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Forgive my ignorance, but I remember reading somewhere, maybe it was reddit I can’t remember exactly, that Bobson and Numeral are the same person?

No, they are not the same person.

potty meister said:

This is such an excellent edit. Very well done. Maybe it’s just me but I felt like battle of the heroes portions are of a slightly lesser quality than everything else. It just doesn’t look as sharp. Anyone else see this?

Thanks for the feedback! The Battle of Heroes was 4k but also was downloaded from youtube, so the typical youtube compression would be a factor. Also, as Bored at 3AM mentioned, I had to add a film grain to try to match the Clone Wars grain (battle of heroes had none), so it would make sense if they did look slightly different. But, that being said, I have watched this multiple times on my 75" TV and it looks great to me. I love constructive criticism, it helps make my (and our) edits better, but on this one, I don’t really see it.

Thanks @Bored at 3AM and @sgscobie, I appreciate the kind words!

Bored at 3AM, I got more requests for this edit from your post the other day than I did on my post on Reddit, so many that I decided to make a thread here on ot.com for it.

My version of the final arc of Star Wars: The Clone Wars as a movie. Yes, I know this has been done many times. You may know it as The Siege of Mandalore, as most people call it. But my edit is different, slightly different than some, a lot different than some others (I have never actually watched any others, I’m basing this statement off the change lists). Many edits try to make it into a traditional Star Wars movie, with the opening crawl, and end credits and whatnot. Well, this is not a traditional Star Wars movie, it is The Clone Wars, it’s different. I made my own style crawl (more of a scroll), with the red Clone Wars logo and red text scroll. Different than traditional but inspired by. And the title, Siege of Mandalore, the siege of Mandalore is only half the movie, so I don’t think that is appropriate. The theme of the entire movie is the end of the war, order 66, Anakin’s fall, basically Revenge of the Sith from a different point of view. So, I went with Shattered Prophecy, partially inspired by one of the episode titles (Shattered). And the prophecy of the chosen one, Anakin and his fall to the Dark Side. Any who, let’s get to the change list.

-Opens with The Clone Wars movie style Lucasfilm logo.

-Then an edited version of Ahsoka’s training lesson from Tales of the Jedi: Practice Makes Perfect.

-Into the red Clone Wars logo and crawl. The crawl is the narration from the first episode of this arc, Old Friends not Forgotten. The last paragraph is altered to reflect the following scene.

-Added the Anakin and Padme conversation from the episode “A Distant Echo”. I zoomed in and cropped out Padme’s pregnant belly. At this point, Anakin should not know that she is pregnant.

-From here, the episodes pretty much fall right in regular order for a while, other than being edited together. Until…

-At about the 1:22:42 mark I edited in some of the Battle of the Heroes animation done by Hello There Productions. If you don’t know what this is, it is Obi-Wan and Anakin’s duel, done in the clone wars style animation.

-The movie goes back and forth between this and the regular for a bit. At the end of this it is made to feel as if Ahsoka felt what happened to Anakin.

-Added a light film grain to the Battle of Heroes to help it match the other animation.

-Then, after the rise of Vader in his suit, we transition to Padme’s funeral from Tales of the Jedi: Resolve.

-Then the movie ends with Vader at the graves of the Clones.

Runtime is 1:52.

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I did this in my movie edit “Shattered Prophecy”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/s/hx8cDC48kU

wcaniell said:

Send me a Google Drive folder link to “The Acolyte”.

I don’t think they’re going to send you a link.

There is a very good version in “The Final Cut” edits by David Kaylor. I incorporated this into my series edit, with his permission.
https://vimeo.com/1052082076?share=copy

That guy with no name said:

Would it work better if they fired instead of just idly chasing them? Staying on the first shot of them aiming might work. As for the forcefields, I can add those to the adjacent shots.

Take a look https://drive.google.com/file/d/10YiH35qRMpFJezj0pYQcUfo1btHBgj7T/view?usp=drive_link

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Well, you already mirrored the shot of them going into the vent. Why not mirror the shot of Qui-Gon? Or mirror Obi-Wan’s shot and leave them going into the vent the same?

A couple different ways to play it.

Yeah, I thought of that, tried that, but mirroring Obi-Wan puts his braid on the wrong side and mirroring Qui-Gon makes the circle he’s cutting in the door backwards.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

I like it, but it does seem to move just a bit too quickly. What would it look like with Qui-Gon’s shot added back in? Or, at least a portion of it?

Here it is with Qui-Gon added back in.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WeYilZ9jDaNj1078P6xXRTa7zllELkia/view?usp=drive_link
I don’t think it works as well because Obi-Wan moves to the right, then Qui-Gon moves to the left, then they are together going into the vent. The other way, the way I had it before, Obi-Wan sees the destroyers and flees to the right, then they go to the vent on the right, all in in one movement.

That guy with no name said

OMG that’s perfect. only thing that’ll make it better is to change the end of the hallway to match the other end of the hall, which i can try to do. thanks for this!!!

Thanks! Yeah, it happens so fast I wasn’t too worried about the hallway looking a little different, but if you can fix that, it will truly be perfect.

Inspired by JeromeTheEditor, I thought I’d give this a shot too.
Here is my version of the speed force run removed. Pretty simple edit, I removed Qui-Gon moving to a defensive position after Obi-Wan sees the destroyers, so it appears they are fleeing all along. And Obi-Wan moves to the right, so I mirrored the shot of them going into the ventilation shaft so that it is also to the right.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nylP49-Jr89pEcVgrFZuMmUvhO8kztpg/view?usp=drive_link

My edit does this. https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Mandalorian-Baileys-Version/id/115909

I think your movie idea here is a good one. But, it might be cool to do both. Hear me out. My thinking here is, edit it as a series to fit in with the rest of your series, but also do your movie edit. For the series, keep the full screen and same style opening and text as the rest of your series. For your movie, do the cropping, film grain, a more traditional style opening crawl. And in this crawl, recap the entire series (as best as can be done in a single crawl), so the movie can be watched as a standalone. Rebels is great and a lot of people won’t give it a chance because of the animation style and the commitment it would require to watch it all. A single standalone movie, that is more cinematic, may attract more viewers and they may be persuaded to go back and start at the beginning and watch the entire series. Just a thought.

I was looking for an edit of Secret Invasion to mix in with my Marvel rewatches, and there just aren’t many out there, surprisingly. Is it so terrible that it’s not even worth the trouble? Maybe, some probably think so, but I don’t think I do. It’s not good, but there is some good in there, buried under the bad. So, since I couldn’t find a good edit to watch, I thought I’d give it a shot myself. So here it is, Secret Invasion: The Movie Cut. And believe it or not, I think I may have made this into a pretty good movie.

This show had many issues, but my biggest gripe was the terrible big CGI fight scene at the end, so that is gone. And Super Skrulls are gone too. I also didn’t much care for the Fury/Priscilla relationship, so she is gone as well… completely.

The good? Good performances by Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Don Cheadle and especially Olivia Colman. A good villain (up until the big CGI fight). Good Fury and Talos chemistry. The back and forth between Fury and Rhodey. The ambush on the president. And Sonya, I hope we see more of her.

Spoilers?! I’m not going to spoiler tag this, because it has been out for a year, but if you want to go in to the edit with some surprise, stop reading now and DM for link.

-The high level, main changes in this edit are:
• No Fury promise. It is mentioned once, but that is referencing the Captain Marvel movie, not this movie/show.
• No Priscilla/Varra at all
• No mention of Super Skrulls
• Gravik does not have powers. They are working on the machine, but it is not complete.
• No Harvest, it exists in theory, but who has it? Who knows.
• G’iah gives herself Extremis powers only. If she shows up in later movies with powers, it is implied that she got more powers than she intended or knew about at the time.
• Gravik is killed by Beto, who is working for Fury and Talos.
• No “G’iah is Fury” twist.
• No bad CGI fight scene.
More detailed changes, these are broken up by the original episodes.
-Episode 1:
• This episode had the fewest changes. I actually like this episode. It’s pretty good, maybe not great, but pretty good, so the changes to it are mostly for time.
• Removed the “present day” from the opening Moscow title card. This entire movie takes place in present day.
• The long, weird, slow opening title sequence was shortened from 2:06 (which felt like 5) to about 43 seconds.
• The cutaway to Rhodey and President Ritson was removed. I think this scene was there just to establish Rhodey in the first episode, it is otherwise pointless.
• Removed the scene of Fury and Maria Hill in the bar.
-Episode 2:
• Removed the opening scenes from Captain Marvel, 1995.
• Removed the flashback to 1997, the “promise”.
• Removed the scene on the train with Fury and Talos.
• Removed Maria’s body arriving in London and the scenes with her mom and Fury.
• In Gravik’s meeting with the council, removed all mention of Fury’s promise.
• When G’iah is sneaking information from the computer, removed most of the superheroes that are shown. Now it focuses mostly on Extremis.
• Removed Fury going home to Priscilla/Varra. She is completely removed in this edit.
-Episode 3:
• In Gravik’s second meeting with the council members, removed the mention of “Super Skrulls.” He does say “we need to become super”, but the term Super Skrull is never mentioned.
• Removed a flashback of Fury and Priscilla/Varra, then also a scene of Fury and Priscilla/Varra at their home.
• Removed a scene of Gravik and G’iah talking about a mole in their group.
• In the meeting between Gravik and Talos, removed Gravik healing from Talos stabbing his hand. Gravik is not super in this cut. He is a Skrull, so he is stronger and heals faster than a human, but he is not super.
• Removed the scene of Talos and Fury in the restaurant. Without the scene on the train, there is no need for this scene, they do not need to make up from their fight.
• On the phone with Sonya, removed mention of Fury apologizing to Talos.
• In the car ride with Fury and Talos, removed large chunks of their conversation. Talos says that everything Fury has done is due to his help. This takes away from the years of badassery from Fury, I did not like that.
• Removed Priscilla/Varra scene at the end, getting a text and going to get a gun.
-Episode 4:
• Removed another flashback of Fury and Priscilla/Varra.
• Removed Priscilla/Varra meeting with Rhodey.
• Removed the conversation between Talos and G’iah on the bench.
• Removed the scene when Fury goes home and confronts Priscilla/Varra, and they make up.
• Removed Skrull Rhodey in the shower. This keeps the mystery a little longer, is he a Skrull?
• In the ambush on the president, removed two instances of Gravik having powers.
-Episode 5:
• In Gravik’s meeting with the Skrulls, removed multiple mentions of Varra. Removed Gravik killing Pagon with Groot power. Added gunshot sound effect. So, now Gravik shots him instead of killing him with a Groot type arm.
• Removed the scene where Beto and the other Skrulls try to kill Gravik (moved to later).
• Altered Fury’s meeting with G’iah to remove mentions of Priscilla and to remove talk of going to Finland.
• Removed a scene with G’iah and Priscilla.
• Removed the phone call between Fury and Gravik.
• Removed another scene with G’iah and Priscilla.
• Removed Fury traveling, he does not go to Finland.
• Removed another scene with G’iah and Priscilla.
• Fury meets with Sonya in the car. During their conversation, removed mention of Super Skrulls and when talking about the Harvest, Fury never says that he actually has it.
• When they get to the graveyard, it is not to retrieve the Harvest, Fury goes straight to get his coat, eyepatch and gun. Fury makes a phone call and says, “Let’s finish this.” Cut to Beto and his attempt on Gravik, and he succeeds. It is meant to imply that the call was to Beto, and he has been working with Fury all along (and working for Talos as well). If you pay attention throughout the series (now movie), Beto is always giving looks, eyeing Gravik, this is because he has been plotting the whole time.
-Episode 6:
• Gravik is gone, he is dead. Many scenes were removed.
• Fury’s phone call to Priscilla was removed.
• The whole G’iah is Fury switcharoo is gone, it was such a bad reveal.
• The terrible CGI fight scene is gone, it was so bad.
• Fury going home to talk to Priscilla was removed.
• Removed the scene where Sonya recruits G’iah.
• At the end, Priscilla/Varra does not show up and go with Fury.

And many other small changes throughout. Too many to list, too many to count. I pulled in every trick that I had to (hopefully) make this a good movie.

The 4 hour and 20 minute series is now a 2 hour and 22 minute movie.

BONUS! Yes, I know this whole post is about the “Secret Invasion Movie Cut”, but for those few that would like to keep it as a series, I broke it up into a four episode series, down from the original six. The series is the same as the movie, just broken up and added openings and end credits. I did this because I personally prefer it as a series. I think it is paced better as a series and a couple of the transitions work better than they do in the movie format, to end an ep and then begin the next.

Available in a couple different formats and file sizes.
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This is my take on The Acolyte. There are already, and will likely be countless more edits of The Acolyte from a series into a movie. This is not one of those edits. This is an edit of the series, into a slightly shorter series, by someone that actually liked the show quite a bit.

There are a couple things about this show that I did not like and I wanted to address.
-Too many wipes! It seems like there is a wipe every 30 seconds, and sometimes in the middle of a scene, wiping into the same scene.
-The brightness seems like it was cranked up to 11. The whole show just looked bright and washed out to me.
-I did not like episode 3 at all (the first flashback episode).
-The length of some episodes were very short.

To fix some of these issues, the changes include:
-The wipes have been reduced by about 75% (this is a guess, no math was involved in this, haha). The wipes that felt very wrong were removed, the wipes that felt right stayed. A couple new ones were added. And there was one or two that I didn’t like, but they stayed because there wasn’t a good way to remove them.
-The entire series has the brightness adjusted scene by scene,
-The two flashback episodes were combined into one episode. This new episode has by far the most editing of this series. The child acting was pretty bad, which is a big part of what I did not like about ep3, so they have been reduced quite a bit. Originally the episodes were 42 minutes each, 84 minutes total. It is now one 62 minute episode.
-Episodes 4 and 5 were combined into one episode. If you don’t count the previously on and the end credits each were only 27 mins, way too short. Now combined, with some trims, it is a 52 minute fantastic episode.

Along with those big changes, there are many trims throughout. A few of them are:
-Ep1, No fire in space.
-Ep1, The bar owner from the beginning fight scene did not travel with the Jedi to identify Osha as the killer.
-Kelnacca’s scenes from the end of ep2 and beginning of ep4 have been combined into one scene.
-Multiple eps, The locals on Khofar have been removed completely.
-Ep4, Osha and Jecki’s goodbye chat removed.

And many more!

The entire series combined was 308 minutes, my edit is 272 minutes. Originally 8 episodes, my cut is 6 episodes.

1080p, 5.1 surround.

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I do highly recommend EddieDean’s Clone Wars Refocused as the perfect version of Clone Wars. But if your looking for an even shorter version that covers the essentials, maybe look at the Clone Wars portions of my “Star Wars: The Series” edit here https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-The-Series/id/94689#1486062. My edit also includes Rebels, although if you have never seen Rebels I say watch it in full, it is very good. But for a shorter version, or an “essentials” version, you could watch mine.

regularjoe said:

The possession part of the meeting the Jedi scene doesn’t work very well with integrating the two episodes, would be interested in seeing if/how someone pulls that off.

I did this and I think I got it to work pretty well. I edited so that it goes back and forth between the possession sort of dream world and the real world.

V4 is the current release, V5 is pretty close to release. V5 is what most of those pages that you missed are talking about.

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Awesome! I watched your work print of it and it was very solid. Looking forward to the official release.

Skybatman said:

nice!!! it is finished?

Yes! Complete and released.