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All versions have been updated with the fixed audio track. Again, the audio track is also available on it's own if you just want to remux it to the version you may have already obtained. It'll work for any of the sizes.
Now that that's been solved, here's some stuff I'm doing for Version 2:
- The little bit of old crawl text that snuck into the background has been eliminated.
- Palpatine's line about killing him and passing on his spirit has been moved back to the end of the movie, where it originally took place. This clarifies Palpatine's plans a bit more, but also makes Rey seem less clueless. I have reverted his line at the beginning back to the "unnatural abilities" thing he originally said. The editing around both of these scenes is a little less choppy now because I could retain more shots of Palpatine.
- The color/brightness/contrast of Leia's death scene is adjusted to better match the daylight scenes with Rey. I can't do much about the rain in the background, but it can be assumed this is just water from inside the cave. It at least now looks like it's roughly the same time of day.
- The transition from leaving on the Falcon to Kylo and the Knights of Ren flying to the Star Destroyer has been reworked to be a little less sudden.
- Some tweaks to the dialogue replacement in the Force Bond fight to give Kylo more purpose in the scene, beyond taunting Rey. It's not much, but it's a little more context and makes it feel less rushed.
- I put the initial reaction to Hux being the spy back in. I still hate it, but cutting it just makes it feel disjointed. Can't win 'em all.
- Rey's line about finding and destroying Palpatine has been removed. The idea was to make her intentions a little murky, but it didn't really work. Also, murky intentions aren't a particularly "Star Warsy" notion, especially for the main character. Now she hears the Sith whisper and reacts to it, which triggers Finn to try to comfort her.
- The transition from Ben on the Death Star to Rey on Ach-To has been reworked to be a bit smoother.
I've received feedback on some other things as well, but I'm not changing everything that's been mentioned. Some of it I'm fine with as-is, and some of it is a deliberate choice that I like. I want this to be the best it can be, but I also want it to remain "The Spence Edit."
I'm certain that a lot of the work from this is going to find it's way into future fanedits. I know HAL9000 is doing a Rey Nobody version of Ascendent that will incorporate a lot of the things I did here, just as I used a lot of the work from his edit for this. That's the fun part of Star Wars edits. We borrow and steal from each other to make new things. If there's something I did here that I'm not intending to change that irks you, by all means, borrow and steal!
Now that that's been solved, here's some stuff I'm doing for Version 2:
- The little bit of old crawl text that snuck into the background has been eliminated.
- Palpatine's line about killing him and passing on his spirit has been moved back to the end of the movie, where it originally took place. This clarifies Palpatine's plans a bit more, but also makes Rey seem less clueless. I have reverted his line at the beginning back to the "unnatural abilities" thing he originally said. The editing around both of these scenes is a little less choppy now because I could retain more shots of Palpatine.
- The color/brightness/contrast of Leia's death scene is adjusted to better match the daylight scenes with Rey. I can't do much about the rain in the background, but it can be assumed this is just water from inside the cave. It at least now looks like it's roughly the same time of day.
- The transition from leaving on the Falcon to Kylo and the Knights of Ren flying to the Star Destroyer has been reworked to be a little less sudden.
- Some tweaks to the dialogue replacement in the Force Bond fight to give Kylo more purpose in the scene, beyond taunting Rey. It's not much, but it's a little more context and makes it feel less rushed.
- I put the initial reaction to Hux being the spy back in. I still hate it, but cutting it just makes it feel disjointed. Can't win 'em all.
- Rey's line about finding and destroying Palpatine has been removed. The idea was to make her intentions a little murky, but it didn't really work. Also, murky intentions aren't a particularly "Star Warsy" notion, especially for the main character. Now she hears the Sith whisper and reacts to it, which triggers Finn to try to comfort her.
- The transition from Ben on the Death Star to Rey on Ach-To has been reworked to be a bit smoother.
I've received feedback on some other things as well, but I'm not changing everything that's been mentioned. Some of it I'm fine with as-is, and some of it is a deliberate choice that I like. I want this to be the best it can be, but I also want it to remain "The Spence Edit."
I'm certain that a lot of the work from this is going to find it's way into future fanedits. I know HAL9000 is doing a Rey Nobody version of Ascendent that will incorporate a lot of the things I did here, just as I used a lot of the work from his edit for this. That's the fun part of Star Wars edits. We borrow and steal from each other to make new things. If there's something I did here that I'm not intending to change that irks you, by all means, borrow and steal!