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Hal 9000

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#1357508
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Much appreciated. When I looked through earlier it seemed like the dialogue was going to be hopelessly mixed with the blaster sounds. If I can’t get it myself I’ll ask for audio maybe.

Anyone already have any good metal clink sounds? Right now Poe’s flashlight makes no sound as he tosses and catches it since I’m trying to keep the full shot while removing the beginning of the conversation at the end.

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#1357333
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Having the porg sounds linger into the next shot is a great idea!

Klaud is still in the end celebration scene.

I’d feel better about removing the un-explicitly-resolved Finn secret if it can be removed without making the underworld scene feel weird.

And nice poster! I can include it as a bonus, even if another is the main cover art to match the other two edits.

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#1357260
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Following the second workprint, here’s everything still needed at this point from others. If certain of these are received I can get to a point of locking down sync of the edit and be able to get other things ready to go. Again, I hope to expedite this in order to avoid it being stuck in limbo once the Fall hits and I have even less time to put toward it.

  • Opening crawl expected from Sir Ridley
  • Material needed for Mustafar expected from LILLIAN (seemed busy, will ask about it again soon)
  • Removing Klaud from two shots (poppasketti is taking a look)
  • The two vision scenes expected from DominicCobb
  • Squeaky wheel footage needs to be processed to be usable (no path forward at present and may be omitted; MoviesRemastered pleaded with his YouTube audience for help too)
  • Leia saying “Ben, come home” expected from DominicCobb
  • Luke’s haircut expected from jonh (and perhaps he could dial down Luke’s blue hue as well)
  • Ben Solo’s spirit for end scene expected from jonh
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#1357259
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
Time

The yellow lightning was meant for a ‘Rey Nobody’ version, to distance her from Palpatine, with the added meaning of her saber being incorporating or accepting her shadow. But the majority opinion seems to be that blue is better, even for that alternate version.

Related: For the regular Rey Palpatine version, should Palpatine’s fingers crackle when we first see them? Might just remove it in both versions. Why make it any more obvious than it already is when Rey shoots lightning what the reveal is gonna be?

“Why did the Emperor come for me? Why did he want to kill a child? Tell me.”

“Lol, didn’t you figure it out when you shot lightning? You’re Dooku’s great-granddaughter’s sister.”

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#1357204
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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idir_hh said:

Hal are you planning on adding Luke and Leia’s theme over their training sequence? I feel like it’s a lot more appropriate.

No, as much as I love that music this scene is focusing on Leia in particular after we are introduced to her saber. It makes sense as is, and plus it would probably be really difficult to do since there’s sound effects flying around everywhere.

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#1357203
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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I don’t feel the need to make a point of bringing Finn down much.

I’m hesitant to remove the Finn having something to say thing because it’s a good chunk of what implies he’s Force sensitive. I already used poppasketti’s Rey voiceover in TLJ to tie into this even. And I find it awkward to cut out the reference to this in the sandy underworld.

We don’t really see any birds or porgs on Ach-to so it feels sort of weird to add foley for something not even there. Maybe they migrated South to an evil island.

I removed Rey’s line (“…really difficult”) rather than Finn’s (“we just landed”), since Finn doesn’t speak for a while otherwise.

And I added a little more of the DOTF from Solo to bridge more smoothly into the existing score.