Eyepainter

Hal 9000 said:

I was thinking to foreshadow his breathing condition.

Who wants a pizza roll? Post a comment on this webzone if you want a pizza roll.

Hal 9000 said:

When we first see Anakin in Watto’s shop and he talks with Padme, add a cigarette in his mouth and/or hand.

Have a pizza roll walk down the stairs, talk to the audience and then tell you to murder your wife and kids.

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

GMatias said:

Quick-ish update:

Work has continued full steam. With a project of this scope, I’ve found myself bouncing around the timeline a bit, but mostly focusing on the Sequel Era chapters as they require the most reconfiguring with the combination of RONE, TFA, TLJ, and TROS into one narrative.

Right now I have the Sequel Era breaking into roughly 15 chapters (or three ‘films’ of roughly 2hrs each). A few chapters are straight uninterrupted chunks of one movie, but most mix & match a little bit. The first chapter, for instance, pulls footage from ROTJ, RONE, TFA, TPM, and an AOTC deleted scene, so you can see how things can get tricky.

My July goal is to get the workprint of that first 2hr film done & available for review. I’d say it’s ~80% there now; the big tasks left are another subtitle editing pass and audio transition fixing. So I think July is a reasonable goal.

And I’d put the rest of the Sequel Era footage at about ~60% ready. The assembly is there but all the above work needs doing plus some extra narrative stitching needs attention (like having Poe at the Battle of Scarif…whuh?).

And I ordered a copy of the LEGO STAR WARS: FORCE AWAKENS PS3 game in Japanese to hopefully get some rips of isolated Sequel Era SFX & dialogue, especially from processed voices like Kylo or Snoke. Because again why the hell not, at this point?

The more I read this, the more excited I become.

CaptainFaraday said:

Hal 9000 said:

Luke was like “That was a great adventure and I’m glad I could help, but it sure is good to be back home.”

“And you were there… and you… and you!”

Oh auntie 'em, there’s no place like home!

At the end of ROTJ, as Luke takes off his father’s helmet, replace Sebastian Shaw’s face with Jar Jar Binks instead.

I have finished Episode III (for now), so I am beginning work on the re-edit starting tonight. I will bring in updates when I can, although I intend to let this one follow closely to what v1 and v2 was like (although the restructured ending, color grading, and audio commentary are still going to be new). Most of my efforts will be spent on polishing up things. That is, cleaning up a few mistakes and odd decisions I made from the last two versions. Still, if I decide to make another editing change, I will throw in an update.

Anyway, the trailer is online now. Here’s the link:

https://youtu.be/g4OcTwJzj-s

CMMAP said:

So i was able to watch your edit. I do like the much more shorter film length, but i think on some scenes you could reintegrate some sources for a little more breathing and context e.g. last moment of fight between palps and mace. You establish anakin arriving without him flying to the scene (which is fine) but he standing besides maces last blow and out of the blue anakin interfering feels absurd (even though i think you tried to make him look impulsive? This didn’t worked for me).

On a technical hand, the only thing that really occurred to me were the audio transitions in ~60% of the time. Some examples:

• 0:37:46, before next scene and new soundtrack, there is starting another soundtrack from another scene for a brief moment
• 0:36:25/26, audio transition not fluent, kind of abrupt
• 01:04:46, same
• 01:27:55/56, same

Understood. The moment where Anakin kills Mace was a bit of a challenge, to be honest. I think I might be able to replace the shot of Anakin standing there with a shot of Palpatine. That might work in a future version of this edit.

As for the audio transitions, this movie went through more sound editing than the previous two. A lot of it is mainly a consequence of the dialogue and sound effects for this entry. I did try a few attempts to make the transitions less abrupt, but alas, I can only do so much with the material that I do have. I don’t have the soundtracks on me at the moment, so that isn’t an option for the time being. Although I might buy them in the future, since it sounds like I could use them for these edits.

Change the ending of ANH to this instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRZOywMdxPA

CMMAP said:

How did i miss this new take on RotS? We‘ll never know 😄 But your colour grading looked very interesting. Did you made an sdr and a hdr version or „just“ a sdr with iterations like hdr?

I used DaVinci Resolve 17 for this version and finally ripped my blu-ray for this edit (A vast improvement over the last two, which were edited on Resolve 16 and used Schorman13’s preservations). It’s 1080p, but I utilized the new HDR color wheels for the grade, which is why it looks the way it does. The only challenge was keeping things from going orange and teal like a lot of modern movies tend to do, and fixing up the skin tones which is, sadly, a consistent issue with the blu-rays.

At the end of ANH, when Darth Vader is sent flying out in space on account of Han Solo, have Vader say “I’LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, LUKE! NEXT TIME!!!”

…And yes, I am still working on the trailer. I just didn’t feel the need to keep holding back the edit until the trailer was uploaded seeing as everything else is finished for the time being.

I will be going back to my I and II fanedits, and focus on updating and remastering them with my blu-rays once the trailer for III has been uploaded.

Episode III is now online. Sending PM’s now.

Just finished watching my edit. Everything looks good, and I think it’s ready for release. Gonna start uploading it soon.

Busy weekend is over. All the pieces I need for the trailer are ready. Just started (or restarted) editing the trailer.

I will also be watching my edit tonight to see if everything is ready for release. If it is, I’ll be sending PM’s very soon.

Digitally insert Groucho glasses onto everyone’s faces.

Darth_Zounds said:

Eyepainter said:

Replace all sound effects with looney tunes-style effects instead.

Oh, wow, that reminds me of a similar idea that was explored at a certain spot in Disney World.

My memory is pretty vague on it, but it was basically an arcade setup showing the Death Star I battle, and you got to hit different buttons for different sound effects, such as Goofy’s scream, etc.

I’ve only been to Anaheim, and even then, that was back in 2008. I’m guessing this is disney world only, since I’ve never heard of this particular attraction.

Still, having an x-wing pilot die while yelling a Goofy scream would be quite an experiment.

Bad news on the trailer. I just found out that I accidentally made a copy of the film that is stereo only. The main reason this is bad is because it makes it harder to separate dialogue from the soundtrack and sound fx. I’m re-uploading a 5.1 version of the file right now, but this means the trailer is gonna be delayed some more. My apologies for the inconvenience.

Other than that, I’m gonna be downloading and testing the MKV file to see if it works on my HDTV. If it does, I’ll be sending out those PM’s. I’ve got a busy weekend, but I’m hoping to get the edit sent out next week.

Replace all sound effects with looney tunes-style effects instead.

Expand on midichlorians by dubbing in more exposition about them in the original trilogy.

Anakin Starkiller said:

So his native accent then?

Jar Jar is british now?

Just reduced things down to about 20 minutes’ worth for the trailer, which is plenty of footage for something that will be only 2 1/2 minutes in length. Also doing a little something in Blender for the trailer which I will not reveal. Currently taking a small break and watching episodes of Samurai Jack for the time being.

G&G-Fan said:

SparkySywer said:

He reached 420 posts then stopped

This can’t be a coincidence

As we all know, that is the ultimate number

Indeed. Still, I hope he’s okay.

Assembling the footage for the trailer. It might take a couple of days, but I’m working on it.

Yay! Party’s over. Gonna be starting work on the trailer tomorrow.