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#1655449
Topic
Custom Star Wars Crawl (DaVinci Resolve)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1655449/action/topic#1655449
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Small thing that was brought to my attention, when you’re creating your timelines, make sure you’re in 23.976 fps (blu-ray).

It’s what this crawl was based on and apparently keeping it at the DaVinci Resolve default 24 glitches out the very top line of the Episode number to be ever so slightly visible. If you had that issue, give it a go at 23.976 and see if that fixes the issue!

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#1646436
Topic
Custom Star Wars Crawl (DaVinci Resolve)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1646436/action/topic#1646436
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Kong said:

omg, I can’t access my DM… maybe because I’m new member, I tried to contact a moderator then I got a message like new member must wait 7 days to be able to do have a private conversation (that’s maybe why I can’t acces private message section)… so at least I can’t even contact a moderator. >_<
I wanted to work this weekend with DaVinci and finally very happy to be able to use your fusion template because it seem very accurate to the movie version, any others way to get it ?

huh, strange! I’ll dm a mod to see if I’m allowed to post in here, otherwise keep an eye on when those dms open!

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#1645975
Topic
Custom Star Wars Crawl (DaVinci Resolve)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1645975/action/topic#1645975
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Patali said:

Awesome.

I have been wanting to go back into the crawls and remove the Episode numbers, where it is jst the film titles without being numbered, just cause I feel, with how big the franchise has grown, and how you might not even watch them in order, or you might watch stuff in between the episodes, the episode titles are a bit redundant

Interesting! I didn’t build it with that in mind, but I’d imagine you can just not put anything into the episode number section

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#1645363
Topic
Custom Star Wars Crawl (DaVinci Resolve)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1645363/action/topic#1645363
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Hello!

I was inspired late last year by others who have come before me and decided that it was time that I take a crack at a custom Star Wars crawl!

With DaVinci Resolve being my editor of choice, having it be done 100% in Resolve was my goal. This was actually only very recently made possible with the release of the Resolve 20 Beta, which introduced text boxes into Resolve for the first time.

Once I knew this was possible, my goal was to create a template for every single crawl that has shown up on the big screen, which I believe I have 99% accomplished! I have included 3 Title templates in a DRFX file that include:

  1. the classic green Lucasfilm Limited card with 3 options for both the text and color
  2. an extensive A long time ago card with all of the variations I could find
  3. a Star Wars crawl template including variations for the logo, and many branching variations depending on your preference

https://imgur.com/a/tJAhULJ

Each of these variations have been meticulously crafted to match their respective on screen counterpart as closely as possible, from font, to spacing, to color

Each of the three templates also include a custom color option, giving you the ability to make any of these cards any rgb value you wish!

A couple FYIs I’ll go ahead and make you aware of, you will have to source the fonts for this crawl, but I am including a PDF with links to all of the fonts I used for the project. I also figured out that Resolve does not save default lengths for templates, so everything defaults to 5 seconds. This is a relatively easy fix, however. Just click on the clip in your timeline after dragging it in, ctrl+D and set:

Lucasfilm Limited - 00:00:10:04
A Long Time Ago - 00:00:07:12
Crawl - Whatever the length is from your source movie, or anywhere from 00:01:10:00 to about 00:01:20:00

General rule of thumb I’ve found, find the first frame you see the Star Wars logo, create a break there, find the end right when the letters disappear, make another break there, and make the crawl template match that length. From there, the a long time ago card should fit perfectly with the new length before that, and the Lucasfilm logo before that if you so choose

This crawl is set in 2.39:1 aspect ration which covers everything except for The Force Awakens, which is a very similar 2.40:1. To fix this, just click timeline, output blanking, 2.4, which should set the boundaries of the project to 2.4

Happy to share via DM or I can post here if allowed!

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#1601421
Topic
Ahsoka: Heir to the Empire
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1601421/action/topic#1601421
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Hello all!

I’ve been working on an edit for the Ahsoka show for a little while now that is just about finished, and it just needs a few final touches, but I wanted to go ahead and post about it.

From what I have seen in past, there have been 2 main ways people have gone about making edits for this show, either separating it into 2 distinct movies or having it be a very long movie. My goal with this edit was to make a comprehendible cut of the movie that is right about 2.5 hours, which I believe I have achieved. The final cut as of now is sitting at 02:33:27, which I hope will be a digestible length.

I also was not a huge fan of how they did the crawl for this show, so I have remade the crawl to have the original design, while keeping the red color scheme they went with. I’m including a general changelog here below:

First Act - The main chunk of time I cut out was from the first two episodes, where I feel like there was much time wasted. The opening scene is largely the same, with only a few minor cuts here and there, but the plot about the map is entirely gone, having Baylan and Shin already possessing the map from the beginning. This allows us to cut out most of the Lothal sequences, as well as all of the Corellia sequences and have Ahsoka and Sabine jump right into chasing after the map. I also trimmed up some of the space battle sequence to preserve time and pacing.

Second Act - Once we arrive on Seatos, it is structurally unchanged, though I have many many trims here or there to keep us moving. The big changes here include the removal of the second dream sequence, as I feel like the same message is conveyed in the third, and the sequence with Jacen takes up unnecessary time. Lastly the New Republic arriving has been nearly completely removed once again to save on time.

Third Act - Once we arrive on Peridia, they seemingly really wanted to show us a ton of Thrawn, which I understand, but it takes up time unnecessarily to tell us all of his plans that we should be able to pick up regardless, so much of that has been trimmed away. Sabine finding Ezra has been shortened, and the final battle has been trimmed up for speed as well.

It is my hope that the main plot of the show has been preserved in this cut, and that it doesn’t feel too jarring, but I will let you all be the judge of that. I am working on the exact wording of an updated crawl, but the cut is otherwise finished, and I hope to have it up by the weekend! I will update once it is fully completed.