2017-01-11, 06:10 PM
Project Info
Back when the Attack of the Clones was released in 2002, IMAX screenings were strictly limited to 2 hour films. Therefore, AOTC (2 hours and 22 minutes) theatrically had to be cut about 22 minutes. At the time, it was also cropped to 1.81 to fill more of the IMAX screen than the original 2.35 ratio would permit.
Fortunately, George Lucas did not supervise this edit. Whoever did clearly caught a lot of flaws in the bloated original film and was particularly brutal in axing the worst of Anakin's excesses, as well as unnecessary subplot sequences in general. Actually, this IMAX version winds up being decently similar to fan edits that succeeded it.
No CAM or TS of this IMAX version exists but many extensive cutlists were created at the time. I reconstructed this based off of information from several sources, and it should prove a reasonable approximation of the IMAX cut until a proper reference source is found (highly unlikely, if ever).
In full disclosure, this is actually an older project that's been sitting on my Hard Drive for awhile. Project files were lost in that crash I mentioned, but I was able to encode a nice BD25 compatible MKV beforehand. Despite its color timing, the BD was used as the source because, at the time, I didn't want to put an HDTV stream through multiple processes of re-encoding, especially because I was considering matching the 1.81 aspect ratio originally. All in all, it's not perfect, but a BD50 V2, color-corrected to match the theatrical timing, is far off for me. (Have a lot of other projects to do in the meantime).
Partial Cutlist (taken from one web source)
- Original meeting with Palpatine right after the assassination attempt
- Meeting Jar-Jar at the elevator
- Small cuts right before Coruscant chase
- Anakin levitating the orb and some dialogue in Amidala's chamber
- Obi-Wan, Mace and Yoda discussing Anakin
- Padmé saying goodbye to her handmaiden
- Library Scene
- Padmé and Anakin meeting with Queen on Naboo
- The Meadow scene (entire thing)
- Part of fireplace scene (quick and painless)
- Boba turning Slave 1 to fire at Obi-Wan
- Meeting Owen, Beru and Cliegg
- Part of meeting with Dooku and Obi-Wan
- Any discussion after Obi-Wan's transmission and attack (scenes with Bail Organa)
- Small cuts in the droid factory scene
Video
Audio
Project Status
Second project completed and released!
uperman: Can be found at the usual places...
Final Product
BD25-Compatible MKV - 1080p 19.4 Mbps., 640Kbps AC3
Back when the Attack of the Clones was released in 2002, IMAX screenings were strictly limited to 2 hour films. Therefore, AOTC (2 hours and 22 minutes) theatrically had to be cut about 22 minutes. At the time, it was also cropped to 1.81 to fill more of the IMAX screen than the original 2.35 ratio would permit.
Fortunately, George Lucas did not supervise this edit. Whoever did clearly caught a lot of flaws in the bloated original film and was particularly brutal in axing the worst of Anakin's excesses, as well as unnecessary subplot sequences in general. Actually, this IMAX version winds up being decently similar to fan edits that succeeded it.
No CAM or TS of this IMAX version exists but many extensive cutlists were created at the time. I reconstructed this based off of information from several sources, and it should prove a reasonable approximation of the IMAX cut until a proper reference source is found (highly unlikely, if ever).
In full disclosure, this is actually an older project that's been sitting on my Hard Drive for awhile. Project files were lost in that crash I mentioned, but I was able to encode a nice BD25 compatible MKV beforehand. Despite its color timing, the BD was used as the source because, at the time, I didn't want to put an HDTV stream through multiple processes of re-encoding, especially because I was considering matching the 1.81 aspect ratio originally. All in all, it's not perfect, but a BD50 V2, color-corrected to match the theatrical timing, is far off for me. (Have a lot of other projects to do in the meantime).
Partial Cutlist (taken from one web source)
- Original meeting with Palpatine right after the assassination attempt
- Meeting Jar-Jar at the elevator
- Small cuts right before Coruscant chase
- Anakin levitating the orb and some dialogue in Amidala's chamber
- Obi-Wan, Mace and Yoda discussing Anakin
- Padmé saying goodbye to her handmaiden
- Library Scene
- Padmé and Anakin meeting with Queen on Naboo
- The Meadow scene (entire thing)
- Part of fireplace scene (quick and painless)
- Boba turning Slave 1 to fire at Obi-Wan
- Meeting Owen, Beru and Cliegg
- Part of meeting with Dooku and Obi-Wan
- Any discussion after Obi-Wan's transmission and attack (scenes with Bail Organa)
- Small cuts in the droid factory scene
Video
- US 20th Century Fox BD
Audio
- US 20th Century Fox BD
Project Status
Second project completed and released!
uperman: Can be found at the usual places...Final Product
BD25-Compatible MKV - 1080p 19.4 Mbps., 640Kbps AC3
