That’s my S01E01 full polished release version rendering now.
As it does that, here are the notes for what I changed:
- Full replacement of the video with the correct FPS, so all the video throughout is nice and smooth
- Fixed a bunch of frames that fixing the video broke (off-by-one error, effectively, and a real bastard to fix, but at least it’s isolated to just this episode)
- Smoothed a bunch of transitions and awkward moments
- Opening crawl updated for new season one context
- Let the TCW logo appear rather than fade in, for more punch (let me know if I should do this to all episodes, folks)
- Cleaned the cold open’s audio a little and followed it with “Many months earlier”
- Added a single establishing planetary shot
- Added radio effect to the Bail line which didn’t originally have it
- Borrowed audio from Smudger to not imply Ventress and Obi-Wan have met before, but reference instead her fight with Anakin (as seen in my S01E00, the Tartakovsky prelude)
- The above also removes the concept of an informant, which I’ll remove from the later episode which references it too.
- Trims to a little of Anakin’s anger as he and Ahsoka destroy the shield generator - now he still reacts sharply, but it’s more of a reaction to the heightened tension of the scene and her risky action, than to her honest-but-careless mistake. His quick cooldown I think works fine now - he’s seeing his rashness in her, so understanding her he knows to be softer.
- Additional new Bail shot to make his appearance right at the ending not a suprise (this one really works, you wouldn’t know it was there if I hadn’t told you), which also serves to show him coming into shadow
- Colour-correction of the existing Bail shot at the ending, so the light on his skin looks right for the time of day as seen in the surrounding shots (but he’s in shadow, which is fine as we just established that)
- Smoothed out the ending transition to music
- Blurred/softened some of the low-res images so they look less pixellated as credits
This is incorporating all feedback to date - so if you guys see anything that I should still look at please mention it - as once I’ve released this I should be putting it down for good, only picking it up again in response to feedback.
There’s still a chance that I’ve missed the odd broken frame, even though I’ve combed through this multiple times now, so apologies if that happens, and if so please just let me know.
I’m glad I went through this and the previous episode’s grind. I’ve learned some decent audacity and GIMP skills which will help as we move forward. And it’s good to know that I know how to make both video and audio behave properly when they error up.