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Post #1387445

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EddieDean
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The Clone Wars: Refocused [COMPLETE] + Subtitles for season one!
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21-Nov-2020, 12:32 PM

I think I’ll cap out at 1080p, since it’s easier to work with (in terms of rendering time and storage space) and absolutely plenty good enough to watch, in my opinion. But I’ll aim to hit that where possible. Once cuts are made and worked out, it’s relatively straightforward to match up an improved video source to replace an older one, so if I later decide to backtrack on this decision, or upscaled sources of existing episodes are released, it’ll be low effort cost to make the change.

But there will be some episodes which stick out visually - The Tartakovsky episodes are a completely different style, the Son of Dathomir motion comic is completely unique, and I might include the Crystal Crisis arc even in its unfinished state, if it’s halfway decent. Story quality is master, I think.

But it’ll be important to establish some consistency to the episodes. Titles will probably be:

  1. Star Wars TV logo (that Mandalorian uses, with the blue and red droids and masks)
  2. The new Clone Wars logo used in season seven
  3. The individual episode title in blue on black (named after the arc, ideally as consistently as possible, though maybe swinging a little more towards naming the event in the war - The Battle of Cristophsis, The Second Battle of Geonosis, Crisis on Utapau, etc - where possible, to give a little more of a sense of the conflict?)
  4. A Solo-style blue-text single page narrative card to introduce the context for the episode

What would this exclude?

  • The now fairly famous up-front episode news style narration. This may be a bugbear for most. But being forced to use the existing narration would limit some of the options if I needed to get creative.
  • The ‘fortune cookie’ moral. I don’t know if anyone particularly loved these, but they didn’t add much value, I thought.

Credits would probably be a faneditor credit, a credit to the original faneditor and/or upscaler source (if relevant), wider fanediting thanks, then rolling into the episode credits proper.