SparkySywer

I’m interested.

snooker said:

I think that you can pull this off, if your Luke vs Vader edit shows anything 😃. It will make for a very interesting edit nonetheless.

Thanks!

snooker said:

Yoda spoke of ‘another’, how will this handled in your edit?

I’m probably just gonna cut that out. After Yoda says “Now, matters are worse”, we go right into the next shot. I never liked the idea of another, so, I guess I’m killing two birds with one stone.

snooker said:

Will the Death Star show up with the Imperial Fleet and will it destroy Hoth?

Didn’t think of that. That’s a great idea! No guarantees, though. I’d have to explain why it gave enough time to evacuate (maybe it shows up late, maybe it takes too long to charge, idk. But I don’t know if I can do that or not. I’m hoping so (because that’s a wonderful idea) but, unfortunately, no guarantees.

snooker said:

Without a lot of very precise (and annoying) rotoscoping of the final battle, a lot of the best shots in ROTJ will be lost. Will you edit around these shots or will they appear in the movie?

That’s my biggest concern. I want to rotoscope the final battle, but that might be a really daunting challenge. I’m not sure yet.

snooker said:

How much time has progressed between Chapter 1 and 2?

I don’t know and don’t plan to come up with an answer. Definitely a lot less than the 3 years between the theatrical movies.

snooker said:

Does the probe find the hidden rebel base or is it the Falcon’s tracking device?

Both. The Falcon’s tracking device brings the Empire to Hoth, but they send in the probe droid first to confirm their findings. It’s possible they could have found the tracking device, dumped the ship on some other planet, and used another ship to get to the real rebel base, and the Empire doesn’t want to waste resources blockading a desolate planet.

snooker said:

-Who’s narrating it?

I have no plans so far on who the actor will be, other than that I don’t want to do it.

benduwan said:

will there be delet footage in?

Unlikely. That adds runtime. If any deleted footage will be added in, though, it might be less-than-a-second clips from TFA, or Jerjerrod’s conflict.

Any person in the republic who publicly displayed a personal connection to the force would be imprisoned, if not killed.

So then how did a force-user become Emperor?

The project in its original form is dead and I consider it a failed experiment, however I’ve been thinking about bringing it back in a very different form, especially after Act on Instinct contacted me about voice acting.

I made this comment about it, asking for your opinions and describing it more, if you’re just opening this thread for the first time. I didn’t think it would be a good idea to just copy the same comment here.

Original Post, since I can’t bring myself to delete it all on a preservation forum lol:

I think the worst thing about the Original Trilogy is that there are two Death Stars. Two of them. I don’t know who thought this was a good idea. But I’m sure you all probably understand why it’s problematic, so I’m not gonna get into it that much.

Around May, I was wondering if you could make a fanedit to solve this. I don’t think you can make a fanedit of RotJ with that goal, but you certainly can make a 3-in-1 fanedit of the Original Trilogy where the Death Star is not destroyed in ANH, and survives until RotJ.

So now, instead of going to the Rebel Base on Yavin IV after escaping the Death Star, they go to Hoth after escaping the Death Star. The Empire attacks the only Rebel Base while they’re analysing the plans and preparing for the assault on the Death Star.

That’s really the only story change.

There are a few other things I’m gonna be doing in this fanedit, too:

-There’s not gonna be any opening crawls. The latter two prequels repeat everything in their opening crawls multiple times, so prequel 3-in-1 fanedits get the luxury of being able to just have one opening crawl and still getting across all exposition. However, the original trilogy is reasonable and doesn’t repeat information you already know, so I have two choices: Have three opening crawls in the movie, or come up with something else. I chose the latter, and I’m using narration, in between chapters*. The narrations are accompanied by music and visuals relating to the dialog.

-Speaking of chapters, the movie is split up into 4 chapters. Chapter 1 starts with the rebel blockade runner, and ends with the crew leaving the Death Star. Chapter 2 starts on Hoth, ends on Home One (ESB is not changed story-wise). Chapter 3 starts with Lapti Nek, and ends when they leave Tatooine. Chapter 4 starts with the Rebel briefing, and ends with Vader’s funeral.

-Luke and Leia aren’t gonna be siblings. That’s the other thing I don’t like, but it’s pretty easy to do so it’s not super important.

*I’m also considering adding a narration at the end as an epilogue, but if I did that, I’d want to talk about Kylo Ren in it. However, every time you see Kylo Ren, he either has an aggressive face or a mask, two things good guys don’t have. But I don’t want to show him as a bad guy, for obvious reasons. So unless TLJ has Kylo Ren looking friendly, we can’t have an epilogue narration.

At this point, I’ve gotten the general movie done, but, at the moment, it’s 5 hours long, so a lot of fat trimming needs to be done. I’d be very happy if I can get it down to ~2 hours, but I’ll honestly be happy enough if it gets below 4 hours.

Also, I’m gonna have to replace every instance of the Death Star in Chapter 4, because it can’t go from finished to unfinished, obviously. If anything’s gonna kill this project, it’ll be this. Update: I’m adding an explanation that there was an unsuccessful attack on the Death Star before Chapter 4.

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So, normally I wouldn’t have made this post until after the actual fanedit’s done, but I want to know what you guys think: Can this work? Tips? Any other form of feedback I can’t think of right now?

PS: I’m calling this “Star Wars”, because whenever I watch or think about Fanedits, Unrated Cuts, Special Editions, Directors’ Cuts, etc, I like to pretend the original media doesn’t exist, and this is the only thing that does. If that’s the case, then obviously the movie would be called “Star Wars”.

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Edit: It looks like the movie’s not gonna get any shorter now, so if anyone’s interested in voicing the narration, PM me.

He doesn’t speak “jumbled” just for the lols, he does it only sometimes, and only when saying important things.

It’s “Forever will it dominate your destiny” because that’s an important line.

Yoda isn’t some idiot who doesn’t know how to speak, he’s employing a feature of the English language where you put the object first to make your statement sound important. For example, “___ does not a ___ make”.

There’s a surprising amount of OT-lines that aren’t “jumbled” for this reason.

But then in the prequels, we have “Around the survivors, a perimeter create!” and “Not if anything to say about it, I have!” The only time it’s justified is “The shadow of greed, it is.” during his talk with Anakin in RotS.

I cut out everything from when Jedha blows up to when they reveal Vader. That’s an idea.

On topic with the original post, I’ve never noticed the retraction sound in Despecialized. And I look for it every time, so it’s not like I’m not paying attention.

Is the missing frame in the shot where Han says “No! This one goes there, that one goes there”, right? It starts at ~29:30. That’s the only shot I could find that resembles Han preparing the falcon for evacuation, with fast-moving rebels. But I couldn’t see any missing frame while watching.

TPM was shot on film. That’s true for the other two prequels, but not for TPM.

It was shot on different film, though, not the kind of film the OT used, and thus doesn’t have the look the OOT has.

In the prequels, they’re air inferiority blue.

Restoring a deleted scene: I can’t help you with that, even the most gifted editors here can’t do this. Most RotJ and Prequel Deleted scenes, though, are actually good enough quality that they’re usable.

Making Transitions Smooth: Really depends on a lot. What scenes? What’s happening? What’s smooth? How’s the transition happening?

Redoing music & sound effects, and removing music & sound: The Blu-Rays come with multiple tracks. If you’re using them, you can just mute one track for a certain part of the movie. If you’re using some other source (like Harmy, for example), I’d recommending just putting in Blu-Ray audio around the change in question.

Color correcting to the OT: I already know you know more about this than me

Out of nowhere, on September first, Sheepish posts nothing but a picture of the Roman numeral “V”.

That’s only ever happened once with me, and that was because I put a ton of text in my crawl. You probably had the same deal.

Nothing much, really.

Sky_ said:

I just keep refreshing this page to see what’s the latest every 10 mins

Same, honestly, but more like every 10 seconds.

MisterBenja1977 said:

SparkySywer said:

I’m pretty sure Emanswfan joined a cult or something. They haven’t updated in a while.

And what’s wrong with a cult, sir?

Nothing!

Edit: Something I really wanna bring up, is that Blue Lightsabers should be a strong Cyan, not a deep Blue. Red lightsabers should be a strong Red, not magenta.

dahmage said:

SparkySywer said:

My spleen is gonna explode this afternoon.

Good god man, what are you waiting for? Go to the hospital!

I’ve come to terms with it.

Sky_ said:

MalàStrana said:

That’s why I think you should all let european people get it first.

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Myspleen traffic is gonna explode this afternoon.

What if Adywan never posts “I”? What if he gets to I, but the rebounds and starts counting back up again? What if he suddenly switches to Arabic Numerals and keeps going down the negatives? What if he reveals he was just saying these pictures looked cool? What if this is a countdown until the end of the world? What if these are really high-res images, and each “pixel”, if you zoom in, is a long winded explanation as to why ESB:R is never coming out? What if these are just Adywan’s 4 favorite numbers and he wanted to share them? What if he surprises us all and the next post is “VI”? What if he’s just listing off Star Wars movies best to worst and he really doesn’t like RotJ and TFA? What if this is his new battle plan for Revisited, to finish ESB, go back to do ANH:R HD, then do the prequels backwards? What if he’s saying we should watch Machete Order, but backwards, but keeping each “unit” together, so it’s ESB ANH RotS AotC RotJ? What if, as stated earlier, this is how many people will be given copies of ESB:R, and we keep displeasing him so the number keeps going down?

Other people have already mentioned this, kinda, but maybe this is a good thing. If I owned Star Wars and saw that people were selling illegal copies of the OOT, that would be really good reason for me to start selling legal copies of the OOT.

That might be naive, though.

About 6 hours between each post. If it is a countdown (which, it probably isn’t), it’s really weird.

I’m pretty sure Emanswfan joined a cult or something. They haven’t updated in a while.

RUN_LUKE_RUN said:

sadly i am new to this site and dont know how to post screenshots sorry for being a noob but i have got great quality and different settings produce different quality that is why i left it open so you can chose your own settings

Uploading it to something like imgur and posting the link is good enough.

OP disappeared in February.

The fanedit was never finished, and what’s worse is it doesn’t look like OP is still working on it.