Phase3

Sky_ said:

This restoration looks fantastic!!

SpenceEdit said:

I just rendered my first full workprint with the new source video files, and oh boy. Even at 1080p it’s a huge difference.

What is your new video source file? Sorry if I missed an earlier post on this! Is it a higher-quality video file?
Your V2 already looks fantastic!

Oh I’m not complaining about the edit at all! I apologise to Spence if it seemed that way; I will be doing a much shorter sequence for my own edit.

BrotherOfSasquatch said:

I mean, you could always make your own edit that removes more of the chase if you want, my dude.

Please don’t misunderstand – I mean no disrespect! I really do think that your V2 is a great edit! I apologise if it sounded like a complaint – that’s not what I meant at all!!

I was only thinking in terms of pacing; it could be cut so that after Flea says “You!”, Leia is instantly kidnapped: the bag / sack gets put over her head, thereby eliminating the ridiculous-looking “chase” through the forest, where the adult actors were clearly running slowly.

SpenceEdit said:

Phase3 said:

SpenceEdit said:

There’s only three shots from that scene in the edit, you still find that to be too much?

The small-file version of V2 I downloaded has most of the chase sequence intact, lasting around 50 seconds. Does the large-file version truncate that sequence?

She runs away from them for a couple of shots, then sees the guard and yells to him, guard gets shot, and then they catch her. It’s about as short as that scene can get while still existing. I’m not really sure what else you think could be removed from it?

SpenceEdit said:

There’s only three shots from that scene in the edit, you still find that to be too much?

The small-file version of V2 I downloaded has most of the chase sequence intact, lasting around 50 seconds. Does the large-file version truncate that sequence?

I watched V1, and now V2.
V2 is really great, and I enjoyed it much more than V1!
The only odd thing I found was the inclusion of the forest chase sequence on Alderaan. It looks so comical and out of place.
Aside from that, it’s a great edit!

It’s definitely possible to cut it in a way that removes the major problem with the ending of this episode. It can be edited to re-arrange the sequence of the duel, whereby the end is actually Obi-Wan underneath the pile of rocks, and Vader then walks off, leaving Obi-Wan for dead.
I’ll be doing that for my edit!

Octorox said:

Darth Raditz said:

How did you address Vader staying alive after Ben has him dead to rights? It’d feel weird if boththis edit & RotS end roughly the same way.

I don’t think there’s anything you can really do in a fan edit to change that, short of reshooting the scene.

Master Lawdog said:

The Qui-Gon Jinn deepfake would be de-aging him in the last scene of the series. I also plan on de-aging Obi-Wan in the flashback, since people have already fixed Anakin’s appearance.

That sounds great too!

With exporting your projects, I’ve not used Premier (I use and older version of Power Director), so I don’t know how your system works, however most codecs all serve the same purpose. What editing software systems do is to encode the file and place it into a container (such as MKV, MP4 etc.).
As for which type works best, it depends upon what level of quality you’re after. You can generate a file that is 50GB in size, or that same video can be produced as a 3GB file – the choice is yours!

As for recreating a pan, I have found that finding information on this is extremely rare…It took me quite a while to get details on how to do this in Power Director.

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help!

I hope that your edits are going well!

Sirius said:

I liked it, I just don’t know how you can make to show that Vader and Obi-Wan travelled to another place in Jabiim to have a duel. But I think it’s a good concept.

Thanks mate! I was thinking about that today, while watching Anjohan’s edit. I think that one way of doing it is to restructure some of the sequences on Jabiim to accommodate these changes; once Obi-Wan escapes from the Stormtroopers after surrendering, and runs down a tunnel, the following happens:
Vader “Prepare my ship”, followed by shots of Vader’s shuttle. Sequences of Obi-Wan speaking with Haja, Roken and Leia, then Vader arrives on the planet. He destroys one starship, the other ship departs, he duels with Reva, she’s left for dead, then Vader walks away.
Insert a transition wipe.
As Vader’s shuttle is flying towards the planet, you can see that it’s becoming dark; this works well for a reasonable passage of time to have elapsed – so that Obi-Wan is outside of the facility, and Vader has had time to find him.
This would require the removal of Vader’s shuttle landing, as well as painting out the stationary shuttle in the background.

Those two tests looks fantastic!! I’d love to use your footage if and when you finish it!
Also, is there any chance at all that you could do Vader’s TIE on Jabiim in episode 5, instead of his shuttle?

Cheers,

PixelJoker95 said:

Hi everyone!
Since this is a general ideas thread, I’m posting here until I have something more to open my own.

So yeah, I’m going to do my own take on Kenobi theatrical cut. Still writing down the ideas and doing smaller scale tests, but will probably start working on the edit itself sometimes at the end of July. And it will be the one of Adywanic proportions!

Now, given that I have academical background in editing, but decided very early on to chase the career in VFX, this sounds like a perfect side project for me. Not to mention that SW inspired me to do what I do, and that in fact I did some visual effects for the upcoming Andor series. And please don’t get your hopes up for my editing skills, they’re a bit rusty after years of not doing anything on a larger scale.

For now I can present you with two tests:

1. For some reason I expected Vader to fly his own TIE fighter into the final duel. He’s going there for personal reasons, not so much for the official Imperial business. Plus we didn’t see live action TIE Advanced since '77.
   This is a single frame test, since I’m still working on the camera tracking (and that compression in the darkness doesn’t help at all!).

https://postimg.cc/2Vf2ZMt0

2. I like Rupert Friend’s performance as Grand Inquisitor, so much so I don’t mind that he doesn’t really look like Pau’an. But hey, why not fix it if we can, and bring it a bit closer to 2005 look of the species. I have a full video of it, and in motion in looks marvelous. Have to tweak the tracking on some frames, then I’ll upload it.

https://postimg.cc/sG5mL4MP

Ofc all of my footage will be uploaded for others to use if they please, in 4K.

I’d love to get other people’s input on something I’d like to try in my edit, for the last few sequences:
What I’d like to do is for Obi-Wan to not leave Jabiim, so that the duel with Vader happens on the one planet, instead of what we see in the TV series, which originally was:
Go to Jabiim / leave Jabiim / go to another planet a few minutes later.

I was thinking along these lines:
Kenobi briefly speaks with Leia, Haja and Roken (scenes that were originally on the starship, whilst fleeing the Star Destroyer). This may require altering the view in the windows to match the hangar bay on Jabiim. Removing the audio of blaster bolts from the Star Destroyer is easy, however I have no experience with altering background images and colours! /
Kenobi surrenders, and converses with Reva /
Reva says “He’s on his way” /
Vader says “Bring my ship” (scene originally located much later) /
Kenobi kills off two Stormtroopers, and escapes /
Vader arrives, destroys one starship, and the second starship takes off /
Brief shot of the starship leaving the atmosphere /
Time permitting: use a shot of a starship entering hyperspace, if timewise it doesn’t conflict with the timeline of the story /
This means cutting out the ridiculous “chase” by the Star Destroyer and starship. That was some poorly-written nonsense! No tractor beam used? No TIE Fighters, Interceptors or Bombers sent out? No simply blasting the starship into oblivion? Really?! Very “creative writing” there, Disney… /
Reva immediately tries to strike Vader — no footage of her slowly walking up to him. I want this scene to be much faster than what we saw in the TV series. Her slowly walking up was, well, too slow! /
Vader and Reva duel, and she is left for dead (no scene of her finding the communicator device) /
Vader walks off /
Vader goes to confront Obi-Wan /
This would require the Imperial Shuttle to be removed from the background, as it would conflict with the Imperial Shuttle seen in the background on Jabiim /
Obi-Wan leaving the planet after the duel: to a very slight reversal of footage, where he puts his robe on the seat of the starship. Now he finds L0LA after the duel, instead of beforehand.

What do you all think?

Cheers!

Hey mate,

Could I please get a link to your edit?

Cheers!

Master Lawdog said:

After some tinkering and training, I’ve officially given up on putting Samuel L. Jackson’s face onto the background fill-in. It would just be better to digitally map Jackson’s face onto him. I’m moving onto my planned Qui-Gon deepfake, which I may upload to my YouTube channel.

I’d be keen to see what you come up with! Could you please PM me a link to your You Tube channel?

Cheers!

Sirius said:

I don’t know if someone already brought this up in the edits of this site, but I have an idea about making the imperial cruiser chasing the rebels ship less silly, right before the second Vader vs Kenobi fight.

You can just cut the supposed hyperdrive problem entirely, and make Obi-Wan wanting to confront Vader just because he wants to resolve this personal conflict with Anakin (this is somewhat confirmed by his conversation with Roken). To accomplish that, I think that would be necessary just to cut most of the chase sequence, and insert a shot of the rebels ship entering the light speed right after Obi-Wan’s ship has launched. You could even relocate part of the drama with Obi-Wan and Leia about he being left behind for when they are leaving the planet, i.e. right after Reva being stabbed by Vader but before the beginning of the chase sequence in space.

This way, you make the Empire less incompetent for not sending tie fighters after the rebels ship, since they would have escaped too fast after they leave the orbit of the planet.

This sounds great to me!

Kaweebo said:

There’s ways to interpret that, though it would be better if there was a shot of an injured Vader walking back to his ship to really sell the point that he barely survived the encounter and needed to fix his suit, to the point of not even doing a confirm kill on Obi-Wan under the rubble (maybe you could add his hard breathing during shots of Vader walking to give the idea that he’s struggling). Combine that with the escape on Jabiim, assuming that’s still going to be part of this edit (emphasized by the flashback sequence showing that he still is being taught by Kenobi even now), and there’s certainly enough there to give the impression that Vader considered himself a learner in this scenario.

It makes Obi-Wan being stuck under the rocks a move out of desperation rather than a true final pin on their confrontation. Because the alternative is what happens in the show where Vader just assumes he killed Obi-Wan and foolishly goes to leave the planet, making him look incompetent as he seems to consistently give Kenobi ‘outs’ to escape; once on Mapuzo and once here.

I 100% agree with you! If it’s okay with you, can I use your idea of a shot of Vader walking back to his shuttle, with audio of him struggling to breathe?

Cheers,

CMMAP said:

I think it defeats the purpose of the line in EP IV. Therefore he would’ve been the victor of the last encounter which defeats „…i was but the learner…“. So it’s wether a question of canon or non-canon editing.

I’ve thought about that; Disney have thrown canon in the garbage simply by having Obi-Wan and Vader encounter each other in this series (but that’s a different complaint haha!).

During the second confrontation, Vader says “Did you truly think that you could defeat me? You have failed, Master”.
He still refers to Obi-Wan as ‘Master’, so Vader’s line in ANH about previously being a learner is still valid.

Ahhh we’re thinking along the same lines haha!! Well, it’s good to know that there are other editors who have the same or similar ideas. 😃
Come to think of it, I believe you posted your ideas before I did. That being the case, I have sent you a PM to get your okay with me using parts of your ideas!

Broom Kid said:

Phase3 said:

I posted this in NFBism’s thread, but also wanted to get other people’s thought on this:

I was thinking about the following:
During the second duel between Obi-Wan and Vader, instead of Obi-Wan walking away, getting into his starship and going to Tatooine, what if it’s Vader leaving Obi-Wan for dead, and leaving the planet first?

I pitched something VERY similar in another Kenobi Fan-Edit thread, I think maybe I thought it was this one, haha. Getting old sucks.

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/KENOBI-A-STAR-WARS-STORY-RELEASED-2th-of-July/id/94684/page/16#1490252

Spence:
First of all, thanks very much for making a smaller file size available, for those of us with relatively small download limits! That was appreciated.
Mate, let me start by saying that your edit does a fantastic job of condensing the six episodes into one smoothly-flowing movie.
For an edit presenting the story as a feature length movie, without any major alterations or restructuring, your edit definitely does the job extremely well!
I can see how much work went into the audio work too, in order to have the soundtrack and sound effects all work properly. Well done!

You made some great choices when excluding some scenes, in particular:
AOTC flashback – I’m really glad you removed this scene, as it really belongs in an AOTC edit!
No rooftop chase.
Tala not being delayed by the Imperial Officer on the planet with the Inquisitor’s fortress.
No scene of Leia running away from Obi-Wan on Daiyu.

Some suggestions and observations:
Would you consider adding in more transition wipes, where applicable throughout the movie?

Might I suggest a trim to the long-winded, exposition-filled speech by the Grand Inquisitor on Tatooine? It really does go on for a long time!

If you wanted to trim your edit a bit more, how about cutting the scene of Obi-Wan finding the buried Lightsabers? Desert sands shift very quickly over time, and the likelihood of finding the box in exactly the same position as where he buried it years earlier is extremely unlikely.

The scene where Flea / Needles confronts Obi-Wan is missing some context. Needles says “I didn’t know Jedi could bleed”. The scene beforehand, of Obi-Wan confronting two other guards has been deleted, which would give context as to why Obi-Wan had a bloody nose.

On Daiyu, Obi-Wan tells Haja that “The bounty is on me”. Since you deleted the earlier scene showing the bounty being placed, this line is now out of context. Also, the droid being shot by Haja now makes no sense, as the audience has no idea if the droid is a bounty hunter or not. Some parts of the earlier scene of the bounty being placed are required I think!

During the escape from Jabiim, you cut to Obi-Wan telling Roken that this is a great plan, however you’ve deleted the scene beforehand, leaving the audience wondering “what plan?”. You might need to include at least some of the plan in order for the next scene to make sense.

Overall, your edit is great!!

Cheers,

Ice said:

Phase3 said:

I posted this in NFBism’s thread, but also wanted to get other people’s thought on this:

How about an alternate ending to the show?

I like it !

Thanks mate!

Kaweebo said:

jkimm said:

Sirius said:

Many thanks for your kind words! I hope that this is something that NFBisms might consider for his edit!

I posted this in NFBism’s thread, but also wanted to get other people’s thought on this:

How about an alternate ending to the show?
I was thinking about the following:
During the second duel between Obi-Wan and Vader, instead of Obi-Wan walking away, getting into his starship and going to Tatooine, what if it’s Vader leaving Obi-Wan for dead, and leaving the planet first?

In ROTS, Obi-Wan left Anakin for dead on Mustafar. How about Vader now does the same to Obi-Wan?
It could be carefully edited like this:

Vader’s helmet is sliced open /
“Goodbye, Darth” /
Delete the extra shots of Vader walking slowly with no dialogue /
Vader kneels down and yells “Obi-Wan!” /
Use the shot of Vader’s hand slamming into the ground /
Flipped shot of the ground breaking, so that it matches correctly with where Obi-Wan is & where the camera angle should be /
Obi-Wan falls /
Rocks fall down on top of him straight away - no further input from Vader - no need for him to be standing at the edge /
Relocate audio used earlier for the overhead shot of Vader “Did you truly think that you could defeat me? You have failed” /
As Vader speaks, do a slow, steady zoom-in on Vader, so it’s a bit different to what was shown in the episode /
Vader leaves the planet (would need to find a good shot of Vader’s shuttle flying in space) /
Obi-Wan has the visions of Luke and Leia, inspiring him to go on / Obi-Wan frees himself, leaves the planet, and goes into hyperspace (no visions of Luke whilst in the starship, to accommodate the removal of the awful Tatooine sequences in the sixth episode).

What do you all think?

Would you consider an alternate ending to the show?
I was thinking about the following:
During the second duel between Obi-Wan and Vader, instead of Obi-Wan walking away, getting into his starship and going to Tatooine, what if it’s Vader leaving Obi-Wan for dead, and leaving the planet first?

In ROTS, Obi-Wan left Anakin for dead on Mustafar. How about Vader now does the same to Obi-Wan?
It could be carefully edited like this:

Vader’s helmet is sliced open /
“Goodbye, Darth” /
Delete the extra shots of Vader walking slowly with no dialogue /
Vader kneels down and yells “Obi-Wan!” /
Use the shot of Vader’s hand slamming into the ground /
Flipped shot of the ground breaking, so that it matches correctly with where Obi-Wan is & where the camera angle should be /
Obi-Wan falls /
Rocks fall down on top of him straight away - no further input from Vader - no need for him to be standing at the edge /
Relocate audio used earlier for the overhead shot of Vader “Did you truly think that you could defeat me? You have failed” /
As Vader speaks, do a slow, steady zoom-in on Vader, so it’s a bit different to what was shown in the episode /
Vader leaves the planet (would need to find a good shot of Vader’s shuttle flying in space) /
Obi-Wan has the visions of Luke and Leia, inspiring him to go on / Obi-Wan frees himself, leaves the planet, and goes into hyperspace (no visions of Luke whilst in the starship, to accommodate the removal of the awful Tatooine sequences in the sixth episode).

What do you think?

This all sounds fantastic! I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with this edit!

revel911 said:

Phase3 said:

For anyone who is going to do their own fan edit, I’ve made a simple new opening crawl, which I have sent to Anjohan, who has said to me that it’ll be included as a separate file for anyone who wishes to use it. 😃

I have done 3x opening crawls, and each crawl has a different movie title:
1a Kenobi.
1b Kenobi A Star Wars Story.
1c Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Please note that I’ve done these in the same style as the main movies Episodes I-VI, and not in the style seen in ‘Rogue One’ or the Kenobi TV series.
There is also a camera pan down to Tatooine, plus a ‘fan edit’ information screen and opening fanfare & title cards etc.

Cheers!

Why does it have to say Kenobi vs a more Star Wars like title?

Hey mate,

I only wrote these versions based upon what other people in this thread have asked about. Please take a look a few pages back, where Anjohan was asking people about what title to use for the edit.

For my own edit, I’ll come up with a completely different title!