Hal 9000

Hit me up.

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback. I like this one a lot, too.

Well it’s not a showstopper if it can’t be done, so we’ll just see what shakes out for it. Fortunately it won’t affect overall sync, for other things that could be done first.

Ben says, “…And no questions asked.”

Han asks, “What is it, some kind of local trouble?”

Ben repeats, “No questions asked.”

Okay I take back what I just said. At present, a good Poe line and a few more miscellaneous whoops and hollers, not to mention removing the watermark, and we’ll be golden.

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mrbenjamino said:

Cinefy said:

Hal 9000 said:

Okay, so here’s this. We can certainly give Poe a line or two from video games or whatever, and add a few more hollers from people sending in audio.

Y’know, things like “let’s give 'em hell!” and “ASS!”

https://vimeo.com/457355065

I still think that kid shouting “we believe in you Poe” is too loud, lol.

ouch lmao

Lol, I’m glad you said it. I like the line.

Those lines were edited nicely for how the original scene is.
I wonder if it might be bette to cut to Wedge at the same point we originally would cut to Poe, then cut back and hear “For Skywalker,” along with some other cries as the shot carries on longer.

Eh, probably not. It’s better to let the shot continue unbroken and then see Wedge before cutting to a different exterior shot.

Anyone know any good Poe lines to fit this situation?

Ziggy’s idea works well. I muted the trooper’s line about identifying them and shortened that shot by about half.

“Hold it right there!”

Points blaster at them, adjusting aim to cover them

“All units—-“ DEAD

I didn’t use a wipe or iris to transition; the shots are so short and it’s not a time jump.

Without editing it at all, overlay this audio over every air combat scene in the ST:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFTmi9esb6c

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I just want to ignore Ashsoka’s existence and the resurrection of Maul, because both feel incongruous with the films. But the Filoni-verse keeps over spilling. I don’t want to see Maul in the Kenobi show for crap’s sake!

Me, too, please.

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Noted. I want to mail down the ‘blocking’ of the little sequence before I get into the grittier audio aspects. Does it feel right to have the extended shot play over what used to be a cutaway to Poe, then play out the equivalent duration longer?

Axlanian did a great job mixing the cries and yells to the old blocking of shots, so I’m wondering if it feels right to have a couple whoops, Poe can say something vague about “wow let’s go” and then a couple “For Skywalker”s at the same point in the music as before, followed by a bit more enthused chatter.

Okay, so here’s this. We can certainly give Poe a line or two from video games or whatever, and add a few more hollers from people sending in audio.

Y’know, things like “let’s give 'em hell!” and “ASS!”

https://vimeo.com/457355065

Hmm, I don’t know. I think there’s no real continuity issue, as Finn can approach the other two from offscreen easily in that timeframe. Apologies because I can’t remember who off the dome, but someone has the idea to add a few faint footstep sounds to imply Finn is walking over even. The clip you posted, and granted that I’m watching with a hawk eye, feels edited as the dialogue doesn’t match their mouths, especially Rey calling out Poe’s name.

I dunno, I think what we got so far is probably as good as that little scene is going to get.

I agree; the way your arranged them really fit what was there.

Perhaps a portion of the shot could be used only to cover the last part of the Poe shot where he says “every one we knock out is a world saved.” And leave the timing how it was.

That’s pretty good! I’m not sure it’s totally believable for the trooper not to recognize these characters at this point, so it could be all right to leave the dialogue as it was. Lando kills him before he can report back or alert anyone else.

EDIT: Actually, the original line features him reporting back! Well, the first part can stay, just “hold it right there.”

^ I think it looks pretty okay. Doesn’t stand up to tough scrutiny, but that shot in particular looks pretty sharp and good to my eyes.

Here’s a version I like a little better, including Wedge instead of the tail end of the shot, breaking up multiple shots of a bunch of ships and allowing the music not to be cut up.

https://vimeo.com/457153375

Ideally footage where ships whoosh into frame from either the side or behind, for panning audio.

I think someone had sent in a recording “For Mandalore,” so I should try to find it. Like I said, send in a bit more of that sort of thing, guys!

And if anyone with more time or skill than I would like, I welcome some 5.1 audio with panning audio to hear ships coming from the rear channels and transitioning into the front, synced to the footage or not.

Anyone know of any clips from The Clone Wars or Rebels or Resistance where several ships enter frame rapidly? Maybe could lift audio for the couple ‘squadrons’ of small ships at the end of the extended shot.

I wonder if maybe reintroducing the Wedge shot at the end could let us cut away from the extended shot right before it gets particularly problematic from an audio perspective with the squadrons.

And Poe can still say “hit those underbelly cannons” via comm.

https://vimeo.com/457114176

Here’s the current state of this shot. I’ll probably move the “For Skywalker” shouts earlier, and would need a few more whoops and hollers.

It could use some more sound effects as ships woosh into frame from behind, and so forth. Mrbenjamino’s sound effects work well but more are needed.

Hey, I hear ya! Fortunately you’re able to do that and can be happy with it. 😃

I’ve done something similar before with another person’s edit, so I get it!

Well, unless I want to introduce a generational loss across the entire trilogy by ripping the finished edits themselves, at this point it’d probably be easiest to manually trace and rebuild the entire trilogy by overlaying them by a guideline proxy video track ripped from the existing finished edits.

It’s just not worth it, not without the truckloads of free time I once had. Those FCP7 project files are houses burning down caught in suspended animation.

I don’t get it. Is TROS Ziggy and I’s mutual enemy?

dgraham414 said:

Do you think you’ll update your edits when this is complete?

I simply can’t. It’s all right, I don’t think it’s quite a world of difference anyway.