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Here’s a thought I’ve had for a while:

Deepfake “Fake Wedge” with the correct face. Or if that’s not possible, recast his voice with someone else. Recolor his hair too? Push him past his “Fake Wedgeness” just far enough to make him into another character (and, yes, I know they eventually turned that dude into another character in the EU or something).

Smithers said:

Darth Lucas said:

I feel like it works better if she’s not the queen at all. The handmaiden who becomes a senator and hero is much more interesting to me.

Also doable, but then the queen drama near the end needs to go, regardless, the movie gets really short really fast, if only we had more footage to work with.

I like this idea for sure (Padme = handmaiden only). It would help make a stronger connection between Padme and Anakin. Both starting off in life in a bit of a lowly position and then growing into their roles in the other films.
Also, it would work perfectly with Padmes line in AOTC: “But when the queen asked me to serve as senator, I couldn’t refuse her.”

Unfortunately, I don’t see how you could implement this in TPM. I mean, with the events that unfold, you’d (at the very least) have to have a scene at the end where Padme is recognized for her bravery by the queen or- …hmm…it would be interesting to see if the footage of Padme coming before Boss Nass could somehow be reworked into this idea. Heck, she even smiles and the people cheer at the end of the scene.

Hmm…possibly. I think you’d still need a shot following that that would show the two of them together. Gotta show-and-tell imo.

DominicCobb said:

Unfortunately that whole section of the film relies upon Padme being just a handmaiden, not the Queen. Qui-Gon’s basically using the fact that Padme is unwilling to reveal herself to get his own way.

It would have to be some way that the audience knows right away, even if the characters aren’t explicitly told until later in the film. Usually a change like this is executed easiest in a crawl but that doesn’t seem possible here.

Hmm…well, she’s not Queen of Tatooine so there’s no reason Qui-Gon would have to obey her. Still, it probably works better the way it is in the film simply for the fact that a change like that should alter the way the characters interact with each other.

Yeah, I don’t know how you could communicate this idea early in the film to the audience. If it could be done visually with very little to no dialogue… If you could show the two of them in a shot or two where they’re switching costumes right before the battle droids come-…man, there’s like, nothing to work with, is there?

DominicCobb said:

I’ve always thought it’d be great if there was someway to reveal that Padme = the Queen basically immediately, so that we’re never left in the dark and are able to follow Padme’s emotionally journey coherently throughout the film.

Certainly makes sense. You think just we as the audience should know, or the other main characters as well (minus the villains)?

Hmm…what if the reveal was as they were about to enter Mos Epsa?

Panaka: The queen wishes it. She’s curious about the planet.
Qui-gon: The queen doesn’t need to know.
Padme: I am queen Amidala.

I don’t know how one would address the queen’s body guard…

FreezingTNT2 said:

Can I have links to both ANH:R and ESB:R?

Check this out:

https://swrevisited.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/esbr-mkv-dvd5/

snooker said:

major changes:

-more dynamic camera operation for a less boring viewing experience
-Amidala’s voice is shifted up
-Gunray speaks alien language
-Restructured scenes heavily

https://streamable.com/du5zz

Does anyone have any ideas for an alternate, non-gungan way to reveal Amidala’s queenship before this scene?

I thought about it for a bit and threw this idea together. Now, this does include Boss Nass so you might throw the idea right out the window…or maybe this could be a springboard.

https://youtu.be/FB5-NyQSLnQ

Ending on her saying “I’m Queen Amidala” could be kind of cool…but how to get there without gungans? I’m not yet sure.

Ah…“queenship” not Queen’s ship. My bad.

By-the-way, I really like what you’ve done here, snooker. I love the erasing of Boss Nass and the added graphics. The editing out of certain lines helps alot. Also like the added camera move in the palace. The one thing I would look at is adding back in the short beat before the next scene begins. Slightly abrupt. The close up of Anakin with R2 beeps (in the original) helps smooth the transition into the next scene.

snooker said:

Does anyone have any ideas for an alternate, non-gungan way to reveal Amidala’s queenship before this scene?

You mean instead of the shot of the ship landing (The one in the clip you just posted)? So, like just showing it parked in the forest or something?

Hell yeah!

Very true. I’ll try that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfyYZTunb6M&feature=youtu.be

“A thought? Anyone?”

emanswfan said:

I turned down the denoising setting from full to half in gigapixel, and this is what I get. It seems full does smudge some fine detail, but no denoising keeps those hideous compression artifacts in, so this might be a better balance. Either way you can definately see the big difference that the software does to take highly compressed 1080p and transform it to uncompressed 4k.

https://i.lensdump.com/i/WarWqo.png

This is pretty amazing! Could this bring about a better image quality to the PT DVD deleted scenes?

I seem to recall someone on these boards has said there is an upscale of the AOTC deleted scenes.

Is it uploaded to youtube here? :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDPmS7a1UYo

If there’s something that looks better than that (let’s hope so), could someone help me out?

Again, another test. I really wanted to use the old school looking Attack of the Clones logo here:

https://images.app.goo.gl/TQ1xd3A4dFNCmXcy5

I couldn’t find a bigger one. So what better opportunity to get better at photoshop, right? Had to blow it up and use the pen tool and make a few shapes but it kind of works now:

https://youtu.be/3SSOjFpgKZk

Well I’M pumped!

Having fun in AE is long overdo! 😄

https://youtu.be/ZyUlUZwxwYA

OK, well, I’m slowing catching up. I DID figure out how to get it to stop cropping. Yay:

https://youtu.be/1jTcf8GdTMk

I’m gonna remove the original…I don’t want my channel to get even more junky. 😉

It wasn’t until I selected a different format (while exporting) that a bright blue button popped up that said: “Match Source”. That seems to have done it.

Thanks for trying to help NeverarGreat!

That was solely in After Effects. I was editing this shot in Premiere. Obviously I removed Fett using AE but then I moved it on over to Premiere. I’m looking at my edit in Premiere right now and everything looks fine in my editing window. I play it and have no issues. Arg!

OK, so just an extremely short shot test:

https://youtu.be/HBDtLoBeSWo

I don’t even know if I’m going with this idea. But I wanted to try out the content aware fill in AE. 😉

BUT WTH?! It’s still cutting off the image! In Premiere I’ve got the sequence settings on 1280x720 and square pixels. As I edit, I can see the entire image. No prob. I go to export and use Match Sequence Settings and it shows it’s output will be 1280x720. But it’s cropping the image! Anyone got any ideas?

EDIT: I deleted this video and replaced it with a decent looking one down below! 😛

Ok, I’m stupid. I somehow blew right past the video on my phone. Went back and watched it and…yeah this is pretty amazing stuff! I’m finally able to wrap my mind around this concept now. An old school technique with a new high tech twist!

I stumbled across this article about in-camera VFX and it explains the process and outcome a bit more. Sounds cool! It sounds like this is what has been happening on the set of the new show. I hope we’ll see BTS footage at some point soon!

https://fstoppers.com/bts/real-time-camera-vfx-next-generation-filmmaking-398655

lol

By-the-way, how did you alter Obi-wan going through the window and out onto the droid? It looks like you recolored/darkened him…?

It’s about time this has happened! Seriously, this is one of the major improvements that has needed to take place for years!
I also agree with Anakin Starkiller…a shot of Anakin hanging from the droid would be very beneficial. Difficult, I’m sure - but very beneficial. 😉