The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released) — Page 576

RogueLeader is a unit. In any event we all appreciate the effort in trying to work with it in AE.

And MR, I understand if you’d like to keep that VFX for yours. As I’ve said, it’s not something I find essential to have, nice as it is.

Thanks for your understanding. I was hoping to have launched TLH by now and obviously have all the scenes available after but as I have not idea of completion now, I gotta rein it in a bit.

If you wanna do a V3 I’m happy to share everything after.

So that’s it, then? MR is dropping out of the project? 🤨

CamSMurph said:

So that’s it, then? MR is dropping out of the project? 🤨

What? No, he’s just saying he wished he’d been able to finish his own project by now but due to hardware failure it’s impossible. He’s gonna see if RogueLeader can open his project files and limp through some of the crackly saber FX that remain.

Hal 9000 said:

CamSMurph said:

So that’s it, then? MR is dropping out of the project? 🤨

What? No, he’s just saying he wished he’d been able to finish his own project by now but due to hardware failure it’s impossible. He’s gonna see if RogueLeader can open his project files and limp through some of the crackly saber FX that remain.

Ah, right. Sorry for the misconception. 😅

I hope he’ll be able to complete TLH in the new year, then. 🤞

Okay, lot of catching up to do… 😄

RogueLeader, I just got your PM, I’m really glad that people are eager to pick up the torch on the saber shots. If Hal is too busy with all this other stuff I can still get you those shots. Shouldn’t be too much trouble.

In regards to finishing Luke’s haircut, I don’t know if many people realise this, but Jonh provided that footage at full resolution… I’ve already taken a look at what needs to be done to fix it, and it’s extremely minimal, only small amounts of masking for literally only a handful of frames is needed. Keep in mind that we plan on adding a day to dawn regrade on top of this, which would cover up pretty much all of these rough edges.

For the statue, I honestly didn’t expect people to still be interested in this, and I had sorta hoped you’d all forgotten. Lol
I guess because of this I’ve gotta get it finished at some point now. I’m in the middle of working on something for another member of the site as well (outside of this fanedit/thread) which is the top priority at the moment. Worth also mentioning that next week I finally get to go back to work again after over half a year!

Finally got to implement the “I am a Jedi” scene, using stuff from sade1212 and sherlockpotter.

For the audio, I ended up using Sade’s, as it balanced better with the 5.1. If CaptainFaraday can send me what he’s got I can compare it and see what can be done with it. But if not, what’s in there at the moment is pretty good to my ear and sensibilities.

Also, once Nev finishes his work on Mustafar’s establishing shot with the castle, I’ll be in a position to ‘sync lock’ the edit and output master audio. This will let myself and others get to work with subtitles (which I have been keeping up to date as I go, but need verifying), German and Italian language audio tracks, chapter stops, etc.

This will be a really special holiday season if V2 comes out in the next few weeks or month.

Hal, can I just say that I am looking forward to using your amazing new VFX shots for me and rorsharch’s edit, Battle of the Heroes! We’ll be sure to credit you and your fellow collaborators in the final product! 😉

Burbin said:

I had been keeping up with MR’s updates on Youtube and it’s really unfortunate we might not get his shot of the sabers fizzling out on Exegol, it looked really good and I thought it was an ingenious idea. It really helped highlight the “end of the journey” aspect of the film, and gave the burial ending scene a much better context.

I thought it was a perfect fit for this edit since having both sabers “die” at the end feels like a natural conclusion to both the Skywalker saber being crackly and damaged, and to Rey picking Leia’s saber and finishing it’s journey.

I sincerely hope that’s not the case. It would be a shame to have all that hard work go unused.

I just wrote a long response but my computer took a dump and didn’t sent.

Basically, my real life sucks but the creativity and friendliness from this site really helped me through some rough times.

Things have esculated over the post few months and I may now be losing my house and the company I built over 22 years! I’m royally screwed and I can’t do a damn thing about it as I’m basically working for free.

I can’t seem to find the escapism that once helped. This site took a turn for me (thankfully, now resolved) and now FE.org is doing the same. I hate bullies, rudeness and negativity so it’s great to see so much positivity back on this thread.

I genuinely appreciate all the friends I’ve made here, all positive comments, chats, PMs etc but even if my computer situation changed today I doubt I’ll have the time to do anything VFX work as I’m just too stressed to focus.

I’m exhausted!

Please don’t let me derail the conversation. I just wanted to explain why I can’t help as much as I have been but I’ll still dip in when I can. ✌

Holy shit. Your life sucks balls right now! Even I don’t have it as rough as you, and 2021 hasn’t exactly been smooth sailings for me — although I can say it’s a step up from the shitshow that is 2020, that’s for fucking sure! 😅

I hope this doesn’t mean you’ll be forced into early retirement, because judging by the wording in your post, you sound like you’re finally ready to throw in the towel. That might be because you’ve been through a lot this year, preventing you from releasing The Last Hope on schedule, but should you decide to make it your last project in light of your day-to-day struggles, then I anticipate it being the noblest end in fan editing history. 😌

Jeez, I can’t pretend to know how you’re feeling about all that. I’m really glad, though, that this has been a positive experience or distraction and hope it can continue to be.

A quick update on the I Am A Jedi audio:

I was all geared up to export it all today in my lunch break, and then… there was a huge storm overnight and work was cancelled because the power was out to the building. Of all the days.

But, I’ll definitely get it done sometime this week. I’ll just stay up one night and do it. There’s one final change I want to try making, so I’ll do that too and present it here if I think it works at all. Otherwise, Hal and Sherlock, expect a Google Drive link sometime within the week.

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MR, that really sucks and you don’t deserve any of it. I’ll send you a PM when I get the chance tomorrow.

MR, man, I feel for you. Just … wow. This has been a rough year+. So sorry.

Sorry about all that bullshit that’s going on over there, MR. You being in the service industry, it’s such a hard hit with the pandemic. I hope things turn around for better soon.

^Sounds good, Cap, thanks.

And Mustafar will most likely include Biomes footage to replace the repurposed Rogue One footage. Nev is spearheading, and fast tracking some work for this project.

I’m rendering another version out now.

JEDIT: complete.

https://vimeo.com/640530188

password: fanedit

The only thing missing is the TIE fighters, but I’m not sure what the plan for that was at the time.

Looks perfect! I imagine using this to replace the first two shots but slotting in poppsketti’s forest shot at the end where it has been.

Why don’t I do this, once Nev can send me the footage: export a version that puts it in full context and then see if anyone can add TIEs that more or less match the audio.

Looking really good Nev! I noticed some specks on the screen at points - is that just soot that’s present in the original footage, or is stemming from the recolor?

I’d definitely love to get the TIEs into this shot too if possible; but I thought we decided to also keep the V1 forest flyover shot before cutting to Kylo, correct?

Are we doing the two-shot or the three-shot version with the Biomes footage?

EDIT: Nevermind, Hal answered before I hit submit lol.

So if we keep one of the establishing shots, would that mean cutting part of the biomes shot or time-ramping it more aggressively to match the audio?

@sherlockpotter: yes, the specks are soot that now flies at about 15x speed.