Eyepainter

CaptainFaraday said:

Also: anyone who can do a custom opening crawl, would you possibly consider doing one for me? I combined the two opening crawls to change the title with a simple rolling crop, and it’s fine for my personal viewing, but now I’ve got people asking me for a link I’d prefer to do something a bit more seamless and professional.

Have you tried Jackpumpkinhead’s custom crawl creator? It works with Blender, and it comes with a tutorial for those of us who don’t know how anything works over there.

Just managed to bring everything down to a rough cut. Surprisingly, I managed to edit things back to 103 minutes. I’m not sure if it’s because I have a good memory or not, but I’m glad that I seem to be on the right track. I’ll see if I can find anything else that needs improvement over the next week.

CaptainFaraday said:

Eyepainter said:

Perhaps I’m too late, but if you need advice on exporting, here it is. Keep in mind that I’m using Davinci Resolve for my editing software.

Usually, I like to export my edits in MKV. However, that is not a feasible option in Resolve. So, I export the file under the same settings that the actual source has. That way, I don’t lose too much information. So, if the video codec is h.264, I export it in h.264. Likewise, if the audio codec is AAC, export it as AAC.

The actual export might take a while depending on a lot of things, like your computer, graphics card, processor, etc. But once it’s done, I export it again. This time through Handbrake (which I highly recommend if you don’t have it. It’s open source too). This time, grab the file you exported recently, and convert it to an MP4 or MKV format. Both formats do the job. I already said I prefer MKV, but MP4 is very popular and works on pretty much everything.

You can also customize the export in Handbrake using a wide variety of settings. You can make it lossless, give it a DTS-HD passthru, change the framerate to 24fps, customize the resolution, etc. There are a lot of settings in Handbrake, so if there’s something you want to do to the export, but you don’t know how, feel free to reply.

Once you’ve exported through Handbrake, you should have a working edit that is ready to be uploaded to the web. However, it’s smart to watch the file first and see if any problems or glitches show up (you’ll never know until you watch it yourself). If everything looks right, you can upload it to the web using either MEGA or Google drive or some other place I haven’t been to yet. You can delete the first export now (it takes up a lot of space anyway, and once you know the second export works, the first export isn’t needed anymore).

This is extremely helpful, thank you! I think I have Handbrake - I downloaded it a long time ago to try and rip a DVD but couldn’t get it to work. I’ll give it a go tonight and see what happens. I’m already expecting it’ll take overnight to render, my computer is old.

You’re welcome. And yes, I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes a while. I’ve done almost all of my exports on a Windows 10, and even then, it still takes hours to complete. Then again, I have to see if my new Mac is faster, as I’m switching over to that computer for my fanedits now.

Perhaps I’m too late, but if you need advice on exporting, here it is. Keep in mind that I’m using Davinci Resolve for my editing software.

Usually, I like to export my edits in MKV. However, that is not a feasible option in Resolve. So, I export the file under the same settings that the actual source has. That way, I don’t lose too much information. So, if the video codec is h.264, I export it in h.264. Likewise, if the audio codec is AAC, export it as AAC.

The actual export might take a while depending on a lot of things, like your computer, graphics card, processor, etc. But once it’s done, I export it again. This time through Handbrake (which I highly recommend if you don’t have it. It’s open source too). This time, grab the file you exported recently, and convert it to an MP4 or MKV format. Both formats do the job. I already said I prefer MKV, but MP4 is very popular and works on pretty much everything.

You can also customize the export in Handbrake using a wide variety of settings. You can make it lossless, give it a DTS-HD passthru, change the framerate to 24fps, customize the resolution, etc. There are a lot of settings in Handbrake, so if there’s something you want to do to the export, but you don’t know how, feel free to reply.

Once you’ve exported through Handbrake, you should have a working edit that is ready to be uploaded to the web. However, it’s smart to watch the file first and see if any problems or glitches show up (you’ll never know until you watch it yourself). If everything looks right, you can upload it to the web using either MEGA or Google drive or some other place I haven’t been to yet. You can delete the first export now (it takes up a lot of space anyway, and once you know the second export works, the first export isn’t needed anymore).

I have a major update. My computer had an “accident” and I lost my project folders for my fanedits. I still have my final edit of Episode II on a flash drive (Thank God), but all of the work I’ve done on Resolve is gone.

I have decided to use this as an opportunity (instead of a setback, which this obviously is) to use my blu-ray rips on my Mac, and re-edit Episodes I and II. This will more than likely get me approval from fanedit.org in the future. Plus, I’m hoping to finally (fingers crossed) get to that commentary track as I keep promising, but somehow keep failing to deliver on. I’ve bought a better quality microphone this time around, so I’m hoping that this one will actually work.

I’m saving this re-edit for last, since II is the biggest nightmare to work on. Plus, I have to restart my edit of Episode III, which has never been released. Rest assured that I will get to work on Episode II once I’ve completed III and re-edited I.

I have a major update. The computer I was using to edit Episode I had an “accident” and I lost my project folders. I still have v1 and v2 on a flash drive (Thank God), but as for all of my updates, I’ve lost them.

I’ve decided to take this as an opportunity to re-edit Episode I on my Mac using the blu-ray rips I mentioned previously. This re-edit will more than likely be acceptable for fanedit.org, since I’m using a transfer from an official release. However, for those who may be concerned about CGI Yoda, I’m working on downloading the schorman file of episode I to my mac, so that I can replace all CGI Yoda shots with puppet Yoda shots. So I will try to preserve that aspect of Episode I.

And no, I haven’t forgotten about what I said about restructuring the ending. That’s still going to happen. I also bought a better microphone, so I will finally (fingers crossed) get that commentary track recorded like I promised. This one’s connected to my Mac, so it won’t be too complicated setting it up.

Right now, I have to focus on completing my Episode III edit, but I will get to re-editing Episode I immediately once I’ve completed it.

Darth_Zounds said:

Insert these scenes into ANH:

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

You don’t want to do that. What you really want to do is add that pink lady to episode I and establish a subplot between her and Anakin through the prequel trilogy. That way, he can cheat on Padme.

Replace all of Darth Vader from Rogue One with Jar Jar Binks instead.

After going through solution after solution, I gave up and reset my PC. I tried to salvage it by keeping my personal files, which did help since I still have the schorman HD transfers and deleted scenes that I’ve been using from the start. However, my editing program got uninstalled, and I lost all three of my projects, which means I will have no choice but to start over.

On the bright side, it could have been worse. In addition to the source files still being around, I made the right decision to keep my edits of I and II on a flash drive. So I still have the final products (so far), and I still have the files I’ve been editing with from the beginning.

I think this is a perfect opportunity to start editing my blu-ray rips on my mac. I still need to get audio for the deleted scenes, but I might be able to rip my DVD of Episode III onto my mac, and use those as a substitute.

For obvious reasons, I’m going to restart editing III first, and soon. It’s the only movie I haven’t finished anyway. I’ll get to fixing up I and II once I’ve finished III.

Still having problems with my computer. I tried getting a backup for my edits, and attempted transferring them over to my mac last night, but my mac rejected the Schorman transfers straight up, which is the source I’ve used for all three up to this point.

I’ve been thinking about the blu-ray rips I added to my mac a few weeks back, and I’m entertaining the idea of editing those rips. However, if I choose that option, I’ll have to do everything from scratch (including episodes I and II. Yikes!). I’ll be back to square one, but at least I’ll be able to hear the audio and edit it on the latest version of Resolve (Plus, I could submit it to fanedit.org). For now though, I’m considering it as a last resort. If I find a different solution, I’ll use that instead.

Bad news. My computer got updated and it messed with both my internet settings and turned off the audio. I tried restarting, but that didn’t fix the issue. Now I’m in a catch-22 situation where my computer refuses to search for an internet connection, but in order to fix the updates, I need an internet connection. I’ll see what I can do to fix the problem, but for obvious reasons, my edit is gonna be delayed. I will post an update when the problem is solved.

Replace James Earl Jones’ voice with audio clips from “as seen on TV” ads.

J_Scarp1273 said:

Sounds very interesting. Will you have link when done?

I will, although the minor stuff takes a while in my experiences with episode I and II. That is, video transitions, wipes, color grading, sound editing, etc. Given the time I worked on the previous two, I’m guesstimating it will be finished in a few months.

Removed some more dialogue and cut the edit down to 103 minutes. I like the edit so far, but I haven’t watched it in one sitting as of yet. I will see what else can be edited, but I think the general stuff is close to being done.

JackNapier said:

Redub Anakin with a Tommy Wassu soundalike

You’re tearing me apart, Padme!

Digitally replace all of Hayden Christensen with Jake Lloyd, and get a Jake Lloyd soundalike to redub all of Anakin’s lines from II and III.

Just realized that Yoda’s adventure on Kashyyyk really isn’t all that essential to the plot and promptly deleted it, reducing the runtime to 106 minutes for right now.

I’m having a little difficulty deciding where the deleted scenes featuring Padme and Organa should go. I’m gonna rewatch HAL and l8wrtr’s edits again to see how they did it and hopefully glean some insight.

“No. Jar Jar is your father.”

Deleted scenes added. With the new scenes, the running time shot up from 109 minutes to 115 minutes, so I went and shortened the movie down to 108 minutes.

I’m still in the cutting stage, and I have no intentions of saying “the cutting stage is over.” Especially since I want to see what I can do about the dialogue to make it less cringe-inducing. However, it’s looking like we’re gonna end up with a 105-110 minute edit. I want to see if I can shorten it down some more (especially since I and II were shortened down by a lot), but I’m already finding that hard, because I’m seeing things that need to be shortened down some more, but other areas that I may have trimmed too much, resulting in a sort of yin-and-yang situation.

I’ll give the edit a watch and see what areas can be fixed.

In Toy Story 2, Emperor Zurg broke out of his box and proclaimed repeatedly, “Destroy Buzz Lightyear! Destroy Buzz Lightyear!”

Likewise, all of Darth Vader’s lines should be replaced with “Destroy Buzz Lightyear!” Like Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy saying “I am Groot.” So it is with Darth Vader saying “Destroy Buzz Lightyear!”

Working on inserting the deleted scenes. The only difficulty I’m experiencing at the moment is where to place the Padme/Rebellion subplot scenes in a way that works. I put them in rather late in the first half, but then I realized, “Oh wait. Padme’s trying to mention a jedi they can rely on, but he’s on Utapau at the moment.” So I’m going to see if I can place them earlier rather than later.

BedeHistory731 said:

Replace the Imperial March/Vader’s Theme with the entrance theme music for the wrestler Big Van Vader.

Are we sure this is the worst ideas thread?

I’m reluctant to say, as there are so many fan edits out there (including yours truly) that it’s hard to keep up. However, of the ones I’ve seen, it’s a toss-up between l8wrtr’s and HAL9000’s edits. I prefer l8wrtr’s take on Episode I, but I agree with natestarwarsfan122 on the superiority of HAL9000’s take on Episode III. With Episode II, though, I’m on the fence between HAL and l8wrtr.

Create a crossover with Star Wars and Michael Bay’s Transformers.

Getting the deleted scenes converted for Resolve. I ripped the second disc of my DVD of Episode III and tried coverting it through EaseFab, but for whatever reason, one of the scenes wouldn’t convert to DNxHD. So I bit the bullet and went over to Handbrake instead. I guess I’m one of Handbrake’s followers now, because I was able to convert all of the scenes to a workable MP4. I also gave the audio a DTS-HD passthru, which might give the audio a boost (or not).

My only concern now is the framerate of the two sources. If they aren’t properly synced, I’ll have to convert the files again.

I’ll try to work on the deleted scenes soon, but Easter’s making my day job busy at the moment. Fortunately, things are expected to get quiet after Easter, so I’ll be able to return to the edit once that bunny has laid his eggs.