea of adding a zoom-in effect!

With the scene of Anakin in the homestead, your suggestion makes perfect sense – I will revisit that scene and alter the timing of the cut.

Also the voice of Jarjar is little muffled / echo-y in the Padme’s apartment scene. Some AI voice cleaner tool might be helpful with that, at least Adobe has a free one called “Enhanced speech”.

With the redubbed dialogue, I unfortunately don’t have an external microphone, so I recorded the audio solely with the in-built microphone on my laptop, which isn’t a great microphone at all haha! It resulted in a lot of reverb in the audio, which wasn’t intentional. I’ll revisit the audio, and see if I can get it sounding better.

All in all, nice job!

Thanks very much!! I do appreciate your feedback and suggestions. 😃

JoyOfEditing said:

Just wait til we get to the Arena Battle. It’s gonna be Force Mad!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwJdb59IuHU

Hahahaha I had forgotten about that Robot Chicken sketch! “…two Force-mad dead-eye Jedi” - classic!

O00ll00O said:

Have you considered talking with Hal9000? Your up-scales are a massive jump in quality, nice work!

Thanks for your kind words! I haven’t spoken with Hal9000, but of course I would be more than happy to share the upscales with him! I’ll send him a message now.

Many thanks for your kind words! I’m glad that you could use the upscales I did. 😃

O00ll00O said:
The only shot that looks a little off to me is the shot of Obi-Wan hopping off the little ship ramp, to be followed by the next frame where they’re both in different spots (due to cutting out Padme’s little blurp about getting a transport). How do you think it looks without the little ramp hop? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UV6fCLpxe9O_tQ3mfAJgCCbVlsPYF85y/view?usp=sharing

That is such a great cut! I am going to revisit my own AOTC edit, and incorporate many of the changes shown in this thread!

JoyOfEditing said:

Hey y’all! In response to a question posed on Adywan’s RotJ Thread about how easy/hard it is for Luke to start on Dagobah, and then go to Tatooine, I posted a link to my version of the opening of RotJ. It seems like some of y’all wanna talk about it, so I’m reposting it here so we don’t derail Ady’s Thread.

Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EleIyLvBBrk-D8zN9zy23NJhEeg6FMcs?usp=sharing

Enjoy!

-JoE

Your restructuring flows very smoothly - it’s great! At first I thought how would you get around not explaining why Threepio is already in Jabba’s palace, but then again Lando is already there haha!
I would love to borrow some of your ideas for my own ROTJ edit! 😃

JoyOfEditing said:

Today, I’ll be working away at that thingy we’re PMing about, so hopefully I’ll have a file for you soon.

I’m looking forward to it!

jkimm said:

•Cut Dooku force lightning Ben’s lightsaber
•Removed a few frames when Anakin lunges towards Dooku

Those are some excellent cuts! Removing Dooku’s Force lightning really improves the pacing!

G&G-Fan said:

Phase3 said:

As I mentioned to you via PM, I especially love what you did with the Probe Droid scene on Hoth; I will definitely use that for my own edit! 😃

I take it you’re doing edits for the entire saga?

Yes mate, my plan is to to ‘Streamlined’ edits of the original 6 Episodes. Episode 2 is done, Episode 1 is being rebuilt, and the updated VFX for Episode 3 is around 95% finished.

DarthTzetzo said:

Great! Are you planning to finish the extended scene of Django’s death?

Yes, I have plans to finish off that scene. It got put on hold so I could finish my AOTC edit, as well as the AOTC deleted scenes and other projects I’m doing. The scene is around 85% complete; all of the SFX has been finished, a new background plate has been done, plus I rotoscoped Mace and Jango from the deleted scene on the Blu-ray bonus disc, and started on the final VFX.

What is left to do is to animate the leg of the background Super Battle Droid (so it’s not a static image), add in Mace’s Lightsaber, do a colour-correction on Mace and Jango so that they blend in better with the new background plate, plus finish off how Jango dies. I do want to have Jango’s left arm to be sliced off by Mace, however doing that would add a considerable amount of extra work to the scene…It may well be easier to leave his arm unharmed! In order to make the scene different to the original, it would be good to have his arm sliced off though…I’ll see what I can do!

Here is a sample image, showing what I last got up to — the VFX is unfinished, plus no colour correction has been done. This image is not the final version – this is a test image only!

Hello all,

I have upscaled the eight deleted scenes from the Attack Of The Clones NTSC DVD; each video is a H.264 1920x1080 MKV, with 5.1 AC-3 audio, plus each video comes with captions (subtitles). If you’re after these videos, send me a private message and I’ll send you a link.
Here are some screen-shots from each video:

Padme addressing the senate:
This scene has a lot of compression artifacts, which are most visible when looking at Captain Typho. I did three separate upscales, and combined them into one final video. I have also removed the green tint from the deleted scene, so it matches the final film.

Obi-Wan in the Jedi Temple analysis room:

Obi-Wan and Mace on the landing platform:

Padme & Anakin with Dooku:

Padme & Anakin arrive on Naboo:

Padme & Anakin on trial:

Padme & Anakin chat in her bedroom:

Amidala family dinner:

JoyOfEditing:
I really enjoyed watching the videos on your YouTube channel, and I hope that they inspire more people to do some editing of their own.
As I mentioned to you via PM, I especially love what you did with the Probe Droid scene on Hoth; I will definitely use that for my own edit! 😃

honestabe said:

The Padme’s father scene is really quite good. If you look at it carefully, it does look off. However, a casual viewer probably would not notice anything if they were not staring off to the side.

Yeah its’ really that first part of the scene that looks off; even watching it on the Blu-ray (which is where I transferred it from) it doesn’t look right. I did the best I could with a poor-quality shot!

Another updated shot:

The deleted scene of Anakin speaking with Padme’s father has unfinished VFX; I’ve seen that several other editors simply zoom-in on the actors to cover over the unfinished parts. I’ve opted instead to create a set extension, to fill out the original scene.

The original video is quite blurry, so zooming in really doesn’t look good at all. Even after upscaling it, the video still doesn’t look amazing, but it’s not too bad overall.

Original shot:

Updated:

DarthTzetzo said:

Аctually the whole scene of Obi-Wan inspecting the clones is half-flipped in the original film. I just noticed it now…

Yeah there are lots of flipped shots in the film! In my edit, I’ve flipped just about all of the previously flipped / reversed shots. I’ve only shown two screen-shots above though – there would be too many shots to show here haha!

Some new VFX:

I have removed the asteroid field chase, and inserted a new scene of Obi-Wan tracking Jango Fett (thanks goes to greenturnedblue for the idea!).
The text in the cockpit’s display screens is newly written by me; the text in the original film was mostly gibberish, plus the right-side of the displays were simply a mirror image of the left side, which I have now corrected:

Since I have removed the battle in the asteroid field, and in order to avoid continuity errors, I have altered Obi-Wan’s Jedi Starfighter to no longer have any blast damage:

A few more:
The scene of Padme addressing the Senate has a lot of compression artifacts, which are most visible when looking at Captain Typho. I did three separate upscales, and combined them into one final video. I have also removed the green tint from the deleted scene, so it matches the final film.

Two examples of flipped shots which I have “un-flipped”:

Some more ‘before and after upscaling’ comparison photos:

Before upscaling:

After upscaling:

Before upscaling:

After upscaling:

Dazman said:

Why is this thread not getting more attention, people tired of AOTC? 😄 Anyway, very interesting list of changes, some of them the very same ideas I have about the movie, and others totally different. Anakin rescuing Padme and droids removed in the factory scene is the only way to go with that scene if left in the movie imo. Then the scene shows Anakin actually protecting Padme (his job) and that act feeds to Padme’s feelings about him.

I’m interested to hear about your DS upscaling process. Did you use Topaz Labs and did you use some new settings to get better results than bryantmh’s deleted scenes? Or some other AI that can reach the Topaz’s quality? Could you maybe post some comparison screenshots?

In any case, I’m interested to check this out so please hit me with a PM!

It may well be the case that people are tired of AOTC, or it’s just not as popular as the other prequels haha! 😃

I will send you a PM with the link to the fan-edit. 😃

With regards to the deleted scenes, I initially used QTGMC to deinterlace them, plus I adjusted the framerate of the video and adjusted the speed of the audio. In Topaz, I ran quite literally hundreds of tests in order to achieve a high-quality output; it was a balancing act between having a clear, crisp image, and not introducing artifacts.

Here are some comparison shots, with a ‘slider’ function so you can see the ‘before’ and ‘after’ upscaling:

https://imgsli.com/MzM2NzA0

https://imgsli.com/MzM2NzA2

https://imgsli.com/MzM2NzA3

https://imgsli.com/MzM2NzA4

https://imgsli.com/MzM2NzA1

https://imgsli.com/MzM2NzA5

oojason said:

I can’t believe I’m going to say this - after spending far too much time watching Attack Of The Clones over the years… yet this does sound an intriguing AOTC Edit and the changelist has piqued my interest. PM sent. 👍

Hope this Edit does well, phase3 - you’ve obviously put a lot of thought and work into it.

I hope that this will be a unique viewing experience for you! 😃

Hello all,

In my fan-edits of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, I have trimmed many scenes in order to improve pacing, plus I’ve added in new VFX and SFX, added in different pieces of John Williams’ score that wasn’t included in the original film, removed as much exposition as possible, and altered dialogue in some places.

For anyone interested in watching this edit, you can either send me a private message, or get a link from the Fan Edit Central site.

A quick overview of what I’m doing:

New opening crawls for each prequel.

Opening titles: I’ve used the 1977 versions of the 20th Century Fox opening titles, the “A long time ago…” text and the green Lucasfilm title, all sourced from 4K77.

Some adjustments to the colours where appropriate.

Source video: the AOTC HDTV preservation done by schorman.

A light film grain has been added to the whole film, plus I have made brand-new upscales of several deleted scenes for this edit.

I am aiming to have these films match the tone, pacing and storytelling style of the original (pre-Special Edition) Star Wars Trilogy. I want to edit these films so that the prequels wouldn’t give away too much information that you would later find out in Episodes 4, 5 and 6, so that these edits could be viewed prior to watching the original trilogy if desired. For example, in my edit of episode 3 there is no hint that Palpatine is a Sith Lord until he reveals his true self in Revenge of the Sith, and the name “Darth Vader” isn’t used in my edit of episode 3, thereby retaining the surprise revelation in The Empire Strikes Back.

I’ve sought to remove the poorly-timed, and poorly-executed attempts at humour. So, there is no slapstick humour, and no silly conversations from Battle Droids or Super Battle Droids.

I’ve re-recorded and replaced the dialogue for the Gungans as well as the Neimoidians. Replacing the dialogue allowed me to create new subtitles for them, which in turn granted me the opportunity to alter and hopefully improve their characters.
I also added in new subtitles for these characters, with alternate dialogue to what was in the films, and did my best to improve the flow of the story, and also improve the characters too.

Thank-you list:
My edit wouldn’t be what it is without the help of greenturnedblue and futon88 – extra big thanks to the two of them!

DsqrDStudio for using one of his VFX shots.
Jackpumpkinhead, for footage of Mace Windu with a blue Lightsaber.

A list of the major alterations, cuts, trims and additions:

1. New opening crawl.
2. Opening scene after the crawl: the camera now pans down, in order to match the opening of the other episodes.
3. Removed a few lines of dialogue from Captain Typho and all of Corde’s dialogue.
4. Anakin and Obi-Wan: removed as much of the unnecessary antagonism and pointless bickering as possible.
5. As with my edit of Episode I, I have done my best to make Anakin more likeable, plus less creepy, petulant, and annoying.
6. Upscaled and colour corrected deleted scene of Padme addressing the senate.
7. New transition shot from the senate building to Palpatine’s office.
8. Palpatine’s office: small trims to improve the pacing, new subtitles during the hologram announcement, plus cut the final shot of Palpatine looking rather grim (and slightly devious).
9. Newly recorded dialogue and new subtitles for Jar Jar. I’ve also greatly trimmed the scenes with Jar Jar.
10. Padme’s apartment at night: re-structured to improve pacing.
11. Altered the speeder chase; Anakin now disables Zam’s speeder with his Lightsaber. I’ve removed her using a blaster, plus added some new explosion SFX to replace the original blaster shot sound effects.
12. Trimmed the speeder chase sequence. No flying through power couplings.
13. Since I’ve removed Anakin losing his Lightsaber, I’ve painted-out Obi-Wan holding Anakin’s Lightsaber prior to entering the nightclub.
14. Anakin running through the streets of Corsucant: added in his Lightsaber on his belt, in order to avoid a continuity error since he doesn’t lose his Lightsaber.
15. Coruscant nightclub scene: corrected a continuity error where a shot of Anakin was flipped.
16. Altered Zam’s dying words via subtitles to “…In Kamino….system…”. Removed the portion of the dialogue where she says “called”, plus altered the timing of the toxic dart.
17. Removed the Dex’s Diner sequence. I wanted to portray Obi-Wan as someone with the knowledge and skills required to decipher what was going on, rather than relying on other people for information. Also, this scene, along with others, were cut to improve the pacing.
18. Removed the words “home planet of” from Mace Windu. We already know that Naboo is Padmé’s home planet.
19. Removed the request for Anakin to speak with Palpatine. I wanted to show that Anakin has a lot of trust in Palpatine, and goes to see him as a friend.
20. Padme speaking with Jar Jar in her apartment: I used alternate music from the AOTC soundtrack, plus trimmed the scene slightly, added re-recorded the dialogue for Jar Jar, plus some new SFX.
21. Removed the Yoda & Younglings sequence, as it makes Obi-Wan look incompetent, plus in my edit he has the skills to find Kamino himself, without asking either Dexter or Yoda for assistance.
22. Obi-Wan in the library: changed his dialogue from “Impossible…perhaps the archives are incomplete?” to “Impossible…perhaps the archives were erased?”. This was done via a real-life voice actor, and not via an AI audio system.
23. Upscaled deleted scene of Obi-Wan and Mace where they discuss Anakin, and Obi-Wan gets into his starfighter. As with my edit of Episode 1, I’ve cut any reference to a prophecy or “chosen one”.
24. Trimmed and re-arranged sections of the chat between Anakin and Padme aboard the starship.
25. Upscaled deleted scene of the arrival on Naboo, with new SFX for the shuttle.
26. Upscaled deleted scene of Padme’s family and dinner scene (excluding the bedroom scene). Some of the scenes have been restructured, plus new SFX and music has been added.
27. New transition scene going from the dinner scene to Anakin & Ruwee chatting.
28. Anakin and Ruwee chatting: added background scenery to remove the camera and lighting equipment visible in the scene. Many edits I’ve seen of this sequence simply zooms-in on the actors, however I elected to complete the VFX for this scene as much as possible.
29. New transition scene, with new VFX and SFX, going from Padme and Anakin having dinner, to the lakeside kissing scene.
30. Anakin & Padme kissing by the lakeside: changed the daytime scene into an early evening scene, plus relocated the scene to after their dinner. I’ve removed Anakin talking about sand, as well as removed the fireplace scene.
31. I removed Anakin’s line about “not having a choice” to go to Tatooine. Of course he had a choice!
32. Kamino: removed the blue tint, to make the sky and buildings more grey.
33. Removed the line from the Kaminoans about the quantity of clones, as it lessens the impact of seeing them later on.
34. Continuity errors fixed: several shots on Kamino were flipped in the original film, which I have corrected. It’s most obvious when you notice Obi-Wan’s Lightsaber is on the wrong side of his belt. I corrected the following shots:
    A. Two shots of Obi-Wan walking with the Prime Minister of Kamino.
    B. Balcony shot of Obi-Wan looking at the clones marching up a ramp.
35. Removed Yoda saying to Obi-Wan that he shouldn’t assume anything.
36. Removed Mace & Yoda talking about diminishing Force powers.
37. Added in an upscaled extra shot of Obi-Wan and Jango’s confrontation from the AOTC trailer.
38. I’ve added in the correct SFX for Jango’s blasters, so that they match the sounds heard later in the film.
39. Added the SFX of Obi-Wan’s Lightsaber deactivating and activating in one shot, as they were missing in the original film.
40. Removed the multitude of unnecessary shots of Boba Fett.
41. Trimmed Obi-Wan hanging from the cable; he now swings and jumps to the walkway quickly, without hanging there.
42. Removed Anakin’s nightmare scene. This way, it implies that Padme & Anakin are sleeping together, as she says that she heard him having a nightmare.
43. Removed Anakin saying “Jedi don’t have nightmares” {VFX work by Caleb Gamman}.
44. Removed the confrontation in the asteroid field between Obi-Wan and Jango. I also removed the scene of Jango landing on Geonosis, as that removes any surprise later when Obi-Wan spots the Trade Federation starships.
45. New VFX: I’ve removed the laser blast damage on Obi-Wan’s starfighter, so as to not create a continuity error with blast marks and damage appearing on his starfighter, since I’ve removed the asteroid chase sequence.
46. New VFX: Since the asteroid field scene has been removed, a new shot has been created, of Obi-Wan tracking Jango Fett {thanks to greenturnedblue for the idea}.
47. Removed Gunray’s lines about not signing anything, and wanting Padme’s head on his desk. Re-recorded dialogue, and added new subtitles.
48. Relocated dialogue from Dooku where says “Patience, viceroy, patience; she will die” to after Gunray speaks.
49. Added new dialogue and subtitles for Poggle The Lesser during the above sequence. The separatists are now much more vicious and determined, which differs greatly to how they were originally depicted in the film.
50. Removed Anakin telling Padme about killing the Tusken Raiders. The original film caused a contradiction in her character: in AOTC she had no real reaction to his confession, yet in ROTS she is horrified to learn that he killed Younglings. Removing his confession now serves to show that Anakin hides his actions from Padme. I’ve left in part of the sequence though, with him saying “why did she have to die?”, then Padme consoling him. I’ve also removed the angry emotional outbursts from Anakin.
51. Separatist meeting on Geonosis: corrected the silly audio glitch for Wat Tambor, and made new subtitles for Shu Mai, with alternate dialogue to what was in the original film.
52. Watto: new subtitles, with alternate dialogue to what was in the original film.
53. Rickshaw droid: removed the droid’s dialogue.
54. The Droid Factory sequence has been greatly trimmed; Threepio and Artoo don’t leave the starship. Once Padme gets thrown into the vat, Anakin saves her by using the Force to lower the vat. After that, both of them are captured. I used the Lightsaber deactivation VFX by Sir Ridley, kindly provided in Hal 9000’s prequel trilogy resources folder.
55. Since Anakin isn’t “The Maker” in my edits, Threepio doesn’t recognise him now. I’ve added an extra line of dialogue from Anakin asking about his mother.
56. Removed Yoda sensing Anakin’s pain, as he doesn’t do anything about it, and never mentions it again.
57. Altered the time of day when Artoo receives Obi-Wan’s message; now it’s sunrise instead of early morning.
58. Trimmed Cliegg Lar’s speech at the funeral.
59. Altered and trimmed Threepio’s dialogue when Artoo goes to find Padme at the funeral.
60. Removed Mas Amedda’s line “If only Senator Amidala were here”.
61. Removed Padme’s exposition about exhaust vents.
62. Removed Threepio’s dialogue in the starship as it’s taking off from Tatooine.
63. Removed Anakin’s line “Don’t worry, I’ve given up trying to argue with you”.
64. Used, with permission, a shot from DsqrD’s edit: “….a special effect shot to keep the factory door closed (so as not to reveal R2 and 3P0 as per the original shot) when Anakin Force-flings the Geonosians.”
65. Upscaled deleted scene of Anakin and Padme meeting with Dooku.
66. Mace Windu: blue Lightsaber (with thanks to Jackpumpkinhead).
67. Trimmed the scene of Padme declaring her love for Anakin, to improve the pacing.
68. Trimmed the executions scene, to improve the pacing.
69. Corrected a continuity error, where one of the chains meant to restrain Anakin on the column was already up, even though he wasn’t physically there yet.
70. Removed the poor attempts at humour, such as the Battle Droid / See-Threepio head-swap scene, as well as all instances of “Uh-oh!” and “Roger Roger!” from Battle Droids, plus the “…aggressive negotiations” dialogue. Inserting humour into a life and death battle only serves to lessen the impact of the sequence, and detracts from the overall movie.
71. The colour of Ki-Adi-Mundi’s Lightsaber has been corrected. In the film, it went from blue, to green, then back to blue. Now it stays blue the whole time.
72. Relocated and trimmed many scenes during this battle, which entailed adding in new SFX in some shots.
73. Removed Yoda saying “Concentrate all your fire on the nearest starship”. The Jedi have been thrown into this conflict, so it doesn’t make sense for them to be giving military commands at this stage. Also, Yoda giving commands makes the clones seem rather inept, and incapable of doing anything themselves.
74. Relocated the scene of Padme waking up and speaking with the Clone Trooper, so that there were no interruptions during the Jedi & Sith duels.
75. Relocated, trimmed and altered some scenes in the Jedi & Sith duels, so that they could play out in full with no interruptions. I’ve also removed a duplicate shot during the duel between Anakin and Dooku, as well as the excessive amount of talking during the duels. It’s a life-and-death situation; there’s no time to stand around talking!
76. Anakin & Dooku: trimmed their duel to improve the pacing, especially the repetitive back-and-forth shots of their faces when they’re doing nothing but swinging their Lightsabers around.
77. Yoda and Dooku: I have restructured and trimmed their duel, removed a lot of the talking, and removed their Lightsaber duel. Having three duels in a row (Obi-Wan & Dooku, Anakin & Dooku, then Yoda and Dooku) was a bit excessive.
78. For the shot of Dooku getting into his starship, I removed his Lightsaber.
79. Added in a “Fan-edited by Phase3” title card, as well as a section thanking various people during the end credits.

That sounds great! I’m looking forward to seeing this when it’s finished. 😃

This is an old thread, but for anyone interested in this promo video, I saw on the Discogs site that there are two different VHS promo videos, one released by Telegenics (https://www.discogs.com/release/21026848-Various-95E-Lounge-O-Matic), and one by WEA (https://www.discogs.com/release/9708493-Various-Good-News-Compilation-WEA-Nr-9).

I might upscale and colour-correct this footage, then insert it into a full-frame version of BTTF Part I.