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ChainsawAsh said:

And all of that is relevant to Rekindled how exactly?

How much better Rekindled is than other edits

As cool and promising as this idea was, the end result of so many lightsabers in this particular scene at once is not an improvement over the original film. And of course he who shall not be named’s edit was just awful alone for its terrible voiceovers.

It’s not feasible at all to change those stupid weapons into lightsabers hence my cut a frog in half comment. That’s the biggest failure of TROS: the Knights of Ren were laaaaaaame. The only way to fix them short of refilming would be to add in some good dialogue so at least they sound menacing. In TROS they were basically stormtroopers in a different costume.

ChainsawAsh said:

Please keep the Finn/Rose shuttle scene. The pacing doesn’t work with that and the Phasma fight gone.

Very true. The shuttle scene is also great for Finn’s arc.

Wow this new targeting VFX shot is nice. It’s things like this that are really icing on the cake. For me I don’t care one way or the other about the Palpatine set ups but things like this really make me want to upgrade to the final release of V3. Thanks smpearce and poppasketti.

updated the crawl text:

The Knights of Ren have brutally executed every insurrectionist who dared speak the name Luke Skywalker. Yet whispers of the Jedi Master still echo through every system.

General Leia Organa, sensing a sinister force beyond the OUTER RIM, dispatches spies of THE RESISTANCE only to discover the First Order has acquired a powerful new weapon.

Meanwhile Supreme Leader KYLO REN has ordered the evacuation of the last garrisons from Han Solo’s home world, CORELLIA, spiraling it into civil war….

FreezingTNT2 said:

Is it possible to digitally remove the Knights of Ren entirely from The Force Awakens?

Hahahahahaha they were kind of useless weren’t they, armored spectating a-holes. What everyone wanted was to see them kick ass. A huge missed opportunity. Would it be better to digitally erase their clunky weapons and replace them with lightsabers? Then you could add a a new cut scene where a lightsaber at least slices a frog in half or something so one of them caused a death.

Lol. PM sent. The edit was made using Premiere. I recommend Final Cut Pro (FCPX) for beginners. It’s magnetic timeline is awesome. But I find it’s export/final rendering can be very buggy with audio so I use Premiere.

You can also use VLC player to recontainerize H264 from mkv to mp4 without transcoding. Hal’s audio should already be AC3.

ChainsawAsh I do normally work in Premiere using H264. Do you demux directly from BR to .264 or for that matter any non-mkv filetype, bypassing mkv entirely. If so what app do you use?

Also I’m finding some BR are encoded with VC1 and thus have to be transcoded to something else like H264/H265 to import into Premiere.

smpearce1981 said:

Re: the removal of the insignia ring:- For me personally, the ring was never something that bothered me one way or another.

The original scene with the ring worked fine even with the edit that completely removed the earlier broom boy scene. The context is very clear. In ESB I didn’t take one look at Yoda’s walking stick and think omg where the hell did that come from. Same with the ring. That said, the edit without the ring is pretty flawless, but I see your point that it lingers on his face too long now.

smpearce don’t let my cynicism discourage you, without suggestions we wouldn’t have great fanedits, so there’s the other side of the coin. Also I’d suggest ripping using makemkv or dvdfab in 2160p then if the video is in HEVC try lossless container conversion to mp4 using VLC media player. Otherwise do a HQ conversion in Handbreak in 2160p. You can easily work with 4K on a basic laptop in Premiere and Final Cut using proxy files.

FAN: Can you please just do me a favor and cut that annoying part out of a New Hope where Luke was being whiney.

FAN EDITOR: have u herd of imovie?

Simple editing of video is not too hard or godlike (yet amazing things can be accomplished with just this alone). Kudos to those who remove center channel audio smoothly. Double kudos to those who replace portions of the soundtrack. Triple kudos to those who add VFX using after effects (like poppasketti).

Easy solution to most everyone who wants a custom edit:

1. load the video file into Vegas/Final Cut/Premiere
2. use the slicer to make edits and move scenes around
3. crossfade the audio between the clips
4. export the project
5. watch it over and over until Rian Johnson comes out with his own trilogy

they are both well done but I vote for b) more subtle.

Axios, I think you’re missing the point here. Support in any way of the dirtbag who shall not be named puts us all at risk. You have a lot of ideas for your perfect version of TLJ but you’re not making your own edit. You can certainly like the dirtbag’s ideas without mentioning him. He lost any right to credit when he monetized his activities.

the first rule of fanedit club is: don’t fanedit a movie you will always hate

I won’t be starting with Mustafar or Exegol. Both beginnings suck.

Look the feeling of it being fast paced will not be fixed by deleted scenes.
The problem is they crammed so much into the film, the editing is really overly tight. Deleted scenes will not loosen it to great effect unless you can use deleted scenes for the first 10 minutes of the film. Eliminating the bad Mustafar montage is the starting point… there’s nothing that can be done with a montage so lets forget it exists and… move along now

If we are innovative we won’t need Disney’s deleted scenes to successfully fanedit TROS. My aim is to make an edit coming in at 2 hrs or more that fixes many many things, especially the pacing, the bad crawl, Rey’s backstory, too many reversals, no suspense. On that note does anyone have an Abobe template set up to do a legit redo of the crawl? I’m looking for a template that looks just like the REAL crawl with the text stretching across the ENTIRE screen, not the one that everyone uses from online that looks decent but not the same.

PM sent

Maybe have one of Tatooine’s suns go supernova symbolizing death of the dyad and then it burns the pretty flowers away. Then we go smoke some spice melange with Miles Teg.

I would like someone to create a fanedit combining The Rise of Skywalker with the Star Wars Christmas Special

Color Out of Space (Epic Cut) is a fanedit of the Nicolas Cage horror/sci-fi film based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. It’s like the movie Poltergeist meets The Shining.

The main highlights of this edit are (spoilers below):

• Slightly trimmed a few lines of opening narration
• Provided faster scene pacing so the first act isn’t boring and coma inducing (most of the edits are in the first half)
• Lavinia (the daughter) is more mysterious and doesn’t give her name to the stranger or have a contrived, unnecessary fight with her parents
• Tightened up the scenes so we don’t have to constantly linger on someone staring, walking, or literally nothing happening
• Added three time-bending flash-forwards during act 1 so we see brief glimpses of the insanity to come
• #1 Added a quick flash of a mutated alpaca’s eye to the dog staring at the alpacas scene
• #2 Added a quick flash of insane Nathan (Nic Cage) staring at the television as normal Nathan relaxes outside in a rocking chair
• #3 Added a quick flash of Nathan splattered with blood during the calm family dinner scene
• Removed bad and redundant dialogue, dumb things like Nathan chasing after the Mayor asking for a doctor
• Removed bad backstory such as the mayor trying to buy Nathan’s land and Ezra referred to as a squatter

Original length: 1h 50m. Edited length: 1h 41m.
RELEASED IN HD 1080 5.1 AAC

No over the top Nicolas Cage scenes were harmed during the making of this fanedit.

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