Hal 9000

Use AI to give Jar Jar the voice of Peter Cushing.

I think that’ll work just fine. I spent what time I had tonight to get my timeline to reflect your clip.

If I send you a ProRes clip of the shot, could you color correct the Pasaana switches to appear greenish to match the new context? I’m like a kid with crayons trying to color correct.

I thought he meant it could be added to the briefing scene since he was able to add that there.
It was Poppasketti.

And there is a continuity error in the current workprint, because the KoR aren’t shown to follow the heroes, and they aren’t shown to have left yet, before Kylo speaks with Palpatine. If anyone has good helmeted Kylo dialogue, I can see if it would fit in there. Or, maybe it’d be fine to just have:

“Don’t betray me, blah blah, or I’ll turn my fleet against you.”

“She’ll never be a Jedi.”

“Make sure of it. Kill her.”

Any lego Kylo stuff maybe to draw from?

My condolences.

Okay, Ziggy, the logic and pacing work well. Makes sense to see the heroes decide where to go and take off before hearing Kylo say he knows their destination.

Your mock-up involves reusing a shot from earlier of Poe messing with switches. It’d either have to be reused or cut from the earlier scene. I have replaced my proxy ProRes source file with the full size, making further editing painfully slow and tedious, so I wasn’t able to do much at all tonight.

Even as I type, I had to skim through the film to remind myself that the Kylo-Palpatine conversation had been moved from heading to Endor. And it introduced a continuity error I don’t believe anyone picked up on until you did.

Perhaps the simplest fix would be to replace or remove the line, “I know where she’s going.”

Thanks! If I get to it before you, which is unlikely, I’ll try to get the sound from that moment in ESB.

Brewzter said:

Hal 9000 said:

I’m not going to put the trailer music into the movie.

Sorry if I gave the wrong idea, I know you’ve said that- I just wanted to share it to the other people in the thread who wanted this version since I didn’t know how else to give it to them.

I think any more discussion about trailer music belongs in the general TROS ideas thread. It’s just not gonna happen in this project.

I’m not going to put the trailer music into the movie.

One tiny thing, and I’m sure this won’t end up mattering, is that Poe says they have 8 hours, which is currently removed in this cut. I like the transition to him hitting switches, so as long as it feels valid without having that line.

Also, who has a good pre-hyperspace jump sound for the ice wall moment? I haven’t found the right one yet.

Is there an alternate source for a similar line? Maybe from the radio drama?

I have to wait until I can sit and think a minute but I think I like your proposed restructure of those scenes!

I like the idea but it could be awkward to insert him into a single-shot flashback.

Right, I can’t really break that down into a logical reason other than that it just feels wrong to me.

I don’t mean to sound dismissive, but I don’t think that that awesome trailer music feels right in the context of the movie itself at all.

Eh, I’m willing to just wait as long as ends up being needed for this angle to be worked out and put out an alternate version. I might even go for it on some viewings.

I just do the entire fan edit in my head a keep it there. It’s better because you can do things that aren’t possible. But it’s harder to upload to Google Drive.

Well, even cheap storage isn’t anything for me to laugh at these days.

I’m betting on the day after I eventually delete my master ProRes file, meaning I’d have to potentially do a lot more work to get back up and running.

Indeed. I don’t have much time or headspace to delve into this one, and probably wouldn’t really spark much, so I’m dedicated to putting out my regular TROS edit and then plugging in whatever consensus or best approach emerges from this discussion.

There are BD25 (mkv) versions also, but I do not have storage space on Google Drive to use to host them. For now they’re available via torrents you can search for. 😕

I feel ya. Part of me wants to avoid getting sucked into Hobbit fan editing beyond just paring down the Maple Films edit, so I’m reluctant to have to get to know something else unless it wows me in a preliminary way.
BUT, I will check it out further whenever I have spare time. Probably won’t sit through the whole thing, though; I had a hard enough time carving out time to watch Bill and Ted 3!

I didn’t realize that it was your work. Well, I don’t mean to say that it’s without any merit just because I have a shorthand way to quickly inspect one thing, nor that my litmus test is conclusive. I just speak from a place of comfort with an edit I’d seen a few times before and has a few unique things about it that sell it for me over others.

I don’t mean to sound dismissive, just that I am not able to thoroughly check out a Hobbit edit I come across at this point. Like I said, though, it’s the Second best version of that sequence that I have seen, and pulls off such a transition best that I’ve come across. i’m sure it would be worthwhile to check the edit out more thoroughly and meant no insult.

I agree completely. More time may not have helped, but I still think they should have allowed for it. Even that may have allowed them to find someone other than JJ Abrams.

It’s Disney’s fault for having such a tight deadline. When Carrie passed, they should have pushed it back a year. No one external forced the release date.

Abrams was given a daunting task. I still don’t like what he pulled off, but fault depends on how you frame it.

Hit me up.

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback. I like this one a lot, too.