Info Wanted: Mellenium Falcon and TFA

So now that TFA has hit the shelves and our dvd/bluray players, i have been watching it a lot. As with some of you here, i have been planning my own Edit of TFA, and one of the thing that i have been thinking of doing is redoing some of the sound effects. Most notably during the Falcon/Tie Fighter chase. I noticed that the guns on the Falcon have a very different sound to them compared to ANH. I have scoured the internet for the very specific sound that i hear from ANH and i have been unable to find anything that sounds like it in any database or youtube video, or even the SW official soundboard. so my question is this, does anyone here know where i can find an accurate sound effect for the Falcon?

TV’s Frink said:

She’s had a lot of special modifications over the years.

true i never thought of that

Any story changes you have in mind?

Hal 9000 said:

Any story changes you have in mind?

just the basics that most people are doing. overall i was very please with the movie but just a few things kinda bothered me. this is a short list of things i was planning:

• New crawl that mentions the First Order’s possession of the Starkiller, and to make the crawl less personal with names and such
• remove all hints to Kylo being related to Solo/Skywalker until the end (so the Lor San Tekka convo, Snoke convo, ect.)
• possibly trim Finn’s reaction to the village and his “friend” being killed (i can understand him becoming overwhelmed, but he is a stormtrooper and you’d think he would be used to death)
• Cut the line where Kylo calls Vader “grandfather”
• move the destruction of the Hosnian System to the end after Han dies.
• possibly muddy up Phasma’s voice. (IMHO her lines sound to clean. Her voice would be distorted like the rest of the stormtroopers)
• trim some “fan service” scenes
• cut scene where stormtroopers turn and walk away when Kylo is throwing a temper tantrum
• depending on how EP8 starts, I may end the movie early when Rey takes off in the Falcon and leave the Luke reveal for EP8 (there have been a few reports that EP8 will start where TFA ended)

as far as the Falcon cannon sounds go, i think i would still like for them to sound the way that they did in ANH since this is the only movie where they are fired.

ANH Bluray:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBagc1Ww0_Y
TFA:
https://youtu.be/cpLxD_q5eDc?t=73
Official Soundboard:
http://www.starwars.com/games-apps/star-wars-soundboard
Other SFX:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnS-XMBQbPM
Battlefront sounds the closest to me:
https://youtu.be/TI-MuqVCFpU?t=15

to me the ANH Cannons have a “sprinkler” sound to it, which is usually attributed to the TIE fighter but the sound in TFA has a deep “thwip” sound to it.

This may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_sjDv7Mxt0
mediafire links are in the description

Smithers said:

This may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_sjDv7Mxt0
mediafire links are in the description

i dont see links anywhere???
you know it’s a shame someone in the forums hasn’t made an archive of all of the SW sound effects 😉

G E Predator said:

• possibly trim Finn’s reaction to the village and his “friend” being killed (i can understand him becoming overwhelmed, but he is a stormtrooper and you’d think he would be used to death)

That was actually Finn’s first mission as stormtrooper. It’s confirmed later in the movie when he confesses to Rey who he really is. He says to her, “On my first battle, I made a choice : I wasn’t going to kill for them.” So even though Finn was a stormtrooper, he had never actually killed anyone at that point in his life.

i realize that, however i dont know if i like the fisheye lens and shaky-cam they do once Finn’s buddy is killed. that is what i would be trimming.

Oh crap, he normally has links in his videos, he doesn’t here 😦

Smithers said:

Oh crap, he normally has links in his videos, he doesn’t here 😦

its okay, i think i have those very sounds somewhere

TV’s Frink said:

I don’t remember a Mellenium Falcon in TFA.

she has had a lot of special modifications over the years

TV’s Frink said:

I don’t remember a Mellenium Falcon in any Star Wars movie.

its the proper way to spell it

i stand my ground and refuse to spill it that wey

lol

Jackpumpkinhead said:

as far as the Falcon cannon sounds go, i think i would still like for them to sound the way that they did in ANH since this is the only movie where they are fired.

They are fired in ROTJ too and sound the same (To my ears), although the sound is likely no more clean than in SW.

Well we will see how long this will stay up because it is youtube but this is the replacement of the sound to fit with the OT

https://youtu.be/5u7vbPikTVc

Well, that didnt take long for them to take it down, this is the new link to my new SFX for the Falcon Chase scene. let me know what you think, if I need changes ect.

https://vimeo.com/165344749

if you would like to use this sound for your edit, please PM me and I will send you a link to the uncompressed 5.1 wav file

Sounds pretty good, but the sound gets repetitive, like it’s been looped. I wonder if there’d be a good way to blend the old and new sounds?
I agree, though, that the last burst of fire at the end is sublime in that video.