I finally had time to sit down and go through last week’s episode. Essentially 3 significant things happen.
- The Crew find the Pirate Lair.
- Brutus finds out where they are.
- Jod Betrays the kids.
So what I’ve done is:
- Split the AT-Attin scene in two. The first part is the spacer between episodes 4 and 5 and the second occurs whilst the crew are in hyperspace en route to Lana.
- By splitting that scene I’ve been able to cut the in-hyperspace scenes aboard the Onyx… they don’t add anything to the story.
- Trimmed the approach to Lanupa and the crew walking through the spa to reception.
- Pokitt is kept since she alerts Brutus.
- The scene in the spa hotel room is cut… the crew go from the reception to the Spa with the Pokitt-Brutus scene acting as the spacer. The only issue with this is losing SM-33’s reveal of the Rennod’s symbol, but I think it works to assume it was discussed off screen - once I have my Final Cut I will try to add some SM-33 dialogue to help solve the issue.
- Removed the security guard chase and Cthallops - the edit plays out as follows… Fern/Wim/SM-33 at the mud baths following the pipe, then Jod/KB/Neel looking for the symbol, then cut to Fern/Wim/SM-33 finding the symbol, then cut to the pirates arriving and then cut to the crew at the entrance to Rennod’s lair.
- The rest of the episode then plays out with just minor trimming.
Overall I used just 14 out of the 37 mins of footage. Time is getting tight though… I’m at 1h 51 mins after 5 episodes. I really need this week’s episode to be a lot of filler!