EddieDean

I think that ultimately, because the movies did Finn such a disservice, the better move might be to minimise him, or at least this particular plot point, from earlier in the sequel trilogy. And I say that really, really liking Finn’s character and what he represents.

He gets an arc set up for him, then entirely ignored in the final movie. There’s no third act to his story. So I think that (for the theoretical first time viewer), he shouldn’t come off as a main character.

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Sassy/clever Obi-Wan is always good value, agreed. But in this instance I think it’s more of a gain to cut Loathsom.

I do definitely agree that every lightsaber fight cheapens lightsabers, but like the battle droid voices, they are unfortunately just part of the fabric of Clone Wars. My hope is that even after my edit, TCW and Rebels remain the least good Star Wars TV shows- I’m just trying to up the quality of TCW where it needs it most.

I’ll always try to judge the inclusion of lightsabers (or anything) on their pros and cons- in this case I think Ventress having tricked them is a cool intro for her and adds some threat to the episode beyond just “TANKS ARE COMING”. But I’ll also always stay open to community opinion.

I’d really like to avoid Loathsome(?). He’s a very goofy villain.

I think the Ventress stuff is additive though, relatively speaking. Though there’s certainly an argument for dropping… well… almost all of Christophsis.

I take satisfaction from the fact that it’s at least far better than the original movie just since it doesn’t have the Huttlet bits.

Oh boy oh boy Jonh is back! Welcome buddy!

Artan42 said:

I don’t know how much you’ve altered the footage from the original colours but it looks to me like the blacks are deeper which really works in this episode due to the intensive light effects in the city.

It should be the same as the original, but I’ll settle for acceptable. Can anyone else verify whether it looks different?

Why does Obi go to visit the mines?

I’m sure the episode explains this- he’s suspicious that they may be active and Death Watch, and goes to check them out.

Why does the the mines level of operation indicate Death Watch activity?

They’re clearly being used to produce new Mandalorian armour- the same armour that the commando who attacked the Republic cruiser was wearing. He trusts that Satine would be telling him if the peaceful Mandalorians were producing their own armour again.

I don’t know if that was explained in the original or not but it’s odd. I was also confused by Obi’s lightsabre but I figured Vizlar picked it up from the factory on his way upstairs (I’m guessing he followed Satine).

Yeah, you do just kinda have to assume that. There is time for it to work off screen.

I forgot the presence of Onn Free Tar (or however it’s spelt) but I’m glad it’s in this episode as a fat Twi’lek is highly relevant to the new series of The Mandalorian.

I cut just a little of that scene, because there’s a slightly obnoxious bit, but I figured that the rest was harmless enough. I don’t want to be particularly aggressive with my cuts.

The end credits are well laid out. I don’t know if the inclusion of the character concept (the body rigs and so on) is as good an idea as the presence of the digital sketches as they get cut off quite a bit

I think I’ll polish up the movements to better highlight the key areas of the images. But to be honest I’m limited here because there simply isn’t enough of the concept art to fit. We’ll get used to it as part of this show’s identity, I think.

and the music is significantly louder than the other music in the episode.

Good shout, I hadn’t checked the relative levels. I’ll fix that.

The special thanks section has the left side and right side in different blues and there’s a rogue full stop floating at the bottom.

Dammit, I knew I’d forget the full stop. I’ll revisit the whole credits part.

This is all absolutely welcome feedback though! The big thing I want to know is “is anything broken/does it work?”, but I’m going to be gathering every bit of feedback for future polish passes.

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It’s been a pleasure, and thanks very much for your contributions. I will look at the timing of the opening again - I’m just flushing my brain now after doing nothing but think of this for the last six days.

FIRST EPISODE RELEASED - S01E02 THE DEATH WATCH

Comprising original episodes s02e12 The Mandalore Plot, and s02e13 Voyage of Temptation.

It’s in the tracker.

McFibb, I’ll look into the timing when I’m more sober and/or when I’ve had more feedback, and I’ll fix up the community credits shortly too, for a v1.1. But I’m happy to call this RELEASE VERSION v1.0 , which makes this, finally, the first output after a long period of planning.

Thank you all for your help in getting this over the line. ❤️

Sent! Oh that reminds me - I’ve put together the community credits as one screen of the normal credits, given the same timing as the other main credits. (KoK, you’re credited.)

It’s actually the most unfinished part of the episode, because I couldn’t find a blank starfield to put it over, nor the right font, so I rushed those four seconds out. But the text itself is complete. I’ll fix it for v1.1.

In the credits I can’t list everyone who’s commented in this thread, but I am trying to be as complete as possible when listing the people who’ve given this project at least a good volume of food for thought. I hope nobody finds that unfair - it’s certainly not my intention to minimise anyone’s contribution. If anyone feels under-credited, please message me either here or privately and of course I’ll include you.

Yes - the reason is because in the original, that has narration over it, so keeping it would require the full recreation of audio from scratch. That’s something I might consider in future, as my skills develop, but I don’t want to overload myself right now.

And here’s the ending. Those credits took bloody ages, and I’m dreading recreating them fifty times.

There’s simply not enough concept art for this episode, so I’ve made the decision that all episodes in this show will feature a mix of concept art and other concept design like props and character models/costumes. It’ll be part of this show’s identity.

Either way, the ending can be found against episode S01E02 in my tracker.

I’m going to render the whole episode now as my first full complete release episode, version 1.0.

Then I’m having about ten G&Ts.

Right, and here’s the rebuilt intro for S02E02 Mandalore episode.

https://vimeo.com/496397592

With huge thanks to McFibb for his v2 of the intro music!

Please, as before, let me know how you think this flows, in terms of timings, and feeling.

Yes - thanks for all of your help with that. TSMUXER is what’s fixed it for me in the end. So after I’ve repaired episodes one and two, I’ll spend a day watching Always Sunny and running all my sources through that for video and ffmpeg for audio.

Unfortunately as to your nitpicks, I’m using the longest possible shots there. It’s one of the things I’m meticulous about - I cut the longest possible shots out of the track, to give myself the most possible to play with, then I trim them down if needed. So I think that that version of the sequence is as good as it can be. And as you say, it’s no worse than Clone Wars’ slightly less-than-perfect standard, so I think it’s forgivable.

I don’t feel like the music drops, though - and looking at it, that is the original track which played there. But I don’t think it warrants a repair.

I think I’ve fixed my video stream issues. I’ve recreated the complex bit from my S01E02 Mandalore episode, and resynced everything. I’d appreciate some validation on that clip. If that syncs right and has no framerate issues, then that’s the last technical issue solved, and I can get on with more episodes.

https://vimeo.com/496375038

Also, I’m a bit stuck on Bail Organa in my S01E01 Christophsis episode. I’m using his scenes and audio from Cat and Mouse in three places:

1. During Asajj Ventress’ fight with Obi-Wan and Anakin (originally from Hidden Enemy), bombers target Bail’s base, to make it seem like she was a deliberate distraction - I think this works because as soon as Anakin and Obi-Wan head outside they see a landing force has arrived, which emphasises they’ve been duped.
2. At the beginning to the main Christophsis plot from the movie, I take a scouting scene from Hidden Enemy and play Bail’s “help me” dialogue and then have Anakin and Obi-Wan talk about it. Again, I think this works, because you’re now reminded that (1) there’s a large ground invasion force coming, and (2) Bail’s still under pressure so there are emotional stakes.
3. At the very end, as Anakin and Ahsoka fly back from taking out the shield generator and arrive back at the main base, I cut in a shot of Bail saying “Thanks, you saved a lot of lives today” (originally the ending of Cat and Mouse). I don’t think this works perfectly. You can just about get over the fact that the background is a little different because it looks like Bail’s in shadow and there are shadows in the other surrounding shots. But it cuts right into Anakin and Ahsoka talking to Obi-Wan and Yoda without acknowledging Bail. I’d really appreciate if anyone could have a think about options here. I think ultimately if this doesn’t work, I’ll have to take out Bail altogether, cutting the previous two scenes too.

It’s something Movies Remastered has previewed but not released yet, but it does look very effective!

Oh nice, I didn’t know you were collaborating with other members of these forums. I really liked your Kylo’s scar heal edit, will you be making your shots available for other editors to use in their own edits, like Hal’s TROS Ascendent?

Right, there’s a rough cut of my S01E01 Christophsis episode on the tracker now too. Again, it’s not the release version, but it’s all of the cuts for the full episode. It has the right colour, but some framerate issues - I’m posting it in case people want an early opportunity to review and feedback. There’s one bit that doesn’t quite work, and a couple of bits that need more polish, I think, but I’ll see what you guys say.

Sorry - I meant the VFX! I don’t have a particularly trained ear for the AFX but it sounded perfectly natural to me.

Not really answering your question, but the wizards over at Star Wars Audio Comics have made their version of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6cC2rSblIE

No worries buddy! It’s a good trailer either way. Where did you get the crackly saber effect?

I’ve updated the tracker with a better review cut of the first Mandalore episode. This one still has framerate issues (though they’re not bad at all to my eyes), but importantly has fixed black levels, so its colours are correct. This is an end-to-end version of my cut of the episode, just needing the framerate fix and the intros and outros.

Same deal with the Christophsis episode is on its way too.

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Movies Remastered, we try to avoid any drama here. And that tends to include references to it unless we have to.

Since the Star Wars fandom has quite large and vocal pockets of toxicity and controversy, yet fanedits necessitate critical analysis and constructive disagreement, we naturally risk attracting that drama.

It’s not personal - we just have to be relatively vigilant, so that the community here can thrive.