A saga-wide edit where all instances of and references to clones, the Clone Wars, etc. are changed to clowns. E.G.:

Episode II: Attack of the Clowns

“General Kenobi, years ago, you served my father in the Clown Wars.”

All clown trooper helmets are suitably painted and fitted with rubber noses. Whenever they file out of a ship, the shot is looped beyond all reason as dozens more than could conceivably fit scramble out, before the ship itself falls apart. Laser battles become pie fights. Variations on “Entrance of the Gladiators” are worked into the score.

I’ve only watched RotS a handful of times, but I recall thinking it was the prequel which was least in need of a fanedit. That said, I did thoroughly enjoy your LoE version and nothing jumped out at me as truncated or out-of-place. Having just listened to your commentary, it turns out a lot of the moments I enjoyed in LoE were deleted scenes you reinstated. Specifically, I like the “seeds of Rebellion” scenes, and how they dovetail with Rogue One and Andor.

I believe this is pretty much standard practice for RotS edits, but it’s still nice to see Padmé surviving too.

EDIT: I know a lot of people round here aren’t exactly keen on Disney-era Star Wars, and I don’t love it all myself; I hope you aren’t offended that I enjoy your edits and some Disney SW.

I’ve only watched AotC a handful of times, because each time has put me off wanting to watch it again any time soon. I therefore don’t know much of it by heart.

I watched your TAS version last night and mostly couldn’t even tell where it had been changed, aside from a constant feeling that the film is now a lot better than I remembered.

There was a single Ani/Padme scene which felt like it ended abruptly, probably the one already discussed above. Otherwise, it was seamless, and I certainly did not feel like I was missing about 25 minutes! I was very surprised to see that when I checked out IFDB afterwards.

Thanks, and I’m looking forward to LoE.

Bingowings said:

When Jengo Fett jets into the arena to face Mace the Clones descend all turn and say “Dad?” When Mace decapitates him the Clones start crying and all turn on him. Mace Windu spends hours decapitating all of them.

While Boba is sadly holding the helmet, Jango’s head slides out and hits the ground with a wet squelch.

Hal 9000 said:

The subtitles for the prequels (episodes I and II) are as close a match to the theatrical subtitles as I could manage. Do you know whether the theatrical version used apostrophes like that?

Unless that’s the case, I don’t want to change the subtitles given that they’re meant to emulate the theatrical. (Plus I’ve already laid down the absolute final reissue of my episode II edit and it’d conflict with it.)

I can’t find an English-language theatrical rip of TPM with seeders, but I just skimmed through one of AotC and that uses straight apostrophes like you have. It seems most likely the other two prequels would do likewise.

Between that, the reasons you’ve given above, and the fact that I seem to have been the first person bothered by this in all the years people have been enjoying your edits, please consider the request withdrawn.

All the best 😃

This might be a ridiculously minor quibble, but would it be possible for the burnt-in alien subtitles (and perhaps the optional closed-caption subtitles too) in future versions to use the curly/smart/typographic apostrophes instead of the straight/dumb/typewriter version?

That is to say

’

instead of

'

This would look better and match the subtitles in the OOT. Whether you can accommodate this or not, thanks for your edits.

Retitle TROS to simply Star Wars, label everything else as The Prequel Saga.

Hal 9000 said:

Replace every instance of the Wilhelm scream with the one Ben Burtt does when he’s knocked into the shield generator in ROTJ.

Not just in Star Wars films, every instance

Eyepainter said:

boffy said:

Eyepainter said:

Create a gangsta version of the saga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij4w7ChpuaM

I said gangsta, nor gangsta rap.

Gotcha, so you mean this then?
https://youtu.be/fmm9_lBEnOk

(On a serious note, I love whoever behind the scenes at Disney decided to use Lapti Nek instead of Jedi Rocks there)

https://vimeo.com/738944956

Here is preview version 2, changes include:

• Used Althor1138’s FIJI Image Registration Macro and DrDre’s Color Matching Tool to better integrate different sources in the Greedo and Jabba scenes

• Turned down the excessive grain on one shot in the Greedo scene

• Dialled back the automatic dirt repair in the Jabba scene from “comically overdone” to “slightly overdone”

• Processed on-set dialogue throughout to improve clarity. Primarily, I used UVR or Spleeter to reduce the level of other on-set sounds.

• Fixed an audio glitch which snuck into the Vimeo version of preview 1

• Trimmed scenes where I felt I was waiting for the dialogue

  • Several seconds between the two parts of the Tantive IV scene
  • About 40 seconds of aliens in the cantina. I love them, but they’re not what we’re here for.
  • Some of the actual duelling in the lightsaber duel

• Corrected various subtitle/closed caption errors

• Corrected Dr. Evazan’s name in the credits (thanks LexX)

• Processed text in the ALTA card and end credits to look a bit less digital and a bit more optical. This is honestly one of my favourite things about the video. That look of optically-printed titles is something I’ve long enjoyed in various preservations of the OT, and I’ve wanted an excuse to try to replicate it.

I’m calling this version preview 2 for now, but I think it might be finished. That is, unless anyone can see/hear any remaining issues, or if there are any sources of on-set British voices which I’ve missed?

EDIT: Well it’s been a week with no further issues spotted by me or anyone else, so I’m calling this finished, at least for now.

I’ve also got it up on YouTube, after a fashion. If I upload it as one video, various sections are content-matched as containing Star Wars, and the whole video is blocked worldwide. However, uploading any of the offending sections on their own still matches, but just prevents me from monetising the video, which I wasn’t planning to do anyway. If you see any ads on it, that money is going to Disney/Fox, not me.

I guess the overall video length, or the length of the matched content, is a factor in YT’s content match algorithm? I believe that legally this is a transformative work, so falls under fair use, but I doubt I’d be able to get YouTube’s flawless and logical copyright bots to understand this.

So, I’ve uploaded each scene to YT as its own video, and put them together into a playlist. This loses the Lucas-style scene transitions, but hopefully means more people will see it.

I’m vaguely aware from what actual YouTubers have mentioned in videos that YT tends to promote videos more if there’s a regular release schedule. To try to get it seen, I’ve set the parts to go live weekly, starting today.

Here’s the playlist, the last part should be live on 30th September: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvppJzt15w9Jrw3b9cuf34E2Pged9-Y_L

Eyepainter said:

Create a gangsta version of the saga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij4w7ChpuaM

Obi-Wan’s force ghost at the end of ROTJ is replaced with Ewan McGregor, from Trainspotting, when he’s fully nude.

Every piece of diegetic music is interrupted by J.J. Abrams’ Lonely Island keyboard solo.

https://youtu.be/el_IUxrPiFw

This is also used to bridge Lapti Nek and Jedi Rocks, allowing both to be used to keep everyone happy.

Ice said:

Where is that Wedge voice from? Is it the original audio?

Yes, it’s Denis Lawson’s original performance. I found it in Bobson Dugnutt’s SW: Leftovers video.

The first post in that project’s thread (linked above) gives a list of sources used, though I’m not sure which one that particular clip came from.

Lawson is actually Scottish, so he was putting on that English accent for the role, only to be dubbed by American actor David Ankrum anyway.

I believe Lawson has since voiced Wedge himself a few times, putting on a US accent for those performances.

This is a very silly project which I’ve been meaning to do since I first saw the “lost cut” version of the cantina scene in Deleted Magic, then again since the 2011 blu-rays had this in better quality. Finally, I just stumbled upon Bobson Dugnutt’s Star Wars: Leftovers which collected together all of the source audio I could want for this into one handy package, so I no longer had any excuse not to do it.

Here is the on-set audio of British actors edited back into scenes from the film, replacing the American or alien voices they were dubbed over with. The dialogue isn’t always exactly the same, as a lot was re-written between principal photography and ADR. I’ve taken some creative liberties to focus the scenes on the lines in question and to include as much as possible.

Here is a preview version of the video. Any creative or technical feedback would be appreciated. In particular, I’m not sure if it’d work better as separate videos for each scene, or one 9-minute video as presented here. I do love the totally inappropriate transition into the cantina scene.

The video is primarily D+77, and the audio is based on the mono mix. Other sources are:

• hairy_hen’s isolated score
• 4K97_IV V2 (Jabba scene)
• Flunk DTV broadcast of the 97SE (to patch out the burnt-in subs in that scene)
• Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara (audio of Declan Mulholland screaming)
• Adywan’s regraded 2011SE (textless Greedo scene)
• JW Rinzler’s Making of SW ebook bonus videos (one shot in the Greedo scene - I know this was in BD’s Leftovers, but it was more effective to upscale it directly from the low-res source)
• Bobson Dugnutt’s capture of The Sounds of Star Wars (various sound effects)
• DMC’s archive of the old StarWars.com soundboard (other SFX)
• Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (more SFX, extracted by iteachvader at vg-resource.com)

I tried uploading the preview to YouTube, but it was blocked as containing the SW SE. Does anyone here have experience uploading any SW content to YT while complying with their rules and jumping through their hoops? Legally, I’m pretty confident this is a “transformative work”, as no-one is going to be watching this selection of footage with different voices instead of watching some version of the actual film. I’m downloading a version of 4K77 to see if swapping in that as the video source makes a difference.

EDIT: The video is now on Vimeo. This version was previously called “preview 2”, but I think it’s finished now: https://vimeo.com/738944956
Change list below

Preview v1: https://vimeo.com/730729177

alloneword said:

Never knew about this. Great find!

Thanks 😀

I suppose this can be preserved by re-insterting it into the 2002 Pan and Scan DVD, which also has “When Love is Gone”.

I would presume so, but I don’t know if there were any other little changes. I suppose I could easily do that at least as a stopgap.

I’m no expert, but it’s my understanding that these syndicated TV edits of films would usually add a lot of cut material to pad the running time to neatly fill a broadcast timeslot.

VintageMan94 said:

And On a VHS Release too?

Which song do you mean?

WLIG was also on many (all?) pre-DVD home video releases. Of course, there is now an HD version of WLIG from the digital release’s extras which has even been fan-edited back into the film very nicely.

As for the extended Marley song, I believe its visuals are unique to the old TV version, though I’d love to be wrong about this.

There’s a video here on YouTube of a longer version of the song “Marley & Marley” from The Muppet Christmas Carol. It contains the extra intro and final verse heard on the soundtrack CD.

youtu.be/WnZVY-ZdTHs

From the description and comments, it seems this was the version broadcast on TV before High Def.

Does anyone remember this version of the film? Were there any other extra or alternate bits?

It’s a long shot, but does anyone have any full recording of this syndicated edit, or a higher-quality video of the extended Marley song?

😄 Well, old enough that I’m surprised the discs I downloaded them onto are still readable. Old enough that they’re DivX-encoded AVIs.

The continuity etc. is legitimately vintage (circa 1980s at a glance).

While tidying, I found a few bits of old British TV which I don’t think are commercially available on some old DVD-Rs. Anyone interested?

Heroes Unmasked episodes 1-12
BBC’s behind-the-scenes documentary series about NBC’s Heroes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_Unmasked

Interview with a couple of Heroes actors on BBC Breakfast News in 2007.

Green Wing - Comic Relief special 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Wing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Relief
Special mini-episode of the sitcom Green Wing which aired as part of the Red Nose Day/Comic Relief telethon in 2005

2 episodes of the original Crystal Maze game show from the 1990s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Maze

Assorted old British continuity/idents/station breaks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_(broadcasting)

My wife and I just finished Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, and I was pleasantly surprised to hear RotJ end with Ewok Celebration/Yub Nub rather than the SE’s Victory Celebration.

I wonder if TT had to fight for that or if Lucasfilm just didn’t notice.

tonik2000 said:

boffy said:

Nicely done, I can’t see the join. Is that AviSynth’s AutoOverlay?

Yes, it is. Use it too?

I tinkered with it for one shot of my Freddie Mercury video, but couldn’t get it looking as good as you’ve done so ended up just aligning it manually in Resolve. My two source videos were rather different from each other in exposure, colouring, noise/grain, etc…

Nicely done, I can’t see the join. Is that AviSynth’s AutoOverlay?

SpacemanDoug said:

Can you do the same thing with I’m Still Standing by Elton John?

The HD remastered version had 4 very small differences compared to the original.

Possibly, it depends what the changes are and what sources you have for the different versions.

SkinnyV said:

Good job! Thanks!

And thank you 😃

Long-time lurker, first time contributor. Most of Freddie Mercury’s solo videos have been officially remastered in HD from the original film footage. These HD versions were released in 2019 in the Never Boring box set, on YouTube, and iTunes.

However, there were some editing changes. I’ve tried to fix these in the video for I Was Born To Love You, to create a version in HD which is closer to the 1985 original.

Here is a beta version of my preservation on YouTube. Constructive feedback is welcomed. Also, can anyone think of a snappier title than “Authentic Edition”?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbO1kkFfn1s

Here are some screenshots for comparison:

This shot runs backwards on the Blu-ray. I reversed to put it right.

This one cuts off early on all the HD versions. I transition seamlessly to an upscale partway through to restore the missing end.

Re-created a slight zoom-in which was missing on all HD versions.

This shot starts a lot later on the Blu-ray. Restored using the complete shot from the iTunes version.

I can’t properly re-create this overlay effect without access to the separate elements, but I’ve fudged it to look closer to the original.

A few shots of Freddie with dancers up on a podium were very magenta in all the remastered versions. I’ve done my best to bring these closer to the original, and to be consistent with other shots in the remaster.

This shot is rather more saturated in the remaster. I haven’t changed it, as it ends in a crossfade…

…but I have de-magenta’d this one to at least be consistent.

Another colour grading tweak

You’re absolutely right of course. I was only listening to the line in question and didn’t think about the others around it.