smudger9

WitchDR said:

I definitely hope we can end up cutting more. I’ve went through all three episodes countless times in Vegas, just trying to find ways to remove large chunks out of it, but just keep coming up short. Only really being able to trim scenes, instead of completely removing them.

I think these 3 episodes only really have about 45 minutes worth of good content in total, but it’d require some absolute radical editing and ideas to get it there.

Here’s some of the stupid things that could hopefully be tackled:

• The New Republic captain allowing Baylan and Shin to enter the ship, knowing they are lying about being Jedi

Maybe we could start this scene in the middle of the fight instead? Skip the whole boarding part all together. We could try something like this: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/859635415
I feel like adding the alarm sound just helps bridge the scenes together. We would have to recolor the cock pit in the ship establishing shot, since it isn’t lit up red.

• Sabine taking the map to her place, just so the bad guys can easily get the map

Probably can’t be fixed.

• Sabine being stabbed by Shin, only to be completely fine in the next episode like it never happened

Probably can’t be fixed.

• One of the assassin droids staying behind at Sabine’s just so they have a new clue to where they need to go

What if we made the droid Sabine beat, the one they take the head off of instead?

• Shin and the other pilots shooting at Ahsoka on the wing instead of just shooting her downed ship

Like you said, the whole Clone Wars-esque Ahsoka space walk scene can’t be removed.

And I agree with you on the awful pacing of scenes. I think almost every single scene needs some level of trimming. So many scenes drag on far too long. Too many shots of characters just standing and staring at each other, or showing us each character walking to every spot they need to be at in the following scene.

I really would love if the community could brainstorm some radical ideas for this, cause I think there’s something really great here unlike most of the live action shows. But it just needs a lot of work to get there.

Your opening cut works well and is definitely an option. However, in terms of the opening scene pacing I much prefer the TPM-style we got, rather than being dropped straight into battle like Rise of Skywalker (probably because of my dislike for that movie!).

I agree on all your points. I hadn’t considered cutting the Ahsoka droid encounter. I’ll have look at that later.

Episode 3 can be trimmed quite a bit. I’ll start working on that this evening.

yoshif8tures said:

There’s a typo in your crawl. It should be trail.

Also could you consider a new title? Heir to the empire only makes one compare it to the Zahn trilogy.

The whole map thing also sounds like the sequel fetch quests again too, find the damn map that tells us what to do next blablsbla

smudger9 said:

So we’re 3 episodes in and this series is ripe for a Movie edit. It has more of a Star Wars theatrical feel about it than the previous TV shows and feels like a sequel to the OT thanks to the New Republic world building.

Filoni suggested in interviews that the series would have one linear plot with no side quests and that is certainly how it’s playing out. As a result this season may need 2 movies to cover it.

So here are my thoughts on the first 2 episodes.

1. This is screaming out for a classical Star Wars crawl using an abridged version of the crawl from the show leading into the opening scene which feels very TPM (I love the opening of TPM!).
2. There isn’t a huge amount that can actually be cut because each scene is crucial to the plot. I was hoping to cut the whole Correlia sequence but there is a lot of crucial exposition in Episode 3 that references it. I’ve cut the Lothal celebration ceremony which makes for a far better introduction to Sabine - very much like young Kirk’s intro in ST09.
3. Quite a few scenes can be slightly trimmed to help speed up the pacing, remove the odd bit of cringey dialogue and try to make Ahsoka less monotone.
4. There are too many transition wipes - I love a good transition wipe but only to represent the passage of time. Some of the scene transitions are far better without them.

My current cut of the first 2 episodes is 81 minutes from 87 minutes of footage, so not much of a trim… yet! I’m not sure about a title yet. A Threat from Beyond is one I’m toying with, but for now I’ll go with “Heir to the Empire”.

Here is the opening sequence. I’m really keen to hear people’s thoughts on the series now and as it progresses. I’ve watched Episode 3 and was less happy with it, there are quite a few cuts I’d like to make. Sadly Ahsoka’s outfit change means I’ll probably have to keep the Clone Wars-style space walk, which I didn’t like.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OnELfvXkANNCjv7flpBOrGnhu_iwP_ci

Good spot. The crawl will be fine tuned once the series is finished. Regarding the title, Heir to the Empire is almost certainly going to be a placeholder. I need to wait to see how the series pans out before settling on a title. “A Threat from Beyond” is one possibility.

WtarSars said:

Please cut the stab wound somehow. Tired of Qui-Gon death having less and less impact.

Totally agree here. I would love to get rid, but you can’t edit it out without leaving a huge plot hole. It would take some serious special effects and dialogue changes to pull that off. Way beyond my skill set 😞.

starwars1970 said:

Oh wow this is really going to be an incredible experience. I have only seen season one of The Mandalorian, so i would love to re experience your edits. I don’t think i will see the originals at all, certainly not season 3 with all the negative feedback. Thanks for doing this for us Star Wars fans! Could i please get the link to All of The Mandalorian works you have done as well as Andor please? in 4k HDR if possible or whatever best quality you have. Thank you again smudger9 for all your work.

Links sent. Enjoy!

szopman said:

Smudger9, did you maybe consider combining Ahsoka and “The Mandalorian” into one film series?

It seems eventually all those shows will lead to one big crossover event - Dave Filoni’s movie.

Plus, Ahsoka already appeared in your previous “Mando” films and Thrawn’s return was hinted there before.

So, if you made them all just “Star Wars” films, this one would just be a continuation of some storylines that started in the previous stories.

Absolutely. Lucasfilm updated their Eras timeline this week so I’ll probably go with “The New Republic” as the logo for these. I’ll wait for the end of the Ahsoka series before committing to this and I’ll also need to tinker with my Mando S2 to include the now essential Ahsoka/Morgan confrontation.

EP1: Mando S1
EP2: Mando S2
EP3: Ahsoka S1 P1
EP4: Ahsoka S2 P2
EP5: BOBF
EP6: Mando S3

EP1: Mando S1
EP2: Mando S2
EP3: Ahsoka S1 P1
EP4: Ahsoka S2 P2
EP5: BOBF
EP6: Mando S3

Here is my edit of the Ahsoka TV Series.
With this edit I have decided to bring all my post ROTJ series edits under one banner “The New Republic” to fit in with the official Lucasfilm timeline and provide a theatrical continuity for people to watch and enjoy.
This edit is Episode 5, following on from the Mandalorian and Boba Fett edits.

This series was a challenge because there was about one and a half movies’ worth of decent footage. Rather than stretching it out to 2 movies I decided to condense it into one movie. The final edit is bang on 3 hours which is what I would define as the limit for a single edit. However, it does have a very good 3-act structure which makes the movie feel shorter than the 3 hours.

Here is the changelog.
There are a huge number of changes in this edit. Virtually every scene had at least some trimming. All music transitions have been worked on, often using tracks from the OST.

Opening Logos
Custom classic Star Wars opening crawl
Pan shot to New Republic Cruiser

Episode 1
Trim opening bridge shot to remove captain spinning in his chair.
Cut protocol droid “ship approaching, track distance mark….”
Cut Captain “what’s the word Comm”
Cut Comm “I’m receiving their signal now Sir”
Trim sequence of the shuttle landing in the docking bay.
Cut Captain “you put on a good show but I don’t buy it”
Cut Captain “just some over-confident imperial trash….”
Cut Captain “and you sir should have surrendered when the empire collapsed”
Transition wipe to Ahsoka approaching the Witch Temple.
Trim Ahsoka’s approach to the temple.
Cut Ahsoka bending down to rub the stone and moving the pillars to reveal the map.
Cut Ahsoka and the first droid staring at eachother. The sequence of the other droids revealing themselves has been tightened.
Cut Huyang “I don’t understand”
Trim sequence of Ahsoka’s shuttle approaching and landing on Home One.
Cut Ahsoka “Thrawn” when revealing the map to Hera.
Cut Ahsoka “nothing is certain, except our enemies believe they know where to look”
Cut Ackbar “General, the defence council is requesting an update on the incident”.
Cut Lothal ceremony scene. We transition wipe from Home One to long shot of Sabine on her speeder.
Tighten up the speeder sequence by cutting some long shots.
Cut Pilot “is she going to stop?” and “Sabine stand down”
Cut external shot of the communications tower.
Trim end shot of Sabine looking at Ezra’s hologram and opening shot of Baylan & Co. at the temple ruins.
Cut Shin “Master” & Baylan “Do as she says”.
Cut Sabine and Huyang exchange about him still being in one piece.
Cut long shot of Ahsoka & Sabine staring at each other.
Cut Sabine “no one would design a map you couldn’t read….”
Cut Sabine-Ahsoka chat about where Ahsoka is living and about being a Jedi.
Cut Ahsoka “I’m not sure that’s a good idea”.
Trim Huyang’s lightsaber report to cut unnecessary dialogue.
Cut Probe droids returning to Shin - we just see them tracking Sabine.
Cut Ahsoka & Hera talking about reasons.
Cut start of Sabine map opening scene and trim the rest of the sequence.
Cut Sabine “think I’m going on a trip” - droid attack is a bit more sudden.
Trim Sabine-Shin standoff.
Trimmed and re-ordered Sabine-Shin fight scene to cut the lightsaber strike. Shine force-pushes Sabine backwards and then departs because of Ahsoka’s arrival.
Cross fade via white screen to BAck of Ahsoka in the MedBay.

Episode 2
Trimmed and edited MedBay scene to remove reference to the lightsaber strike.
Used AI voice so that Sabine reveals the path to the galaxy starts “somewhere in the Denab system”. Ahsoka then leaves without indication of where she is going.
Entire droid head sequence is removed. The third MedBay scene is blended together with the first so that after Ahsoka leaves Sabine and Huyang have their conversation about her training.
Transition wipe to the Communications tower and Sabine returning there.
Cut Sabine getting out her armour. She now goes straight to her helmet - more impactful than the armour pieces.
Hair cutting scene remains intact.
Entire Corellia pliot removed.
Transition to Scene of Ahsoka returning to her ship (actually a Correlia scene but it’s an internal shot) and Sabine appearing in holo dressed in her armour.
Transition to Shin and Baylan arriving on Seatos. Scene tightened.
Transition to Ahsoka and Sabine meeting up and leaving Lothal.
AI line of Huyang used “I have just received a transmission from General Syndulla, long range scans of the Denab system have revealed the enemy’s shuttle landing on the planet Seatos”.
Transition to Morgan/Baylan/Shin on Seatos. Scene tightened to remove unnecessary extended shots.
Cut unnecessary exposition: Morgan “where grand admiral thrown is banished” and “across time and space”; Baylan talking about dreams and hopes and Morgan “the threads of fate do not lie”.

Episode 3
Cut Ahsoka/Sabine Training sequence.
Cut Hera/Senate Committee meeting.
Sabine/Hera force discussion scene tightened and trimmed. Scene opens with AI Ahsoka line “you were lucky yesterday, but I see you can still wield a lightsaber” - this creates a more meaningful scene having cut the training sequence.
Cut Huyang and Ahsoka talking about Sabine’s progress.
Trimmed Sabine & cup scene.
Cut Ahsoka “let’s see what Morgan has been hiding out here”.
Cut Sabine/Huyang discussion about standard Jedi protocol.
AI Huyang line “my last scan indicates that the enemy vessel is on the far side of the planet”. This is the final alteration to tie up the plot having removed the Corellia sequence.
Tightened the battle sequence. Cut Sabine/Ahsoka chat about tail gun presets. Sabine now quickly moves to the tail gun and tells Ahsoka she’s ready. The first battle segment has been cut. Sabine shoots down 2 of the fighters almost immediately. The cut makes it look like 3 have been destroyed, which compensates for cutting the opening of the battle.
Cut Sabine “2 more down”.
Approach to the hyperspace ring is tightened by trimming multiple scenes.
Cut the Morgan-Shin interactions.
Cut the initial scene of Ahsoka and Sabine assessing the damage to the shuttle.
Trim Ahsoka posturing on the outside of the shuttle.
Trim the flight through the whale pod.
Cut chat about almost dying multiple times.
Trim Ahsoka’s shuttle approaching the forrest.
Cut first shot of landed shuttle and Sabine/Ahsoka sitting in silence in the cockpit.
Transition to Baylan ordering his troops to search the Forrest.

Episode 4
Tighten scene where Ahsoka and Sabine chat about their plan.
Cut Baylan sending Shin and Marrok into the forrest - he has already ordered the search. We can assume that Shin and Marrok land in the forrest and start the hunt.
Cut scene where Ahsoka and Sabine suit up inside the shuttle. Baylan’s troops attack Huyang and Ahsoka & Sabine rush out to help. Huyang’s scenes are edited to create a better jump scare. He says “finally some progress”, turns around and is attacked.
Fight scene is trimmed.
Cut Huyang requesting Ahsoka and Sabine to stay together - it removes the urgency of the situation.
Transition wipe from Ahsoka and Sabine running into the woods to Baylan and Morgan looking at the Eye. Openning shot of the Eye was reversed to create a better wipe.
Cut Baylan “witchcraft”
Cut sequence where Hera leaves the fleet and heads to Seatos. This all happens off screen to save running time and to give her arrival a bigger impact.
Trim the standoff in the forest - Sabine shoots at Shin almost immediately.
Cut most of Ahsoka v Marrok. Ahsoka watches him twirl his lightsaber and immediately defeats him - rather like Kenobi v Maul in Rebels. He ended up being a nothing character, so I gave him a nothing death.
Cut one of the hyperspace calculations countdown scenes to speed the plot.
Trimmed Shin v Sabine.
Cut Shin “you will regret this decision” - she’s a much better character when she says very little.
Trimmed Ahsoka’s walk into the map area.
Trimmed
Cut Baylan “It is an unfortunate evil that speaks to a greater truth. One must destroy in order to create”
Heavily trimmed the start of Baylan v Ahsoka to get to the meat of fight much quicker.
Trimmed Baylan tempting Sabine.
Added audio from Ezra’s recording whilst Baylan is sensing Sabine’s feelings.
Cut Baylan having to tell Shin a second time to release Sabine.
Cut Baylan/Sabine and Shin walking towards their shuttle - this is a continuity error given that they arrive at the Eye in Morgan’s shuttle.
Cut Huyang radioing to Ahsoka and Sabine.

Episodes 5 & 6 - Scenes on Seatos intercut with scenes on Peridea.
Cut Hera finding Huyang.
WBW scene is trimmed and now runs straight into the Ryloth flashback scene. The Ryloth scene is heavily edited to shorten it as much as possible.
Transition to Hera and Huyang at the henge.
Remove Hera trying to sense the lightsabers with Jacen and the ships taking off to find Ahsoka. The scene now ends with Jacen saying “can you hear the lightsabers” and cutting to Ahsoka battling Mandalorians in the flashback.
Mandalore flashback edited to speed up the sequence as much as possible.
Cut Republic ships searching for Ahsoka.
Transition to episode 6 sequence where the Eye arrives at Peridea.
The preceding scenes from episode 6 (Ahsoka and Huyang talking about temple stories and Baylan talking to Sabine in her cell) have been removed.
Approach to surface of Peridea tightened.
Cut Shin “More witches”.
Cut Sabine being taken to her cell.
Cut scene where Ahsoka wakes up on her shuttle - adds very little.
Transition to scene between Hera and Ahsoka on the henge.
Cut Jacen “I’ve been in a starship before”.
Trim Ahsoka’s force reading of the orb.
Cut Hera/Ahsoka “So she’s alive”. “She was when they left Seatos”.
Cut Scene in Ghost cockpit where Hera talks to Mon Mothma & Ahsoka appears to announce that she knows how to follow Sabine.
Transition to Baylan & Shin on Peridea.
Cut Shin “With good reason, sometimes stories are just stories”.
Cut Sabine “Ahsoka, what am I doing”.
Trim Sabine attempting to open the cell door to quicken the scene.
Trim Thrawns entrance scene.
Cut Thrawn “well speak to me of this loose thread”.
Cut Thrawn “you would not be the first”.
Cut Sabine “Thrawn”
Trim the Sabine/Thrawn conversation to remove the painful pauses.
Cut scene where Sabine is given her howler. We now cut from Sabine asking about a ride to the door opening to reveal her riding a howler. Cut one shot of her exiting on the howler.
Transition to the Ghost and X-wings taking off from the henge.
The Seatos departure sequence has been heavily edited. I have removed almost all of the interaction with the New Republic fleet. They now arrive and Hera immediately tells them to get out of the way as the whale pod passes through. Ahsoka’s walk outside the shuttle to communicate with the whale has been cut.
Cut scene where Sabine is attacked by the marauders.
Cut scene of Thrawn and Morgan talking about their primary objective.
Cut scene where Sabine chastises the wolf.
Transition to Sabine arriving at the site where the rock creatures are. Scene tightened to remove long pauses. Cut Sabine”you’re embarrassing yourself”, “No. it wont hurt you”, “you must know Ezra Bridger”.
Cut scene of Baylan and Shin finding the dead marrauders.
Transition to Great Mothers telling Thrawn of another. Cut Thrawn talking about death and resurrection.
Trim Sabine approaching the rock’s camp.
Cut Sabine avoiding Ezra’s questions about how she arrived.

Episode 7
New Republic tribunal cut.
Trim Anakin/Ahsoka training scene. This is moved forward and placed between the last 2 scenes from episode 6.
Trim Ahsoka/Huyang cockpit scene and cut interaction about how hopeless their plan is.
The Whale exit scene has been heavily trimmed to speed the pacing and remove unnecessary chatter.
Cut Thrawn telling Enoch to withdraw the fighters. This tacical withdrawal made the plot overly convoluted.
Trim Ahsoka flying through the debris field and landing.
Cut Sabine telling Ezra that she was Ahsoka’s apprentice and about things being “complicated”.
Cut scene where Thrawn asks the Great Mothers to find Ahsoka. This creates a fantastic hard cut from Ahsoka sensing Sabine to the face if the Great mother as they reveal Ahsoka’s location.
Trim the Ahsoka/Sabine force sense scene.
Cut Sabine talking about a familiar feeling. We already know this because she senses Ahsoka and telling Ezra adds nothing.
Cut Stormtroopers boarding the attack ships.
Trim the Marauder ambush scene.
Cut 2 shots of Ahsoka and Huyang in the shuttle.
Cut the Huyang/Ahsoka chatter about the plan going wrong last time.
Ahsoka v Baylan is almost completely cut. All that remains is them meeting and the first lightsaber strike. Huyang then fires at Baylan and Ahsoka escapes onto the howler. This second duel added nothing. I left the minimum to explain how Ahsoka arrives on a howler.
Ground battle tightened by cutting and trimming multiple scenes.
Ezra’s cringey offer of being taken a prisoners has been cut.
Cut Thrawn and Morgan looking at the Battle scene hologram - unnecessary exposition.
Cut Thrawn talking about time being on their side.
Cut most of the final reunion scene. Ahsoka hugs Ezra and we cut to the Episode 8 material - the rest of the scene destroys the pacing of the final act.

Episode 8
Cut Thrawn ordering the Tie Fighter attack.
Trim scene of Morgan being given Nightsister powers. Cut her being presented with the sword.
Trim Ezra lightsaber construction scene to remove unnecessary dialogue.
Cut TIE fighter attack sequence.
A lot of trimming in the finale to remove unnecessary static shots, shots of Thrawn looking angry, trim overly long shots and remove some of the battle action that doesn’t advance the plot.
Ezra’s force jump is edited so that Sabine doesn’t aid him. Sabine then leaves to help Ahsoka.
Cut Ezra using the Stormtrooper’s commlink.
Cut Shin joining the marauders.
Cut the Ezra/Hera reunion.
Iris out to credits and the Main theme.

CourtlyHades296 said:

When you get around to making the updated version based on the physical discs, I would love it to have HDR.

Ahh yes, finally the physical discs! It would be great if we got some deleted scenes with them!

Kelmino said:

I’d love to get your Andor cuts too, thanks!

Sure thing!

Foxmanmu44 said:

Good afternoon! I would love to see the Andor movies you edited. Any chance I can get the links? Thanks so much

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endlessbender said:

I would love to see both movies. Loved Andor the series, this would be easier to get my wife to watch all the way through. Loving the Mando Vergence BTW.

Cheers. Links sent.

EddieDean said:

That’s fair! Are you sold on the one movie per season approach? It feels like there’s a natural breakpoint at S01E09, and again at S02E08, if you needed to conclude movies there. That might give you four movies of around ~1h40-2h and capture some of the content that’s relevant to other media (such as Cham Syndulla on Ryloth for TCW and Rebels). I put some analysis on this idea in Acbagel’s Bad Batch thread if you’re interested. You do you though - the show will certainly do well from tightening either way!

Yeah, I’m sticking to one movie person season. 2h50 is pushing it, but its in line with my other edit lengths. I agree that the seasons split in half quite well, however, I don’t feel there is enough quality material in each half to warrant a separate movie. Ryloth, for example, adds very little other than familiar character cameos.
The first half of season 2 was pretty weak, so I can pretty much eliminate all of it other than Crosshair’s introduction. That will allow me to focus on the clone storyline from the second half.

EddieDean said:

Sounds like good fun! Looks like you’re not including any content from 11/12 (the Ryloth two-parter) - are you skipping the character of Howzer then? And cutting having Rampart assign Crosshair to hunt the Batch down (as seen in the finale)?

No Ryloth footage at all, so Howzer and the Crosshair/Rampart scene has been cut.

The absence of that scene isn’t really an issue. We already know that Crosshair is hunting down the batch from the Bracca confrontation, and actually him appearing suddenly on the shuttle transporting Hunter works very well.

Here are a few clips to share:

First is the opening scene with the crawl, rebuilt audio from the opening shots and adjusted Celeb audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6zSztZp6MA

Second up shows how the Kamino training sequence has been removed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3lfiz1RKOc

The third shows the transition of scenes between Aftermath and Replacements and shows the use of AI to alter the Batch dialogue so that they head straight for Cid’s Bar on Ord Mantel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNcKfVhdznM

Finally the sequence combining the Batch meeting Cid and Rex in the same scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKgWjWSUC-k

So I have been debating for a while whether to do a Movie series of the Bad Batch, similar to what I did for the Clone Wars back in the day. I originally didn’t want to get back into the animated shows with so much live action going on at the moment. However, a number of things have changed my mind.

They have made the characters far more engaging than the caricatures that appeared in the final season of The Clone Wars, with the addition of Omega who is a delight.
There is some terrific content in this show that fleshes out the Dark Times era.
The first 2 seasons can each be condensed into one 3-ish hour movie.
There is a core storyline that provides the spine of the show.
There are only going to be 3 seasons, so it opens things up for an epic movie trilogy.

Episode 1:

Running Time: 2h 49mins

Disney/Lucasfilm Animation logo with Fox Fanfare
Classic Star Wars Crawl
Pan down to planetary shot of Kaller

Aftermath
Rebuilt audio for opening battle shots to remove narration and music, scored with “Droids Approaching” from Clone Wars Series 7 Bad Batch arc.
Altered pitch of Caleb’s voice to better match his age.
Cut battle droid “Hold your positions……”
Cut slapstick battle droid tank pilot.
Cut cross fade to black at end of Kaller sequence. Replaced with Iris wipe.
Cut Wrecker/Tech/Echo conversation about returning home.
Cur Clearance code scene.
Remove wipe leading to Batch entering their Barracks.
Split first Tarkin scene and move his arrival to immediately after the Emperor’s Message.
Cut Omega reciting the Bad Batch’s names…. Caleb already did this in the opening sequence.
Remove wipe between Tarkin scene and Canteen scene.
Cut Wrecker’s groan and Omega “from the corridor” when Omega approaches the Batch in the canteen.
Cut Wrecker “I like this kid” - he already did this with Caleb.
Inserted a flashback scene between Echo being knocked out and waking up in the medical bay. The flashback is made from clips of the Bad Batch arc from the clone wars to show Echo’s resurrection backstory.
Wipe transition from medical bay to Tarkin discussing clones in the cloning facility (this scene has been move forwards) as I’ve cut the battle simulation scene. His closing remarks about seeing how loyal the Batch is provides a reason for him appearing at their Barracks.
Cut entire battle simulation scene.
Cut to a restructured Batch-Shocktrooper corridor scene discussing the Battle simulation: Cut references to the training facility and battle simulation. AI used to add in Hunter “we’re going to see the prime minister". Rebuilt background audio and extended score using “Battle Simulation”. The scene ends with the Batch being sent to suit up for a mission. Wipe to external shot of Kamino and cut to the Tarkin standing in the doorway at the Batch’s barracks.
Cut Hunter “didn’t have much choice” as it doesn’t make sense with the simulation removed.
Cut Wrecker talking about and loading explosives onto the ship.
Trim Batch approach to Onderon camp.
Small trims made to camp scene including some unnecessary dialogue.
Cut Batch walking back to their ship by using wipe transition.
Trim batch walking across Kamino platform and cut talk about “sticking to the plan”.
Cut Crosshair’s outburst at Hunter in the Cell.
Trim Omega-Crosshair interaction.
Edit escape sequence so that it only takes one punch from Wrecker to make a hole.
Cut accidental noise Omega makes in the shaft and Wrecker’s terrible cover-up attempt. Omega simply hits the vent and falls on top of the clones.
Remove wipe as the Batch enter the Hangar.
Cut Crosshair “You never could see the bigger picture”.
Cut chat between Hunter and Crosshair about disobeying orders.
Trim the silent Hunter-Crosshair standoff.
Trim Omega staring into space from the Cockpit.
Use AI voice creation to alter scene where the Batch talk about their next destination so that they head straight for Cid’s. Scene now plays out as “Set course for Ord Mantell”, “Cid’s place?”, “Echo knows a guy”.

Cut and Run/Replacements/Rampage
The Crosshair storyline from Replacements is used to give him a presence in the middle act, to keep the crucial Onderon scenes and provide spacer scenes for the Batch’s story.
Cut from the Batch entering hyperspace to Crosshair in the medical bay. Remove him telling AZ to go away and cut to Tarkin and Rampart talking about the new recruits.
Cut from Crosshair standing up to the Batch in hyperspace. Use the scene from Cut and Run of Omega and Wrecker sleeping whilst Hunter and Echo discuss Omega. Audio rebuilt and scored with raising kids to give better music transition.
Cut to Replacements scene where Crosshair is introduced to his new squad.
Cut to Replacements scene of Hunter handing out rations to Omega and Wrecker. Move Omega sitting down with her food to the end of the scene to provide a better shot to transition from.
Cut to Replacements scene where Tarkin and Rampart decide to send the new squad to Onderon.
Cut to Rampage scene of the Batch in hyperspace and where Omega is given her com link. Cut chat about why the Batch are going to Ord Mantel.
Use Rampage sequence of Batch arriving on Ord Mantell and entering Cid’s, with addition of 2 shots from Battle Scars of a hooded Rex sitting in the background. The second shot is used as a spacer between the long headshot of Cid and the Batch entering her office.

Battle Scars/Replacements
The Edit is constructed so that the Scenes in Cid’s from Rampage and Battle Scars merge into one with the Batch entering looking for Cid and finding Rex.
Rex being approached by the Ithorian provides a spacer scene between the Cid’s office scene from Rampage and Cid’s office scene from Battle scars. References to the tactical droid mission are removed. Shots edited so that you don’t notice that Omega and Wrecker are missing from Cid’s office in Battle scars.
As the Batch run into the Bar to find the source of the blaster fire, a clip of Omega and Wrecker running up the stairs is added to explain their absence from Rex’s introduction scene with addition of Wrecker shouting “Hey” isolated from Clone Wars arc.
Reference to Trace and Rafa removed.
AI used to alter Rex’s dialogue to “I thought I’d find you here” and “it looks like you’re travelling with a kid"
As Rex says “I’ll be in touch” we cut to the Replacements scene of the Clone Squad approaching Onderon. The Onderon sequence is edited into a single scene.
Cut trooper “for now, we’ll see how things shake out”.
Remove gap between Onderon rebel saying “alert the others” to the Clone squad firing.
Cut to the batch approaching Bracca
Trim approach to the landing point.
Trim Batch walking across the wreckage.
Cut creature attack
Trim sequence where an activated Wrecker is hunting for Omega.
When Rex stuns Wrecker wipe transition to Replacements scene of Clone squad returning to Kamino. Cut straight to Crosshair’s squad returning to their Barracks. Cut from wide shot of Crosshair to Rex and the Batch on the cruiser.
Trim end of the scene so it ends on Omega, not Wrecker.
Wipe transition to Replacements scene of Kaminoans talking about a contingency plan.
Cut back to Rex and the Batch on the cruiser.
Cut Omega “he’s awake”
Cut Omega giving Wrecker the Mantell mix and talking about tradition.

Reunion
Cut from the Scrappers discovering the Batch to Crosshair reporting their discovery to Rampart. - there is just a 5 minute gap between the last Crosshair scene from Replacements to this scene, so Crosshair’s presence throughout this edit is maintained with no significant gaps.
Remove Wrecker teaching Omega how to disarm explosives.
Remove the Scrapper Battle and references to the scrappers thereafter.
The Edit cuts from the Crosshair/Rampart scene to a wide shot of Bracca with Echo “Rex told us about the scrappers on Bracca”, thus removing the Batch handling the scrapper bodies.
Cut to the Batch discussing plundering the ship.
Cut Echo referencing the Dianoga.
Cut reference to owing Cid.
Remove the entire Batch/Crosshair confrontation. The batch now head straight for the Ion Chamber.
The 3 scenes of the Batch walking though the chamber are edited together into a continuous sequence. Omega talking about not being in an ion engine before is cut.
Cut Wrecker talking about plan 7.
Cut Crosshair “I told you before” - the “before has been cut”
Cut Omega “he’s a bounty hunter” and Bane “kid’s got it all figured out”.
Trim Hunter/Bane standoff.
Cut Todo disarming Omega.
Cut black screen preceding hunter POV shot.

Bounty Lost
Cut from Hunter telling the Batch that Omega was taken by a bounty hunter to Bane’s ship in hyperspace and then Bane reporting to the Kaminoans.
The chase scene between the Batch and the Empire on Bracca has been removed.
Cut Lama Su “abandoned” when talking about the secret facility. - not knowing its abandoned creates more tension.
Cut to Omega in the cell. Todo is edited out so that she just interacts with Bane.
Cut to the Batch discussing how to find Omega. References to the Bounty hunter on Pantora are cut.
The entire Omega escape sequence has been removed.
The next scene is Bane arriving at the facility. The ship approach shots are edited together. We don’t see the ship land in the series so this is masked by inserting a shot of Omega waking up in her cell with ship landing effects added. The scene ends with Bane exiting the cockpit.
Cut to next scene of the Batch in space. Omega’s distress call is removed to create a short scene to show that they are still looking for her. This acts as a spacer scene, allowing time for Bane to get Omega off his ship and onto the facility.
Cut to Bane pulling Omega through the facility.
Cut Fennec “Omega and I go way back”.
Edit Omega’s call for help by inserting the Batch receiving Omega’s initial transmission (which had been cut). Weird Creatures track used to provide continuity for the score.
Cut Todo talking to Bane about recovering the target.
Cut Omega mentioning Pantora.
Trim Omega descending the ladders.
Cut Todo attacking and pursuing Omega.
Cut Bane flopping back onto the facility platform.
Trim Omega escaping in the pod to tighten the pacing. Use track “Target is getting away” to smooth the score between cut scenes.
Move scenes around so that The Shand-Lamau Su scene is the last scene from this episode to provide a bridge between Batch scenes from Bounty Lost and War Mantle.
Alter Shand dialogue to remove reference to Pantora. Use dialogue from Ep4 Cornered “The target got away, but I’ll find her”.

War Mantle
As far as the edit is concerned this episode is an unnecessary detour and functions solely for Hunter’s capture so it has been stripped back to a minimum.
Gregor’s capture has been removed.
Cut references to a mission for Cid and getting paid.
Trim journey up the mountain.
Cut the Batch talking about abandoning the mission.
Cut Omega and Wrecker playing a board game.
Cut Hunter explaining that Wrecker and Omega are their backup.
Cut Gregor “insubordinate pleb”
Trim batch and Gregor creeping around the base.
Cut Batch going up in the lift.
Cut Gregor talking about desertion.
Cut Gonky to the rescue.
Cut Hunter-Crosshair scene - the scene in Return to Kamino is enough.

Return to Kamino
Wipe transition from Lama Su being reprimanded to Crosshair’s shuttle in hyperspace.
Cut Rampart’s reference to Ryloth.
Trim Batch’s journey on underwater tube system.
Cut Crosshair telling his squad to stand down.
Cut “a long time ago” when Crosshair is talking about having his chip removed.

Kamino Lost
Sequence where Crosshair and Omega are trapped is removed. Accomplished by cutting 2 separate scenes of the Batch falling through the wreckage into one sequence. Clone confirming to rampart that the cities have been destroyed is moved to the end of that sequence.
Underwater creature attack sequence is removed.
Change Hunter line to Crosshair “she saved your life ”to she’s a clone like us” - the sequence where Omega saves Crosshair has been removed.
Imperial base scene moved to sit between the night shot of the Batch in the water and the daytime shot - provides a spacer sequence and allows the movie to end on the Batch.
Iris out to end credits and Star Wars theme.

Episode 2 (Running Time 2h 37mins)

Act 1 (62 mins)

• Lucasfilm Logos
• Star Wars Opening crawl & pan down to oceanic planet.
• EP1: Opening scene with the Batch on a mission for Cid. Score altered so the big base notes start as soon as the Batch appear from the trees. Cut Omega jumping off the
  Marauder, she remains dangling from the line. End of the sequence re-scored using “More then Jewels” and “Revolt”.
• EP7: Opening senate scene discussing the defence recruitment bill. Some unnecessary exposition from Bail Organa has been cut.
• EP7: Wipe transition to Cade and Slip in the bar discussing the destruction of Kamino. Trimmed their walk outside. Cade is shot and Slip escapes.
• EP1: Wipe Transition to Marauder in hyperspace. Echo talks to Hunter about doing more to help clones. Cut reference to Dooku’s fortune. This scene is included to set up
  Echo separating from the Batch at the end of act 1.
• EP7: Transition wipe to external shot of Senate. Rampart and Mas Amedda discuss the events on Kamino. Senator Chucci offers to help the clones and meets Slip.
• EP1: Transition wipe to external shot of Old Mantell from EP4. The Batch return to Cid’s bar with the haul. The Batch meet Phee. The mission to scavenge Dooku’s fortune
  is discussed but Hunter doesn’t agree to the mission. The remainder of the episode is cut.
• EP7: Transition wipe to Chucci discussing her demands for the clones with Rampart. Chucci receives a secure communication.
• EP7: Clip of Slip on the run - this scene originally occurred earlier, but it has been moved to coincide with Chucci & Rampart searching for him.
• EP7: Chucci meets with Organa and she discusses her clone contact with information about the destruction of Kamino. Wide shot at end of the scene is cut to speed up
  the pacing.
• EP7: Rampart Orders the Operative to attack.
• EP7: Chucci & guards v Assassin. Rex stuns the operative. Edited so that Rex only fires once.
• EP5: Transition wipe to Wrecker and Omega trawling through a scrap yard. The Batch are at Cid’s listening to Phee. Cut Echo “this story changes every time she tells it”.
  Omega and Wrecker arrive. Phee notices the treasure map. Cut Omega “co-ordinate markings”. The Batch agree to join Phee on a treasure hunt. AI line inserted for Phee
  telling the Batch to wait for her to contact them - This connects with their next scene where they’re waiting aboard the marauder when Echo contacts them, and also sets
  up the opening of the Pabu episode in act 2.
• EP7: Rex Interrogates the operative.
• EP8: Wipe to Old Mantell with The Batch waiting aboard the Marauder. Cut Omega’s references to Gungi. Echo contacts the Batch asking for help. Change Wrecker “I’m
  tired of waiting around for Cid” to “I’m tired of waiting around for Phee”. The Batch agree to go to Coruscant.
• EP3: Wipe to Crosshair being awoken by an alarm. He is summoned to Ramparts office and given a mission. Rampart AI dialogue used to change the mission from Dessex
  to Barton IV. Mission specifics have been cut.
• EP8: The Batch arrive on Coruscant. Coruscant approach trimmed. Cut Omega’s “Hello”.
• EP12: Crosshair meets his mission commander and they depart Coruscant.
• EP8: Cut to Cucchi discussing her plan with Organa. Cut Omega “very” and “who’s that”. Omega’s entire visit to the senate has been removed along with the scene in
  Burtoni’s apartment.
• EP8: The Batch retrieve the data from the Venator - the shipyard infiltration sequence has been edited to shorten it and the V-wing sequence has been cut out.
• EP8: The Batch get the data to the senate and Rampart is exposed. The emperor appears and introduces the stormtrooper program.
• EP11: Hemlock arrives on Tantiss. The assets are implied to refer to clone troopers rather than the Zillos. Hemlock threatens Taun We in her cell. This scene is placed here
  to continue the clone storyline. Hemlock is immediately introduced as the new antagonist as Rampart is removed.
• EP8: Echo and the Batch go their separate ways.

Act 2: (55 mins)

• EP12: Crosshair’s shuttle exits hyperspace. They land on Barton IV and meet the clones troopers stationed at the base. Cut some of Lieutenant Nolan “where is your supervisor” and “where you let the majority of your squad get killed”. Cut Crosshair/Mayday interaction about the Lieutenant. Insurgents attack the base. Crosshair and Mayday pursue them into the caves.
• EP13: The Batch and Phee negotiate over the artefact. They grab it and escape.
• EP12: Crosshair and Mayday continue their pursuit of the insurgents. The pressure mine sequence has been cut.
• EP13: Batch and Phee in hyperspace. Cid contacts them due to their absence. Cut Phee’s references to cutting ties with Cid (they turn up at Cid’s in act 3) but keep the
  rest of the scene.
• Crosshairs & Mayday discover the insurgent base and attack. They cause an avalanche and are buried. Crosshair emerges and rescues Mayday. Scene scored using “Arc
  Troopers” to provide more emotional weight and a better transition to the next scene.
• EP11: Lama Su arrives on Tantiss.
• EP12: Crossshair hauls Mayday slowly back to the base. Nolan refuses to help Mayday. Crosshair kills Nolan.
• EP13: The batch arrive on Pabu. Cut Wrecker “you’ve got some competition”. The Phee-Echo romance has been largely removed in the edit.
• EP12: Crosshair wakes up in a cell on Tantiss.
• EP13: The Batch are given a tour of Pabu by Phee.
• EP14: Clone troopers are ushered aboard a transport. The transport enters orbit and is attacked by Echo & crew who disable it and rescue the clones before escaping.
  The ship docking sequence has been slightly shortened.
• EP13: The Batch Enjoy dinner on Pabu. Omega views the sunset from a boat. Cut Echo “I am not seeing anything”. The Tsunami sequence and aftermath have been cut.
• EP14: Echo delivers the clones to Chucci on Coruscant. Echo departs to contact the Batch about the data he collected from the Imperial ship.
• EP14: Hemlock Interrogates Crosshair. The subsequent Crosshairs escape sequence has been cut - it adds nothing to the plot and makes Tantiss seem less secure.
• EP14: Cut to the Batch on Echo Arrives on Pabu. Cut mention of the Batch becoming an integral part of the community. Part of Omega’s flying lesson is cut.
• EP14: Tarkin and Hemlock discuss the attack on the Imperial shuttle and the Summit.
• EP14: The Batch decrypt the Imperial data. Cut mention of Crosshair’s warning signal - since he doesn’t escape in this edit, he can’t send a warning signal.
• EP14: Hemlock again interrogates Crosshair. Mention of his escape have been cut.
• EP15: Echo finds out about the summit and the Batch prepare to leave Pabu. The saying goodbye to Phee scene has been cut.

Act 3: (40mins)

• The Remainder of EP15 and all of EP16 play out with minor trimming to speed up the pacing and remove the some unnecessary dialogue.

xjbar said:

Hey! @smudger9 im also interested in the Mando Edits and the Andors! Thanks for the work you do for the community!

Thanks! PM sent.

psavery72 said:

Your trailer for this project looks very promising! I would love to get a link to the fan edit for all 4 episodes and the two Andors too.

PM sent!

DM Sent

It’s certainly a very ambitious plan and works very well as story. The battle will be getting it to work on screen well enough for it not to be a distraction. It’ll also be a challenge to keep the small story beats from season 3 such as Din’s moments teaching Grogu.

I don’t have any experience with special effects so I couldn’t even contemplate this level of change. I’m intrigued to see how well you can pull it off. Good luck!

Gar Saxon said:

Hi man, thanks for the link. This cut was more enjoyable than the actual season for sure. A few things i’d like to insert as feedback would be that it’s sad that you cut the Zeb scene in the New Republic pilot bar. It was one of the few enjoyable moments in the show on it’s own.

Cutting all the Pershingstuff was fine. I hated that sidetrack. Also Favreau says 2 years passed so how would the fact that Gideon escaped be unknown for that long. I agree that you cut that line from the pilot saying “i knew he din’t make it to trial.”

Then also i think it’s a bit strange to have the Shadowcouncil so early in the movie because there is no indication yet that mandalorians will take back their planet. Later you have the scene of the spy telling gideon about mandalorians and Gideon is all surprised about it. It doesn’t seem right to me.

Lastly i would say it would be better to cut Bo Katan saving Din’s behind the first time. Can’t cut the second time because that’s when she sees the Mythosaur offcourse and when he is redeemed to come back to the covert. And also when she is fighting the other blue mandalorian dude for taking control of her Deathwatch AGAIN, that could be cut alltogether. I don’t like Bo Katan femi-force pushing the Mando out of his own show all the time like that.

Other than that it’s much more watchable than having to go through the entire season again haha.

I’m glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the feedback.

The New Republic Bar scene is in the edit at 1h 1min.

I agree with your point about the Shadow Council scene being slightly at odds with the parallel Mandalorian plot. However, in a movie you don’t wait until the final act to introduce your protagonist, so I felt that the Gideon plot needed to be moved forwards. It also provides spacer scenes for Din’s plot and without them the edit would be Din moving from planet to planet via a series of wipes. As I’ve edited it, the discovery of Gideon’s Republic transport is moved into the first act, so moving the Shadow council forwards provides a link to that scene. His request for more interceptors and bombers then pays off with the destruction of Bo’s Castle. The way the TV series is ordered its unclear to the audience where those TIEs have come from, by moving the Shadow council scene before the castle destruction, its clear that Gideon is behind it.
I guess Gideon’s reference to Mandalorians in that scene can be put down to him either lying to get additional resources, or him knowing that at some point the Mandalorians will mount an attack (which is how the series plays out).

As for Bo’s first rescue scene, that really can’t be cut because its the reason she ends up on Mandalore to show Din the living waters, and her defeating Axe Waves to take control of her clan is a crucial plot point. However its edited, Bo is the co-lead in season 3.

Gar Saxon said:

Hi! I just made an account for your edit! 😃

Can you provide me a link of Mando S3 EDIT? And now that i’m here can i also get links for your Andor Edits? Maybe your editting skills will get me to like Andor afterall! Thanks in advance

Welcome to the forums! The main criticism of Andor was its slow pacing, which I’ve (hopefully) rectified with these edits. I’ve PM’d you the links to these and my Mandalorian edits.

https://ifdb.fanedit.org/eddiedean-wins-march-2023-feotm/

Congrats Eddie 👏

Darth Raditz said:

I’m tempted to ask for a link, but I kinda want to wait for your redux versions of Episodes 2 & 3 before getting into 4. Though, maybe I can just get the link now & not worry about downloading three big files later.

I’ve sent you the link. It may be a month or so before I finish the EP 2 and 3 changes.

monmothma89 said:

I’ve been hearing about this edit for weeks now, it sounds fantastic! how can I go about getting a link?

Hi there. I’ve sent you links to both movies. Hope you enjoy them.