Artan42

Abrams grades films like a film student.

cranyx said:

artefact

Just gonna point out that there are a number of instances of Star Wars spelling this specific word the American way, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen them use the British spelling of words in general: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sith_artifact

Looking at the sources it’s only written that way in books because the books are American published. The word never appears onscreen in-universe or in crawls. The only word that is spelt differently that does appear in the crawls is ‘armored’ in ANH and RotJ.

Eddie, I’d say stick with whichever you want. Imperials have pronounced Lee-a and ley-a, zed and zee, and lef-tenent, loo-tenent all interchangeable so it’s not unreasonable to assume their spelling is also varied.

It’ll be the trade off. Jakku looks okay in either grade because sand does vary a lot but snow should always look white day (I have no idea how they manage to keep mucking up Hoth). I feel your new grade does that, ev en if I prefer the less blue version for the interior of Starkiller Base (grey matches the original Imperial interiors better).

vranir said:

Here’s my detailed feedback and custom follow-up edit list for the final three episodes of Season 1. As always, most is subjective, but feel free to take anything that you want.

Please do note the text issue for “Children of Night” and the two text issues for “The Future of the Force.”

CHILDREN OF NIGHT

• The opening text uses the word “Whilst.” Though technically correct, it is the only instance in any of these crawls where you use an archaic term like this. I suggest replacing it with “While” for consistency.

Whilst it may need looking at for consistency with the existing grammar, but ‘whilst’ is used about as much as ‘while’ in England and is far from archaic. As far as I’m aware EddieDean is from England Scotland (dammit, that was almost an act of war).

Edit: Case in point. I didn’t even notice, but I started my sentence thusly.

Edit: Also ‘artefact’ is a legitimate spelling (one that was wrong on a massive billboard in London in Eternals), again, it’s the Commonwealth spelling so it’d be a matter of consistency not correction.

Hal 9000 said:

Dub over all stormtroopers with Temeura Morrison, whether the dialogue makes sense or not.

Redub Bobba, Jango, and all the clones with Michelle Ang.

RogueLeader said:

I wanted to chime in and say that I like both of Burbin’s ideas. It did feel funny for Grievous to be focused on the witches before he has even taken care of the Jedi in his lair. Like, he has Jedi running around in his house and he’s like, “I need to go kill Ventress and those witches!”

I think it fits for him. He’s not considering Fisto much of a threat but he’s eager to go out and kill Ventress at last.

I was confused. I loaded it this morning to look at after work and find it’s different on the tracker. I eventually worked out why with my keen intellect.

I think the two main episodes work well together. Sending the Jedi after Grievous is a very Ventress thing to do and I found it strange she in the actual show she has one assassination strike against Dooku then gives up.

The edits to LoG work well and don’t feel jumpy and the cut to Mas is a bit quick but there’s no way around that.

Did you do any changes to the music? The scene of the Nightsisters commandeering the AAT sounds very like the Knights of Ren theme.

Retribution would be a good name as it ties up the loose ends and opens some new ones in terms of the Savage/Ventress/Grievous/Dooku (and by ecxtention Palps/Talzin) relationships.

I noticed no technical issues (missfades, audio issues etc.) but then again I’m not usually good at picking that up.

I will say the composition of the edit is very well thought out and things like the juxtaposition of both Grievous and Ventress getting rebuilt is interesting and something that works as if it was scripted.

EddieDean said:

But, a question for you guys:

One additional option I have here, is to end with Savage on a rampage in the diner looking for Maul, finding a further clue and getting more of Talzin’s guidance, ending up on the ship which’ll take him to Lotho Minor to find Maul. I originally cut that from the start of the relevant episode, as it wasn’t necessary as an episode introduction (he has the medallion, we can start with him just already arriving at the planet), but if I were to put it here, it would serve to bridge the prior Nightsisters episode (four episodes prior) with the next Savage/Maul episode (four episodes hence). Though it doesn’t directly pertain to the content of this episode, it might provide some good wider continuity and let that plotline feel like it’s still running? What do you guys think?

I think that could work, it would help with the ongoing story style and spread things out a little bit.

I’d say that addresses my issues, especially Starkiller Base. It looks better on the skintones as well.

I think the colour grade is an overall improvement, I’ve never been a fan of the technical side of Abrams’ films (colourgrade, too fast cameras, weird zooms, etc.).

There’s some that look off, Jakku looks too much like Tatooine when it’s more yellow than orange (orange, red, and yellow are the only ways of distinguishing between Tatooine, Geonosis, and Jakku), Starkiller base looks far too green (the exterior) for me personally and the naturalistic lighting on the last picture makes it look too much like England.

Overall it works on every other scene.

CaptainFaraday said:

Master Lawdog said:

Some people may start asking if you’re gonna add the extended recreation of Boba mourning Jango Fett’s loss from The Book of Boba Fett.

Is that extended? I thought it was an unaltered clip from the movie.

I don’t think it’s extended or unaltered but rather an different take.

I’m hoping to find some time at the end of my holiday to watch the v2s of everything to date.

It’s always going to be either stretch the image to the same aspect ratio as the live action bits zoom and crop it (well the third option of mixing aspect ratios exists).

After a full day downloading yesterday (I hate my internet) it’s ready for tomorrow now. I’ve just flicked through to make sure there’s no playback issues and got taken by surprise by just how good the unstable sabre looks in a full scene (the training scene at the start), I can’t remember who’s that was but it’s seamless work.

Hal 9000 said:

^ Darn. You’re right. Oh, well! Dialogue changes that don’t affect sync are tricky because they only get corrected if you specifically remember them in the moment.

Also… y’all really gonna make me have to spell out the hidden special surprise in this release, huh?

Replaced Palp’s music with Electro’s dubstep heavy soundtrack from TAS2?

EddieDean said:

Opinion time - what do you guys prefer?

1. Ahsoka DOESN’T get punished for her disobedience at Ryloth (s01e06), but remains offscreen until the Holocron Crisis arc (starting s01e09), where she is disobedient at Felucia, then gets assigned the guard duty that pays off in that episode.

-OR-

2. Ahsoka does get punished for her disobedience at Ryloth via a new scene added at the start of the following episode (s01e07), being assigned guard duty that’ll explain her absence until the Holocron Crisis (s01e09), in which it’ll be resolved. In this version, we won’t include the Felucia scenes.

I’m leaning towards 2 if it fits properly.

Could he not just be subbed in this scene by his identical twin brother Dolf Yularen?

EddieDean said:

I need some opinions folks: Does this scene work?

Storm Over Ryloth keeps having Anakin report in to Mace, which works nicely paired with Liberty on Ryloth, because it’ll seem like Anakin’s reporting to Mace directly on the ground. If this scene works, it’ll be a really slick bridge between the space action and the ground action, and tie them all together nicely. But if it doesn’t work, I’ll have to just have this as two separate holocalls as in the original.

I’d say it works.

Dub over the Duel on Mustafar with Sick Puppies ‘You’re Going Down’.

sherlockpotter said:

https://streamable.com/35xfqw

There we go, I’ve figured out the Captain Hux conundrum.

I don’t get it, you’ve just clipped the original film…

Well the hype looks promising, can I have a link to it please?

EddieDean said:

It’s the “Two weeks later” text. On one it fades out, whereas on the other it disappears when the shot changes.

Oooooooh, now I feel silly, I was looking at the transition between the two scenes.

In that case, the fading is better.

EddieDean said:

2. Here’s the new version of the transition from Clone Cadets to Rookies. Version one has a fade out, version two doesn’t. Which one do you think works best? The audio transition here (from the emotional rise into the drumbeat) I think is about as good as I can get it without going very radical to replace it, because after that point it gets problematic. Pulling the drumbeat forwards informed the rest of the edits to the scene.

They appear identical to me.

triadne said:

Hi all,
I’ve been doing some work on this over last few days.
Been looking at some re-framing, especially in this conversation between Luke and uncle Owen.
I’d also like some editing advice with regards to small time skips.

I have a section that I want to cut out and it results in a time skip of 5 seconds. I have artoo trundling towards Luke and Threepio, then I cut Threepio being mean to Artoo, and the next bit is Artoo trundling alongside Threepio. I have used an edge wipe transition to indicate slight passage of time, but it still feels like a jump cut. if I slow the wipe then it will feel like too much time has passed. I can render that short clip if necessary.

This section, the conversation between Luke and uncle Owen, I have reframed a lot of the shots to accentuate when the characters are forward thinking, being introspective, being blind to the other’s needs etc. I feel it makes the scene more interesting, but I would value some feedback.
https://vimeo.com/638711394

‘This video is not rated’.

I’ve never noticed Vimeo asking me to log in to see videos before.

dgraham414 said:

Artan42 said:

vranir said:

I suppose if anyone knows where Vader’s TIE is located on the Death Star wreckage it’d be Kylo Ren, but it wasn’t seen or mentioned past A New Hope.

We also see Vader arrive on the Second Death Star in a shuttle, no indication that his custom TIE is there at all. Bringing it back for this seems highly coincidental, much more suited for the unedited sequel trilogy than the HAL version.

There’s nothing to suggest that Vader is the only person with that particular model. The Inquisitors all fly Advanced TIEs as well.

Inquisitors pilot prototype Tie Advances…

I know they’re a different model of TIE Advanced, the point is that non-standard TIEs are seen with people other than Vader.