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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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…
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…
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.
UPDATE
“Part One” is now just a workprint for this project’s first half, second of which is COMING SOON with both feature-length edits presented in 4K SDR and HDR, and smaller 1080p files.
A new computer means I’ll be able to strive for this level of quality going forward 😁 and maybe revisit some older projects, in time…
Links sent
Links sent
made public for other fan editors to use.
Looking forward to making a movie night outta this and then beginning to think about what I’d like to do with Kenobi myself.
Same here! I’ve had a project file sitting on a drive from around May ever since I saw the trailer for this thing.
The guy’s a professional VFX artist by day, and clearly has a burning passion for the project. All in good time!
English subtitles have been added to the project folder.