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Star Wars Episode I: The Rise of Naboo

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Star Wars Episode I: The Rise of Naboo specifications

Codec: H.264 – MPEG-4 AVC (Part 10)

Resolution: 1920x818

Frame Rate: 23.976fps

Audio Tracks

AAC 5.1 Surround (960 kbps)
Sample rate: 48000 Hz

AAC 2.0 Stereo (429 kbps)
Sample rate: 48000 Hz

AAC 1.0 Commentary (225 kbps)
Sample rate: 48000 Hz

Running Time: 1:32:47

Special Thanks to...

Schorman13, SparkySywer, and nevertellmetheodds for the puppet Yoda scenes

bryantmh for the deleted scenes

Jackpumpkinhead for the custom crawl creator and Blender advice

ArtisDead for the cover art

And a very special thanks to everyone who advised and helped out with making this edit a reality including:

Captain Faraday
EddieDean
Atom-88
GMatias
Mrebo
NotTheDri0ds
TheAlaskanSandman
l8wrtr
HAL9000
DigModiFicaTion
GelflingHand
BrotherOfSasquatch
Necramonium
Canon Editor
theomega
revel911
Mario
...Everyone at fanedit.org!
...And everyone at originaltrilogy.com!

In the autumn of 2020, I made a decision. That decision was that I would make my own fanedits of the Star Wars prequels, and that I would fix them up using what I knew about screenwriting and what I read from a famous Greek philosopher named Aristotle. Particularly, his work on poetry known as the Poetics. Since then, I've been editing and re-editing Episode I and even gone back and restructured the ending to give it a three-act structure kind of feel. I've been going back and forth with the color grading, changing it a zillion times over before finally going for a more film-like color grade based on 35mm film trailers I've bought on eBay and 35mm film trailers I've found on YouTube, and even then, there's still so much to learn about color grading. I've been playing around with the sound editing and seeing what I can and can't accomplish, as well as how to deal with sound issues that stick out like a sore thumb. Even now, sound editing is still a wild world for me and some of my latest ideas for how to improve the sound editing are still making me a little anxious.

That doesn't mean that editing Episode I has been a bad time! Far from it! As far as I'm concerned, looking for things to improve with Episode I is a topic that never gets old for me. Even now, I've been entertaining some more ideas related to Episode I (Which I will not mention for the time being in case I decide to scratch the idea entirely, but they are ideas).

Right now, I'm at the finishing touches with my fanedit of Episode I. I'm satisfied with most of it, but I want to change that up to completely satisfied if possible. Plus, I want to make sure I fix up as many issues the Academy might have with it. My hope is that version 3.5 will be my final version (and the one that reaches that all-important 100% complete marker). It's been quite a journey from when I started back in 2020. Below, I've detailed what's been taken care of, and what's still in need of work. Happy reading!

The editing changes

Below is the long, long, LONG list of changes I've made to my Episode I edit. In total, I've cut the film down to 92 minutes. Judging from my blu-ray, I have cut out 45 minutes of footage, and added in 1 minute of deleted footage. As for sources, most of it is the 2011 blu-ray. However, I have used schorman13's Episode I preservation for the Yoda scenes (Because I'll take muppet Yoda over CGI Yoda any day of the week). I also used bryantmh's upscales for the two deleted scenes I've added back in. However, there was no audio track on these files, so I synced the footage up with the DVD Audio track in order to fix this. Hopefully, no one will notice a big difference in audio during those two scenes.

Here is the legend:

- Removed
/ Altered
+ Added

/Opening crawl
-boarding scene
-tc-14 introduction shot
-how the negotiations will go down, the neimoidians being cowards, and the negotiations being short
-“what? What did you say?”
-“they’re here to force a settlement.”
-“are you brain dead?”
-jedi having drinks
-cowardice of Nute Gunray’s sidekick
-“Viceroy, I don’t want this stunted slime in my sight again.”
-“my lord, is that legal?” And “I will make it legal.”
-“the chancellor should never have brought them into this.”
-“yes. Yes, my lord. As you wish.”
-jedi reacting to explosion and seeing the gas
-“they must be dead by now. Destroy what’s left of them.”
-droid dialogue except when necessary
-“what is going on down there?” And “we lost the transmissions, sir.”
-“have you ever encountered a jedi knight before, sir?” And “well, no, I…”
-“that won’t be enough, sir”, “I want droidekas out here at once!” And “we will not survive this.”
-“that will hold them.”
/Qui-Gon’s cutting into the blast door
-“they’re still coming through.” And “this is impossible!”
-“where are those droidekas?”
-“they’re no match for droidekas.” And “sir, they’ve gone up the ventilation shaft.”
-negotiations being short joke
-Queen Amidala’s conversation with neimoidians
-communications disruption scene
-Jar Jar’s first three shots
-“oh moi moi, I love you!”, “You almost got us killed. Are you brainless?”, “I spek.”, and “the ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”
-Jar Jar’s freakout over the droid attack
-“more? More did you say?”
-“dis embarrassing. Mine friend I’ve been banished. Mine forgotten. The Brusses will do terrible things to me. Terrrrrible things to me if me going back there!”, “you hear that?”, “yeah.”, “that is the sound of a thousand terrible things heading this way.”, “if they find us, they will crush us, grind us into tiny pieces and blast us into oblivion.”, and “Yousa point is well said. This way. Hurry!”
-Jar Jar and the jedi at the lake and gunga city swim
-anything that has to do with doodoo, poodoo, or anything involving poop.
-almost all of Jar Jar’s annoying sound effects
-“How wude.”
-almost all of Boss Nass’ odd sound effects
-“once those droids take control of the surface, they will take control of you.”, “meesa no tink so. They not know of ocean.”, “you and the Naboo form a symbiote circle. What happens to one of you will affect the other. You must understand this.”, and “weesa no carrring about the naboo.”
-“the speediest way to the Naboo tis going through… The planet corrre… Now… Go…”
-“deysa setting yousa up. Going through the planet core? Bad bombin’.”
-“we’ll need a navigator to get us through the planet’s core.”
-“count me outta this one. Better dead here than dead in the core. Egads, whatta meesa saying?”
-all of the underwater sea adventures through the planet core
-the emperor and neimoidians conversation about the invasion being on schedule, the Senate accepting control, Amidala’s naivete, and the missing jedi
-“viceroy, we have captured the queen.”, and “victory.”
-neimoidians discussion of the treaty with queen amidala and governor sio at the palace steps
-jar jar falling in frame during the jedi rescue of the queen
-“meesa got bombat.”
-“we’re ambassadors for the supreme chancellor.”
-“won’t be a problem.”
-“they wouldn’t dare.”
-“either choice presents great danger… to us all”, “we are brave, your highness.”, and “if we are to leave, your highness, it must be now.”
-“where are you taking them?”, “to coruscant.”, and “coruscant. Uh, that doesn’t compute. Uh, wait, uh…”
-obi wan’s lecture to jar jar followed by jar jar saying hello to the droids
-everything involving R2-D2 saving the ship
-“I want that treaty signed!”, “my lord, it’s impossible to locate the ship. It’s out of our range.”, and “not for a sith.”
-“this is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them.” And “we should not have made this bargain.”
-Queen Amidala thanking R2 scene
-Padme cleaning up R2 scene
-“the sun is doing murder to meesa skin.”
-second time Panaka says wait
/subtitle change: “good day to you.” to “good afternoon.”
/subtitle change: “what do you want?” to “what brings you here?”
/subtitle change: “I was cleaning the fan switches.” to “I was fixing the power converters.”
-All of jar jar’s antics in Watto’s shop except the last one
/“they live on the moons of iago, I think.” to “they live on the moons of iago.”
-Qui-Gon’s attempts to use the jedi mind trick on Watto to accept the republic credits.
/Jar Jar’s fooling around with the cans shortened and sound effects removed to make moment less annoying
-ker-plop sound effect
-jar jar being unable to choose left or right
-“clean the racks.” and “then you can go home.”
-Anakin’s yippee’s
-“no again! No again! The bees hereabouts? Cawaazy! Weesa be robbed and crunched!” and “Unlikely. We have nothing of value. That’s our problem.”
+Anakin’s confrontation with Greedo deleted scene (edited)
/subtitle change: “Yes, I do.” to “yes.”
-Greedo fan service reveal.
-all of Sebulba’s introduction
-obi wan and Panaka observing the coming sandstorm
-“this one cozy.”
-“hewwo.”
-all of C-3P0’s introduction scene
-darth maul and emperor on coruscant scene
-“Boom!” and “how wude?”
-“we must survive on our own.”
-all of jar jar’s antics at the dinner table.
-“we no not moola to trade.”
-“greed can be a powerful ally.”
-Padme’s whining at Qui-Gon.
-“it wasn’t my fault. Really. Sebulba flashed me with his vents. I actually saved the pod. Mostly.”, and “that you did. The boy’s good, no doubts there, huh?”
/subtitle change: “your friend is a foolish one, methinks.” to “Your friend is more foolish than I thought.”
-“I didn’t actually come here to free slaves.”
-all the stuff with the kids
-jar jar working on the pod
-c3p0 comments about how odd jar jar is
-qui-gon’s blood test.
-jar jar’s “oh no!” Reaction to sebulba
-shot of qui-gon’s hand using the force on the chance cube
-“better stop your friend’s betting or I’ll end up owning him too.”, “what did he mean by that?”, and “I’ll tell you later. Good morning.”
-R2 and c3p0’s conversation on those dreadful starships
-anakin, padme, and kitster’s conversation about how he’s never won a race before.
-darth maul’s probe droid searching scene
-almost all of the sports announcer’s dialogue
-all podracer introductions
-jar jar fart joke
/subtitle change: “you won’t walk away from this one, slave scum.” to “you will always be second place, slave scum.”
/subtitle change: “don’t count on it, slime ball” to “I walk on legs, slime ball.”
-“you’re bantha fodder.”
-anakin’s “whoa” sound effect
-Jabba the Hutt announcing the start of the race.
-padme’s whining to Qui-Gon. Again.
-“oh, this is gonna be messy. Me no watchin’.”
-Quadranero and his power coupling problem
-“come on, ani.”
-“Go, ani, go!”
-pit droid stop
-“where is master anakin?”
-“look, here he comes.”
-shot of alien selling snacks
-“he has to complete two more circuits? Oh dear.”
-crowd shot
-lap 3 transition scene
-“careful, ani. Careful, ani!”
-sebulba saying poodoo
-r2 and c3p0s reaction to anakin winning
-jar jar’s howl of great joy
-jabba waking up
-qui-gon and watto conversation on anakin’s win
-“yes!”
-“what?”
-“you mean…”
-“but I wanna go…”
-“yippee!”
-“i tried to free your mother, ani, but watto wouldn’t have it.”
-anakin’s goodbye to c3p0
-“i can’t do it, mom. I just can’t do it.”
-“…i guess.”
+farewell to jira deleted scene (edited)
-anakin saying goodbye to jira
-darth maul seeing the probe droid return
-Darth maul walking over to his speeder
-“qui-gon, sir. Wait, I’m tired!”
-“tell them to take off!”
-“my guess is it was after the queen.”
-“it is a great gift to see you alive, your majesty. With the communications breakdown, we’ve been very concerned. I’m anxious to hear your report on the situation. May I present supreme chancellor valorum?”
-“im grateful for your concern, chancellor.”
-Anakin turning around when he hears that the situation has become more complicated.
-“the queen’s a being grossly nice meesa thinks. Pitty hot!”
-panoramic shots of coruscant except the final one
-anakin and jar jar outside of Palpatine’s office
-“There is no civility. Only politics. The republic is not what it once was. The senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good…”
-“we will use all of our resources to unravel this mystery. We will discover the identity of your attacker.”
-“his cells have the highest concentration of midichlorians I have seen in a lifeform. It is possible he was conceived by the midichlorians.”
-scene where anakin stops by to see padme only to find that she’s on an errand.
-“the chair recognizes the senator from the sovereign system of Naboo.”
-“…which started right here with the taxation of trade routes…”
-“…recently elected ruler of the Naboo…”
-“fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
-“gungans get pasty too, eh?”
-“he is headstrong, and he has much to learn of the living force, but he is capable. There is little more he can learn from me.” and “young Skywalker’s fate will be decided later.”
-“…and draw out the queen’s attacker.”
-“this is the clue we need to unravel the mystery of the sith.”
-qui-gon and anakin’s discussion on midichlorians.
-“weesa going home!” and “come on, r2.”
-scene where the neimoidians talk to the emperor about how they’re in complete control of the planet.
-scene where Obi-Wan speaks with the pilot about the droid control ship.
-“…and you’re a much wiser man than I am. I foresee that you will become a great jedi knight.”
-“hello very big boss nass, your honor.”
-boss nass “ahhhh…”
-several shots delaying boss nass’ decision
-boss nass’ laugh
-anakin giving the signal to amidala
-boss nass promoting jar jar to general
-“what is the situation?”
-“r2?”
-“once we get to the main entrance, captain Panaka will create a diversion…”
-“without the viceroy, they’ll be lost and confused. What do you think, master jedi?”, “the viceroy will be well-guarded.”, “the difficulty is getting into the throne room. Once we’re inside, we shouldn’t have a problem.”, “there is a possibility that with this diversion, many gungans will be killed.”, “weesa ready to do our part.”, and “we have a plan, which should immobilize the droid army.”
-qui-gon telling anakin to find a safe place to hide
-“i thought the battle was going to take place far from here! This is too close!”
-“ani, find cover! Quick!”
-all shots of anakin finding cover
-r2 being carried into naboo pilot ship
-all shots of anakin entering pilot ship (until he turns the ship on)
-all of Jar jar’s clumsiness during gungan/droid battle
-“my guess is the viceroy’s in the throne room.”, “red group! Blue group! Everybody this way.”, “hey, wait for me.”, “anakin, stay where you are. You’ll be safe there.”, “but I…”, and “stay in that cockpit.”
-“we’ve got to do something, r2.”
-“I’m trying to. I don’t know where the trigger is.”
-“oops! Wrong one. Maybe this one.”
-“nope. Wait, here it is.”
-“uh, it’s on automatic pilot.”
-“try to override it.”
-darth maul showing off to the jedi by flipping around and using the force to throw an object at the doorway instead of hurling it at the jedi.
-“look! There they are! That’s where the automatic pilot’s taking us.”
-“this is tense!”
-“r2, get us off this auto pilot, it’s gonna get us both killed.”
-“you did it, r2!”
-“okay, let’s go left.”
-“go back? Qui-gon told me to stay in this cockpit, so that’s what I’m gonna do.”
-“i’ll try spinning, that’s a good trick.”
-anakin’s aaaaaaahh sound effect
-“i know we’re in trouble, just hang on.”
-padme and amidala decoy splitting up scene.
-anakin’s “aaaaahh” sound effects
-“I’m trying to stop! I’m trying to stop!”
-“oops, this is not good.”
-“…time for you to sign the treaty and end this pointless debate in the senate.”, “viceroy, your occupation has ended.”, “after her! This one’s a decoy!”, “captain!”, “jam the doors!”, and “now viceroy, we will discuss a new treaty.”
-“take this!”, “and this!”, “whoa!”, and “oops!”
-“we’re losing power! There seems to be a main problem with the main reactor.”, and “impossible. Nothing can get through our shields!”
-“now this is podracing.” Shocking, I know.
-“whassa they doing?”
-“they are broken!”
-Darth maul’s “huh? What’s he thinking?” Reaction shot
-“your boldness has saved our people, your majesty. It’s you who should be congratulated!”
-jar jar’s sad noise
-jar jar’s silliness during parade

I also made some more changes starting with v3. Those changes are down here:

/Rewritten the opening crawl again
+First shot of Jar Jar
+“We’re ambassadors for the supreme chancellor.”
-Qui-Gon talking to the droid during Naboo rescue attempt
+Podrace opening extended
+Podrace commentators, but only as background noise
-Jar Jar’s gasp reaction
+Lap 3 Podrace introduction restored
+Shot of Amidala walking up to Valorum and Palpatine on Coruscant
+“Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.”
/Swapped jedi council’s rejection of Anakin scene and Amidala’s decision to return to Naboo
-“He’s too old.”
-Mace Windu’s updating Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan on recent events
-Scene where Darth Sidious says “This is an unexpected move for her. It’s too aggressive.”
+“R2?”
And finally…
/Restructured the ending to the following:
Gungan army intro
Palace siege intro
Space battle intro
Gungan battle begins
Darth Maul intro
Destroyer droid obstacle
Lightsaber battle begins
Anakin enters the cockpit
Gungan battle continues
Lightsaber fight continues
“We don’t have time for this, captain.”
Anakin enters the space battle
Jedi get separated
Gungans retreat
Padme gets captured
Qui-Gon dies
Gungans surrender
Anakin gets hit
Obi-Wan fights Darth Maul
Padme meets Nute Gunray
Darth Maul dies
Anakin destroys the control ship
Gungans celebrate
 
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My Episode I soundtrack arrived in the mail today! Gonna see if I can convert the tracks into their own .wav files and see what happens!
 
After a few discussions I've had with ArtisDead, I've decided to change the title to "Star Wars Episode I: The Rise of Naboo." I've changed the thread title in accordance with the alteration.

In other news, the soundtrack is proving to be useful after all! I just went through a bunch of frustration and added the first few seconds of "Jar Jar's Introduction and The Swim to Otoh Gunga" over the jump cut I made to Gunga City in my edit. The idea of adding in a humorous musical cue to this cut was suggested to me by an originaltrilogy.com user named Mrebo. It's a little late for me to say this, but... Thanks Mrebo for the criticism!
 
What was the original title? What brought about the name change?
 
Did some more work on recording the commentary. I think I'm officially at the halfway point now.
 
Thanks to the work I've been doing for my Eyes Wide Shut fanedit, I've been learning some color grading "tricks" as of late. And while I did declare that my color grading is complete, I've been thinking of trying it again. So for that reason, I've compiled this small sample because any improvement is always a good thing.

First, my official source, the 2011 blu-ray:
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Next, my color grade as it currently stands:
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And finally, here's what I have in mind:
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What are your thoughts? Is it an improvement, or should I stick to my original grade?
 
Everything is looking excellent. I'm very excited to see more of this.
 
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I like it! The only issue I have is that C-3P0 is almost completely absent in my edit, but then again, he was never a big deal in Episode I to begin with, so I don't think it's a major problem (Note to self: tell the artist what changes you've made to the characters for Episode II). Other than that, great job! (y)
 
So...are you going to use it? I can get started on the others in series. I can take C3PO out but I kind of need to know those things in advance. I can also set these up as covers if you provide copy and layout idea for the back.
 
So...are you going to use it? I can get started on the others in series. I can take C3PO out but I kind of need to know those things in advance. I can also set these up as covers if you provide copy and layout idea for the back.

If you feel like taking out 3P0, feel free to do so. I'll be happy to PM you some of the changes I've made!

With that said, though, I still like this poster and will also be happy to use it! Either way, I'm happy with it!
 
Wow, that was fast! I think the new version of Episode I is now officially perfecto! 👌 Excellent job, Art!

Episode II, on the other hand... It looks good, but yeah, I need to explain the changes on that one, since Episode II is the shortest of my edits and it has a zillion alterations! I'll send you that PM as soon as possible!
 
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