RELEASED S04E01 - The New Mandalore V4

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1080p version: available
1080p recolor: available
4K recolor: available
Subtitles: available

Changes from V3

For all downloads 5.1 Surround sound added
Slight improvement to visual quality
Smaller file size
Updated intro helmet sequence
Updated look to introduction text
- Centred Text
- Decreased size of Text
Rewrote introduction text
Replaced old intro with new one
Added episode title card
recut everything in this episode from scratch again to avoid any previous audio mistakes. (I believe I’ve missed some changes but I’ve recorded as much as I could!)
cut Ezra and Sabine’s exposition dialogue to talk about if her father is inside as this is covered in the intro text.
also cut the dialogue establishing some enemies for flow purposes.
cut expositions lines between Sabine and Rau that explain they’re about to free her father, as this is covered in the intro text. I kept the shots however as they’re good visual story telling.
cut some shots of Sabine getting in position for flow purposes.
cut Sabine asking what was up with Ezra
cut Ezra saying he wanted more practice with the jet pack
cut Sabine saying he’ll pick it up because he’s a Jedi
cut Chopper’s “on the fly” joke and Ezra’s response.
cut Chopper sulking in the trench
cut title card
cut second shot of Sabine flying and dodging on the Jetpack for flow AND to cut Ezra being incompetent with the jetpack.
- I’ve got a few reasons to cut Ezra being bad with the jetpack.
1. He was shown to be relatively competent with thrusters in outer space in the S4 finale (literally the last episode), I would think these skills are somewhat comparable.
2. It kind of diminishes the Season 3 finale where Kanan says he’s taught Ezra everything he needs.
3. Comedic relief at the start of a season is not needed, in fact it’s quite jarring here.
cut the whole Ezra struggling to fly and taking out two stormtroopers sequence.
cut “well this just got more and more -” “interesting, the word you’re looking for is interesting” exchange between Ezra and Sabine.
cut continuation of this joke.
replaced fade to black with a wipe transition to help signify the passage of time.
cut Sabine asking Rau to contact her mother when she was just told she was on her way and transmissions are blocked. Now Rau just leaves with them.
cut a bunch of scenes about planning the strike to free Sabine’s father. The scenes themselves are fine but it’s odd they’re only planning now that the enemy is in view AND that Sabine’s mother has already diverted the forces. It feels like there is already a plan in motion.
- I’ve cut from Rau identifying the convoy to when we have an establishing shot of them before the action gets going.
cut Chopper taking out a stormtrooper during the action.
- I don’t object to Chopper getting some take downs, but this trooper was already down and ALREADY getting back up. Makes the rest of the team feel incompetent so it’s gone.
cut “Are you with Sabine?” and Ezra’s awkward reaction, Sabine’s dad asks him if Ezra is a Jedi immediately after and the barrage of questions feels odd, he can have just one.
cut fade to black
cut establishing shot as its no longer needed without the fade to black.
cut Ezra’s commentary on Sabine’s father and family
- It always felt weird to me that he comments on them. I guess its was for children watching so they can understand the dynamics a bit easier but this cut removes these sorts of things so its gone.
cut Bo Katan’s exposition about “The Duchess”
trimmed Sabine’s response to Ezra (cut “you heard my father”)
cut title card
cut all scenes of and Ursa and Triston Surviving “The Duchess” attack.
- I’ve cut from Sabine crying about her parents to Rau identifying the Empire
cut a shot of the Supercommandos firing at the Wrens.
trimmed a shot of Ursa falling back with Sabines dad to remove them.
cut Kanan saying to get Sabines “Mother and” “father out of here” so now he just stays father
cut the shot directly after to avoid more VFX work.
cut wide shot of the missile moving towards the speeder
cut shot of speeder getting blown up
cut “are you alright?” “better then the bike” exchange between Ursa and Ezra.
trimmed the start of the next shot with Kanan so it flows better
cut “they’ve cut us off” shot as it shows Ursa
trimmed the shot when a Mando ship lands and Bo hurries everyone onboard to not show Ursa.
cut audio of Ezra beginning the weird joke explained below. (I kept the video of Bo-Katan jumping out the ship)
cut all shots with weird joke with Ezra thinking he’s being called a Mandalorian by Bo-Katan
cut the slapstick Ezra getting hit by the TIE fighter sequences
cuts scenes with Tristan and Ursa onboard the Mando ship.
cut reaction shot of Ezra seeing Bo Katan pin Sabine to the wall as it has Ursa in it.
cut a shot of Bo Katan looking at Sabine for pacing.
cut Ezra asking why the Mando’s don’t just use a different metal for their armour followed by getting a Mando history lesson. Found the whole sections to be clunky
cut shot of Ezra and Sabine getting ready to fight (doesn’t flow well thanks to the next cut)
cut shot of Sabine’s family sticking up for her to the other Mandalorians.
cut the scene planning the attack to remove Ursa and Triston
- Used a wipe to connect these two scenes
cut shot of Ezra and Triston looking at each other mid flight.
cut Bo Katan overexplaining who the Duchess was
cut Sabine saying “it was a series of bad decisions okay”
cut the shot after the last for flow
cut fade to black
cut Ezra pulling up his visor to look into a battle and say “whoa”
cut Ezra pulling his visor down as it was now never opened.
cut Triston’s line when Ezra reconvenes after his mission
repurposed shot of Ezra talking to Triston to make it to Rau.
cut Rau asking Triston and Ezra to knock it off, took Ezra’s audio asking where Sabine is and placed it on the previous shot.
- Used the remainder of this shot as normal.
cut “What’s happening?” “The weapon’s been turned against the empire” … yes we know that Rau thanks.
cut “Well… that looks bad.” line from Ezra… yes Ezra, that does look bad, we can see that! Kept the shot just removed the line.
cut scene with Ezra running off for flow purposes.
cut scene of Sabine, Bo and Ursa entering through a door to remove Ursa.
cut some dialogue between Sabine and Bo so they get straight to business. It was just about the Empire coming after Bo Katan and has no real baring on the story Rebels is telling.
trimmed shot of Sabine, Bo and Ursa opening the ship door to make the removal of Ursa easier
- Removed Ursa from the shot
cut shot of Bo Katarn, Sabine and Ursa walking down the ramp of Bo’s ship (wasn’t needed and it makes my CGI work easier).
Added a generic Mando helmet over the shot that shows Tristan
- Just took the Helmet from the Mando next to him, cleaned it up a bit and recolored it then resized and added motion.
cut “Clan Wren is with you” from Ursa
cut shot of Sabine first handing Bo Katan the Darksaber to avoid having to CGI Ursa out of the background, instead I’ve kept “Now I understand why this saber came to me” from Sabine and put it over the next few shots.
cut the shot of Bo Katan Igniting the Darksaber as I was having trouble convincingly removing Ursa.
Updated the look of the end credit ‘concept art’
- Added a cracked paint effect to all concept art
- Added a canvas texture to all concept art
Created subtitles
Added chapters, subtitles and both title card art options to the video file metadata.
created new and old style title card artwork for the renamed episode.

For recolors only:

Fixed colors for introduction sequence
Fixed colors of end credit sequence

Viewing Notes

Episode is critical as it concludes a plot line for the series.