Skenera did the de-blue Luke and sent me a master clip, not a LUT. I then overlaid it over the regular film footage and adjust opacity to get a level of blue-ness that felt appropriate. This would need to be done again once we have the haircut footage.
I will try to play with it, but all I would be able to do is change to what degree the changes are applied by overlaying and opacity.
Also, any further de-blueing of Luke would have to be done anew, since I can’t just apply that over this as they are totally separate clips with entirely different overall looks. So once we get Luke’s haircut finished up we could hammer out the finer details of Luke’s blueness.
That’s okay, thanks for saying so! I’m not sure either, and I’d still like to play with it and perhaps use a less intense application of the change.
Nighttime does make it feel spookier to be talking with a g-g-g-ghost!
If I were going to watch the original version of ANH on a crappy setup or bad sound system, that’s when I’d go ahead and go for the mono mix.
Here’s a full mockup of the Ach-To sequence, featuring a regrade by NeverArGreat:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UpnKp8-35PMwuWDXiv2ZjIvsZ93y0BE0/view?usp=sharing
Let’s see, few responses:
The T minus 5 scene is being tweaked further? I’ll look forward to seeing what’s there. I don’t mind the way it is in V1 with a woosh through hyperspace followed by a zip out across realspace. But I’d be happy to include the reordering as that seems like how it would have been if it were made that way in the first place.
I don’t plan to use the red Sith lightning, no. Personally I don’t really get the appeal, and I like how the Sith lightning in the movie and others goes along with the natural phenomena of the Sith homeworld.
The saber fizzling out will be great to see. Exciting to hear its (almost?) finished!
It’s hard to get myself to care about a discrepancy between the lights being off in the main shot and on in the distant shot. No one would ever notice that.
That’d be good, let’s curb it as far as this thread is concerned.
Yeah, we really had to comb the desert with this one. Still amazing that we managed to reinstate a deleted scene we weren’t really even given, thanks mostly to poppasketti (the squeaky wheel).
All right, I’m signing off for the night. Let’s all try to take a step back and look at the whole picture with this thing.
We already are using that same shot for the vision sequence. Also it seems to muddy the logic of what’s happening. Eh, I don’t think so on that one. But thanks for mocking it up.
I’m starting to feel like Lucas. Walking across a table filled with models painstakingly created by staff, belching out Cheeto dust and picking one of them.
Yeah, that’s the specific post I was remembering. Just amazing.
If I recall correctly, Sir Ridley helped remove the timecode as well. It was some advanced, painstaking effort and far from automatic.
^ I am open to having the saber short out at the end of the DSII duel, if that pans out in the end, even though I wasn’t tracking that on my own list. Thanks for mentioning that.
And I wouldn’t include the TFA Falcon deleted scene. That seems like more than a longshot, so I feel bad even having that be included as a potential.
JEDIT: The Mustafar castle shot has the darkened windows, as it is presumably unoccupied and it helps it feel like decades have gone by since it was Vader’s castle.
And I’m really not sure laser fire would help the forest Mustafar shot. Actually, and this is reeeeaaaaally getting into the weeds, the presence of a single pine tree in the main sequence along with mostly a different type than seen during that shot leads me to feel better implying that those three TIEs had to fly a little ways to get to the battle itself.
Also, here’s the list of V2 changes and their status. (This is literally copied and pasted from my own list, so it’s not articulated well.)
Try to make Kylo say “we’ve become a dyad in the Force” (being worked on, possibly finished)
Try to depict a dusk>night>sunrise cycle on Ach-To
Use sherlockpotter’s medal shot and adjust placement ✅
If anyone can do it, depict Pasaana puppet show as depicting Luke’s heroics from Crait
Remove three lines: “He wanted her alive” immediately before we cut to Ach-To and “I never wanted you dead, I wanted you here.” AND “…for my grandchild to come home.”✅
Add 21C Peasant’s and Movies Remastered’s Vader Castle to the opening Mustafar sequence ✅
Add two shots featuring Coruscant to the Star Destroyer conference room scene ✅
Use Vader’s TIE rather than shuttle due to the poll results ✅
new shot from MR to move “T minus five” line to before exiting hyperspace (not sure about this one yet, may leave as original)
Remove line “from the Southern shore” from 3PO’s translation, as that was when a protractor was involved, and now it’s merely a coordinate followed by mystical guidance ✅
Restructure the space battle opening slightly like DominicCobb ✅
Can Rey’s mother not mention her name? We all liked the idea that Rey named herself, per the X-wing helmet’s Aurabesh translation in TFA.✅
Use the crackly saber effect courtesy of kewlfish and Luka Frik and MR (being worked on)
Luke’s Jedi haircut (jonh needs to fix a couple things then skenera can de-blue)
I certainly think it’s possible to spitball ideas that are pie-in-the-sky without any implication that someone ought to start rolling up their sleeves to move mountains.
That said, I get how it feels to hear something as an imposition. We’ve all come a great distance and we’re gonna stick the landing for V2. Especially with TROS, there’s always going to be a million things that would be great to do that would require millions of dollars and a Hollywood studio to accomplish.
Of course, that general idea has been bent in my mind over the last year. But, we’re all limited in what we can bring to bear.
MR, whatever your day is looking like, or whatever time of day it is for you at the moment, please make sure to get a good night’s rest for your own sake. I’ve been so fortunate that for so much of our two projects their purposes have aligned in order to harness your creativity, talent, and hard work. Don’t want you to burn out!
Jar Jar Bricks, you’ve given a voice to my thoughts I feel like over the last few days and we are often on the same wavelength. I appreciate that, even if we get longwinded.
Barring any site rules, I’m all right with this thread getting repetitive at times and chasing rabbit trails. It’s how I imagine an honest mindmap of my own would go. But it’d probably be better for the project and all who venture into this thread to keep it tidy. I’d say for anything that gets nipped, it’d be better to explore those things further in the general TROS fan editing ideas thread. That’s not to crap on anyone’s ideas or work, but to make this as manageable for others who try to track our progress and lend their insights.
The dice went to wherever Luke’s robotic hand did.
That or on his stone nightstand next to the spoiled cups of green milk he was too lazy to tidy up.
That’s a pretty nice idea! I’m sure you understand, but I don’t wish to include the dice in TROS:A. Luke retrieved them in TLJ and they paid off. At best it’d be one more thing to strain between 8 and 9.
But man, how cool would it be to contrive a scene of Kylo entering the Falcon using the deleted scene from TFA? Essentially serving the same purpose even, just two films later.
If there’s one deleted scene I’d love to have it’s Kylo facing Chewie during that section of the movie.
I totally think if it were in the theatrical it would’ve flown past me with no issue. But then fanboys online would hone in on it and present it as proof that the movie had been messed with and changed all over the place sloppily.
So if you don’t mind continuing to tweak it, I will be glad to use it as long as it feels pretty much seamless in full context.
And just to splash a little more gasoline on the lovefest, none of my edits would be shit without the fan editing community going pretty much all the way back. You can trace phantom menace edits, for example, as though they were biblical texts or fairy tales with families of variants that can be chained along. I’ve said it before, when it comes to Star Wars I feel more like a curator (for the prequels) or a ringleader (for these).
It farts when you close it just right!
Replace Vader’s helmet throughout the sequel trilogy…
with this:
You’re right, it’s like any hobby that requires working together as a group. We build camaraderie and work toward our common goal.
That said, I can’t wait to see what you’ll cook up.
Yeah, I agree it may not be worth it if it overcrowds things. Too bad there’s not room where it seems to have originally belonged.
I can try it if you can direct me to where you found it. Depends how clean the channel is with the line.
You might be able to throw it into audacity, really.
Alright so here is an example of where I would place it (just try to imagine that the triumphant music isn’t attached to the line).
Imo, I think it would work well because it leads right into him laughing. But if you disagree it’s fine. I’m just trying to make sure we’ve thought of every possible change for v2!
Eeeeehhhhhhhhhhh… maybe!
Could work, but I doubt there’s a clean copy out there. The trailer was heavyladen with music.
I can’t find a good spot to put that line where it would feel organic, but who knows.
Also, now that the clean plate is done for the puppet show, who was it that said they would be willing to create the puppets for it?
