Hal 9000

I saw that snooker had posted recently in the ‘going away’ thread, so it’s possibly she may be gone for some time. This leaves us with a slight problem related to the Naboo shot. I don’t know if anyone else with the skill would want to try to improve upon it. It may be good enough as is, even if able to be picked apart in some ways. If so I can send the raw clip that she sent me.

Okaaaaaay guys

It seems like a more subtle affect like you guys describe would be perhaps to settle. I personally don’t have any problem at all with what he’s done so far.

Kewlfish, I can’t seem to make anything of the clip you posted of Rey’s training sequence. It appears to be in a codec none of my tools can process. Any ideas, or could you perhaps export to ProRes?

Here’s a clip anway, with my audio but no visual changes yet. The effect isn’t super audible very often, nor should it be. https://vimeo.com/442788429

I regret to hear that, too, snooker, but I can’t say I blame you. I hope it doesn’t have anything to do with criticism from my thread of the recent work you’d done for TROS:A.

Unrelated: I currently have 7102 posts, amassed over the course of nearly 17 years. At the average rate, I’d reach 9000 in 2024. Perhaps that would be the right moment to step away. Hard to say.

I guess I hadn’t said so yet, but thank you for compiling all of that into a mammoth post. It was great to flip through. I didn’t realize both my prequel edit projects had threads started on June 26th, so that’s fun.

That was ADigitalMan. He modified the ending to comport with his Ep3 edit, in which Shaak Ti was also abducted by Grievous and is killed onscreen in Ep3.

That’s a very Tolkienian perspective on the subject, and I like it. We don’t need to be canon fundamentalists, just participating in an effort to stitch together works that are hypothetically, or in the case of SW, truly, composed by different authors.

The ‘friendship’ theme is wonderful.

I’ll try to post a clip if I get the chance tomorrow during the day!

I was gonna type something but had my hands full so just quoted myself. But I think it works fine to just use the contents of the clip itself.

Hal 9000 said:

I don’t think it’s needed, anyway. Seems like, “The day of victory is at hand… the day of the Sith,” works just fine, given that it’s a short set of footage to work with.

I don’t think it’s needed, anyway. Seems like, “The day of victory is at hand… the day of the Sith,” works just fine, given that it’s a short set of footage to work with.

I won’t know how it would sound until I mock it up, but I imagine this being a possible way to extend the scene slightly:

“I have waited a long time for this moment… the day of revenge… the day of the Sith.”

Would certainly be interesting to try it. Would also break up the prequels. Too bad the ST would throw off the symmetry.

True, but I like having the message crackle to an end before people start whispering and reacting.

If there were ten seconds more footage we could get most of the message in, ideally.

idir_hh said:

-holographic/transmission sound-

“At last the work of generations is complete, the day of victory is at hand, the day of the sith.
Send the fleet to the galaxy…let it burn.
The Final order begins”
“Yes my lord”

I would say this might be best. (Might have to skip the “Fortnight” message part altogether.) But, the Pryde Palpatine scene would either become very short, or lost, though. I do like spelling out that the First Order is going there to man the ship, and that scene is the only real way in any version of the film to soundly imply that.

StarkillerAG said:

Umm, where’s the clip?

I left it in the dishwasher too long, and it melted. Post updated.

Well, here’s the scene with a temp audio clip for Palpatine. Could select a different portion to use, but having the static conclusion to prompt the crowd reaction seems to work.

JEDIT: https://vimeo.com/442206729

I think the best way to go about this idea is simply and merely to recreate idir’s dialogue using the music-less source and use this to replace the lines “We reviewed the message or whatever, and it confirms the worse: Somehow, Palpatine returned.”

I appreciate the effort, particular from Cinefy. I feel bad turning down a lot of what you submit, but I appreciate it regardless and we’re better off having more ideas at all!

Cinefy said:

Resistance base extended scene - Alternate Palpatine message idea

Concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGYEq59QZzc

Super rough.

Ooohh, that’s an interesting idea. Two thoughts for the moment: Rose’s line, “It’s on every frequency” would need to go, which should be easy since her back is turned. Also, this renders Merry’s line about “dark science, cloning…” weird since he sounds surprised in that moment. He could either be cut off after the word ‘cloning,’ or remove the line.

Or have that short little scene, then they play the message for everyone and go from there.

As Rey starts to hear the voice of Jedi past during the climax of TROS, Kenobi says, “Palpatine is a politician. I have noticed he is very clever at following the passions and prejudices of the senators.”

Right. It’d be good to retain a name drop of Palpatine in some way, as that’s a very filmmaking thing to do. He hasn’t been referred to as Palpatine outside of the prequels. Even so, his name is used in ways one can easily infer who he is several times before it becomes essential to understand who the name refers to.