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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released) — Page 37

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G&G-Fan said:

Probably should’ve said this earlier. Ryan Golden’s willing to do the new Vader line.

I just need to save the money to pay him to do it (I’m also having him do some others that I want for my edits; it’s more convenient to do multiple at once).

You might as well ask him to dub over the entire line.
“Your mother once thought as you do,” not just the “your mother” part; I believe that would flow way better.

-TGWNN

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I have.

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Do you think he’d be willing to apply his filters to the AI line we have, as well?

I never had the nerve to make the final cut.

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Hal 9000 said:

Do you think he’d be willing to apply his filters to the AI line we have, as well?

Sorry for late reply.

He’s not a fan of AI, so likely not.

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G&G-Fan said:

Ryan Golden’s read of Vader saying “Your mother once thought as you do”.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xcpjwvi5-6F5Gko15ldeUV3gvtqpnkWE/view?usp=sharing

Make sure to credit him for any usage, and do not use his lines to train AI.

Thanks very much for facilitating this, and to Ryan for taking the time. Trying to be objective, I find myself preferring the AI line delivery. It feels more authentic to me, so I plan to go with that one. As we’ve all learned around here, though, it is awesome to have choices.

I never had the nerve to make the final cut.

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Hal 9000 said:

Thanks very much for facilitating this, and to Ryan for taking the time. Trying to be objective, I find myself preferring the AI line delivery. It feels more authentic to me, so I plan to go with that one. As we’ve all learned around here, though, it is awesome to have choices.

All good. I wanted the line for my own edit anyway, so it definitely won’t go to waste.

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@Hal - I was just watching the 10gb file and noticed a slight visual glitch at 27:12 (lasts about 10secs). I re-downloaded the file, but it happened again. Just thought you should know.

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Is that for ANH? Can you describe?

EDIT: I see what you mean. There’s an eventual update planned for ANH, so I’ll just leave this alone until it’s addressed by that. Thanks for highlighting it.

I never had the nerve to make the final cut.

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NeverarGreat said:

Hal 9000 said:

I find myself preferring the AI line delivery. It feels more authentic to me

I have no opinion on the content of this discussion, but that statement feels dark and vaguely sinister.

“It’s almost like it understands me better than I understand myself. Almost.”

-TGWNN

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NeverarGreat said:

Hal 9000 said:

I find myself preferring the AI line delivery. It feels more authentic to me

I have no opinion on the content of this discussion, but that statement feels dark and vaguely sinister.

I mean, to be frank, I don’t think this was Ryan’s most inspired delivery. I’ve heard much, much better come from him before.

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Makes sense to me. We’re trying to replicate what it would have sounded like if JEJ had recorded that line in 1983, to fit right alongside existing dialogue. Not a question of whether a human performance is inherently preferable to a synthesized one. It’s a niche issue to address, and I’m in the position of simply wanting whatever is going to best do this specific job of sounding like JEJ saying two particular words.

I never had the nerve to make the final cut.

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Had an idea for a small tweak, which I implemented in my editor. I swapped two R2-D2 sound effects during the scene where Luke meets Obi-Wan, so that he now responds to Obi-Wan saying he never owned a droid with a “sad beep.”

I never had the nerve to make the final cut.

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Hal 9000 said:

Had an idea for a small tweak, which I implemented in my editor. I swapped two R2-D2 sound effects during the scene where Luke meets Obi-Wan, so that he now responds to Obi-Wan saying he never owned a droid with a “sad beep.”

This is brilliant.

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This one is just an idea, and not sure how I feel about it.

Seems like it’d be a little cleaner from a continuity perspective for Luke to have a different response when Ben tells him his father was a Jedi who fought in the war. Luke repeats the lie from Owen about him just being a navigator on a freighter.

Instead, I’d think Luke ought to react with something like “wow my dad WAS that Skywalker.”

So what about his first line of the scene being “No, my father wasn’t the one who fought in the war, he was a navigator on a spice freighter.”

I never had the nerve to make the final cut.

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I kinda have a feeling that Imperial education wouldn’t be focusing on the Jedi too much, though. Somebody like Anakin Skywalker would get a tiny footnote, at most. Luke already is confused about the Force alone, after all.

Granted, if the Empire were strategically smart about this detail, they would have Imperial propaganda say that Anakin was the only Jedi who didn’t turn on Palpatine and died protecting him from the assassination attempt that left Palpatine “scarred and deformed”.

EDIT: The most likely canon answer, though, is that the Empire says Darth Vader killed Anakin Skywalker since we know they say he died during Order 66 in canon. So my first point still stands.

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Hal 9000 said:

Had an idea for a small tweak, which I implemented in my editor. I swapped two R2-D2 sound effects during the scene where Luke meets Obi-Wan, so that he now responds to Obi-Wan saying he never owned a droid with a “sad beep.”

What a great small change!

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I was wondering if anyone would be interested in creating two boxsets for me, one to hold my own fan edits of the Prequels along with an edit of Star Wars Episode II.V The Clone Wars and another to hold my own fan edits of the original trilogy.I also have my own custom artwork a friend created for me. I was wondering if I could send them to someone and perhaps they would be able to create custom boxsets using my own custom artwork if possible, if anyone could help me with this I would greatly appreciate it.

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I wish there was your cut of Return of the Jedi but with Hayden as Anakin rather than Sebastain Shaw. I liked the original but having Hayden helps jump you into Ahsoka series when Anakin shows back up without feeling aliened. Otherwise, I love all the changes you made especially to Boba Fett. I always wonder why he sounded like a Clone, when in the prequels Jango asks for Boba to be unaltered. Would that not make more sense for him sound different and changing his voice makes no sense any way. A lot of the extra CGI stuff added to the originals are dumb as well. I do like special edition aesthetically though. Some of the shots in OT look too dated in Despecialized, while in Special Edition look gorgeous. I loved what you did with the Emperor in Empire as that is like the best of both worlds. Of course, when it comes to Return of the Jedi’s ending, I like the long shots of the prequels to tie it altogether, but I prefer Yub Nub as song. Yub Nub song is very Star Wars, don’t know why they removed it from the Special Edition but just didn’t have a longer version of Yub Nub made for the Special Edition.

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Not sure if this is the place to mention it… but I noticed a small discrepancy in colour grading in the Ep4 edit, after the Tusken ambush when Obi-Wan and Luke pick up 3PO. The last shot in the sequence (00:32:14 to 00:32:17) is noticeably saturated and yellow-ish compared to the rest of the scene.

Obviously not high priority, but maybe something for the list if it’s ever revised again.

Thank you for all of your work!

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It almost certainly will be revisited, so I won’t worry about it for now, but thanks for highlighting it.

I never had the nerve to make the final cut.