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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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Make sure you’ve typed the URL correctly, or try searching Vimeo. You could also watch one of the videos below instead.”

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

I didn’t think the first version you posted was bad…but NOW…sooo GOOD!

Pagan Editor said:

Maybe you could add a sound for the skin morphing, like playing with the pitch of leather getting wrinkled. I looked up the scenes of Indy on youtube and it sounded like something like that was going on.

I’ll look into that! Thanks!

On the subject of changing pitch, I was wondering if you could do it with Yoda’s voice. I think his voice seems to sound brighter than in the OT, but that doesn’t make much sense when you’re aging ten times slower than a human being.

Yeah, I don’t know what to do about his voice. Oz’s performance changed drastically once he started doing soley voiceover work for the CGI Yoda.

Also, I don’t know if I like having Duel of Fates playing when Anakin uses the speeder bike. I thought that you could maybe insert this version of Anakin’s theme starting at 1.37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUC7MgkOgKA

I’m with you on removing Dual of the Fates. It’s already gone and replaced with something I quite like! Although, I’m not ready to show it yet…

Pagan Editor said:

It’s odd to carefully study PT scenes. There was one video from you with the gang in the arena where the original footage had this awful effect on Sam Jackson head. I guess it was the same kind of blending of two shots as you’ve shown with Jake Lloyd.

Yeah, I think it’s when Sam simply turns his head to screen left and it looks like it’s been reverse and also maybe slowed down? It’s odd…but it goes by pretty quickly too.

That scene of Palps watching the troops also has strange things going on. The blue senate guy has his mouth open, like he’s going “Wow!” like a kid. And behind Bail is a guy of the same species as the one in the cantina who doesn’t like Luke. Knowing George, it must be the same guy. An incredibly succesful politican who ended up with the death sentence in 12 star systems. McCluncky!

😆 I guess I hadn’t looked too closely at Ole Bluey!

But I’m liking the changes! I’m curious about the new music for Sheev looking at the clones. One thing that I’ve been thinking about regarding Zam’s changer-thing. I was thinking that you could perhaps get rid of it all, except for her death, and you recolor her skin grey as she morphs. The idea is that she gets deformed by the dart in way that looks a bit like the Nazis dying in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Last Crusade.

The music I inserted was temporary (John Williams - Black Sunday OST). I don’t have the ending music figured out yet cuz I haven’t nailed down the edit yet…cuz there are a few FX shots I don’t know how to pull off convincingly yet!😆

About Zam: Yeah that was what I was going for…but maybe doing something additional to the face (like you suggested) would be possible. Hmmm…

Thanks for the feedback!

Great to hear from you, Adywan! Your edit is coming along nicely!

How did you pull off the Vader and Kenobi shot? Is that a shot from elsewhere in the film that you scaled down and inserted there (roto-ing around the troopers, of course)?

Here’s my attempt at some genuine color correction:
https://youtu.be/wXKnRe9x3YY?si=NZZTFA03z1JIB8Zp

This is a shot of Anakin I’ve altered and repurposed
https://youtu.be/SPWXv_9rGQg?si=crd3qw9OPTqwVXUj

I just hit 1000 subscribers yesterday! To celebrate, I made the first teaser trailer. Feel free to join me tonight to watch together:

https://youtu.be/h0Cu11y60-A?si=5t81MHg7eZgQBaG9

Here’s my edit of the Jedi being surrounded in the area scene:
https://youtu.be/vqsLDL42RPc

Here’s a comparison to the original:
https://youtu.be/8hL_LP9_Gqc

And here’s my original video with me going into some of the “why” behind some of the changes:
https://youtu.be/M804B7y8ODU

I’m glad you guys are digging it!
So about that rack focus shot…

I very much appreciate what snooker did for me with that shot here:
https://streamable.com/engvb5

Although, it’s been a few years since that shot was completed and I wanted to push it closer to what we see in ANH…with a bit of a lens distortion and everything:

https://youtu.be/yZJfdDDkop8

THEN I realized I should maybe sort of, ya know, LOOK at a rack focus shot from the OT 😆 and I noticed the image stretches vertically…so I did a bit more work on it and got it even CLOSER to what I wanted:

https://streamable.com/nchc1j

Hello fellow fan editors!

A very basic scene of Obi-Wan trying to contact Anakin but I’ve reworked it quite a bit.

-CLIP:
https://youtu.be/2x40-QWMAfU

deets…
-SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON:
https://youtu.be/zmXzZvKt-gg

in case you’re curious…
-EARLIER TEST:
https://youtu.be/DZnxu_QrUT4

Hal 9000 said:

Shave off a syllable when Han and Luke are found on Hoth so he says, “Ice of you guys to drop by!”

Dew it!