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#1492236
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Obi-Wan Kenobi Redux Ideas Thread
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My workprint is uploaded! DM me if you would like a link. I already know what I’m going to do for a workprint V2 before I try and smooth it into an actual edit; I’ll try and write up a changelog of sorts and then I’ll make a thread for it on its own.

Edit: I’m mostly done with my V2, lol. So, wait until I upload it tomorrow before watching the workprint.

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#1491927
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The Clone Wars: Refocused [COMPLETE] + Subtitles for season one!
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I’ve caught up on this thread now, and I’m so excited to watch your Mortis episode. It’s my favourite episode of TCW, and it honestly sounds like you’ve significantly improved it! I’ve been holding off watching TCWR until it was all completed and I had time to watch it, but maybe now is the time to start slowly watching through them. I’m pretty excited.

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#1491920
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Obi-Wan Kenobi Redux Ideas Thread
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And, done. I’ll upload it later today. The whole thing ends up sitting just under the 2hr mark before credits.

In terms of cutting content, it’s easy to trim a lot of conversations because they’re just repeating things we heard in the previous episode to remind the viewer. For example, Ep5 ends with Reva telling Vader about the tracking device at Fortress Inquisitorius, then Ep6 starts with Reva telling Vader about the tracking device on a star destroyer. When you edit it into a movie, these scenes are almost back to back, so you just pick one and cut the other. There’s a lot of instances like this.

When I got towards the end of Ep5, I was actually worried that there wasn’t going to be two hours worth of content in it, even having left a lot of breathing room in there; I wasn’t as judicious with what I cut from Ep6 as a result, so, you could definitely cut it shorter if you really wanted to. My original goal was just to make it as short as possible while still being coherent as a resource to other editors, but as I went on I couldn’t resist recutting some individual scenes and lines, so, I guess it’s Kenobi The Faraday Cut now.

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#1491556
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Obi-Wan Kenobi Redux Ideas Thread
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I had an unexpected bit of time drop into my lap, so I’ve started editing the show down to its bare bones to see just how much of the guts can be ripped out while still leaving the good stuff, with the idea being to make it one singular movie. I’m not making any kind of thematic judgment on it, just pure nuts and bolts narrative. I’ve currently got the first three episodes down to an hour, and I’ll tackle the remaining three tomorrow.

My intention was for this to be more of a resource for other edits than an actual fanedit in its own right, but I’m kind of digging the end product so far, so we’ll see how it goes. If I finish the whole thing tomorrow I’ll upload it, otherwise I’ll upload the first half with the second half to come later.

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#1491298
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Obi-Wan Kenobi Redux Ideas Thread
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In terms of paring things down to their minimum to let the better moments shine: there’s an old axiom in screenwriting that says you should introduce characters already as far into their own story as possible (while still remaining immediately comprehensible). With that in mind, what’s the best introduction for each of the main characters that cuts the most of their initial screentime?

I’m specifically thinking about:

  • Reva and the other Inquisitors
  • Leia, Bail (as much as it pains me to cut Jimmy Smits content), everything with Alderaan generally
  • All of the different Rebel spy people
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#1491295
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The Last Jedi: Stoic Edition (WIP)
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I’ve had a little bit of time unexpectedly drop into my lap, so I’ve played around with the “BB-8 warns Finn and Rose about the shuttle being impounded” moment. I’ve given the line to Finn, and I think it’s 90% working now! I’ve got great clean audio of him saying “ship” in the right intonation, and I have a “the” which flows fluidly into it, but the atmos on the “the” is slightly jarring in the transition. So, I’m going to have a hunt for any other "the"s that could work, and other than that it’s just smoothing the actual cuts over that moment. It’s really coming together!

After this, literally all that is left is getting the opening crawl rendered, and that damn VFX shot of the red plomme bloom on DJ’s jacket. I have a few ideas about that but they all require outside help.

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#1491285
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OLD BEN: An Obi-Wan Kenobi Fan Edit [ABANDONED]
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Your ROTS cut is still one of the best I’ve seen, so I’m also very excited to see you back in the editor’s chair. Having a specific goal in mind with OWK makes a nice change from a general “make it better” blanket statement, and it’s what makes the NCC (I always liked that name!) stand above so many other ROTS fanedits, even other good ones.

Edit: I just watched your opening sequence. Holy shit. That has me more excited and feeling more emotional than, well, the entirety of the actual show did.

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#1487275
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The Last Jedi: Stoic Edition (WIP)
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Updates:

  • Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
  • My friend who is working on a potential VFX solution to the “DJ with plomme bloom” thing has let me know that he finishes his university exams soon, so he’ll be able to actually give it a proper go for me.
  • I haven’t dropped any of my edits, I just have even less time these days. I lurk when I can, but current Busy Life Shit even makes that problematic. But, I think about this place often, and I’m keen to be more active again when life lets me, probably next year.
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#1483343
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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ZaneFlare92 said:

I know it’s a little late in the game but If I had one thing I wish I’d address to suggest that always bugs me it’s Rey’s “Ugh” at the start and I find it so cringe. To me it something a petty girl in High School would do. Weird nit pic I know but I just feel something like that doesn’t belong in SW. I feel a cut to when she say’s “They’re not with me.” and then the shot where she just force roll fall after would work pretty good. I just wanted to see what other would think.

This bugs me too, but I think the shot continually tracks inwards IIRC. If it’s two separate shots, it would be simple to edit out yourself.

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#1483152
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Yeah, Luke has never fit the traditional masculine hero mold; it’s why it’s so funny/jarring when EU material tried to write him like he was. It’s also interesting that a character who’s pretty subversive of the traditional hero archetype has become the poster child for the archetypical hero - heck, a picture of his face is used as the front cover of The Hero With A Thousand Faces in most printings post-SW.

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#1482133
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The Rise of Skywalker Expanded Edition by Rae Carson: The Faraday Edit (WIP)
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Here’s another general update for all of my projects. I’m currently busy with Life Stuff - there’s a lot going on at work this year, plus I now have a two-year-old smashing up the place at home again - but I’ll get back to these at some point, they occupy my thoughts and my enthusiasm is still strong.

  • Godzilla: Final Wars. Is completed! Check my post signature.
  • TLJ: Stoic Edition. Two things left to do; a VFX shot of the plomme bloom on DJ’s jacket, and that single damn line that the whole Canto Bight restructure necessitates. I want to try giving it to Finn instead of Rose and see where that gets me, when I have time.
  • This project, the novelisation. I’m actually pretty okay with TROS:A nowadays, but I hate leaving a project half finished. Plus I love copyediting and writing.
  • Rogue One edit. Depends on whether I can seamlessly excise the R1 team from Krennic’s Eadu scene; there’s two parts I can’t figure out how to cut around because key visual information is presented through their binoculars or with them in the foreground.
  • Star Wars II. Eventually!
  • The TLJ Pokémon thing. Someday! I can’t stop thinking about this one.
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#1480747
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The Rise of Skywalker Expanded Edition by Rae Carson: The Faraday Edit (WIP)
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Thanks for the kind words, everyone! As Eyepainter said, it’s just a lot of real life stuff happening right now, which leaves me with not much time (and no energy) for my hobbies. Plus, my main time for editing used to be in my downtime at work, but I’ve since started learning new software for work with a high difficulty curve, and that’s meant I haven’t had any time or headspace to crack open Premiere Pro for a while.

My current priorities with fanediting are finishing TLJ Stoic Edition, and this novelisation, in that order. As time goes on, the more okay I am with how Hal’s Ascendant handles TROS, but I love writing and hate leaving projects unfinished, so I still intend to finish the novel fanedit.

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#1476165
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Worst Edit Ideas
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Eyepainter said:

Digitally turn the entire wampa sequence from ESB into it’s own coca-cola commercial. Start by making the wampa the coca-cola polar bear. And instead of Luke and his tauntaun being attacked, the bear gives them both a cola. Luke and the bear go to a cave. Luke plays a game with the bear while hanging upside down. Finally, instead of Luke slicing the bear’s arm, Luke uses the force to give the bear his own cola. They wave a nice, friendly goodbye to each other, and the scene continues.

Instead of snowspeeders, edit in the Coca-Cola Christmas truck driving up to rescue Luke and Han.