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Icecream2448 said:

I took it as the moment it cuts away from Luke crying to Death Star II action is when Anakin fades away. And Luke is only burning the empty suit in the end. But you still have to fade away before you become a ghost.

Qui Gon’s didn’t, he was cremated on an open-face flame, and he supposedly discovered the ghost power. They play pretty fast an loose with this stuff.

RogueLeader said:

Considering those facts, and the fact that the entire Sequel Trilogy takes place over the course of only a year, makes me feel like if you made a trilogy edit where most of the action takes place beyond New Republic territory, and the Republic is never destroyed, it wouldn’t really impact the films that much.

FWIW my edit removes any planet killing weapons or mentions of the New Republic outside the title crawl and it really doesn’t. If anything I found by narrowing the scope of the narrative in this way, it helps the story significantly!

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Hal 9000 said:

Let me also just pass along from the dozens of redditors who have sent me PMs over the course of the last several days: You’re awesome.

Bless this mess 😂

I could get them to you if you need. Any particular reason? My Google Drive is busting at the seams, so I’d just upload them, let you snag them (because they’re large collectively), and take them back down.

For one I’m hoping to use some of that stuff in my own big sequel edit, eventually! But I know that V2, as with all good things, will take time. Just being impatient is all, heh.

Also I’m getting to the point with AE where I’m hoping to take a stab at what’s left to do of the crackling saber, and I don’t want to already jump on stuff that’s already been covered!

At the risk of derailing the thread a bit, could I ask about the effects stuff that’s already been done for version 2?

At one stage there were 2 or 3 different people working on the crackling lightsaber stuff for example, did any of the final shots for that make their way to you, hal? Or the time of day change for ach-to?

Just wondering whether it would be acceptable, with the blessing of those responsible for the original work of course, to make the already finished parts available for other editors before V2 is out, same as the other stuff that’s in V1 currently?

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IIRC people have played around with those troopers’ lines a lot and nothing particularly satisfactory sounding was reached. They sound more detesting of them than bored, to me.

Is there any kind of quick shot that could go between the camera whip panning to the left and then whip panning to the right? The frames are similar enough that it’s a slightly jarring moment.

Otherwise, this is a big improvement.

Good point. Could probably trim that second shot a bit so that the pan-right is diminished, but I kind of like the disorienting nature of the cut as it’s a hectic moment for everyone involved.

sherlockpotter said:

Quick crash landing mock-up, also incorporating bbghost’s idea:

https://streamable.com/hn6q21

Thoughts?

I like the idea, Sherlock. Where did you grab that landscape shot after the explosion from?

Jar Jar Bricks said:

I like it myself. I just know that for others they might not like the idea that Rey can hit a flying target like that so easily.

It’s cool that you hear the explosion of the trooper echo throughout the valley.

Just for my $0.02c on the Rey bullseye cut, my thinking was that Rey and Kylo by this film are already basically superheroes. She bullseyes that speeder in the air earlier, Poe calls her their “best fighter” but outside of Jedi duels you don’t get a huge sense of that. This little cut does a lot towards selling that, imo.

Heya! Would love a link to the V2 workprint, please. Also I love your work with the drawing of Ach-To in Rey’s home, would you be alright with me using that small shot with credit in my sequel trilogy edit?

Jar Jar Bricks said:

bbghost said:

Just quietly, I think this is one of my favorite small bits of editing I’ve done so far to this film:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fe-6n7XalPBHtDnJD7nDz9sG57ayMQYw/view?usp=sharing

I like it as well. But I can already hear the “Mary Sue” comments lol.

Oh yes, I can hear them now! Look, after 5 hours of film she’s either a badass space-superhero or she’s not, right?

Just quietly, I think this is one of my favorite small bits of editing I’ve done so far to this film:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fe-6n7XalPBHtDnJD7nDz9sG57ayMQYw/view?usp=sharing

Unsure whether this thread is allowed here, but I thought I’d try my luck given I’m searching for these to use in my own fan edit.

There is mention in this thread here of a composite between the 720p STARZ broadcast of the Falcon chase sequence in TFA and the blu-ray source that adywan put together: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Info-The-Force-Awakens-IMAX-Edition-Help-needed/id/51703

If anyone still has this, or any other version of the IMAX scene kicking around that they could send me, I’d enormously appreciate it!

Does anyone still have either the original files or adywan’s composition kicking around that they could PM me a link to, please?

amajoe said:

May I have a link too,
Thanks!

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Thanks so much! No luck on either the TFA or TLJ ones unfortunately, but this is a huge help 😃

Not sure if this is the right place for this request, but if anyone has the full FYC soundtrack for TFA, TLJ or TRoS lying around that they could link me I would be super appreciative!

Jar Jar Bricks said:

If Hal doesn’t implement this stuff I know I am. Just makes her character seem so much more lively:

https://youtu.be/0Q7eKs5dIHQ

This is just… chef’s kiss

Nice work

Hal 9000 said:

At least at a glance I don’t see anything wrong with that, bbghost!

Thanks! What I did audio-wise was just nab some of the Kijimi ambience from when Poe first arrives and is running around the streets, then swap it out for the dialogue during that big sweeping shot where it swaps between the two locations, seemed to work just fine.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Seems to work fine. Although I’m kinda confused right now. Are we trying to make it so that Rey’s parents never sold her? Because I feel like that is a larger retcon than selling her to protect her.

I get the sense we’re just trying to work around the specific line “they sold you to protect you” because it is quite possibly one of the worst lines of dialogue in the film lol.

Movies Remastered said:
Really nice job, it’s very similar to what I did bit I removed any reference that Kylo doesn’t know where she is. she’s holding the dragged, he should know exactly where she is after seeing that.

Thanks, man. That’s a really good point, too. You’d think that’d be a dead giveaway!