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I just downloaded v5 and was immediately struck once more by the magic of what you’ve done in this edit. You have taken a movie that I didn’t care about at all and made me excited to watch it over and over and to share it with others! Thank you.

Very excited to see your take on Mando S3. The original version was so incredibly mediocre.

Or you keep it ambiguous, and then as Luke seems to imply, it doesn’t matter how or why or who created anyone. What matters is who they choose to be.

I looked at the Reddit shots. Amazing work! I can’t wait for this to be done.

Looks like it’s about time to start thinking about this story again.

The new voice line isn’t perfect, but if I didn’t know it was fake, I’d assume it was just a weird recording or the distortion of the coms.

If anything, I’d like to hear Din say “I was taught… but…” in this monologue, maybe in reference to the mask of Mandalore.

Very good.

I’m not sure about the back shot of BoKatan right before he asks if it should be hers. Otherwise, the pacing of the lines with the visuals is great.

It seems a little long to me. It may be better with the visuals.

As far as how it sounds, the only line that struck me as really awkward was the words “for Mandalore” after “leader’s vision.” You could probably even just cut out those two words without losing any meaning.

I think fewer non-English lines from the Armorer when they are outside would help. She doesn’t often speak in the Mando language in other scenes.

Otherwise, this is very good. I’m not a professional, but this sounds quite passable to me. I love that this pays off the small eye-contact interaction from the Mythosaur encounter that the vanilla show made very little of.

So then she gets to keep it off so that everyone can see the anointing in her eyes?

Very cool ideas and execution. I was disappointed in season 3, like many, and I’m very excited to see your take on the content.

3 hour Book 6, with a potential re-expansion into 7 parts if new content allows.

I don’t know anything about current activity on this project, but I do know that a couple people on YouTube (including one who is also on the Topaz forums) is working on 90s Trek upscaling.

Independently, I’ve begun upscaling my DS9 and VOY DVDs to 1080p using some custom Topaz settings and then a polish export via DaVinci Resolve. The results aren’t as scene-specific as this effort, but they’re a huge step up from the DVDs and enough to let my family enjoy the episodes.

I follow the following steps:

1. Rip MKV file from DVD.
2. Deinterlace using Handbrake (manually set the framerate at 29.9… because otherwise it’ll turn out choppy).
3. Run though Topaz using Apollo to make the video 30 fps - this is just something I do for all my files to ensure a universal framerate for my footage.
4. Run through Topaz using a manual-setting Proteus 4 upscale to full hd 1080p.
5. Add slight hallation effect in DaVinci Resolve and re-export - this reduces the file size too.
6. Re-export using Handbrake to further reduce the file size, ending up around 2-2.5 GB per episode.

I agree. We don’t often think about the amount of loss and hurt Leia endured. I mean, even just the long-term trauma of Alderaan.

Darth Raditz said:

I watched Q2’s Episode 1 edit for the first time yesterday and it got me thinking: Could you make Maul the Sith that the Trade Federation is in league with? You’d have to darken his face in his hood, cut out frames in the Tatooine lightsaber duel that show his face off, maybe even shoot new footage of Maul alone on Tatooine to sell the idea, but it would be fun to redub his lines and make him more of an active villain in the movie. Plus that “but which was destroyed, the master or the apprentice” line hits harder because there’s another Sith still out there, especially if you’re not teasing that Palpatine’s behind it all too early.

Agreed. Tipping Palpatine too early is one of the biggest issues I have with the prequels. Yes, it’s obvious for old-school fans, but it’d be cool if he was a mystery to new viewers, just as he is to the characters.

What to do with Karga may also be determined by how the series deals with the actor’s recent death in the next year or so.

Much better

Maybe “Pushing Ben toward that throne” would be cleaner.

Man that’s good. It’s exposition heavy, but so is the original. The only place that stood out to me as awkward was the “Because you’re a Palpatine” line, which seems a bit out of nowhere and abrupt. In the wider context, it might work better, being a clear repetition of what Kylo told her.

I like the hallway as part of Vader’s introduction/boarding the ship.

I’m not sure we need CGI Leia in this version.

I’m not sure how we get from Scariff to Tatooine.

These new sequences are amazing. They’re going to add so much depth.

I’ve watched this dialogue evolve through countless iterations in the other threads, and I’m very excited to see this version come to fruition. Excellent ideas here!

I’m very interested in this project too. I tried my own basic upscale using the DVDs and Topaz but am always interested in seeing the wonders that more detailed people are able to produce.

Please leave it ambiguous whether Palpatine did or did not actually have any role in the creation of Anakin or Rey. That way, conversations like this can continue and be had by anyone who watches instead of having the edit lock in one or the other theory.