Battle of Yavin sequence - Work In Progress

From my "Star Wars: The Trilogy" series of edits. Video is edited from Adywan's "Star Wars: Revisited," audio is a combination of the 1977 theatrical mono mix restored by Belbucus, and a mono fold-down of Adywan's "Revisited" 5.1 audio where necessary.
I'm cutting this on a laptop, so I don't have the best speakers with which to mix the audio, so I'd ask that anyone watching this PLEASE leave feedback about how the 5.1 and mono audio mix together. If it sounds too jarring, PLEASE let me know! And if you have any suggestions for how to fix it, I'd love to hear them!

[@andymac4883]

...why did it take me this long to realise that when Luke hears Obi-Wan telling him to trust his feelings, he's not tapping the side of his helmet in a "think think think" gesture, he's tapping where his earpiece is because he isn't sure if he heard that voice over comms?

[@Trainlover1995]

I always figured this was the case.

[@freighttrain2385]

@@benji1289 .

[@emillyyelen5169]

🏆

[@iana3892]

My friend, this is beautiful, THIS is how a special edition should have been rereleased.

[@firestriker3580]

This is not how special edition should have been released

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

To Start...Remember that Excitement that you felt when watching this for the first time as a kid?? You felt excitement, then anxiousness w/Gold Squad, then nervousness when part of Red Squad goes down, then you're on edge of your seat/holding hands (yourself...maybe others)........ I FELT That Again, watching this!!! SERIOUSLY!! The starting background of Yavin floating behind them with the help of the newer fly-by (sun-glare off canopy). Then the seeing Many (30 {??}) X-/Y-wings "...cut across their axis to try to draw their fire!" @ 1:02. Still seeing many of Rebel ships breaking formation to their desig area of attack, watching their wingman's back, loosing some/winning some ships shot down....seeing Yavin fly-by a few more times. Just the more ACTION of planes!! And with this, the original action blended in....Excellent!!

[@417Owsy]

ikr??? Seeing Yavin pop up a few times just gives me the creeps cause that tells you how close the Death Star is to their destination

[@larniieplayz6285]

@@417Owsy yeah

[@RealSilvernight]

i dare say this is better than the special edition release. Great work

[@chasenperryment7343]

Silver Night Brony wwwwwwwwwwwwww

[@RealSilvernight]

chasen perryment ?

[@mehanieavelino3102]

Silver Night Brony more like making the special editions better

[@417Owsy]

@@RealSilvernight wwwwwwwwww

[@jebiniv]

Yeah, it's better than the special edition. They're also doing stuff that should have been fixed in SE: like seeing both Yavin and the death star in the background during the dogfights.

[@Krindol]

He cleaned up the sound nicely. But what he ended up doing was clearing out distortion intentionally placed there (they played the audio through amateur radios.) Also, the line "Blast it wedge, where are you?" is "Blast it BIGGS." Biggs is Luke's wingman. Wedge just happened to save him. :)

[@timonsolus]

Yes, the Rebels deliberately had low quality comms to disguise their voices in case they got captured.

[@trainbrain13]

@@timonsolus That could potentially be the case, but I think it's more just the fact that Star Wars is set "_A long time ago_ in a galaxy far, far away." The technology is meant to be incredibly advanced and yet still feel very primitive and crude at the same time, hence things like less-than-clear radio comms in the fighters for what is at this point just a relatively organized insurgency movement, space battles always being fought at such incredibly--even _uncomfortably_ --close ranges, most computer systems being relatively slow, crude, and very limited in capability, and so on. It's all part of the atmosphere of what makes Star Wars feel like Star Wars, it's a setting that you can immediately tell is expansive and diverse, yet deep and lived-in, and even though it has a lot of the objectively most advanced technology overall of any sci-fi universe, including faster-than-light travel that is more common, easier to obtain and use, and orders of magnitude faster than pretty much anything else, it feels like it's more or less the 1940s. Hell, even modern telecoms are rarely crystal clear, and military-issue radio equipment is always built by the lowest bidder, so the distortion is definitely an intended part of the experience. Even the Imperial radio comms are still a bit distorted, though to a lesser extent since they've got the budget and the incentive to have that higher-quality, concise communication as a galaxy-wide military dictatorship.

[@firestriker3580]

It would have made sense if Luke called in wedge instead of Biggs

[@firestriker3580]

False

[@firestriker3580]

False

[@ThatWolfFromHyruleGaming]

Wow, how have I never seen this?! The background was really busy with activity and the squadron of X-Wings and Y-Wings in the wide shot is amazing! The edits to show that Porkins got hit by turbolaser fire makes way more sense here. The shot of the TIE squadron was awesome too. More proof that the fans can to the films justice.

[@firestriker3580]

No

[@privatename5788]

You cut Porkins' best line. "Blargh, AHHHHHHH!!!"

[@themisspultone]

also "Red October shtanding by" :D

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

That's from the original '77 Mono mix. Porkins' scream is audible in the original '77 Dolby Stereo mix and the Special Edition re-releases.

[@TralfazConstruction]

The colors are nicely punched-up. Really looks good. As someone who saw Star Wars several times during the Summer of '77 it's somewhat mind boggling to think it all kicked-off going on forty-four years ago this coming May.

[@btly-wing6531]

I like it, after all we did see a decent number of fighters during the sequence of flying to the Death Star, so seeing a bunch more of them flying around seems accurate. Plus, it gives the sense of a big furball dogfight in space (which thematically goes back to Star Wars' basis in certain WWII flying movies).

[@MattSipka]

1:42 feels a more accurate estimate now. The og film it felt like the rebels had less than 15 fighters.

[@spi2derman]

And the officer dude said to Vader that there was an estimate of 30 ships.

[@sulphurous2656]

Yavin Prime being visible in the background also adds to the immersion tremendously.

[@johnmarc1986]

There is a line that says "a few fighters have broken off from the main group." What we're seeing is the ships that are actually making the run on the exhaust port. The rest of the ships are creating a diversion, you just never see them doing it.

[@haydengalloway5177]

Why are they dicking around flying in circles shooting random parts of the death star for the first few minutes of the battle? Why not go directly to the target?

[@BloodweiserDK]

I love all the attention to the background detail. It adds a lot to the entire battle.

[@Felamine]

2:15 the original Death Star's announcer in the 1977 mono mix was voiced by Harry Shearer, who is most famously known for voicing several characters on The Simpsons including Mr. Smithers and Kent Brockman.

[@rikk319]

He was also in Spinal Tap.

[@DwayneHicks426]

All I hear is Smithers now. Lmao

[@charlessaint7926]

I like that the radio communications were cleaned up. I often couldn't tell who was talking. They sounded like completely different people.

[@sawilliams]

I just realize that the Death Star can travel to another Solar system with in days, but then it takes it 15 minutes to travel 1/4 of a planet

[@raxsavvage]

yeah that sublight speeds for ya

[@Haux1975]

The bigger the thing is, the bigger power it needs to move and the harder and longer it needs to stop. That being said, Death Star is capable moving from one solar system to other system in days, but it will require a large amount of energy to start moving and a considerable amount of time to slowing down and stop. In the battle of Yavin, the scene we see in this movie, in my opinion, is Death Star actually slowing down.

[@TaterTot11]

@@Haux1975 Makes sense. The Mk. 1 Death Star had both sublight and hyperdrive engines. It would have a tremendous run up to lightspeed before the jump to hyperspace and an even greater slow down time. Tarkin probably had them drop out of hyperspace on the edge of the Yavin system and used inertia and RCS thrusters to guide the station into firing position, with minor adjustments to trajectory, whilst slowing to an effective firing velocity.

[@ahsenkhan5386]

yes it can move to the actual moon but the empire didn't know which moon before the flacon landed their. Second It was waiting to charge up

[@londuka1131]

maybe im imagining this, but i feel like seeing the death star actually rotating around his own axis during the flight of the rebellion towards it

[@xandermurdock6131]

This feels like a battle. And if you ask me, I kinda liked this voice of Vader. And a huge amount of fighters lets this battle live up to its title "The *Battle* of Yavin". Overall, this was epic.

[@user-hc9qv9yb9m]

More strategy and radio transmission sounds

[@dantasticmania8728]

Call me a sucker for detail but did anyone notice how Vader's helmet looked more closer to the glossy look of Empire's? That's one little thing that always bugged me about even with the special editions ,Vader sounded and looked no different than the original version of ANH.

[@skotnica93]

In loving memory of Jet Porkins.

[@johnpoulton9446]

WOW!!!!!!!! Amazing work!!!!!! This really fleshes out the battle! The Ties coming to engage etc adds and makes the battle more complete!!!

[@patsmith8523]

Well done! This is much closer to how the original novel describes the attack! Well done!

[@Mr-Tibbster]

Nice, this combines the best bits of Adywan;s battle of Yavin but sticks to the original vibe of the film.

[@marc-emmanuelclement5403]

discovering this now ! i'm a old star wars french fan....outstanding !!!!!!!! Planet Yavin in the back ground, smart vision of the galactic sun as a Spotlight...travail fantastique !! ( fantastique job !! ) Bravo !!!!!

[@aerosnail]

Damn! I was hooked!! ;) How the sequels have fallen from the tree! They are nothing like this...

[@micelaneo4761]

Great job ! Thats what im looking for , people with guts who re not afrraid of fixing the original trilogy ! there are still some takes that need to be revisited but you re heading in the right direction!!!

[@Fancypants117]

it's amazing how much better this battle is then all the modern star wars films and even a lot of modern sci-fi in general

[@TheCRX7]

This was VERY well done my friend

[@aquarius5719]

Magnificent work.

[@xg-1starwing64]

I like the vast majority of these changes, with the exception of editing out the radio chatter distortion when someone other than the pilot the camera is focusing on is talking. Maybe it's just my OCD flaring, but I liked how it harked back to the WWII flight films the Death Star attack was based off.

[@felipemaulen9070]

Ecxellent work.... You brought life, dizziness and agility to a combat atmosphere that was as dead as the third trilogy. Greetings from Chile bro ...

[@x-wingflyboy8177]

The best since the Aidywan revamp, looks and feels epic as it was meant to be.

[@danielprudant3623]

Damn this is INCREDIBLE IM SPEECHLESS

[@perfectfutures]

This is looking a lot better than the special edition, keeping the tone of the original but enhancing the scale of it. It shows what fans can do, please complete your attack run on this!

[@GGGritzer]

Amen!

[@hanz2602]

Red Six : "I got a problem here. My converter's running wild." Biggs : "Eject!" "Eject" seriously, "Eject". Did Biggs not understand that Porkins is in space and "Eject" was never a bloody option. A classic Star Wars script moment :p

[@nikstone2420]

Thank you so very much for this.

[@kenballiet2047]

The best version I have ever seen.

[@thatrebelsoldieronhoth9708]

"Blast it Wedge where are you !" is my favorite line. I'm not sure but in aydwan version there was ALSO line"RED 2 do you see RED 5" .

[@spencerfalzy]

THAT Rebel soldier on Hoth in the real version he says blast it bigs. Changing it to wedge with dubbing is a good change.

[@ThatWolfFromHyruleGaming]

Luke saying "Blast him, Biggs..." makes sene because Biggs is his wingman. Wedge pulled in because Biggs was occupied.

[@martinodoni8943]

@@spencerfalzy In the original cinema release, Luke says, "Blast it, Wedge..." on the soundtrack. That old mono soundtrack sneaked into a fair few edits for TV during the 1980s, and I remember very distinctly hearing the line addressed to Wedge on a UK broadcast of the film on ITV in around 1984. (There was also a completely different actress performing the dubbed-on lines for Aunt Beru in the original cinema release track.) But the official VHS and DVD releases used the revised stereo track, in which the line is addressed to Biggs. Which version of the line was recorded first, we don't know. My views is that it seems likeliest that the 'Biggs' version was the original. It was changed over to Wedge when most of Biggs' scenes were cut from the running order of the movie, and he ceased to be any more prominent in the story than Wedge. (Plus Wedge survives the battle to appear in the subsequent episodes, and Biggs doesn't.) Therefore it made more sense for the line to be addressed to Wedge.

[@jediknightjairinaiki560]

@@ThatWolfFromHyruleGaming That's what I've always thought.

[@ScottsChristmasChannel]

This version is the first and only version I have heard Luke say "blast it Wedge where are you?". Way back in 1982 when Star Wars was first released on HBO I recorded it on a cassette player, audio only of course. VCRs were prohibitedly expensive! I wore that tape out and knew all the dialogue by heart! That is when I realized that the audio editors goofed or the lines were wrong when Luke refers to Biggs when an actuality it is Wedge who saves his skin

[@R.J.Godzilla81]

HOLY SHIT, thist is a vast improvement. It's even better then the special editions!!!!!

[@firestriker3580]

It's not better than the special edition

[@simonfarrell6585]

Really nice subtle changes, especially Vader's take off where his TIE wingmen are separated

[@Sanderlee]

Aaaah, RED engine exhausts! No pink / purple! THANK YOU.

[@maxbrandt6]

Excellent!

[@rabbitsfoot8]

omg this is awesome and i'm subbing

[@scottstallings5029]

FANTASTIC!!!

[@Moochtv]

This is outstanding and its work in progress?! Very well done. If I ever make a movie, I'm coming to you for the FX!

[@bradhedgehog12]

Awesome improvement

[@myleswelnetz6700]

The point of reference for the entire Star Wars timeline.

[@0000syuable]

私は初回、まだCGで描き替えていなかった頃のスターウォーズを映画館で観た者なのですが。 この「デス･スター」にＸウィングが特攻を仕掛ける場面、そのＸウィングが次々と翼を広げるシーンに「え？あ！ああああああ！！！！」と凄く感激したモノなのでした。

[@fryerball]

Wow so much better!

[@chrischoin7402]

Wow! Nice touches. i agree its better than the special edition.

[@KEVINDAVIES8650]

Great to finally see Yavin in the background

[@kellyrk2007]

That was excellent.

[@serich9722]

Very nice! A lot going on. Like a WWII Air battle.

[@Firefox13A]

Nice! Much more intense!

[@ForGlory]

Now that's more like it!

[@spektroke1694]

GREAT JOB

[@guyfaux900]

The Holograms were brilliant just a brilliant stroke surprised Lucas didn't figure that one out.

[@cjmerida2010]

Damn good work!

[@floundericiouswa5694]

loving the video! one note: Porkins' death cry got cutoff

[@joedean7964]

Awesome

[@zianmarpaulobandivas2323]

Wow many fighters

[@darthqui-gon5986]

VERY COOL!!!!

[@Hickmaann90]

A Wall of Tie Fighters at 2:44 Time to shit some pants.

[@wsde2345]

I am amazed at the attention to detail such as the sequences where Yavin is seen in the background, a greater number of explosions derived from the battle; it is an excellent job; please notify us when you have the battle complete; I am interested in knowing the full version

[@jamesmasztalerz5930]

"We count 30 Rebel ships Lord Vader, but their so small their evading our turbo lasers, we'll have to destroy them ship to ship, get the crews to their fighters"

[@brendanmillikin8460]

I really like that you added more fighters fighting in the background.

[@googlegoogle-ye4mx]

ALL WINGS REPORT IN!

[@mecha7419]

Red October standing by

[@chrisamon4551]

Perkins actually took a hit instead of blowing up for no reason! Awesome!

[@timonsolus]

That's 'Porkins' (or Piggy to his friends).

[@chrisamon4551]

@@timonsolus Lol autocorrect turned Porkins into Perkins...

[@KD10Conqueror]

@@chrisamon4551 lol

[@jasonray9823]

Perkin should use his droid to fix his ship.🤦🏻‍♂

[@danschneider9921]

Red Fox standing by. Red October standing by...

[@k1productions87]

OMG this NEEDS to be completed

[@davpea1]

awesome

[@417Owsy]

Is it me or is there like hundreds of more fighters in this scene

[@timonsolus]

36 TIE Fighters in the initial dogfight, plus Vader and his 2 wingmen. Even that is only Vader's personal Black Squadron. The Death Star had its separate contingent of 7,200 TIE Fighters! But Grand Moff Tarkin was so contemptuous of the Rebel attack that he refused to launch any of them. He regarded the Rebel fighters as flies trying to sting a bantha to death.

[@Premonition45]

I love the improvements you made on "Star Wars Revisited", like shortening the TIE Fighter attacks, but why would you take out Porkins' screams?

[@Felamine]

He didn't. The audio for this was taken from the original 1977 mono mix. Porkins' scream was muted for some reason in that version.

[@redleader4876]

@Red Leader Yes, PLUS, there's no sound in space... right?????

[@MattSipka]

Red Leader especially when your x-wing and radio are giant fireball

[@texranger1012]

This one is like a sequel of rouge one now rouge 2

[@whtbobwntsbobget]

Big Red, standing by

[@hughmungus1960]

At 4:21 you see Vader say, "Stay in attack formation" so confidently after the Y wings are starting their desperate attack run. Its a scene really showing that vader has got it down pat and at that point you barely knew him. lol. Its cinema like this is why that New Hope destroys Force Awakens in my opinion

[@oxenfree9434]

Looks amazing.

[@GGGritzer]

Bloody awesome. Wish they'd have edited the 'red 6, can you see Red 5?' out of it as Porkins' X Wing was destroyed prior to this.

[@jasonray9823]

Porkin should use his droid to fix his ship 🤦🏻‍♂

[@GGGritzer]

@@jasonray9823, at this point Porkins & his ship were debris all spread all over the Death Star.

[@thegtgeek]

best guess is that someone didnt notice red 6 was already destroyed

[@GGGritzer]

@@thegtgeek, lot going on. That makes sense.

[@billross9132]

It always bothered me how we never really see the other y wings and tie fighter on screen during the original fight. great work!

[@roguetrooper5288]

Shit! People fucking tampering with this film, Lucas included.

[@thudthud5423]

Red Leader: "Squad, listen: when I ask you to check in, try to do it in order. You know, 'Red Two, standing by. Red Three, standing by. Red Four, standing by. Etc, etc.' You know what I mean? For example, I'm like: 'Did Red Three check in?' " Red Three: "I checked in. I did!" Red Leader: "That's NOT my point, Red Three. I know we're a rag tag group of scrappy rebels and everything, but we need to be more organized. Next time I ask you to check in, do it in order." Red Four: "Well...that's assuming we all make it." Red Five: "Oh, come on, Red Four. Do you have to be such a downer?" Red Nine: "Red Nine, standing by." Red Leader: "Red Nine? We don't have a Red Nine." Red Nine (actually Gold Leader): "Sorry, Red Leader. Just wanted to see if you were awake." Red Leader: "Not funny." Gold Leader: "Yeah, maybe. Hey, guess what? My guys checked in order this time. We're getting good since Scarif!" Red Leader: "Oh...that's it. I think I'm heading back to base. You people are driving me crazy. Death Star or no Death Star, I don't think I can stand another minute flying with you clowns."

[@GmKaiser]

This is great. Only thing to change is that shot where the TIEs are first flying in. They're moving way too slowly.

[@DwayneHicks426]

HOLY SHIT!

[@emperorpawpateen.9992]

Red Green standing by

[@redleader4876]

1:02

[@SmokeyBCN]

2:45 why would the TIEs be coming from deep space when they launched from the death star?

[@luminawarren8132]

The original cinematic was WAY better than the newer digital it was more fighter squadron accurate. I remember the thrill of feeling Iike I was diving at a 1000 miles an hour into the trench,... Amazing....!...!

[@georgeofhamilton]

Quite a bit better. I'd like to see what could be done in this day and age.

[@Eurasian_Australian]

Excellent ALL OVER! :D

[@crcurran]

I love it ... it seems a bit odd the moment the TIE Fighters appear en masse in one shot coming from the orbit of the gas giant and deep space. I would think they should be coming from another hemisphere of the Death Star. Even at a distance swarming dots of TIE Fighters coming across the horizon of the Death Star would be a terrifying sight to the Rebels. Perhaps that is not a action shot you can make happen with your resources and canned shots to modify.

[@midnyte6195]

😆simply red standing by!

[@JeffreyBarkdull]

Disney and/or Lucasfilm should hire the people who made this

[@nscaledelights]

I like Red 3 and Red 6 they were the coolest.

[@CarlosFerZar]

Looks Like a 2000's Movies

[@landrypittman3625]

Red October standing by...

[@randovids]

This scene makes it look like the rebels launched a surprise attack against the death star, but the opposite was true.

[@PromixDelPiero]

It was a surprise attack, no one expected bunch of fighter put up an actual danger till the last moment

[@randovids]

When you launch an attack against the base of operations of an enemy that can launch fleets of ships, you should expect resistance. You'd think the death star would've launched all fighters and interceptors and had all crews at battlestations as soon as they came out of hyperspace. The movie shows people running around like they were all napping and just getting into the tie fighters after taking fire from the rebel strike force.

[@I_am_Diogenes]

Did Gold Leader attend the William Shatner School of Acting ?

[@DeathRocket4990]

Now THIS is a battle!

[@rodneyvanstraten9045]

NOOOOOOOO

[@JessFromMead]

Battle of yavin, but its actually a battle

[@bentonrp]

I know this is a passion project, but some of the changes are better than the original! I think Luke knew Wedge was going to try to make it but was lashing out in disappointment that his friend made claim he would help but didn't. This after he also kind of stole a shot from Luke earlier. So, might not be a mess up. :)

[@fredericsw5031]

finally R2-D2 is blue, not black

[@mecha7419]

The blue screen interfered with the color. It's like that in the original.

[@thegerbil23]

Perhaps been a long time since I've seen this, but what is different? How was it edited?

[@GGGritzer]

You need to go back & watch the SE of the Battle Of Yavin, it's amazing, this is even better!!

[@NewRepublic4137]

wanna see adywan revisited battle of endor

[@richardched6085]

Stick close Red 5 where ya goin?

[@apooyosucks]

They're all over me! I'm trying to lose them!

[@richardched6085]

@@apooyosucks This is Red 5! I need help!