I’m pleased to report that I am exporting a test file of the entire film, to send to Mala to get subtitles going. I can still tweak audio and put in foley, but I think we’re good in terms of sync. We could spend another year easily on further tweaking things, but I really like where we have ended up here in the eleventh hour.

Crawl from Ridley: really a beautiful job. It lines up perfectly, and there are no problems. We went over the wording a while back, and I like what we arrived at.

Maz’s castle sequence: Wonderful, just what we were waiting for. Finn’s new line sounds pretty damn seamless.

Snoke scene: This sequence has come a long way in a short time, and I think Ridley has got it about as good as we’re going to be able to get it. I’m not ruling out a V3 if compelling new resources become available, but I am happy with what’s here. For all it’s weirdness, I do “buy” this version as a legitimate scene, which is valuable in the fan edit economy. (And that superfast, awesome FX work… Jeez Louise.)

Ridley has been able to make the slowed down shots look unrecognizably seamless. If you haven’t downloaded them to check, trust me.

About the opening theme. I agree with DominicCobb on this one, as I said, for the reasons he outlined. I actually like that, aside from AOTC and ROTS, each film’s opening has its own characteristics. To hear it come on and be able to tell, “Ah, that’s ____'s opening theme,” makes me happy. But, I have zero problems with anyone making a second audio track.

On my to do list for tomorrow is to add X-wing and Resistance base foley to the Starkiller firing sequence. But, you guys, other than that and any problems the test export may reveal, I think we’ve got the edit locked in for V2.