New Video: https://youtu.be/xMP2m-SwhD4?si=0CEaNkKMOB-T8hKe
It’s a WIP of five minutes from the End Battle from Phantom Menace. A big thank you to Phase3 for his help with the clean SFX 5.1 track, and all of the cut shots he’s been restoring (seven of which feature in this clip). Lemme know what y’all think, especially concerning the SFX on the new shots. I had to build the soundtrack from scratch on those.
Major Bonus Points if anyone can find the one shot that has a new visual effect composited in.
Enjoy the Edit!
-JoE
Looking good! I know it’s temp but the lack of music gives it a vibe lol. I love all the extended footage
As for my guess for the new element: The fire on the Naboo fighter around the 2:25 mark? If not that maybe more of the shot, doesn’t look familiar but also doesn’t have the same upscaled quality the other added footage does lol.
Another thought is maybe a lightsaber effect somewhere in the extended footage I missed, otherwise no clue lol.
Honestly speaking of VFX edits pertaining to lightsabers that one close up of Obi-Wan always bothers me because the lightsaber is matted terribly and looks almost see through.
Haha! The SFX track IS a vibe! I’ve really been enjoying working with it, because it allows you to do so many shot combos that are impossible if you have to take the original music into account.
I have to give a huge shout out to Phase3 for all of his work on building that 5.1 SFX track. It’s beautiful! I’ve also really enjoyed mixing the new SFX for the cut shots he’s been restoring. I used to do a lot of SFX work in previous jobs, but it has been a quite a while since I put that much effort into a soundtrack (I think one of the new fighter shots alone has 27 SFX tracks).
For Obi’s Saber, I’m aware that there are some issues with saber work in the Phantom Menace, however some of the problems are simply from the HDR master which under clocks the whites. Once I color grade the whole sequence I can see which sabers, if any, need to be fixed.
The shot with added VFX is the wide shot of the Droid Control Ship after the N-1s fire torpedoes at the Bridge Deflector Dish. That shot was originally a one-off cutaway during the Gungan Battle that directly preceded the “Activate the Droids” shot. I repurposed it as a “swing shot” to get us from the bombing run to Anakin’s run in with the swarm of Vulture Droids. I timed the last popping blast that hits near the rising N-1 to match a flash in Anakin’s cockpit to link those two sequences, but I couldn’t link it on the front end, because the GINORMOUS explosion from the end of the bombing run is absent from the wide shot. SO! I added a matching explosion on the wide shot and roto-ed the N-1 that flies in from of it frame-by-frame.
The new blast is at 2:11 if you want to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMP2m-SwhD4