honestabe said:

The redubbed lines work really well to humanize the troopers.

I thought it was a much better choice then just letting them be nonsensically stupid hahah

The last “We better get moving” should have the voice changed. To me, it sounds like a drunk guy getting strangled. I am sure you can play around with audio editing tools to get that quickly done.

I’ll keep this in mind. So far I’ve heard more good feedback about this line then bad but I understand your perspective. It’s the sole reason I want more feedback on the small exchange! I’ll wait to hear from more people in regard to keeping it or fixing it. I’m currently on the side of keeping it (though it’s probably because I did the voice acting so I’m more attached to it) but we’ll see! 😄

Thanks again for your valuable feedback honestabe! 😄

RELEASED S01E01 - Spark of Rebellion V4.9

Downloads

• 1080p version: available
• 1080p recolor: available
• 4K recolor: available
• Subtitles: available

Changes from V4.8

• 07:50:02 - 07:51:02 CUT (00:01:00) - Removed Wipe from clouds to clouds that then transitions to shot of Ezra in the Ghost. Now it goes from the first shot of clouds to Ezra in the Ghost.
• 02:18:12 - 02:22:03 - Slight adjustments to the wipe here: sped it up a bit and made it blend the shots a bit more
• 11:59:11 Extended Establishing shot by 00:01:17 - Thanks Spectrometer for providing feedback on this. I had HEAPS more of the shot to use… not sure how this one slipped through!
• 32:41:15 - 32:44:05 CUT (00:02:14) - To remove Kallus calling for a shot against the “Jedi”. He now says “All troopers focus your fire.”
• 34:07:12 - Kallus now says “Its over.” instead of “Its over for you Jedi.” - He still talks about a Master and Apprentice but this is fine. Kallus is in the ISB, he can know of the Jedi but it’s important he doesn’t let his troopers know about them.
• 34:34:16 - “First Jedi you’ve ever seen sir?” line from the stormtrooper cut, the shot remains unaltered and kept. (As a side not this moment is way funnier now as Kallus just brutally murders the guy because he’s frustrated)
• 38:43:17 - New VFX for this shot. Only now realised the star destroyer is above Kessel. Added the cloud vortex look and recolored the planet.

Thanks to honestabe for the feedback leading to dialogue changes removing talk of the force, jedi, ect from Imperials to better blend with the OT.

I’m glad my feedback was useful! I’m through season 2 and it’s very good so far.

RELEASED S01E04 - Empire Day V4.3

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• 1080p recolor: available
• 4K recolor: available
• Subtitles: available

Changes from V4.2

23:51:10 - 23:57:04 CUT (00:05:18) - Cut to remove the Inquisitor saying he senses the Jedi within his grasp. Audio from Konstantine has been overlayed into the shot of the Inquisitor looking out to space to better blend the two shots.

28:55:22 - 29:02:12 CUT (00:06:14) - Cut to remove the Inquisitor sensing “movement” in the force.

Thanks to honestabe for the feedback leading to dialogue changes removing talk of the force, jedi, ect from Imperials to better blend with the OT.

Oh! Thats a great idea! I hadn’t thought of that!

There’s a spreadsheet? I’ve been using one of my own, tracking the whole saga with various fan-edits and Blu-ray rips logged, with versions where applicable. Whenever I see a new version come up on this thread I highlight it on the spreadsheet to grab at the next opportunity 🤣

aGreatHumanBeing said:

Therefore I humble ask if it would be possible to add a new column in your spreadsheet (next to the version-column, maybe?), that indicates when each episode was last updated?

I’ve now updated the spreadsheet to include the date the episode was last updated! This should make it much easier to work out what you do and don’t have!

Daiyus said:

There’s a spreadsheet? I’ve been using one of my own, tracking the whole saga with various fan-edits and Blu-ray rips logged, with versions where applicable. Whenever I see a new version come up on this thread I highlight it on the spreadsheet to grab at the next opportunity 🤣

I’ve now sent you a PM with the spreadsheet!

A bit of an update of what I’m doing ATM in my spare time. I know I just released v4.9 for Spark of Rebellion but this episode has always bothered me so I’ve been working hard to fix it and well… a VERY different and much BETTER version will be released soon. I’ve been combing through all the episodes and shorts that I’ve cut and I’ve reconstructed the opening of this show, I’m addressing that problematic transition with the Inquisitor once and for all and I have an entirely new introduction for Kallus! This is the main episode I get feedback on and to be honest, it’s because the opening to Rebels is pretty poorly executed (not a bad story just bogged down by weird creative choices and overtly childish elements). This episode is one of the reasons we’ve got TheDimitrios making his own edit (at least some good has come from my many attempts to fix this episode)!

I’ve also picked up on two things that I want to continue to fix throughout the show. 1) The aliens speak basic… Why? Well, so kids can understand. I’ve been replacing a lot of alien dialogue with their native languages and even made some sounds for different languages that hadn’t been on screen before (to my knowledge). 2) I want to add more ambient wildlife to Lothal. In season 4, a plotline is how the Empire is destroying the environment of Lothal and part of this is the wildlife (hence why the lothwolves intervene) and I think I can draw this element out a bit by creating a more robust soundscape of wildlife in the first season, to have it decrease a touch in the second season and be completely gone by the fourth. My hope is this will leave the viewer feeling like Lothal is empty and dying.

I’ve built a trailer for the series that I’m very happy with and quite frankly it has inspired me to build up more “star warsy” type sounds for rebels, hence the above goals. It’s ready to release but I’m waiting for a touch of voice acting before I release it.

Anyway, that’s a little teaser of what’s to come and what’s been cooking behind the scenes!

My middle son wants to watch Rebels with me again. I don’t know how many times he’s watched it. Now I’m excited now to experience it again but better, Recut. Would love the link. Looking forward to a better Bendu. MTFBWY, cheers and thanks!

900072474 said:

My middle son wants to watch Rebels with me again. I don’t know how many times he’s watched it. Now I’m excited now to experience it again but better, Recut. Would love the link. Looking forward to a better Bendu. MTFBWY, cheers and thanks!

PM sent 😃

Hey!
Always thought the show was a little to childish, I’m interested on your take of the show. Would love a link to it. 😃
Best Regards

IvRo said:

Hey!
Always thought the show was a little to childish, I’m interested on your take of the show. Would love a link to it. 😃
Best Regards

PM sent 😃

RELEASED S01E01 - Spark of Rebellion V4.10

Downloads

• 1080p version: available
• 1080p recolor: available
• 4K recolor: available
• Subtitles: available

Changes from V4.9

• Rebuilt the opening of the show to feel more star warsy
  • Opening shot of Ghost in space taken from The Machine in the Ghost short
    • Used masking to remove the title card
  • Took shot of the Ghost flying towards Lothal from S01E04 - Fighter Flight
    • doubled the framerate in Flowframes and doubled the duration of the clip (Essentially giving me twice as much footage for the same shot in the correct framerate)
  • Took shot of Hera flying the Ghost from S01E11 - Idiots Array
    • masked out the windows and flipped the direction to make it look like the Ghost was turning into Lothal instead of away from it.
  • Took shot from S01e03 - Droids in Distress of the Lothal city
    • Took a shot of the Ghost flying through the sky from the short Property of Ezra Bridger.
      • Masked ghost to put the ship in the shot above for a bit of continuity.
  • Took a sequence from S01e11 - Idiots Array with Zeb and Kanan in the bar. Kanan talks to Old Jho.
    • cut Zeb and chopper betting and cut right to Kanan and Old Jho
  • As the payment takes place we transition to Ezra at his home.
    • Used Flowframes and half speed to give me more time with the shot of Ezra’s home after the wipe.
  • Replaced Old Jho’s voiced dialogue to Alien speech with subtitles (I plan to do this for the rest of his lines in the seires)
  • ADDED (00:47:17) From start until zoom in on ezra’s home.
• Reinstated sequence of Ezra in Lothal helping the Gotal
  • Opening shot with the TIE fighters is now where we wipe to from the Inquisitor and Vader
  • Gotal dialogue replaced with alien language I’ve created from goat and chicken audio
  • Cut the Gotal saying the empire sucks as it’s not needed. The charge of treason for not being registered for trade is much more abuse of powery and better suited to the Empire.
  • removed dialogue over shots of citizens looking on. I think it’s more powerful if they’re silent.
    • Reordered this shot, it now happens after the Empire orders the Gotal to be taken away.
    • Put dialogue here from Grint to better blend this new ordering
  • trimmed shot of Gotal being taken away to make the Empire seem less comically evil.
  • removed dialouge over the citizens reacting. These people have just given up and I think this stresses that point without needed extra dialogue.
    • reordered this shot to after Ezra takes the comm from the Imps.
  • cut Ezra “but it sure has a way of finding me” line.
  • cut Gotal “Who is that kid?”
    Extra Cuts:
  • 08:19:21 - 08:24:00 (00:05:03 CUT) - “Who are you” exchange as its a left punchline to a joke that I’ve cut out previously.
  • 08:53:15 - 08:56:15 (00:03:00 CUT) - Cut Ezra talking to himself saying the creates must be worth it
  • 08:53:15 - 08:55:01 (00:01:10 CUT) - Made the TIE fighter only shoot once to make the Empire more credible.
  • 11:38:23 (CUT LINE) - Cut “Oh he’s in the ship alright” joke from Sabine but kept the shot.
  • 11:40:07 - 11:40:20 (00:00:13 CUT) - ^ shot was lingering a bit too long after the line cut so it was trimmed
  • 13:58:04 - 14:32:23 (00:34:19 CUT)- S01E03.mp4 has a better Kallus interaction.
  • 13:58:04 - 14:17:10 (00:19:06 ADDED) - Added in The said s01e03 - Droids in Distress scene that is both better and shorter for introducing Kallus
  • 12:53:20 - 00:14:21:08 (CUT 02:27:12) - reordered the Kallus scene to be after the first jump to hyperspace to fill the weird flow made by the ad break.
  • 12:53:20 - 00:14:22:22 (ADDED 02:29:02) - Rebels escape into Kallus scene into Tarkintown into Vizago getting the guns.
  • 15:05:08 - Changed the Tarkintown Rodian’s audio to make him speak Rodian instead of basic.
  • 17:18:20 - Cut Ezra knowing a lightsaber is the weapon of the Jedi.
• Added wildlife SFX to the outskirts of Lothal and a lesser amount over the city shots. The idea here is to enhance a plot thread already existing in the show, the Empire occupation is killing Lothal. As the series goes on (particularly in season 2 and season 4) there will be less and less of these added SFX to further this point.
• Added more background sfx to Kessel to make it feel more in alignment with current canon.

Hopefully that’s the last version of this episode I need to release! hahaha 10 revisions is enough (Unless I’ve got to fix anything haha!)

My next mission is to fix episode 2 of the series. At the moment it’s fine but feels like two episodes back to back. I want to see if there’s a way to blend the arks together a touch. Any suggestions would be great!

Just released a trailer for my edit! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVncxYQ0z44

nice introduction to your changes 😃

I‘d like to chime in once you‘ve passed season one with your v4 reworks.

CMMAP said:

nice introduction to your changes 😃

Thanks!

I‘d like to chime in once you‘ve passed season one with your v4 reworks.

I’m into season 4 with V4. I’m just fixing up the introduction (first two episodes)to the series as they’ve been noticeably poorer quality. If you’re talking about my recent proposed changes that’s fair enough!

Thanks Eddie, it’s been a very fun process working out how to do all of this. I’m also very determined to make this show as good as it can be! I’m also feeling like I’m getting close to this show being as good as it can be, so that’s also awesome. 😄

Would love to get a link to check this out! Thanks!

bill55 said:

Would love to get a link to check this out! Thanks!

PM sent 😃

I think I’ve fixed up S01E02. Essentially, I was using the wrong parts of each episode. Now, I think they flow together nicely and feel like a cohesive story, sharing themes and arks.

I’ve reinstated Zeb and Ezra going through the Lothal market so we can see the tension between the two as well as be told about it in the intro text. I’ve reordered some scenes so we hear about Sabines mistrust plot within the first five minutes so it’s not forgotten by the time we get to it halfway through the episode like it was before. It’s placement now mirrors Zeb and Ezra’s ark, showing the mistrust both groups have for each other. I’ve cut the Phantom chase scene that opens Into Darkness and reinstated Zeb and Ezra working together to fix the phantom (but failing due to Chopper). This addition works nicely to blend the two episodes together as it forms the conclusion for Zeb and Ezra’s fighting. Now they’re working together… albeit against Chopper and still failing but it works!

I look forward to feedback on it once I get it released for everyone! 😄

One thing I think we miss a bit in this project is the “Sabine was with the Empire for some time” subplot.

I think it’s just briefly mentioned once or twice, and then… comes the first episode of the fourth season with the big “Sabine is the one that built the mandalorian killing weapon” twist, and at the least to me it was… “wait what, Sabine was with the Empire? where’s that coming from again?”.

Maybe a little bit more of this subplot could be added? I think there’s an episode that was skipped that focus specifically on this? Don’t remember if it’s any good though!

Anyway, just brainstorming!