I’m not sure if this is intuitive enough, but I should be able to replace 3PO’s line before the podrace with the following, unless we find something better:
“Oh, my. It’s all coming back to me now. You may be up for adventure, but I am not.”
And it might do to replace his AOTC line with, “For a mechanic you seem to do an excessive amount of thinking.”
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I really like both of those ideas!
I think it’s great
I’ve wrestled for a while this afternoon on getting something for that little scene, and the right lines at the right duration just don’t seem to be there.
There’s a lot of 3PO in TCW, though, so there must be something appropriate that can be done. I will just need to approach it again later. If anyone has access to the show, I’m open to suggestions here, too.
Edit: Here’s the best I’ve gotten so far. (Audio is very temporary and not spruced up.) I’m not sure if this line is confusing, but the intention is that R2 and 3PO have been comparing notes of their various histories, not talking about a shared history. Might be too confusing. The last shot is a little packed, but removing the last phrase makes it too short. 😕
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I’d love for SirRidley to make a version of the crawls with the actual titles if possible. Would be cool to have both versions for those who prefer the original titles.
I’ll consider it! Others have asked for that as well. I doubt Hal would make a separate edition of the films just to change a few words, but maybe he could have the crawls with original titles as separate downloads that could be edited into the films by those who want them.
I think that’s fair, Ridley. Since all three are getting a V6, if you wish to encode them I can include the crawls as .mov files. 😃
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I think that’s fair, Ridley. Since all three are getting a V6, if you wish to encode them I can include the crawls as .mov files. 😃
Sounds good!
Edit: Here’s the best I’ve gotten so far. (Audio is very temporary and not spruced up.) I’m not sure if this line is confusing, but the intention is that R2 and 3PO have been comparing notes of their various histories, not talking about a shared history. Might be too confusing. The last shot is a little packed, but removing the last phrase makes it too short. 😕
I think the line feels a bit out of place. Reminiscing about the past doesn’t really add anything at that point in the story, and it does sound like he’s talking about a shared history. It might be easier said than done, but could you perhaps modify the original line instead? To something like:
“You know, space travel is rather perilous. I can assure you they will never get me onto one of those dreadful starships again."
I bet the first part of that line could work, but I can’t imagine the last part working because he emphasizes “starships” with force.
It’s difficult to find a replacement line because it has to have scene-ending punch. I queued up several Clone Wars episodes featuring 3PO to see what emerges. Snippets that might work so far include:
“I’m afraid that was a long time ago.”
“Just the usual capacitors, nothing special.”
(In a sad voice) “It’s all coming back to me now.”
Something like “I am a protocol droid… I can advise on etiquette.”
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I like “It’s all coming back to me now” a lot but don’t know how it would play for the theoretical first-time viewer.
I think that’s fair, Ridley. Since all three are getting a V6, if you wish to encode them I can include the crawls as .mov files. 😃
What encoder do you use? I would edit them in but I’m not sure how that would need to happen.
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Actually, it would probably make more sense to encode them as BluRay-compliant H.264 inside an mkv, the same as the edit itself anyway.
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So basically it would be a separate video track in the same mkv? Not quite sure how to add it in if I needed to haha
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No, it would just be a separate mkv with the crawl and rest of opening shot. However one would rip or edit, you can just overlay it and export.
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Do you have any recommendations for which software would be best to do this with that wouldn’t cause a quality loss when re-encoding?
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No, not really. I’m on the Mac side of things, to boot.
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I did look for some programs but it seems like my graphics card in my PC is not good enough to do encoding in HD.
If it’s too much to ask to encode a full version that includes the original titles, then I’ll just stick with the edit titles 😀👍
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Graphics card doesn’t matter as much for encoding as CPU does in my experience.
Graphics card doesn’t matter as much for encoding as CPU does in my experience.
When I did a test my CPU was maxed at 100% and the fan sounded like a jet engine. I’m getting this chat off topic now, so let’s go back to talking about V6 now!
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I’m sure you won’t be the only person wanting that, so perhaps someone at the time could share their efforts with you. We’ll see, though, as we get there.
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This 3PO dialogue is driving me crazy. So far all I’ve really been able to do is shorten the first line to remove space travel: “Oh, my, sounds rather perilous.”
There’s a line that is so close to working, but the last word of the line can’t be removed without sounding obvious. It’s, “I hope never to end up on a mission of that nature [again].”
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Here’s what I think is the best I can do using TCW, but I hope to be able to skip around the radio drama for ANH later on. I also wonder if the ESB radio drama has something appropriate, hopefully reworded slightly, for “At least you’re still in one piece; look what happened to me!”
The audio is very much temporary, with minimal smoothing just to get the idea across and a rough idea of how it would sound.
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I like the idea of the line, but the cut from “nature” to “R2” doesn’t sound right. Not sure how much you can do to finesse things.
I could probably try a few different "Artoo"s.
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I haven’t found a better “Artoo” to fit in yet, but I’ll keep looking. Below is the best I think I can do with the current sound clips used. This is polished as if I were going to use it. Please, let me know what you think.
Also, what do you think about the idea of re-instating Ben Quadrinaros’ engine malfunctioning? The idea occurred to me and it seemed to ask, “What, are you allergic to fun?”
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I think it’s the way “nature” is cut off that’s the problem. If you can’t do anything about that, I’d recommend not using this clip.