The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released) — Page 281

Thanks, Muffy! Very glad you enjoyed it. I don’t know what I’ll say during a commentary; my life hasn’t afforded me as much time to ruminate on this film compared to the others but I guess I gotta do it.

PM sent, Artan42.

macesmajored said:

Hal 9000 said:

The KoR voice project had different options for dialogue, so I just picked the ones I preferred. And some I didn’t use at all.

The ice wall audio is super tricky and convoluted. But I will revisit it again and see if there’s anything else I can do. Knowing that it sounds like the music drops out helps! Perhaps dropping in a little bit of music that halfway matches would help.

I am really loving workprint 6! Such great work. Haven’t checked out 6.1 but I have KoR notes if there were no significant changes there.

Love the addition of “traitor” but if there are any more takes with a “rebel scum” level of disgust and hatred in the voice acting it might punch more? (It did stand out to me, that duplicated audio for traitor but I am reading you already resolved that in 6.1)

I don’t think anyone has said this yet, but I feel like the “what?” / “…how?” KoR VO when Ben reveals his teleported lightsaber may dampen the wry comedy of that moment. (Not that it was like, “actual lol” funny, I just think the beats of the KoR’s silent reactions and his shrug were near-perfect originally.)

I think I agree here. The KoR are speechless originally, and that was funnier I think. Maybe have them just say the one “how?!” instead of two different guys talking? We can tell they’re shocked by their body language, stepping back speechless. I dunno. Not the biggest deal in the world.

Can’t help but agree; I’ll see how it sounds with just “what?” and nothing more.

And I gotta say: I am genuinely surprised by how much BETTER this newer computer performs than either of my previous two Macs. It’s only 3 years newer, but MAN. Even booting into my old hard drive to run Sierra, things are dramatically more fluid. I can actually… use FCP7 and FCPX like a human being. Like, it actually… plays things back in a way that lets me see and hear what’s happening.

It honestly makes me want to find some other fan edit project to work on now!

Hal 9000 said:

It honestly makes me want to find some other fan edit project to work on now!

That’s the spirit!

Hal 9000 said:

It honestly makes me want to find some other fan edit project to work on now!

… Well theres always the unfinished The Clone Wars Animated tv series to movies project from Smudger9 😉

I’ve been thinking of doing that. The problem is that I just don’t have much I can identify to improve upon the Maple Films version!

That’s a clever idea!

My ideal version would be a 3 in 1, more heavy on cuts than most versions to focus on a single important event for each act - The Riddle Game, Bilbo vs Smaug, and the Arkenstone dilemma. Rivendell would be cut entirely, for example, in order to give more time to the elves which have a real effect on the plot.

Solo A Star Wars Story fanedit? 😉

Here’s another pass at that scene. I just added some music from earlier in the scene, since sadly that sequence is not featured in the OST. It’s not a great fit, but hopefully this can smooth out the dropoff in music.

https://vimeo.com/470029293

That sounds better and more smooth. There is still a weird different swell of music that plays under the line, but I assume that’s because of the editing circumstances of that bit. As good as it’s probably going to get, so it sounds fine to me.

Yeah I had to fade the initial audio out quickly without compromising the TIE sounds too much. Perhaps having some tie sounds carry over slightly to the cockpit shot may help, too.

JakeRyan17 said:

I’ve been thinking about taking The Hobbit, and possibly Lord of the Rings after, and restructuring it into a TV/Limited Series format that can better handle the episodic nature of the narrative.

Just bought the theatrical cuts to have some music work solved for me (goodbye Goblin King song).

I’ve just released a TV-to-movie edit of the Hobbit, and have started the same with LotR! I’m really proud of my Hobbit season, and I think it presents the worthy successor to LotR that it should always have been.

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Third-Age-Season-One-A-Hobbit-Movie-to-TV-edit-Released/id/76864/page/1

I use Adamdens’ three-to-two cut as the base (with plenty of my own edits on top), and found that not only does the narrative break really neatly, but the TV format gives you a couple of neat options to deal with some issues that movies just can’t solve.

Check the forum thread for details and videos, or PM for links!

(Sorry to hijack your thread, Hal! This’ll be the one and only time I mention it here!)

That’s all right, but let’s curb Hobbit talk here. I don’t think I’d like to do a 2-film version since there’s no good footage to contrive a satisfying ending to film 1 without picking one of the first two films’ endings.

Hal 9000 said:

Here’s another pass at that scene. I just added some music from earlier in the scene, since sadly that sequence is not featured in the OST. It’s not a great fit, but hopefully this can smooth out the dropoff in music.

https://vimeo.com/470029293

😁👌 Perfect sound through my surround system and as mentioned strenghen the tie fx during transition and its done, also agree Maple films done one Hobbit edit to rule them all so no need to go there at all.

Copy the workprint to your own Google Drive, and then copy it again within your Drive. That should be enough to fool it into bypassing the limits.

And thanks; I like Kerr’s LOTR edits a great deal. 😃