The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released) — Page 27

Here’s what things sound like with some help from danieldubb, who gave each clip some treatment to hopefully sound more like they came from the same source. The same weaknesses are still here, but the question is whether this seems worthwhile overall to use in place of the 2004 dub.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iV60orkCYg5kuk_6WQIioz3syAhTh1Oi?usp=sharing

I haven’t watched over the original sources for those in a long time, and I thought that one felt natural enough.

Hate to admit it, but it’d make a lot of sense for a Special Edition version that is revised to accommodate subsequent development of the story to trim the line, “I don’t seem to remember ever owning a droid.”

I wouldn’t want to take more than a cautious step or two down that slippery slope. But what would you all think about such a change?

(While thinking about people not recognizing R2, I’ll just say that in my headcanon Obi-Wan must recognize them but Yoda doesn’t. And that R2 and Yoda had never met, adjusting anything in TCW to fit that idea.)

Would anyone with access to software to adjust speed of footage in a way that looks good be willing to try adjusting the speed at which the opening STAR WARS logo for ANH recedes from the camera in the 19SE version? I was able to contrive something when working from the 2011 version but it’d be better to use the 19SE. I can provide the footage and reference.

Go the whole hog and make it fit with the PT by changing the line to “I seem to remember owning a droid.”

Yeah, Octorox, I’m with you. I admit that it would help continuity, but isn’t something I want to do. So I won’t! The current Hal9000 saga excuse is that Obi-Wan just doesn’t regard droids as anything special.

I do wonder if that was Lucas’ intent behind lines like “if droids could think” and “flying is for droids” in AOTC, to sort of account for his lack of recognition or care about R2 and 3PO showing up in ANH. That’s my read of it, anyway, even if it seems to have fallen by the wayside along with other things by the time of ROTS.

I imagine one day once Luke knows the full story of the droids, he’ll again ask, “Ben, why didn’t you tell me?”

“Luke, I did not own the droids. So what I told you was trueeeeee, from a certain point of view!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOBeD1GC_Y

I’m afraid that after even more work from myself and danieldubb, the “What if he doesn’t survive - he’s worth a fortune to me” line from Battlefront II just isn’t cutting it. It’s a better delivery, but can’t be made to mesh.

“As you wish” works beautifully, and will be used in any event. It is spoken in a different part of the movie so I don’t think it needs to sound identical. It nearly does anyway, though.

The only question now is whether to go with the 2004’s Morrison delivery of, “He’s no good to me dead.” Or to use a sentence mixed partially from Battlefront II of, “He’s not worth anything to me dead.” Here are both for your consideration. Let me know what you think.

2004 audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UpeLp9JFp1HpJq8D6xOxwa_u3tolEC9f/view?usp=sharing

Revised proposed audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1djIPpppOFDIHiRVFOtwTYLeBinb10jX0/view?usp=sharing

So how soon could the next update to these be released?

ANH is waiting on Dat_SW_Guy’s project, but the slight audio update to the others could be put out soon but I’d like to wait a little bit to see if anything else presents itself for them first.

What event or moment do you have in mind?

Sirius said:

Maybe this site could help to recreate these Boba lines. I just don’t know if the tone will be right:

https://fakeyou.com/?vocodes=1

(This is an AI generated voice site)

Not sure it’d be totally usable, but this ain’t bad!

https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:hh23vhx2xe34q3f8h031na34pt3y7

Too bad it doesn’t seem anyone here has used Respeecher. It’s the AI voice software that recreates your voice recordings through the voice clone, using data clips. It was used to make Mark Hamill sound 30-40 years younger in the Disney+ shows.

There’s been some discussion in the Monthly Thread about possibly pooling together money for a month’s worth once everyone has all of their source files ready to go and doing all of the lines everyone needs at once.

Hal 9000 said:

ANH is waiting on Dat_SW_Guy’s project, but the slight audio update to the others could be put out soon but I’d like to wait a little bit to see if anything else presents itself for them first.

I can send some files for you if you want, as I think my project is still at a snail’s pace as it were last time.