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.
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.
^ 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?
Opinion time - what do you guys prefer?
- 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-
- 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?
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’.
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?
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, those shots have all already been done. And that’s okay, since you are far from the first person to submit that idea and I’ve declined to go with it.
Also, here’s the full conference scene, including “Captain Hux,” for everyone’s consideration.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HbFxcA-pHnrmTmZ6VEnVH4SuQ5EMMK1E/view?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1HbFxcA-pHnrmTmZ6VEnVH4SuQ5EMMK1E/view?usp=sharing
I mustn’t be very good at picking up these things but to me it sounds flawless.
I’ve seen quite a few edits of RotS and this one, however unpolished you consider it to be, is still my favourite.
I certainly wouldn’t say no to seeing a new version in the far future, possibly based off of something like the The NumeralJoker’s extended/upscaled version.
I need to find time to watch the revised episodes.
Hmm.
Thoughts on a possible episode to fit into season two, to give a bit more character balance in a season that slightly needs it:
I’d considered the fun romp of Zillo Beast, despite having some problems with that episode (a useful ion weapon never seen again, plus Palpatine’s malice), but on review it doesn’t feature Ahsoka so it doesn’t satisfy the goal of what I’m looking for in this slot.
The other that I’d considered was Innocents/Liberty of Ryloth, which gives us a bit more tie-ins to later media but isn’t super strong on its own. That doesn’t feature our main guys BUT-
I’ve always liked the crash from Jedi Crash (on Maridun). It’s a great action sequence, Anakin gets injured, and Ahsoka looks after him. That’s a nice bit of growth, though I’d want to trim the episode heavily and mostly ignore the natives (and definitely skip the following episode with the goofy separatist attack). Thematically it would fit with season two, where the impact of the war hits the further corners of the galaxy.
I wonder if I could merge the above two? If I do, it’d definitely end up as two parallel plots, rather than two related plotlines, but it’d give us all our focal characters, and the jeopardy for both storylines could be enhanced by the implicit absence of the other characters. Perhaps the skies that the Jedi cruiser crash in are the skies of Ryloth, with the emergency escape jump that Anakin and Ahsoka take taking them off that battlefield and to a neighbouring planet/system. Then Obi-Wan’s and Mace Windu’s actions would be implicitly strained by the absence of the reinforcements. I might need to do some work to tie the plots together a bit more tightly though, or at least have them reference each other.
I’m not certain this idea is workable, but I think it’s the only worthwhile idea to pursue to potentially satisfy a couple of goals that I have for that part of my series. Worst case, I’ll find I can’t do it, and I’ll just retain Innocents/Liberty as a bonus episode.
I’ll check it out (far later).
(That said, am I moving too far away from established canon by using some of these ideas? I don’t want people to consider TCW:R too deviant to consider it a viable ‘true’ alternative to TCW. I’m not trying to produce ‘an experiment’ with this series, I’m trying to produce ‘TCW if it was made today and with hindsight’)
If it works, I say go for it. Chopping and changing happens all the time in myths and SW is, at it’s root, a mythical arc.
As long as the core storyline is untouched it will be fine. And considering the core storyline is ‘clones fight droids for puppet masters whilst ninja monks chase ninja robots and ninja witched around’ then I doubt there’s anything you could actually do to change the story to the point a casual viewer would notice anything amiss.
One thing that’s always erked me was the over the top heavy breathing.
“I… heh. heh. heh… I’m a Jedi.”
I know it’s nitpicky but I think it would make she scene a little more serious if they weren’t as pronounced in the film as they are now.
You’re going to hate a minor Star Wars character called Darth Vader if you’re not a fan of heavy breathing 😄
She’s fighting an immortal space wizard after sustained physical exertion. It’s be far more out of place if she wasn’t breathing heavily. Sure, it breaks the flow of her line a bit, but it’s be ridiculous to remove it considering the circumstances.
I don’t know if it’s just because I’m so familiar with Guy Henry but no matter whether it’s the original or the deepfake I just can’t see Peter Cushing at all. It’s just Henry wearing a bad eye mask and a weird hairpiece made of CGI.
Very important question time: who is Holdo’s partner pokémon?
Wobbuffet, because she’s basically Jessie.
