Hal 9000

Neato. I’ll do audio when I can. 😃

Yes, I can’t see anything wrong with it at all on my screen, at least not without going frame by frame or anything. The first pass seemed like the pattern on the blade was sort of… uniform, but it looks like you’ve fixed that so I have no complaints.

It seems like Kylo’s saber core was a little thinner but had the crackle effect that makes it look thicker. This saber obviously can’t really be made thinner, so you use a little less of a crackle effect. At least it seems that way.

I think that’ll be more than adequate for purposes of cover artwork. Again, very nicely done.

And, Noah. I like the idea but I’d hate to lose the original score for that scene and moment. I think it’ll be another one on the reject pile. But I’m glad you mocked it up and we had another idea to consider.

I like that most recent one better!

I’m not bothered by canon fodder about how lightsabers work. In TLJ it was broken in half, and in this movie Rey has reforged it but feels conflicted about her inner darkness. Makes perfect sense to me that the saber should crackle in a similar fashion as Kylo’s. It’s sort of like Luke wearing black in ROTJ: it makes us question whether she may actually go dark.

Jaws123DRevenge said:

Can you make two versions available, one with and without the crackle effect for those of us who aren’t a fan of it.

I can’t. I’m already going to do a Rey Nobody cut at some point, but the final product should be plenty high quality enough to be worked from if anyone wishes to tweak or do anything else to.

nl0428 said:

Hey, Hal? How would you feel if I tried to put together a possible extension or new re-cut of Ben’s death for more grieving over his loss?

Well, I’d welcome it, of course. Have at it!

Jaws123DRevenge said:

I know you already are gonna put Kylo in as a force ghost on Tatooine, but have you considered adding Anakin too? Something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlnRy7g--tU

We have considered it, but I think that’d be way too distracting and unnecessary. It feels right to have just Luke, Leia, and Ben.

Also, I do agree the saturation could stand to be dialed down on the cover.

Thanks a lot, Movies Remastered, I like that cover a great deal. Once the edit is locked we should have everything needed in order to complete full covers for Bluray and DVD.

And I agree that it’d be better for the saber to remain crackly for the whole movie. So as long as kewlfish is going to actually do the effect for the entire movie I’ll be glad to utilize it. I think you’ve got skenera’s purple saber footage already but let me know if you need jonh’s or any other footage to work with.

Would you mind posting your updated version of that sequence when you can? Might help to perfect it there before moving on.

I leave that to kewlfish. If he wants to do the effect all the way through using the sources I’m using, I’m all for the effect carrying through to the end. Whenever I can, I’ll handle the audio side of things, probably after doing a more substantial workprint without it to tide people over longterm.

Chase Adams said:

Can I make a suggestion,
When you do the Ben Solo scenes, can you make sure you use Skenera’s purple lightsaber scenes as base footage?

Edit:

These are the clips I am referring to:

skenera said:

OK, this should be closer: Part 1 and Part 2

Unless, of course, kewlfish prefers to have the effect cease when it is handed to Ben through the Force. If not, I’d also need the effect applied to jonh’s ghost footage when the saber is used.

Well, if the crackling stops when it’s passed to Ben it’d mean less work! And it could be one of those things one may not notice on first viewing. Works for me.

And thanks, axios, for your take. Glad you liked it! We’ve hashed those ideas out. I added some light duel of the fates music from Maul’s scene in Solo, which was Cinefy’s idea. It’s not overpowering, scratches an itch, and feels like a good compromise.
I also don’t want to use tracked score for that Palpatine music. Maybe I’ve lived inside the prequels too much, but that music in that moment is readily identifiable as the order 66 montage and I find it very distracting.

Or maybe just have 3PO’s virgin alarm go off which is why he enters the scene.

Ohh, interesting.

Man, you are so clever with all of these ideas.

I’ve been such a Klaud this evening. Yes, that second video is perfect for that. I have been ducking in between guerrilla cleaning my house and didn’t ever click on the second one.

And I love the cover artwork, thanks to you guys for working together on it.

We’re gonna get this thing there!

I hope he has. I’ll choose to believe so.

Don’t need deets on your love life but I’ll look forward to the eventuality. 😃

I think the sounds most in need is just static crackling like when it’s being held still. I won’t replace the other swishing sounds or anything like that. Just overlaying the crackle at times without overdoing it since her saber isn’t as fractured as Kylo’s.

I have some, but does anyone have a good set of various foley sounds for Kylo’s crackly saber?

That’s all right. I’m not in a hurry to release a final product and would rather wait until things are right than to have to do a V2 sometime later. And I doubt your piece will be the final bit to wait for anyway.

I will decide on an approximate audio level baseline for the effect, being less than Kylo’s. It doesn’t need to be loud. And I’ll try to approximate how the audio effect behaves for Kylo’s saber. Or it may work better to only really hear it when the saber is on and things are quiet. I imagine underdoing it rather than overdoing it.

Like with more tongue?

I don’t see why they would, and I wouldn’t expect the movie to have characters explicitly acknowledge it.

kewlfish said:

I saw everyone talking about making Rey’s lightsaber have a crackly blade. I’m a hobbyist, so not professional work but definitely a neat concept. Super early draft.

https://vimeo.com/438802140
pw: fanedit

Edit: Also, if anyone is interested I found this picture of a planetary view of Ajan Kloss from BFII, added a letterbox to it… someone could add the Falcon to it or something, maybe when Finn, Poe and Chewie come back after Leia dies? Here is the link if needed.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QH8YdeeRb7j0E76xqIaA7S06w1g6BJHD/view?usp=sharing

Part 2 of this too

lol. I’ll wait for kewlfish or anyone to confirm if they intend to do that effect for the whole movie before I do any audio stuff for it, though!

And I assume a full quality source will be worked from, too.

Works for me, if kewlfish or anyone else wants to do the work visually.

I can listen to how Kylo’s saber audio works in the other two movies and add the effect more subtly throughout TROS.

Well hey, if you’d like to make that change for the whole movie, I’d implement it! There may be a shot or two that’ll need it from Dominic’s version of the desert fight scene.

I’ve only got my phone at the moment, but is that an audio only change?

I’m not sure I like the idea of Ben Solo taking up a still fizzly, unstable blade at the end climax, though.

And while it would take a lot more storage space that I have to host a true lossless export, I always put out a ~30GB version which is a lot more than most projects that are in turn used as source material. I can also make available the various pieces and files I have been sent that I used.