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Post #1264810

Author
Hal 9000
Parent topic
The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Date created
16-Jan-2019, 3:41 PM

Unfortunately, the alternate language crawls’ starfields are not 100% identical, either in color or placement. I’m currently rendering a test clip to see if the best of what I can do pulls it off well enough. I keyframed feathered cropping and crossfaded underlying starfield footage as gradually as things would allow. It gets a little complicated, but everything is as gradual as I can make it, both crossfading and wiping in order to allow the English crawl to come into frame.

I had to leave the house before I could look at the final clip. If it seems seamless, great. If not, I’m okay with the oddly-speedy opening logo for two reasons:

  1. I tried first, and
  2. It can be a slight holdover from the 1997 SE which was my first Star Wars experience. It’s a very slight change, anyway.