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Post #641000

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emanswfan
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Help Wanted: The Prequel Edit Problem - remove the music & sound effects without removing the dialogue...
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Date created
24-May-2013, 10:40 PM

It seems that ROTS opening is an extreme chalange to try to get rid of the music, and after tweaking around through multiple different software, I only got a result about the same (but without the dialogue gating issues of that video) as previous posted video.  However many non-action places are easily isolated.

I did goof for hours around enough to discover: if one wants to remove the music from any of the action aequences, they'll need to use a spectral display to extract each peice of dialogue or necessary sfx and combine it with new sfx/foley along with the new music.  The dialogue and some sfx can be perfectly extracted from the music but only through manual spectral masking, which I don't feel like doing.  I have a limit to my strong work ethic towards all this, I'm not like Ady and his ridiculous rotoscoping.

Knowing this though, I don't doubt the fact that feature I highlighted above would work with Star Wars, so if a year or so wait is what is necessary so be it.  It clearly just automates most of the spectral extraction process.