Would it be possible for them to abruptly break apart, sort of like how a TIE in TFA breaks from chasing POE right after he enters the rip in the thermal oscillator? Like there’s no point going straight anymore since their prey is totally gone?
Hmmmmm… it still feels weird to refer to jumping to lightspeed right after physically bursting through a barrier as ‘lightspeed skipping.’
If poppasketti wishes to share the clip, he showed me something he did to show the TIEs continue along their trajectory without jumping to lightspeed. However, that would fit into an Option A scenario.
Option A) The company breaks through the ice wall and enters hyperspace, ending the scene. TIEs may or may not be seen following, though they do not enter hyperspace. Then, when they arrive at base, reference to lightspeed skipping is removed. Rey and Poe start to argue in medium closeups while Finn presumably walks toward them, asks them to calm down, and they proceed to talk about the spy.
Option B) The company breaks through the ice wall and enters hyperspace, followed into hyperspace by TIEs like one second later, ending the scene. Then, when they arrive at base, they refer to “lightspeed skipping,” evidently something Poe must have done to evade the TIEs offscreen. Rey and Finn hug, Finn uses sarcasm, etc.
I like Option A for restoring a sense of, well, SENSE to how hyperspace works. TLJ doesn’t seem to leave room for TIEs that can instantly chase the Falcon into hyperspace one second later. Even if Option B were what was put into theaters, I still would probably have fan edited Option A into existence, honestly.
However, Option B is still way better than the theatrical. So, I’ll take it if it is needed to sell the removal of the main lightspeed skipping sequence.
Or arguably our unhealthy obsession. 😅
+9000
There’s no time to replace “ghouls” with anything longer.
Also, we figured no one would see Klaud in that shot unless you already knew he was there.
I’ll take another listen to those things. With removing Babu, is it the score being interrupted, or the transition itself?
Also, anyone want to add the planet Coruscant to the establishing shot of the roundtable scene? It can be as close or distant as is workable, perhaps distant enough to recognize its wholistic appearance and make sense not to appear in the window later. Snooker?
Hasn’t ever been an issue before.
Lol “ice speed”
Thinking ahead, how might we do a group commentary track? Through Zoom? We could stream the movie through there and each maintain our own recordings of our own voices, to be edited together later.
We could either make it a real party or just have 3-5 commentators. As long as sync isn’t an issue a party would be okay, but I would be a little concerned about sync.
To have them mention lightspeed skipping to me goes better with the TIEs chasing them into hyperspace. What we saw Poe do with the ice wall doesn’t seem to fit that description.
Gotta lose the voiceover. Sounds like Schmi doesn’t want her son having sex
I love the idea, but the effect would need to be erased and totally redone, and explosive contacts removed. 😕
Yes, that would absolutely have been plan A for me if it were really possible. The TIEs just veer off course because the chase is over.
I can certainly play with it, but the color correction will be the last part of the pipeline, once the edit is ‘locked.’ I could imagine maybe using this as well as the regular LUT, meeting someplace between.
Well put, and that’s basically my take on it. I like the TIEs NOT following them into hyperspace, making a clean getaway. But I’m okay with it if it helps make for a more clean and effective removal of the skipping sequence itself.
It treated hyperspace as straight-up teleportation. Felt like HGTTG.
Yeah I would have thought it was just something he had to do to resolve the previous scene’s cliffhanger of being followed into hyperspace by TIEs.
That looks wonderful!
There are already a few edits that ditched “ghouls” successfully and it really improves the scene IMO.
How about we replace it with “Cool!” lol
And I can try a wipe, yeah!
I further finessed the audio since posting the clip. The music now feels like it picks up a but more of the slack. Each channel of the first clip before the transition fades out as gracefully as it can, after the last TIE sound and before the next sounds of the omitted sequence. The soundtrack piece comes in at the right time and volume level for each track.
If poppasketti prefers option B, then that’s good enough for me! lol
Okay, well here’s a good presentation of Option B, for all to consider. I can see the merit of both, but the lightspeed skipping sequence itself will remain out! Let me know what you think.
To go back, the lines “Knights of Ren” and “Ghouls” aren’t in the center channel neatly. Given this why don’t we just leave it alone?
I have two options:
or
But I won’t be using the actual lightspeed skipping scene itself, as it makes zero goddamn sense and is way worse than the starlight problem in TFA. It’s not a matter of fuzzy logic, it totally undermines an important mechanic of Star Wars for no real reason.
Well I’m not a fan of the shockwaves anyway, and I didn’t really have great ways to remove the other two. I didn’t want the battle of Yavin to only have one OOT shot at the most critical moment. So I removed the DSII shockwave so it’s not like all OT and only OT explosions have them.
I tried to list ROTJ on the site but there was a cryptic error that I couldn’t figure out and I haven’t gone back yet to try again.
Come to think of it, in my Ep2 edit, it follows ESB somewhat:
Establish romantic tension and frustration at the start, they go off together, make out, maybe do more, and then the big deal part at the end is a declaration of love.
The line never bothered me, but it could be muted without issue.