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Thefox23 said:

i know im gonna sound annoying but is it really only in stereo and not 5.1, 7.1 or Atmos?

Not sure where you got that from? The cut has the full 5.1 surround track from the official bluray release, unaltered.

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From the April 19th until now should be sent! Thanks everyone for your expressions of interest.

Hello all! Thanks so much for your interest in this cut. I’ve not been around in a while, but I’ll be sending out links today 😃

Enjoy!

Hi all, I’ve not been around in a while. Sending out links today. Enjoy 😃

I’ll collate some lines with some more specificity if I’ve time, but my issues still mostly lie with the cut’s narrative overreliance on them to move and pave out its story, rather than the moving images…

Again, just my two cents, love your work, all.

Hey just my $0.02 as an editor, a Star Wars fan, and a fan of the project who’s come in pretty fresh after not seeing anything since… maybe v2?

The AI lines are like 80% not working. Like, not really? Not something that you’d put on a Blu-ray, you know?

It’s a tricky, tricky thing that involves a bit of magical thinking but the human ear is so devastatingly sensitive to voice that if you haven’t watched this stuff obsessively, it doesn’t really land at all.
I used to be able to show this to my mum! Now she says it sounds like robots! [shaking various canes and keyboards]

The problems I think you’re all having with the story can be solved by fewer lines, not more. Reach out with your feelings…

The DNA of Star Wars is the history of cinema itself. Watch some Kurosawa and 50s American and Soviet greats, try see what Lucas saw in them. Then take another swing at the sequels. See what shakes out.

Simple tricks are generally the best, and I feel as though some of the enthusiasts here used to respect that. Now there’s a tendency to, excuse me, script-fuck for pages of forum until it’s all but pulp.

Prune and sculpt. If you want to throw globs of mâché at things, take up sculpture.

This might come off snobby, or condescending, or glib, from someone who doesn’t (have time or energy to) post here much, but I do love this cut, and this forum, and Hal’s ST work at large. He’s a good eye.

Anyway. Meter’s at $0. MTFBWY xx

Aside from the crappy cuts bursting at the seams with dodgy AI lines, that is 😘

RogueLeader said:
I feel like a theme that edits of the ST can emphasize is this idea of the “Star Wars” cycle. That the forces of good and evil, the dark and the light, perpetually rise and fall. Edits like Nev’s Starlight do a great job at turning TFA’s weaknesses into strengths by making the movie’s repetition of ANH feel more purposeful. Obviously fans watch it and think, “wow, this is all happening AGAIN?”, but I think the movies can be strengthened if it feels like that’s an intentional point rather than a consequence of not having any better ideas.

RogueLeader, have I an edit for you 😉

I think you’ve independently hit a big nail on the head, one I hit myself only much later when I watched and realised what I was trying to get at with TLSA. Cycles, circles, legacy, rebellion, the wheel turning and breaking and being remade again. Especially now in light of Filoni’s story, and Baylan Skoll, and REDACTED…

I’m going to come back to that project again one year soon, I think, and refresh some of the ideas inherent in it, which I feel owe a lot spiritually to this forum at large.

‘Kenobi: A More Civilized Cut’

Runtime: 2h48m
Video: Adaptive low-ish-bitrate 1080p
Audio: 5.1 surround 320kbps

In anticipation of the eventual yet seemingly imminent release of PixelJoker95’s sweeping and ambitious theatrical cut of the series, I am making the rough workprint of my own cut of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ available, for posterity and public perusal.

My cut, not a radical one by any means, attempts, as many others have (never quite to my satisfaction, which is why we do this), to condense and strengthen the existing emotional throughlines of the limited series into something resembling a contemporary 120-miunute+ theatrical blockbuster.

The project is currently on hold as we all await with bated breath to see the fruits of PJ95’s hard work, which I’m sure will seed bountiful harvests of new ideas for us all. There is considerable sound work, cutting, and color timing that leaves much to be desired as is. This is a workprint.

The big points:

• Give Reva a character ‘arc’ and bring Ingram’s decent performance of an abysmal script new life
• Do the same for Vivien Lyra Blair’s exemplary performance of a bizarrely ill-conceived and static version of Leia Organa-Skywalker at ten years old
• Strengthen the emotional core of Kenobi’s character, painting in broad strokes with the the omnipresent Star Warsian palette of legacy, family, betrayal etc
• Emphasize the dark tragedy of Anakin Skywalker and lessen the brooding menace of Darth Vader (a note heard plenty in recent years)

The file is a cropped, admittedly low-bitrate but still serviceable 1080p file in 5.1 surround with no subtitles.
There is no full cut list at present, but, as always, I welcome any discussion and notes from the community.

Editor’s note: I have borrowed a single shot from Pentex’s ‘Kenobi’ edit that gives Nari a far grizzlier end than in the series, but I’m of many minds on that change at present.

CamSMurph said:

I haven’t watched TLSA yet, but this is AWESOME news!

It’s a lot, I’ll admit! Luckily someone cool and smart cut it into a six-part episodic version 😉

Also all links from 14/1/23 through to now should be sent. Thanks for your patience, folks, hope you’re al having a nice Summer/Winter, wherever you are.

khxdb9 said:

bbghost said:

AFAIK no open matte versions of Dune have leaked, as did with 2049. We can always hope.

That’s a shame I loved the IMAX version in the cinemas, Fingers crossed they release a Bluray IMAX version in the future.

It’s unlikely, from the sounds of it it was very much an afterthought for Villeneuve and the editor Joe Walker. They basically just checked the sides of the frame for anything egregious but largely it is dead space and they prefer the anamorphic version as with 2049 (I think I would, too, given the option).

Part 2 looks as though it was shot with a vertically extended aspect ratio in mind, though, so that will hopefully release in at least 16:9 for home versions eventually.

This thread will serve as a placeholder and discussion space for the remaster of my 3-in-1 Sequel Trilogy edit ‘Star Wars - The Laster Skywalker Awakens’

The entire project will be remastered in 5.1 surround, at Blu-ray-compliant 10bit 1080p SDR (I’ve neither the equipment nor inclination to make an HDR version) in both the original six-part miniseries version, and a new all-in-one theatrical edition (formerly in two parts, now in one).

For the moment, no other changes to the edit are planned, other than the tidying up of existing cuts and transitions (and some additional sound design around Rey’s ultimate victory on Exegol).

However, I would like to open this thread up for any and all discussion of the project, now that some time has passed, and will gladly heed any insight or ideas the community may have.

This is very much still in the aspirational stage, and will likely take most of this year, if not longer. Many fan-made VFX shots, audio files, LUT files, and, in places, entire sequences (the escape from Jakku, for one) will need to be found again (hopefully Nev, poppasketti, skenera and snooker are still kicking around here!) and potentially slightly upscaled. The project will need to be built from scratch, in Premiere as opposed to FCPX this time. So there is much work to do, still.

Thanks for your attention and patience, MTFBWY.

G00f_tr00p said:

One of my favorite movies! I’m very curious about the changing ratios! If you’re still sharing, I’d love a link 😃

Also, what was your source for this edit?

Sure thing. Sources are the home release blu-ray and the unofficial “open matte” version that can be found around torrent sites.

khxdb9 said:

Is there a possibility of a open matte version of Dune?

AFAIK no open matte versions of Dune have leaked, as did with 2049. We can always hope.

Would love a look at 1.1 please! Been following this project for years, it’s been a blast 😃

This is done! Reply here for a link as always.

Ahsoka: A Feature Edit

All of Ahsoka (2023) in two feature-length edits, four episodes apiece, back-to-back, with no other changes.

Chapter One: 2h34m

Chapter Two: 2h47m

UPDATE

This project is nearing completion, with only a few polishing touches to go.

1080p workprints are available now, with both BluRay-compliant letterboxed 1080p and widescreen 4K files of the final cut to come very soon…

OFFICIAL TRAILER

https://youtu.be/5AA5rZzFQfk?si=7UhI9gSPmMsnJs3g

I have never, ever been able to find a decent quality version of the scene under Max’s with Finn, Hamd and the troopers, timecode for otherwise. Was it a download only thing? Can anyone help?

Links should be sent

This project is nearing completion. In the meantime…

https://youtu.be/5AA5rZzFQfk?si=7UhI9gSPmMsnJs3g

credibledragoon said:

sounds amazing, any chance I can have a link to the mini series? love to see what you have done with it? thanks!!

Sent! Hope you enjoy.