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#1535121
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STAR WARS - A New Hope [Modernized] [Prequel-OT Bridge]
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This is great news that this project is revived along with your reinvigorated passion for Star Wars. In light of this edit meant to be as a prequel bridge, will there be any changes in that regard?

I have some suggestions that may or may not assist.

Some minor ideas:

  • Remove the Kenobi line about not owning a droid.
  • Remove the word “ancient” in the line to Vader about him practicing an “ancient” religion.
  • Remove the hints of incest romance between Luke and Leia:
    .Remove Luke referring to Leia as beautiful when he sees her hologram.
    . Possibly remove her kiss on his cheek in the Death Star.
    . Remove Luke asking Han about what he thinks of Leia.

Other ideas:

  • Some edits remove 3P0’s reference to a “princess” when stating there is no escape.
  • For better pacing, remove the cheesy situation where 3P0 and R2 magically dodge the blasters.
  • Remove the cheesy shot of Chewbacca growling at the mouse droid. This also helps with pacing.

Vader:

To boost Vader’s character in the movie, I liked an idea G&Gfan will be incorporating into his own edit. He plans to remove any suggestion of Vader’s inferiority to Tarkin. I believe the first moment is when Tarkin orders Vader to stop the force choke. The next instance would be Leia’s insult when she says Tarkin is holding Vader’s leash.

The editor G&GFan plans to add a new scene with Vader and Sidious discussing the death of Kenobi, but as of now I do not know how that looks like or if it really fits into the movie.

One way or another, I appreciate the hard work you and other editors put into this. Great work is being done here.

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#1531631
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Star Wars Saga Fan Edit: Prequels Simple Edition & Original Trilogy Prequel Edition
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Welcome to this community.

There is a lot of interesting edits here. I do have some brief comments:

Episode 1 -

  1. In the Greedo scene, I recommend cutting out the portion with subtitles where the name Greedo is mentioned. That solves the problem of shrinking the universe. I also like it included because it gives us an early look at Anakin’s dark side.

  2. It May not be much, but the Bobson Dugnutt expanded edition has a few extra seconds of the duel with Maul that you may consider adding in.

Episode 4 -

I like incorporating the Morrison voice and deleted Biggs scene.

Episode 5 -

Halo9000 used the Battlefront Morrison voice in his ESB edit. You could take a look at it to prevent duplicate efforts.

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#1530331
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(The Mandalorian+BoBF) The Way of Mandalore | A Legends Movie Saga (Final Update in Progress: 5/6 Done)
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I would like a link to Book 1 when you have the opportunity.

I am also just speculating, but the content of Books 6 and 7 are to be determined based upon the current season, correct?

I do also note some of the current season will be incorporated into Book 5 unless I misread your prior posts.

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#1529278
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Andor EP2: The Reckoning 4K [RELEASED]
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I agree with WitchDR that the last picture appears as the best for what you are trying to accomplish the Reckoning title.

In between the first 2, I personally like the first one better. I like Andor looking away by himself in a confined space. It comes across as ominous with a sense of hopelessness to me. That image would be better suited if you were looking for a sense of dread.

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#1527902
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Making the Obi-Wan & Anakin training session (From the Kenobi series) work in an AOTC edit.
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Jar Jar Bricks said:

I think Obi-Wan being harsh to Anakin is good set up for Anakin’s whiny behavior about him throughout the movie, actually. But that is mostly edited out in an edit such as Hal’s. So your version would work best in an edit that follows his approach, for sure.

Does anybody have any plans on incorporating this in an edit? I know Bobson expressed interest in creating an AOTC ultra-extended edition (can’t wait for that!).

The user Phase3 is planning to incorporate it into his ‘streamlined’ edit. He has mentioned on the fanedit forums that he was almost done with the edit. He is more active there.

I also agree that removing Kenobi’s excess hostility fits in better with most edits of the movie as well.

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#1527867
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Smudger9's Andor Movie Series [EP1 &amp; EP2 Released: 4K; 5.1 Audio] <strong>[EP3 &amp; EP4 WIP]</strong>
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I almost forgot to leave a review of this.

While the other Andor edits vastly improve an already good show, I feel this one was as close to perfection as you can get.

The editor effectively and smoothly cut out everything I felt that really dragged the show down. More specifically, this comprised of cutting out nearly all the petty family squabbles. From the removal of Cyril’s mother, Senator Mothma’s bickering with her daughter and husband, and the removal of the [forgot name] imperial officer acting aggressively towards his son on Aldhani - these were all necessary to have the show move at a faster pace and also treat these characters with more respect. The family feuds diminished their characters and felt out of place for a Star Wars show as opposed to a soap opera.

My favorite part of this edit was the climactic ending. Closing with the meteor shower followed by the exhange between Lutyens and Mothma about whether he went too far was a really nice touch.

I am looking forward to episode 2 whenever it is released.

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#1523893
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Smudger9's Andor Movie Series [EP1 &amp; EP2 Released: 4K; 5.1 Audio] <strong>[EP3 &amp; EP4 WIP]</strong>
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I hope someone with more technical expertise than me can offer some tips.

I am having issues playing the 4k file on my Hisense TV. The file plays perfectly on my phone using VLC player on a Galaxy S20+.

On my TV, through a flash drive, I tried various media players on the Google/Android TV including VLC, MX, kodi, and a few others. I played around with the codec setting on each. I even tried using the TV’s USB player directly.

For each method used, either the audio kept cutting out and/or the framerate was very shaky. I suspect my TV is not compatible, and would have to stick the 1080 MP4 file that is also a bit larger, but still a reasonable size.

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#1523631
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Andor EP2: The Reckoning 4K [RELEASED]
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I am not 100% sure what exactly you would be looking for, but I believe there are some images in the links below that occur during the prison break and after. I hope there is something here that is helpful.

I apologize in advance if there is an excess of links below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/comments/1054l90/andor_concept_arts/

https://www.starwars.com/andor-concept-art-gallery?

https://collider.com/andor-concept-art-diego-luna/

https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/vw7jsx/cassian_andor_concept_art_midjourney/

https://conceptartworld.tumblr.com/post/700130742302294016/star-wars-andor-e-poster-by-illustrator-hugh

https://thefutureoftheforce.com/2022/11/16/the-star-wars-andor-concept-artwork-reveals-a-fresh-look-at-the-rebellion/

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#1523238
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Community Focus Thread 1: The Phantom Menace
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StarkillerAG: That opening crawl is very good. I think you could also try to incorporate a very brief reference to Sidious using or manipulating the Trade Federation for his own secretive plans.

In some shape or form, this movie needs to address the motivation by Sidious and what he was trying to accomplish with the forced treaty. I always wonder if that could be accomplished without the heavy use of subtitles modifying the dialogue.

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#1522648
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Deepfake Ideas - Index and Discussion
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NeverarGreat said:

I just stumbled upon this and was blown away. It uses this AI to create remarkably clear dialogue, and based on the spot-on pronunciation of the made-up words in that sample as well as some words which were clearly misread, this example was made by speaking the words to the AI and having the AI tune the voice to a specific character. If this is true, then it is a vast improvement over the FakeYou AI which failed to make the cut in my edit.

So what do you think? I’m thinking about a few choice discussions in the OT and how they could be transformed with a few edits from this AI.

I saw the demo they had on YouTube with Leonardo Dicaprio with the voices of various other famous people. It seemed okay, but someone needs to test this out instead of relying upon their very limited samples they provide.

In general, mimicking a human voice will be far more difficult than deepfaking an appearance considering the uniqueness of every voice. I am skeptical, but I hope this shows promise [and will only be used ethically].