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#1336715
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Help: Audio Advice / Help sought for 'Windu vs Palpatine' scene in ROTS for my Fan Edit
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Panakin said:

I gave it a shot

https://streamable.com/5rp642

Wow. Thanks so much. You really did an awesome job on that.

I cant remember what stage I was at when I last worked on this project but Ill make sure the video for this part is complete, put in that dialogue, add the music etc and see how it goes. Ill post it here.

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#1335680
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Help: Audio Advice / Help sought for 'Windu vs Palpatine' scene in ROTS for my Fan Edit
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Hal 9000 said:

Does Sam Jackson say something similar in another movie you could borrow from?

Honestly, I never even thought of that. Guess Ill have to do a bit of research to find an “under arrest” quote. Thanks. Maybe he has played a cop role before. I’m guessing removing the sounds and leaving the voice is just an impossible task.

Just for the sake of it, ill post this link here. https://vimeo.com/335031755

Its a ‘test’ I did a while back while working on it. More work has been done since then. The moving corridor shot is almost complete. Might post the full version of the scene here if I complete the whole thing.

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#1335560
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Help: Audio Advice / Help sought for 'Windu vs Palpatine' scene in ROTS for my Fan Edit
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Hello,

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this…

Maybe about a year ago I got half way through editing Windu vs Palpatine. I was removing the three other Jedi so that it was just a 1v1 battle but I eventually just forgot about it. Currently i’m thinking of just scrapping it or going back to work and finishing it. I have a problem though. As Windu says “…you’re under arrest chancellor”, four lightsabers ignite over the top of this line. I have tried messing about with the audio channels but found no success and I would much rather not cut this line.

Is there anyone with better audio knowledge that can help? Thanks.

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#1317736
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Idea: Reworking the sequel trilogy
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Well, you say that you want to use deepfakes, Voice emulation and realtime raytracing. If you feel that honouring their performances is worth that much effort, I’d wish you luck.

Obviously you’d have to do a ton of preplanning before starting something to that scale. I personally wouldn’t and scale way back.

If I were to ever tackle it, I’d look to turn the ST into one or two movies and make as much use of the crawls as possible to construct a new starting narrative.

You can use the lack of originality in the ST to your advantage. For example, the multiple forest planets/desert planets can be mashed together to create one. Rey can arrive at the forest planet with finn to meet the resistance, get the lightsaber from Maz and get training from Leia, all on the same planet before heading off to meet Luke. Just an example.

I think the most difficult part would be creating a new ending as, for me, I’d hate to put sideous in it at all. It’s nonsense. But I don’t know what would work in place of it. Big issue for me there. Just my thoughts on it.

More basic vfx can be used where needed.

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#1317686
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Idea: Reworking the sequel trilogy
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I’ve been through this myself over and over again in my head. Without a rewrite, using vfx to create new scenes, maybe background replacement to move characters around to new locations, etc…

At what point do I just say “forget it” and move on. Even if it were possible to get these movies to some sort of workable state within cannon, I can’t see myself liking them a whole lot more due to the ending of 6. Whatever the story I can drag out of the ST, it just wouldn’t be worth the watch.

Maybe it might be fun as a test of editing/vfx skills but I still wouldn’t consider it canon after.

I’ve got a ton of ideas though that I might post later.

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#1317557
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<strong>The Rise Of Skywalker</strong> — Official Review and Opinions Thread
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DrDre said:

Cthulhunicron said:

It’s not wise to call him Darth Sidious on this forum.

Why? This site is called originaltrilogy.com, not prequelhaters.com, or sequelhaters.com. As for any forum, there will be those, that like the PT, and/or ST, and those that don’t, but let’s not even begin to push the idea, that some opinions on the films are more valid than others, or that we should censor ourselves to pacify some vocal hard line segment of the membership on this forum.

Not to get off topic…

I’ve not spoken a whole lot over my time on here but whenever I did, I used to find it hard to say anything about the prequels because of the kind of response people used to get from those kind of posts. I don’t mind talking about them now due to the sequels but I’ve also noticed a crack down on those kind of responses. Maybe it was just my insecurity and I am actually totally wrong but I’ve noticed this crack down happen over the last year or two, while the Disney movies were coming out.

Hopefully it was just my insecurities or a coincidence.

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#1313904
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STAR WARS: Episode 7 &amp; 8 [Trilogy enhancement] - Released
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So…

With ROS now out, whats the plan Anjohan? Personally, I cant help but feel that things are even worse now and I don’t know if its even possible to fix anything. Whatever you come up with, I am interested in checking out but I am almost in two mindsets now. Ether, I just forget about the ST and move on (6 was a great ending anyway) or take every single scene in the ST, put them into a blender and see if a completely new narrative can be constructed. Most of these “new” planets look identical to each other anyway and whatever else can be fixed with VFX. It would at least be a fun experiment.

Whats your thoughts Anjohan? Has ROS affected what you were planning to do at all? Will you do this one too? If so, what changes?

@Cadavra
Thanks and yeah, that was kind of the idea. If I did do my own edits, it would be one of my top priorities to change.

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#1308596
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STAR WARS: Episode 7 &amp; 8 [Trilogy enhancement] - Released
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Anjohan said:

I agree on all these things, yes, except the fact that his presence does not hype him up. There i completely disagree.

Having him as a commanding presence in hologram form - three times, during TFA, sets him up as the main antagonist by far. He is commanding both Kylo Ren and General Hux. He is known in the ways of the force (this already sets him up to be a Sith of some sort). And even worse, we have not yet seen him in his physical form. The audience almost DEMAND to see him in the next film, this time in the flesh. In other words, The Force Awakens sets him up for BIG REVEALS and an even more commanding presence. Also, the parallels to The Emperor is uncanny.

You make good points, I do remember the “Is he really that tall?” etc questions popping up. Would only mentioning him not also build up the hype? I’m not sure but I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

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#1308542
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STAR WARS: Episode 7 &amp; 8 [Trilogy enhancement] - Released
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Anjohan said:

Removing Snoke is also to make Kylo the main baddie, to not hype up “The new emperor” before his death in TLJ - and therefore not disappointing the audience upon Snoke’s death in TLJ as much as it did. His TLJ death will now not be as devestating to the overall plot (because he was now not foreshadowed to be the main baddie).

I don’t think that it was his presence that hyped Snoke up. I mean, why didn’t Yoda sence this extra dark side presence at any point? What was he doing during episodes 1-6? He is stronger than Palatine (apparently)? All of these questions (and I’m sure more) are what hyped him up, not how much he was in TFA.

If Snoke was just some rich evil guy from the outer rim that saw his chance at building up his own empire by offering his wealth (cut out his force abilities), it would have all worked.

This would have told us where all their funding is coming from, Kylo and Hux would still have seen him as their boss and his death in TLJ wouldn’t of been an issue. Kylo would of had all the funding they needed by that point and his continued presence wouldn’t have added to the story any further. His lack of force abilities wouldn’t have set the audience up to think he was “the final boss” either.

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#1302373
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Idea: OT Edits to Fit the PT and/or the Larger Saga (A Resource Thread, Hopefully)
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Cadavra said:

Correction: Temura saying “as you wish” is from the Bounty Hunter video game, not Battlefront. It definitely sounds better than the 2004 DVD version, but I’m not sure how easy it would be to isolate from the rest of the audio.

https://youtu.be/MPGmcYhHJE4?t=537

You were correct the first time. Last line in the video.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mhzyQcQSu1M

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#1302142
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Idea: OT Edits to Fit the PT and/or the Larger Saga (A Resource Thread, Hopefully)
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Ive made a small list of some other things that could be fixed. Ill probably have a shot at them all at some point.

ANH

Obi Wan forgets R2. A few line removals would fix it. I think he even calls R2 ‘friend’ so I think it works without those lines.

“I haven’t gone by the name Obi-Wan since oh, before you were born.” Untrue in context to the prequels.

“For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic.” A few times in the prequels it is stated that the Republic is only 1000 YEARS old, not generations. Can just cut out “For over a thousand generations”.

“A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights.” Is this right? Anakin HELPED the Empire? This makes it sound that the Empire was around before Anakin joined. No?

"General Kenobi, years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars. Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire.” Did Obi Wan serve Bail Organa? Not sure…

“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.” Han says a few things about how he doesnt believe jedi/the force exists. It works great in the originals alone but he would of been born around the time of Order 66 surely? If not then soon after. Seems a bit off.

ESB
Yoda: “You are reckless!”
Ben: “So was I, if you’ll remember.”
While we dont get to see Obi Wans youngest years, in context to the prequels, this doesnt appear to be true. Nothing that Obi Wan does seems reckless at all. Ive removed that “so was I” line but I have no idea what Ben could say instead.
https://vimeo.com/368747602

ROTJ
“I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi." Ben says at least one line here to Luke on Degoba that is untrue in context to the prequels. Not sure about the line that I quoted, Qui Gin requested it. I think Ben also states that Anakin was a great pilot when he met him. This is closer to being untrue.

Cadavra said:

Temuera also has quite a few Fett lines in the Battlefront games, including “As you wish” and “worth a fortune to me,” which sound a bit less phoned-in than the lines he recorded for the 2004 DVD.

I didnt know that Temuera Morrison did those voices but your right. I might have to check that out.

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#1301952
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Idea: OT Edits to Fit the PT and/or the Larger Saga (A Resource Thread, Hopefully)
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RogueLeader said:

I don’t think that is necessary. 3PO looks different from how he looked when he saw him over twenty years ago, and he 3PO never identifies himself to Owen. The only thing you can say they have in common is their voice. Maybe the protocol droid on Bespin that 3PO runs into could also have Anthony Daniels’ voice, implying that is a common protocol droid voice.

Yeah, your right. I just watched the scene again. For some reason I remembered 3PO introducing himself by name. Would make sense that he doesn’t recognise him from their conversation.

Owen: “I have no need for a protocol droid.”
3PO: “Of course you havent, sir. Not in an environment such as this.”

Maybe remove these lines since they actually did use a protocol droid in that exact same environment? I guess you could make the case that they only had him because Shmi brought him along for sentimental reasons.

Octorox said:

Good effort on the Yoda clip, but I think his inflection makes it sound odd to end the sentence there. I think “A Jedi master who instructed me” is fine personally.

Thanks. That inflection was worse originally and I did my best to fix it. Ah well, it was an idea.

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#1301937
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Idea: OT Edits to Fit the PT and/or the Larger Saga (A Resource Thread, Hopefully)
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An alternative to Ben on Hoth that I quickly made up. I used Hals change of “the” to “a”.
“There you will learn from Yoda, a Jedi Master.”
https://vimeo.com/368321068

Has anyone ever tried to fix Owen not recognising 3PO in 4? With 3PO having his memory wiped in 3, 3PO would still introduce himself to Owen. Maybe during this, Owen would butt in saying “3PO?” or something. Im not sure what lines are available. 3PO would respond with “Oh…” in confusion. Not really thought too much into this.

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#1283400
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Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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@marduk666

1 Rose Finn and Rey’s escape
1a That is a good idea, much better than rey somehow boarding the falcon. Good
1b Dont think chewie alone would work, falcon needs someone in the gunner seat to shoot. Unless your suggesting that no one shoots from the falcon. Or… if you really want to put Finn in the gunner seat using footage from force awakens. But youd have to remove him from inside the base & maybe need a shot of him getting on? Its just an idea being thrown out. I dunno.
1c Not much to comment on this. Not really sure how this improves anything?

2 Yes. Should be easy to do? Just add a raising hand in a closeup shot right before the first blast hits.
2b Not sure how this improves anything ether but might be good/needed if events were rearranged.
2c Would be cool but not too fussed on it. Id be happy with him just leaving the island on the falcon & remove him from the shot of him watching the falcon fly away. If he arrived on the x-wing, how would we see him land and get out?

3 Starkiller base
3a. I like the linking of story, sequel trilogy needs it. Jedda is sand, Starkiller is snow though? Am I misunderstanding?
3b Yes to this.

4 Personally, Im thinking of having the falcon being tracked from as soon as they escape jakku and the first order follows them directly to the resistance base. This is where they meet Han, at the base, still a general. This obviously cuts a huge amount of TFA out but cut footage would be re-purposed for somewhere else.

Can I possibly throw out something else I would like to see redone? The whole beginning of TFA. As fun as it is, its completely ridiculous. Coincidence after coincidence. I dont know how to fix it but maybe others might have ideas. BB8 leaves the village, could go in any direction, 360 degrees, happens to meet Rey. Finns first mission happens to also be when they capture Poe. Finn leaves the crash site, could go in any direction, 360 degrees, happens to meet BB8 & Rey. Falcon happens to have been stolen and ends up on the planet and in the village that Reys on. Hans been looking for falcon for years and yet finds it now, when he needs to meet the heroes. Large ship that Han pulls in falcon with is now no longer needed, bad guys happen to show up to force Han to abandon it. Han has a choice to go straight to the resistance, republic or ANY of his friends and yet takes Rey to the lightsaber which he didnt even know was there.

Am I the only one that sees this as just terrible writing? I feel like im missing other coincidences.

Edit: Also, Kylo, knowing the map is in the area, takes Poe to the ship and tortures him, just so that they have to go back down to jakku. Makes no sense and is only done so that Poe and Finn can escape.

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#1278370
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Can't be Bothered: justifying Rey's power vs Luke's
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RogueLeader said:

Also wanted to say despite my disagreements with OP and some others, I’m glad you guys feel like this is a pretty positive environment to discuss stuff. I might argue with people on here every once in a while, but it is all in good faith and I enjoy talking about it with you all!

Exactly. Nothing wrong with a friendly debate. 😃

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#1278342
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Can't be Bothered: justifying Rey's power vs Luke's
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DominicCobb said:

DougieP said:

screams in the void said:

to be fair , the film makers actually acknowledge in The Last Jedi that Rey’s powers are not the norm . Snoke says to Kylo , "you were unbalanced , bested by a girl who never held a lightsaber "!

The film makers do but, more importantly, the characters within the film don’t. For example Yoda trained jedi for years, including Luke. Very difficult task but Rey doesn’t need any at all. Yet Yoda doesn’t say “Amazing this is. Need to watch her we do. This much power, pull her to the dark side it can” or anything like that at all. No one bats an eye as if this is the norm.

Have you seen the film?

JEDIT: I’m sorry, it occurred to me the line I’m thinking of is in the trailer as well

Yes, 3 times. I had to rack my brain to realise what you are talking about. You mean Luke, right? “I’ve seen this raw strength only once before in Ben Solo. It didn’t scare me enough then. It does now.” I guess your right, you got me there.

I guess i’m just looking for more. Outside of this line its not addressed (your probably going to correct me again here?) at least not to the extent that I would expect. For example, my partner has no idea at all how to drive a car. Not a single thing. I had to tell her what a clutch was for a while back. If I put her in a Formula 1 car she wouldn’t be able to win the race. If she did though, imagine how insane that would be. Everyone would be chatting about it.

Rey is very similar to this. Picking up the lightsaber (it started before this actually) and just wins and wins. Its a very different way of becoming a master that we have never seen before. Even the “chosen one” needed training. Why wasn’t there are conversation about it between Yoda and Luke? It doesn’t seem like LF are going to address it ether.

The only way I can possibly think on how to explain this whole thing is that Snoke was Darth Plagueis. Plagueis could bring people back to life/create life, he created Anakin as he had no dad. Snoke/Plagueis found a way to bring himself back to life in the afterworld. Because he is even more powerful now, he can create the chosen one 2.0 - Rey. Thats the only explanation i can come up with to explain all of this.

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#1278340
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Can't be Bothered: justifying Rey's power vs Luke's
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screams in the void said:

to be fair , the film makers actually acknowledge in The Last Jedi that Rey’s powers are not the norm . Snoke says to Kylo , "you were unbalanced , bested by a girl who never held a lightsaber "!

The film makers do but, more importantly, the characters within the film don’t. For example Yoda trained jedi for years, including Luke. Very difficult task but Rey doesn’t need any at all. Yet Yoda doesn’t say “Amazing this is. Need to watch her we do. This much power, pull her to the dark side it can” or anything like that at all. No one bats an eye as if this is the norm.

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#1278076
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Can't be Bothered: justifying Rey's power vs Luke's
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KurganX said:

DougieP said:

Yes to all of this. Very deflated by the ST and probably gonna skip 9. 6 was a good ending.

Probably just going to stick with Dave Filonis work from now on. He seems to get it. The GOT guys might make something good too.

I never gave GOT a chance, partly because I needlessly ignore any popular hyped tv series (Lost, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead), but also because it struck me as a low-rent LOTR that was trying way too hard to be edgy and iconoclastic (there’s a reason LOTR is still beloved, and it’s not because its fans are gullible, racist or stupid). People love it though… I personally can’t wait until its over and I can stop hearing about it. 😉 Being a hard-core jaded cynical curmudgeon ain’t easy!

That they will keep making Star Wars movies forever is understandable. Who can say “no” to all of that money? But I’d rather it die than keep going down the drain like this (and foster a toxic divided fandom as well). To me the stories of these movies would have been better as video games or comics than as legit “canon” installment in the film saga. They’re just the sort of thing you’d expect as a convenient excuse to insert the player into the action and do stuff within the universe that you wanted.

Never watched it myself ether but according to some news sites, the GoT guys agree that Star Wars is currently “lacking decent storytelling” so thats promising.

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#1258881
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Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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ChainsawAsh said:

DougieP said:

yotsuya said:

I can see this. Abrams originally was handling the first film more like a series pilot - he was not expecting to come back and expected others to continue the story. So I can see where he and Kennedy would have plotted the arc of the trilogy. And we know some things were held over from George’s version. I think the course of IX was set during the production of TFA, though the details of the story were up to whoever did it. I hope at some point we get to find out what plot points were set at what time. It would amuse me to find out that some of the plot points in TLJ that people are so pissed about came from Lucas or Abrams.

It has been clearly stated by KK that she threw out Georges plans for the ST. Rj also confirmed that there were no plans at all for the ST moving forward after 7. Its all online. If needed, I can get links.

Fake news. They weren’t thrown out completely. They ditched some of the most ridiculous stuff (like doubling down on midichlorians with his version of the Whills), yeah, but the broad strokes regarding Luke are the same, just pushed back to VIII. I’m willing to bet more stuff will be revealed in the coming years about his outlines that will either show A) they were still more or less adhered to the way the Luke stuff was more or less adhered to, or B) they were so vague and sketchy beyond the stupid Whills/midichlorians stuff that they really couldn’t be used.

Specific quotes from the article I linked:

basically, what we got from the Rey/Luke storyline in The Last Jedi was initially supposed to be the bones for George Lucas’ Episode 7

30 years after the fall of the Empire, Luke had gone to a dark place and secluded himself in a Jedi temple on a new planet.

the initial plan for Star Wars: Episode 7 was that Luke, over the course of that movie, would rediscover his vitality and train this new Jedi.

The new Jedi was:

a new disciple named Kira (who was later renamed Rey)

And as for why Luke’s stuff was pushed back to VIII from VII:

Everyone realized that Luke Skywalker would better serve the needs of the story as the person that everyone seeks but does not find until the final scene of The Force Awakens. This allowed Han Solo more time as the mentor of the story

And if you really wanted Lucas’ full plans for the sequel trilogy, well, from George himself…

[The next three Star Wars films] were going to get into a microbiotic world. But there’s this world of creatures that operate differently than we do. I call them the Whills. And the Whills are the ones who actually control the universe. They feed off the Force. … Back in the day, I used to say ultimately what this means is we are just cars, vehicles, for the Whills to travel around in … we’re vessels for them. And the conduit is the midi-chlorians. The midi-chlorians are the ones that communicate with the Whills. The Whills, in a general sense, they are the Force.

I don’t think that sounds any better than anything in TFA or TLJ. Do you? Really?

Yes, I agree that you are right in a few of your statements but definitely not all. I can easily argue against most of your arguments but don’t want to derail the convo from the subject of the topic (9 spoiler discussion). If you want to elsewhere, then sure, I enjoy debate. Whether it be in PM or public. But just to latch onto your last question, no, I dont believe that what has happened is better.

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#1258871
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General Star Wars Questions
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SilverWook said:

Presumably she did some things that were illegal even by Old Republic standards. Streaking is still a crime no matter who’s running the galaxy. 😛

Thanks for your answer but im looking for a more provable explanation. I don’t think the Rebels would mind their own troops resisting arrest by the empire as it would only help themselves. To be more clear, im thinking of cutting this outrage over her being a criminal in my fanedit as I see no reason for them to think this way.

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#1258869
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Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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yotsuya said:

I can see this. Abrams originally was handling the first film more like a series pilot - he was not expecting to come back and expected others to continue the story. So I can see where he and Kennedy would have plotted the arc of the trilogy. And we know some things were held over from George’s version. I think the course of IX was set during the production of TFA, though the details of the story were up to whoever did it. I hope at some point we get to find out what plot points were set at what time. It would amuse me to find out that some of the plot points in TLJ that people are so pissed about came from Lucas or Abrams.

It has been clearly stated by KK that she threw out Georges plans for the ST. Rj also confirmed that there were no plans at all for the ST moving forward after 7. Its all online. If needed, I can get links.

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#1258865
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your thoughts: Did Disney kill star wars because it sounds like they did with the last jedi solo and resistance.
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fmalover said:

It’s been established that exerting your Force powers too much could be potentially lethal…

I guess what your saying is dependant on whether or not your personal cannon includes the sequel trilogy. If yes then cool but for me this is not possible. Yoda states that using the force is a matter of will, not physical strength.

LUKE
Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different.

YODA
No! No different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.

Luke would never die from using the force as you cant die from willpower. If my will was that I was a billionaire, I wouldn’t die from it.

Everyone was annoyed when George changed how the force works in the PT, but Disney has now changed it again to something totally different and no one cares. The prequels version of the force and midiclorians is far closer to Georges OT version of the force than Disneys version is. Yet “the PT changed it so its bad!! ST is great though”