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Oh, and there's been some comments about the scene where Han and Leia get captured and Luke senses that they are in trouble. I know that moment isn't perfect, but that footage is being completely repurposed for something it wasn't intended for, so I was a little limited in what footage actually exists. I did what I could with it, and tried to have the moment resemble the scene in Empire when Leia sense Luke after the Vader duel. It's kind of impossible to make that moment perfect, but I'm happy that it works well enough.

Also the pace at Jabba's was very tricky. It didn't make sense to spend a lot of time with the droids getting into Jabba's, as he's already been established in an earlier scene. When Luke finally arrives, it's time to get down to business, so I didn't want that to take too long. In addition, I really like not knowing why Bib allows Luke to enter, and then it gets revealed later that he's being mind tricked. It's kind of a fun moment and allows for a good reaction from Jabba.

When transitioning from Tattooine to the fleet, I wish there was an additional scene to put in there, but it didn't really exist. Again, a lot of these issues with the pacing at the beginning are a byproduct of my lack of material. I just had to do the best I could with what I had. Being a rather radical departure from the original, it was never going to be perfect. But in the spirit of doing something interesting, I'll settle for it just being "good."

Just cut a test of my prologue scene. Really cool. I need to do some narration tests as well.

My plan is that, in the next two weeks, to release a workprint version of the first 15 minutes or so, just to show what this is really going to be like. It won't be final, but it's narration, effects, new music, the whole thing. Think of it as a proof of concept.

Man, I've been following this for a while, I'm stoked I get to see it soon.

It's going to be a good year for Star Wars fanedits, I can feel it.

ChainsawAsh: Yes. If they were good enough.

I don't edit in HD though, so it wouldn't be an HD version. Just including the deleted scenes.

haha, that's just my crappy blackberry. It's the most useful feature of it, other than its paper weight functionality.

DUUUUUUUDE. This makes me happy.

I hit a little snag today where my MU expired and I didn't realize it, that may have been your problem. I'm premium again, that may fix it.

I don't really understand why MU is having such problems. Everything uploaded fine. Very, very odd. And it only seems to be for some people.

Probably around 3 hours in length. The music is pretty accurate, but there will be sound effects/dialogue in it, it's not silent.

The trailers give you a good idea of the feel of the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktSP3F2G8sE

One of my original test clips.

Haha, I've just been asked a bunch of times. It's by Vitamin String Quartet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKlvye8IPYo

It's actually the music from the end of ROTS.

It's by Vitamin String Quartet. They did a string album of a bunch of Star Wars music. youtube, my friend.

Thanks for the detailed review dude!