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Thank you for all the kind words you’ve left here!

I believe an apology is in order. I almost put up a post here when I deleted (yes deleted) the channel…and I regret not doing that. Seeing all the kind remarks and genuine concern for me here is very heartwarming. I appreciate all of you and the time and effort you spent reading my posts, watching my videos and leaving great feedback.

To answer your question: I’m doing fine. All is well.
I don’t want to go into the particulars of why I deleted the channel and went silent.
The short version is I was spending too much of my time working on the edit and the channel and not focusing enough on some important personal/family stuff.

Also, as much as I was enjoying working on the edit, AI was not advancing as fast as I wanted (sounds funny now, right?) to accomplish certain shot ideas I had in mind. I would work on a shot, some AI advancement would happen, which would then make my shot look pathetic in comparison. I didn’t want to have to keep reworking shot after shot just to get something I thought, at best, might sorta pass.

Just so everyone knows, I deleted everything. EVERYTHING. (yes, I was THAT done with all of it) Was that overkill? Perhaps. I don’t know.
However, just a month or so ago I kinda started getting the bug again. I did end up recovering some of the YouTube videos and a super early version of the edit that doesn’t have any of the cool things I was more excited about.

Will I pick this edit up again? Part of me wants to…but if I did, I couldn’t spend the same amount of time and effort as I did before. I would have to be wiser with my time. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed a lot of that process. Also, I would need a new (or newish) PC if I were to start up again. My graphics card is fried and it was an old PC I was working with anyway. I basically couldn’t use any of the AI tools in Davinci Resolve. And as of right now, I don’t have money set aside for that.

Just wanted to give a long overdue update. Thank you all, once again for your kind words and concerns.

-SSWR

And if it pisses you off that I deleted it all…I get it. I’m a bit pissed myself. 😛

paja said:

WIP

Working on recontextualizing the beginning of AOTC presenting Dooku MUCH earlier. The sequence playing out as follows:

• Padme’s ship is bombed.

• Padme in the senate (deleted scene) that intercuts with Dooku reacting (from near the end of the film, the Neimoidians redubbed and or subtitled for new context)

• J cut that to Dooku and the CIS table talk.

After that there’s a scene inspired by a deleted scene from ROTJ where Vader force talks to Luke. Here Dooku talks to Yoda (using the scene of him after Anakin killed the Tuskens) that will feature snippets of dialogue of the duel from the end of the film, plus other dialogue implemented, e.g… “Master Yoda, the senate cannot be fixed, it is time to start over”. After that scene we cut to Palp’s office.

“It’s gonna be great”

Love this idea!

I agree with DarthMarv. I’ve never really like that particular shot…especially that leafless tree in the bottom right corner.

Although, I will say that I thought the planet was too …bright(?) when I first saw it.

Thanks!
I think Yoda sounds good (it was trained on OT yoda voice) but Windu i had trouble with…I’ll still have to fiddle with it more.

Alright fellow fan editors,

I’ve attempted to completely re-contextualize a scene involving Yoda and Windu:

https://youtu.be/5XmqZGisOwg

Then, if you stick around, I talk at length about my thought process on the scene.
Cheers (even though I’m from the US)

Agreed! So much better!

Love it!

Something I’ve wanted to see for a while now is a new background for these shots of the droids hiding:

It’s clearly just more walls made of stucco. How bout’ it be someone’s home? Heck, one could use an image of Annie’s room for TPM!

This is a must! Love it!

Ooo! Me likey! 😍

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

I bet in the not-so-distant future, there will be a way to use ai technology to “recover” that lost detail…

Wow! Simply the best restoration I’ve seen yet!
After these scenes, were you planning on looking at cleaning up any others (ESB or ROTJ)?

Damn, that’s the best I’ve seen yet! You did that in a day? What’s your software and process?
I would’ve thought it would be easiest to roto Luke and the droid, make clean background plates, track them in, slap some grain on top…but I’ve never tried, so what do I know? 😆

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Adywan, or anybody making an edit of ROTJ, is free to use these:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zlE34aGJd-yL0S_f52YbJwPko4fPAUQb?usp=sharing

If for whatever reason these two particular takes of the line aren’t up to snuff I’ll add more.

Sounds pretty damn good!

Jedi122 said:

I hope you don’t mind this one other request. I know these are once again examples of “Early Installment Weirdness,” since they couldn’t decide what terms to use yet, but since you were able to make Luke say “Steady, Rogue 3” instead of “Rogue 2” in TESB:R, do you think you could also make it so that Luke doesn’t call the R5 Astromech droid that blew up an “R2 Unit,” or use the term “robots” later on?

I personally like the idea of “fixing” those types of things. I even tried the “robots” one you mentioned using voice cloning:
https://youtube.com/shorts/68REbAcUpBo?si=ExTGJgB0Cy28iWOA

I don’t know if this particular fix is quite up to snuff for Adywan, which I totally understand.
I mean, with my example, the voice is trained on Luke from ESB and ROTJ. Not ANH. So it doesn’t sound right.
I suppose you could do that with ALL his dialogue for consistency 😉

Mrebo said:

Hi, SSWR, I’d watched your YT videos and I agree with your thoughts on the narrative for Anakin visiting Tatooine. I’ve some ideas for the Lars homestead scene you might consider.

As Anakin and Padme walk away from the ship, dub in the (from later) line “These are good people, Padme, you’ll be safe.”

Dub [Not-3PO] saying, “It is good to see you again Master Skywalker [& other pleasantries].” (If you want to twist the knife, insert Padme’s line from Naboo, “Anakin’s not a Jedi…he’s still a Padawan learner.” JK) Possibly insert Padme’s line “I’m Padme.” Then Anakin asks to see his mother and Not-3PO directs them to follow.

Not-3PO presents the guests. Not-3PO or dubbed Owen acknowledges the step-brother relationship. I like Padme’s “I’m Padme” line originally in this place but not sure how to keep it especially with the cuts to follow.

Cut to Owen introducing Beru and then to Anakin asking, “is my mother here?”

Cliegg says, “no, she’s not,” then Anakin reaction shot, then Cliegg says come inside. Either add transition here or keep the ensuing Anakin’s dissapointes/sad reaction shot.

I think the scene needs different music to better serve the mood of Anakin’s growing anxiety/despair. Maybe different music would go toward making a brisker pace feel more purposeful as well.

Additionally, I’d want to find a way, in the next scene, to get rid of Padme only taking her cloak off when the camera pans over to her and then awkwardly pulling her chair in. It’s the little things that grate when you starting thinking about the edits.

Thanks for the feedback and ideas, Mrebo!

I actually haven’t come back to playing around with that scene since I originally posted that clip. I like some of the ideas you’ve presented here and I think they could easily work in another fan edit!
Even though I began changing my mind on making Anakin and Owen actual siblings, I’m leaning once again in that direction. The viewer could simply put together that since the events of ROTS Owen would simply take the last name ‘Lars’ to hide from anyone coming to look for any of Anakin’s relatives.
But using “Not3PO” as a possible exposition droid might give me a bit more to work with! Thanks!

And yeah, I’d prefer to have Padme already sitting down with everyone else but I don’t have the abilities to make that happen. 😕

Since I 'm here, I might as well give a link or two…

Here I’ve re-edited the scene with R2 receiving Obi-Wan’s message:
https://youtu.be/cF_8TtsRcHc

And here I’ve attempted using Pika Labs to generate a new shot of Padme:
https://youtu.be/dNIhMnbPtdE

I don’t have anything worth adding to the ideas pool but can I just say:
I love this conversation and how you guys are approaching all of this.
❤

Fullmetaled said:

Adobe firefly sounds like it’s a game changer for editing videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPJNPrshhTo

Yeah, I’ve found a few different resources that provide similar effects…some of these are coming in quite handy!

Bingowings said:

Another aspect of the film that bugged me since watching it is the title. The Clones don’t attack they use military force to rescue the Jedi so it’s more a retaliation than an attack.

Well, you’re not wrong lol. That being said, I’ll be keeping the title as is. 😁

Man, there is a clip I’m wanting to show all of you. It involves a lot of intercutting scenes, new sound fx/music, new voice work, roto work…it’s got a lot going on and I’m quite please with how it’s looking.
But I can’t share it yet.

Just wanted to tease all of you a bit.😉

In the meantime, to get all of you in the mood for Christmas:

https://youtu.be/TAAevKeDM-w

Yeah what if they cover the prequels and give us some never-before-seen deleted footage? Here’s hoping!

Could I also get a link please?

Here’s the best deepfake I’ve made yet!

https://youtu.be/_ZlIpAIUUyk

Also, I’m quite pleased with how Yoda now looks in this shot:

https://youtu.be/C4McnKcM_6w

Good stuff! I look forward to more!

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Anakin Starkiller said:

Has anyone considered addressing Palpatine by name in the OT? It would spoil the twist of the PT for first time viewers, assuming they watch the movies in production order as they should, but it would help tie the films together more cohesively in a subtle way.

Gotcha covered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLXIK3_TXKE