[david-given]

There's a bunch of Phantom Edits; the name's been reused several times. The one I watched was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9LEhOZZbuk

All three prequel movies edited down into a single 2-hour film. And you know what? It's actually... still not what you'd call good. But it's embarrassingly better than the originals.

But there are others, like the Phantom Re-edit, which tries to improve on characters like Jar-Jar and the Trade Federation by scrambling their speech into traditional Star Wars Alien, and subtitling them. With different dialogue. It's supposed to be pretty good, but I've never tracked down a copy.

I do wonder if the lasting legacy of the terrible prequels will turn out to be teaching an entire generation about film editing!

[csours]

Could someone do this for Transformers? Not for the Bots, for the Humans. Dub Japanese or German in there and subtitle it. 1000% better movie.

[david-given]

One of the most surreal experiences of my life was watching one of the old Godzilla films, dubbed into fluent Australian.

[feld]

Umm where can I find this?

[sawwit]

How come this is still on YouTube? Isn't this copyright infringement?

[zaroth]

  "All trademarked and copyrighted liscences are property
   of their repsective owners."

Obviously some magic YouTube incantation to protect against take-downs :-/

With 1m+ views, it's nice to see it's made it so long. Don't feel good about its prospects for much longer though!

[Flammy]

The 'magic' is called Content-ID and it looks for video and audio matches with content uploaded to a private (and unviewable) system by copyright holders and it takes automated action if a match is detected.

Theoretically any matches are reviewed by a human, but they make it quiet easy to automate the 'review' process. Automated actions are typically Claim-Remove (claim content for copyright holder, remove from YouTube) for some content types (Movies, TV shows, some music) or Claim-Monetize (claim content, ad advertisements if there were not already on, and if they were already on all revenue is redirected to claimant).

This automated system is actually what causes the majority of 'this content is not available in your country' messages, as if it gets claimed by a studio / copyright holder who only has the rights distribute in USA and UK for example, everyone else would see that error message after it has been claimed-monetized.

In case anyone was curious.

[Flammy]

Edit: realized I had a contextual homonym typo... and it has been too long so I can't edit. (Why does HN do that... gah)

> or Claim-Monetize (claim content, ad advertisements

ad --> adds

Which is an interesting distinction because this means content that had no in video ads (pop over text ads, pre-roll ads, trueview ads) can get ads added to it when it is claimed, if that is what the claimer chooses to do.

[xkcd-sucks]

How does a group get upload access to ContentID? Can a small independent record label or filmmaker use ContentID to protect their works, or does one have to be a member of a AA?

[Flammy]

You can apply. Manual approval and doesn't seem to be the most consistent.

https://www.youtube.com/content_id_signup

[Houshalter]

There are so many fan edits for the prequel movies that I don't' know which one to pick. Some of them go quite far, like adding alien dialects to certain characters.