After completing my ROTF edits I've started to revamp my edit of the first Transformers movie. I have much better software than what I had when I did the first edit, and so using that edit as a starting point I've gone back to try and accomplish some things I tried before but was unable to do. I also wanted to polish up a few transitions, and borrowed an idea or 2 from other editors.
Version 2 changes:
Cleaned up various transitions.
Removed a couple of second during Desert battle.
Removed Barricade's headlight probes.
Cropped footage during Barricade/Sam encounter to make cut more natural looking.
Cut part of Sam/Mikaela after Sam tackled her off moped.
Cut small bit of footage at end of Barricade/BB chase to eliminate obvious continuity error (shot of BB wheel inside warehouse when they should be outside).
HEAVY cutting of scene at Sam's home. No more "earthquake," no more power outage, no parents in Sam's bedroom, etc. This is now a very fast paced scene that keeps the flow going. (This is by far the biggest change in this version)
Small trim to improve handcuff scene further.
Removed Epps line from BB/Giant cube scene.
Rearranged Mission City battle to eliminate delay between Megatron killing Jazz and Optimus' arrival (I was soooo close to being able to do this with previous software, but ultimately had to scrap it).
Had Megatron come through roof as soon as Sam gets up there (borrowed from Uncanny Antman, though pretty sure the cuts are different - I do keep the reason for Sam going to that building).
Removed "Shoot, shoot!" line.
Removed, "awww" from "Awww, Jazz" line. (borrowed from UA also).
Removed BB speaking at the end. (Tried this before and couldn't even really even get it close to working. New Software made it possible, but still wasn't too easy.)
One last thing I need to try is to remove the BB pee scene (going to have to use UA's edit as reference). I don't mind this scene myself, and I think it seems in character for BB, but it seems to bug a lot of people, so I'll work on it.
Currently I've removed approximately 7 additional minutes from the previous version, and estimate the BB pee scene will add close to another 2 minutes or so.