What if instead of Poe delivering all of the report we had Leia do most of it? Not sure how this would work exactly, but it may be worth a try.
EDIT: Scrap that, there doesn’t appear to be enough visual material.
For the Rey Nobody version, I think “you won’t just have power, you’ll have his power. You will kill Palpatine” could potentially be improved by AI.
If we could synthesize a decent Rey voice, I also think “He killed [his] father. I’m going to find [Kylo Ren] and destroy him.” Is something we potentially talked about for Rey nobody and couldn’t make work.
Would you be willing to slot in “Captain Hux” at some point, Hal? It’s not that what we currently have isn’t natural sounding, but there is a bit of audio popping/distortion between the two words.
Sure! Next time I’m there I will. Doesn’t hurt to try it.
I also wonder about 3PO dialogue using this tool. The short conversation with the troopers could literally be whatever we want. Or the line “where is an R2 unit when you need one.”
Maybe he wakes up with restored memory and recites a wookiepedia article of his history.
Ooorrrrr… in Episode I he can say something even better than what’s in my edit to imply a backstory.
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If I can find 5+ minutes of good 3PO dialogue I’ll give it a shot!
Maybe he wakes up with restored memory and recites a wookiepedia article of his history.
Now that would be something. 😆
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-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
It could allow us to try the “3PO never gets his memory back” idea.
It could allow us to try the “3PO never gets his memory back” idea.
Yeah, that would be really neat to pull off. It’s been one of my number 1 TROS editing goals from the very beginning.
One of the ideas that’s been stuck in my head for years is a potential callback to AOTC, in the scene of Rey transmitting the Exegol coordinates:
“Excuse me, friends, but this R2 unit claims to be receiving a message from someone named… Luke Skywalker. Pardon me for asking, but does that name mean anything to you?”
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I love that! This movie has a problem with walking back on any risks it takes. Fortunately, the LEGO TFA files for 3PO are very extensive and articulated well. I’ll get started on it.
EDIT: Also, how about this for Leia’s “come home” Force projection? Obviously it would need reverb but I can add like 5 seconds of silence to the end of it to allow that: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oElcMQVBPJK6z0e1nYqeD0cbmRDdtnvN/view?usp=sharing
Okay, at this point I’m fairly certain eleven labs nerfed their own product at some point yesterday. Threepio sounds terrible, and I just tried using my Kylo voice again and it isn’t the same whatsoever.
Okay, at this point I’m fairly certain eleven labs nerfed their own product at some point yesterday. Threepio sounds terrible, and I just tried using my Kylo voice again and it isn’t the same whatsoever.
Those cheeky— 😤
“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
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Here’s hoping it levels out again, and I’m grateful for the material you mined from it even if it doesn’t. I love the idea of Leia beckoning, “Come home,” as it would tie into our modified final scene.
And that really would be interesting, to have a shot at having 3PO never regain his memories. I wish we had more material to work with of he and R2 talking. R2 could identify him as his “best friend,” and 3PO could express not recognizing him but imply R2 said they’ve known each other a long time, maybe asking, “Tell me about it” or something. We couldn’t smash cut to them straight away, and would lose a few seconds as R2 retracts his… rod, but they could just be carrying on and 3PO could ask something like, “And then what happened?” or “Oh my, how did we ever survive all that madness?” (It’d even sort of mirror their little conversation in Episode I right before the podrace.)
And I do love the idea of calling back to Episode II with 3PO not recognizing the name Luke Skywalker. Unless… R2 has already told him a bit about him. “…a message from this ‘Luke Skywalker’ I’m told I know very well” or something.
(All these quotes are provisional.)
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I don’t think this one blends in all that well, at least not compared to what we already have. I like how the existing version has Kylo emphasize “Captain” as a slight. It would have been a holy pain in the ass to mix it in properly, so this is admittedly rough:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/132D9H_Ive1NXbSolsds8CSABQojAzrmU/view?usp=share_link
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It would require a different pronunciation for sure, and you’re probably right that it simply isn’t worth the effort. Thanks for trying, though!
As for 3PO, Poe, and Rey, I’m not sure what the problem is in generating them. If Eleven labs truly hasn’t changed anything, then 3PO and Rey might be hopeless. This is because they admit that the generator has an issue with accents, in addition to the fact that Anthony Daniels paces his words in a very unique way with 3PO. For Poe, we’d just need to locate audio samples of Oscar Isaac speaking in a slower, less yelling-ish way. So basically an inside voice.
Here are two line options that would allow us to reinstate the full version of Rey’s conversation with Leia about finding Palpatine without the conversation seeming too awkward:
Option 1 (my preference) - https://youtu.be/WMr5IPxpQmE
Option 2 - https://youtu.be/WdsVTJOhSiQ
Sounds pretty good!
Though there’s no helping the awkwardness and unbelievability of Carrie Fisher not speaking for most of a conversation.
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Oooh, I like that second line in and of itself but it feels like the wrong editing decision not to show her face for it. (Granted, TROS itself could have easily looked that exact same way based on the obvious constraints they had, if they had access to this same tool.)
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Here are two line options that would allow us to reinstate the full version of Rey’s conversation with Leia about finding Palpatine without the conversation seeming too awkward:
Option 1 (my preference) - https://youtu.be/WMr5IPxpQmE
Option 2 - https://youtu.be/WdsVTJOhSiQ
I stress, ElevenAI is amazing. I believe DominicCobb was looking for this solution for his own TROS edit. I think he’ll be very impressed. 😉
“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”
-Sheev Palpatine, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Version one I think would work even better if she just said ‘No…it’s too dangerous’, leaving time for a pause before Rey responds.
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I could try that out later tonight. I guess the deciding factor between the two is whether we want to reflect Leia’s familial bond with Rey or have a callback to ESB.
Not just a callback to ESB but Leia delivering a line of dialogue relevant to this movie rather than something originally from TFA. The closest she comes otherwise is “in the shadows from the very beginning.”
Actually, I wonder if she could say something more specific about Palpatine before we cut to her to finish her sentence.
The fact that I’m casually throwing out an idea to have an AI voice begin a sentence and then seamlessly transition to an existing line of dialogue is crazy.
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For Leia and Rey:
“No, he’s too dangerous Rey.”
For Leia at the briefing:
“He was the one who turned Ben, hiding in the shadows, from the very beginning.”
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The novelization says both. It adds the whole thing about her saying she needs to train, and then in her thoughts she realizes Palpy turned Ben and Anakin and could do the same to Rey. So he’s too dangerous for her.
Now that’d be a great line. I love it.
I’m not sure how best to pursue the opportunity of adding something before her line, “always, in the shadows from the very beginning.” I’m thinking something that makes the line feel like it’s something about this news about Palpatine rather than clearly an old line about Snoke. But, it sounds solidly like the beginning of a sentence rather than the end.
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Which would be better: “he’s too dangerous” or “Palpatine’s too dangerous”?
EDIT: Here is the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4AnWnn2YPU
Since Palpatine has so many syllables, it lengthens the line possibly too much. Also, I like how this line is a subtle callback to ROTS.