Star Wars: Attack of the Federation
by JasonNThis fanedit combines the best aspects from other TPM fanedits along with the faneditor’s own concepts/edits to create a definitive version of “The Phantom Menace”.
member ratings:
(12 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10, rated)
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Original Titles: Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
New Title: Star Wars: Attack of the Federation
Original Runtime: 133 minutes (2 hours, 13 minutes)
New Runtime: 106 minutes (1 hours, 46 minutes)
Time Cut: 29-30 minutes
Time Added: 1-2 minutes
AVI Release Information
- - Resolution: 720×320
- - Audio format: 5.1 Dolby Surround
- - Language: English
DVD-9 Release Information
- DVD Format: NTSC – DVD9-DL
- Region: 0 (region free)
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1, 16×9 widescreen
- Audio format: 5.1 Dolby Digital
- Language: English
- Subtitles: none
- Custom DVD Menus
- DVD Extras: Fanedit Trailers – “Star Wars: Twilight of the Republic” and “Star Wars: The Black Knight Rises”
Major Cuts/Edits/Changes
- 01. Added a new title crawl (developed from an After Effects “Star Wars title crawl” sequence originally created by Taolar)
- 02. Major cuts/edits to Jar-Jar Binks, Anakin, Padme, the Gungans, and the Trade Federation
- 03. Removed all references to midichlorians, Anakin’s virgin birth, or the Chosen One prophecy
- 04. All scenes featuring Sidious’s now has his face from under his hod removed and his voice has been altered/lowered to conceal his identity
- 05. All Battle Droids’ voices have been removed (with the exception of one scene, where the voice is needed for plot purposes)
- 06. Removed dialogue redundancy throughout the film
- 07. No “Planet Core” sequence (both first and second parts)
- 08. Removed a lot of redundant dialogue by Ric Olie (aka “Captain Obvious”)
- 09. Took out the Viceroy’s “Now there are two of them!” line followed by his croony’s “We shouldn’t have made this bargin”
- 10. Removed Jar-Jar’s redundant scene with Padme cleaning R2
- 11. Removed Jar-Jar stepping in sh*t
- 12. Added in Watto humming the “Cantina theme” in his first scene in the film (audio taken from Magnoliafan’s “Balance to the Force” edit)
- 13. Added Watto shouting “You break it, you buy it, eh!” line to Jar-Jar (audio taken from Magnoliafan’s “Balance to the Force” edit)
- 14. Added the deleted scene of Anakin beating up Greedo back into the film – it now serves as Anakin’s character introduction to Qui-Gon
- 15. Removed the “Jar-Jar antics” at the Skywalker table
- 16. The Pod Race has been patterned after Slumberland’s cut (with a few additional tweaks/edits of my own)
- - No two-headed alien “sports announcer” commentary
- - No scenes of Jabba the Hutt
- 17. Added the deleted scene of Qui-Gon cutting down the probe droid back into the film
- 18. No mention of Queen Amadala being “elected” in the Senate scenes
- 19. Anakin does not talk after the “No Sir” line during the Jedi Council’s testing
- 20. Took out Qui-Gon’s description of Obi-Wan to the Jedi Council to “sell” them on making him a Jedi Knight
- 21. Numerous cuts to the Battle of Naboo sequence (Gungan army, Padme’s group, Anakin in space)
- 22. Padme’s “Get to your ships!” line has been replaced with the voice that was used in the TPM trailer
- 23. Anakin’s ship is no longer on autopilot (now pilots of his own choice)
- 24. Removed Qui-Gon asking Obi-Wan to train Anakin at his death
- 25. Removed Obi-Wan’s “I gave Qui-Gon my word” line to Yoda on training Anakin at end of film (Obi-Wan now decides to train the boy on his own)
- 26. Corrected the bad match-cut of Anakin turning his head at Qui-Gon’s funeral
- 27. Added “Faneditor’s credit” to the end credits
Intention With This Edit: To combine the best aspects from other TPM fanedits along with my own concepts/edits to create a definitive version of “The Phantom Menace”.
Software Used: Sony Vegas 7 (video editing), Adobe Photoshop CS2 (image editing), Bahaus Mirage (compositing), Adobe After Effects 6.5 (compositing), Sony Sound Forge 8 (audio editing), Sony DVD Architect 4.5 (DVD authoring)
releases:
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Review by mystory64:
“JasonN – I really wanted to take my time on pointing out all the cool stuff seeing as your hard work deserved some early praise right away!!
What was Great -
Sidiuous actually being a shadow/phantom and his voice having a deeper more “sith-like” feel to it, a totally orig on your part and a perfect addition!
The Alien Subtitles – they are all great and add a humor/danger whatnot to all the scenes!
Anakin- again, great job keeping what worked in his performance and making him a talented kid and future Jedi rather than the *ahem* “chhoooseeennnnn ooonneeeee” … lol
Jar-Jar – wow, I barely even noticed him, awesome job!!!! He really is a second player now and blends nto the background more so than the Ewoks did in ROTJ, so great work!!!
What was Good-
Video quality/coloration is exactly as it appeared in the movies, barring full dvd release, but for xvid, plays great!
Sound- great work!!!!!!!
What stood out too much -
Only one gripe and it might be me so bear that in mind, but when the Trade Federation ships land on Naboo to invade, as the tanks dispatch there is a hard cut to the Naboo Palace. I figured you were trying to cut out the Niemodians and Droids talking scene, but it seemed pretty abrupt to me PLUS we then go to Naboo Palace where the Queen says she didn’t want to start a war.. seems wierd we would see the war starting before she says that, but thats my opinion.
The opening crawl… LOVE The BLUE scheme, glad you kept it, but the description still reads boring Lucas style, kinda hoped you would have kept the “Slavery” being outlawed bit rather than taxation…. but oh well
And of course I still really like ADM’s OT music addition to the podrace scene, mostly cause it added OT Williams music and the force theme to Anakin as he fixes his pod, for my own purposes I’ll prob re-edit that into the vid for my own viewing pleasure, please don’t take that as a crit – I understand you wanted a true 5.1 so I completely get it, but I’m not as picky on that front and would prefer more variety in the tunes… as it stands now, there just way too much Trade Federation music being looped by ol Ben Burtt.
What I could wish for -
A true color fix – but were all gonna have to wait til lady gets to this for that to happen, as it stands now the colors are all pink hued and bloomed out… *sigh* not yur fault just another Lucas decision…
Again phenom work JasonN!!! I know these three edits almost killed you so you deserve high praise and I truly look forward to the Episode release.”
Review by JasonN — March 28, 2009 @ 4:06 am
Review by White43:
“I have to date watched at least 4 edits of the PM. None of them ever seemed to come up to scratch – none of them simply went far enough. We all know the issues, but does Jason’s version finally achieve this?
Well, I can say – The Force is strong with this one!
Jason pretty much made public what he was doing with the film, so I knew what to expect somewhat.
Audio and Audio Edit
Sound was good, I detected no problems. Nice and clear. The audio edits were largely seemless.
Video and Video Edit
No issues. Nice clear pictures.
A couple times I did note what seemed to be a quick edits, but then, I’m looking for them and I know the film. They were however minor and didn’t bring me out of the film. The reviewer above states where a couple are.
I noted an error in a Watto subtitle. It’s where he’s telling Anakin and Padme that Qui-Gonn shouldn’t keep betting “I’ll being owning him soon.”
The edit.
Good
- Blacking out Sidious and deepening the voice is excellent. Makes him feel like a separate character. Jar Jar has been hacked down to an absolute minimum, I barely noticed him in this edit. He no longer irritates. Anakin is trimmed down and although he’s still fairly annoying, all his yippies and whoops are gone…bar one at the end of the battle……do we really need it?
- No underwater fish attacks, no podrace commentary, removal of most of Sebulba – excellent. Not missed and works very well.
- Boss, no ticks.
- Droids – no voices. This is very effective.
- Anakin deliberately piloting the ship, that has always been a good idea.
Stuff not so good….
- Captain Obvious still says too many things.
- A scene which I’ve never liked is when they all leave Tattooine. Anakin being cold, “I made this for you.”, “I don’t need this to remember you.” “I’ll always care for you…” etc etc. My god she’s only just met the kid. It turns out they care about each other so much he doesn’t see her for 10 years.
- Big celebration at the end! I thought you’d kill that one. It’s a horrible scene.
Conclusion
The pace of this film is spot on and it’s the first time I’ve watched TPM without it seeming to drag ass. I enjoyed this edit more than any other edit I’ve seen of the film. It felt liberating not to see all the crap that’s usually in it and actually enjoy it!
Tommy two thumbs up from me 9/10 (For the few technical errors and the reasons above)”
Review by JasonN — March 28, 2009 @ 4:08 am
Well not much to say after all the above comments, I thought it was a great edit of the PM, loved the sidious voice, and thought you did a great job of removing Jar Jar’s stupidity . Video and Audio quality
are very good. I shall look forward to your next 2 releases. 10/10 from me great edit.
Review by searcher — March 29, 2009 @ 7:13 pm
A good one. Definite? No, But good.
Review by hellrick — April 10, 2009 @ 9:07 pm
My new definitive cut of TPM!
10/10
Review by pizzaguylol — June 27, 2009 @ 11:54 pm
This is my favorite Edit Also. Very good work.
Unfortunately the later films edits from Jasonn are not so great cause of little things that i don’t like,
like no sand people kill (in Attack of the clones) and no LEiA (in Revenge of the sith)
Other then that the edit skills are very good!
Review by pokemonkey — August 13, 2009 @ 4:42 am
Nice fanedit. Really liked the 800MB avi, so I downloaded the DVD DL, but something is wrong with the version uploaded to rapidshare at the first fight scene on Naboo, about 16:22 into the movie and clears up about 17:25 . The rar files extract without error but playing the extracted DVD DL in powerdvd9 directly from HDD or after burning them to DVD DL, the fight is all jumbled up, I’ve tried exracting the rar files onto two separate partitions. Pity really. Any ideas?
Review by VideoHo — August 21, 2009 @ 7:10 am