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TFA: A Gentle Restructure (Released) — Page 75

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The jump was done so well!

“Because you are a PalpaWalker?”

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Ok that makes sense now. The falcon jumping from Jakku was cool. I though it was a original efx but he defiantly fool me and I mean that in a good way.

All my life as I looked away to the future, to the horizon. Never in my mind did I know where I was, what I was doing.

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It still took some FX work to transition from the Falcon leaving Jakku to the originally unrelated shot from the end of the movie.
It wasn’t really related to the main goal of the edit (or was it?), but I couldn’t resist including it when I saw his mock-up. (And, as I say, it lets us use a tiny part of TFA in a different way which would have been cut otherwise.)

My stance on revising fan edits.

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Where do we actually watch the cut? For the life of me, I cant find a link or source anywhere.

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DegeneratePaladin said:

Where do we actually watch the cut? For the life of me, I cant find a link or source anywhere.

Links aren’t allowed on the forum for legal reasons. Send the creator a private message for info on how to find the edit.

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This might be addressed somewhere in all of your threads, but for the 5.1 PCM audio file, what speaker order do you have it in? I popped the file into Sony Vegas but couldn’t really differentiate between the 6 (i.e. which track is the Left, Center, Right, Left Surround, Right Surround, and LFE).

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Since you’ve done v2 and it seems you’re ‘done’ with this one I grabbed to 1080 version. Thanks Hal!

“This cannot be! Is… Is it an omen?”

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SUP3RDeathStar said:

This might be addressed somewhere in all of your threads, but for the 5.1 PCM audio file, what speaker order do you have it in? I popped the file into Sony Vegas but couldn’t really differentiate between the 6 (i.e. which track is the Left, Center, Right, Left Surround, Right Surround, and LFE).

I can’t check if this is true right now but I think it’s left, right, center, LFE, left surround, right surround. At least center and LFE should be easy to spot (dialogue versus sub bass).

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Hey Hal, quick clarification. I grabbed v2.1 and also the 4GB WAV file. Is that still needed? If so I need to find a way to mix it in.
Also while I used tsmuxer to make an ISO of Cloak of Deception and when I try to burn with imgburn I get a message that the data is too big for a 25GB bluray. Any ideas how to get around that?

“This cannot be! Is… Is it an omen?”

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The separate wav is the unprocessed raw audio output for anyone who knows how to do whatever they like with it and mux in.
I encoded V5 of the prequels at full throttle so encoding to a SL-BR would require some compression. I didn’t want to skimp.

My stance on revising fan edits.

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Maybe I can remove and audio track or 2 to make some room?

“This cannot be! Is… Is it an omen?”

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You’d probably have to stick to one of the AC3 tracks, and even then it might still be too big.

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I just ordered some DL blurays, I’m burning away 😃

“This cannot be! Is… Is it an omen?”

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I watched this edit last night. I haven’t read through the comments but here are my thoughts.

I think it works pretty well, This is the first time I had watched TFA for a year and I couldn’t remember too much from the original cut.

Specifically, adding the scene of Leia sending the girl to the other planet was good, as was the scene at
Maz’s castle with the Star Destroyer arriving rather than seeing the super weapon.

However, the problem comes with the placement of the Super weapon firing. The moment Han gets killed I did not want to be pulled away to nameless planets getting blown up. It weakens Han’s Death. Unfortunately I don’t see how much gravitas can be given to these planets. They mean nothing in the original cut and mean nothing here. It’s a shame because up until that moment the restructure was working great.

The impact of Han’s death should be played out with Chewey firing on Ren and all hell breaking loose, then cut to the destruction of the planets. Tricky because the music matches very well.

It’s a good edit, but rather than adding emphasis on the destruction of the Republic it just reduces the impact of Han dying.

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dan76 said:

It’s a good edit, but rather than adding emphasis on the destruction of the Republic it just reduces the impact of Han dying.

It’s a fair point, however the exact opposite can also be felt about that: Han’s death carries such impact that it embodies the end of the New Republic. And as a matter of fact, very personal opinion, Han’s death doesn’t work nor does the New Republic destruction in the theatrical cut. TFA: Restructured, by combining both events, makes them less problematic.

(besides, SKB is such a lame idea…)

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It’s strange because before TLJ I had no interest in watching TFA. I had no interest in it after watching TLJ either! But having watched TLJ The Fallen Knight edit (which I thought was fantastic for the most part) it put me in the mood to watch some other fan edits.

There is way less wrong with TFA anyhow, and TFA has an energy that is sorely missing from TLJ. Han and Leia worked really well in this cut, way better than any other previous watch - that might just be the particular mood I was in watching it - or maybe it was some subtle magic you applied? The extra scene with Leia helped a lot, and I thought they were both great, so Han’s death did have the desired effect.

I’d love to try one of my own, maybe to condense TFA and TLJ together. I’d cut that Scottish guy and the Rathtars, Finn leaving and as much Maz as possible. In the TLJ I’d be even more brutal than the Fallen Knight edit. Yoda would go for a start but I’d try and put Holdo in briefly early on in the film.

These fan edits are great, especially considering that these new Disney Star Wars films aren’t much more than big budget fan films themselves.

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Just noticed a fairly hefty mistake!
When the resistance arrives, the weapon is not draining the sun. It only has an ambient red glow, as if it was ready to fire, but of cause it isn’t and the sun isn’t fully drained until Kylo kills Han. I’m not sure if it should be seen in any other shots where it is not, but yeah.

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Are you talking about when they fly past the main firing barrel when they arrive at Starkiller Base? I don’t think that part of the weapon is the same part that absorbs the sun. It seems the energy gets drained into the weapon from a different location on the planet. The energy goes into the planet a different way and the energy shoots out that end, if that makes sense.

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Yeah, there’s one shot where the charging port is visible, and it has a different design than the weapon itself. The repurposed and reversed firing shot after Hux’s speech could imply that the charging is done through the weapon nozzle but if I remember correctly the weapon itself isn’t visible in that shot so we could assume that the stream goes into the charging port.

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well i thought that the skb fired and charged through the same hole until now. weird.

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Collipso said:

well i thought that the skb fired and charged through the same hole until now. weird.

Are you also aware that the trench with the exhaust port in ANH is not the equatorial trench where ships enter and leave?