Hal 9000

Yeah, man, I feel you. I think most of us felt sort of stunned by the movie we got and are surprised by what’s been done so far by everyone.

The movie’s flaws are still there, but being able to at least make a few good alterations feels great. Personally, I’m acting more as MC than for other projects, so I’m especially thankful for the help. The 9000 saga will conclude with a bang.

Concluding several years’ worth of SW projects using a video editor that was last supported nearly a decade ago like…

The music. All of it.

To ask a related question… if Sidious is all the Sith, I take that to mean that from perhaps Darth Bane onward the Master basically possesses the apprentice, and on and on it goes.

So, Darth Sidious ought to somehow contain all his predecessors, perhaps even really being Darth Bane. If this is so, how is one to read the line in ROTS in which Palpatine appears to revel in killing his master? “He could save others from death… but not himself.”

Sidious would essentially be Plagueis, right? It would make more sense if the line were something like “he thought he could kill him but he couldn’t.”

I’ve been making them available a few ways, including Google Drive. Doesn’t get much easier than that, so don’t worry.

And the Ewoks are being moved, to turn the planet (sorry, MOON) the DSII lands on into Endor. The Ewoks see the Falcon go by.

I did lower the music because it seemed otherwise things were pretty muddy. Just like a trailer, the music comes down somewhat while there’s talking.

Maybe for the commentary track I can edit in the added vocals only for that scene while I shut up, so there can be a place to go to hear it all.

https://vimeo.com/429093575

Oh, yeah. And here’s another test, this time with all the voices. So, I believe everyone has been included, even though clearly not everyone is audible. I wish everyone could be!

^ I’ll see if the music can be reasonably massaged to accommodate the shorter footage, which I think will be fine.

And I don’t see a download link on vimeo; can you send me the shot, or let me know if you put it in your Master folder?

Nice, poppasketti! That’s a wonderful surprise for this afternoon. You and jonh both.

And thanks for continuing to pioneer the Mustafar scene. I’m hoping LILLIAN will get me the other footage soon. That’ll be a little fun to put together, I reckon.

Actually, axlanian just clarified for me that there’s a whole nother layer of clips, intended to be less audible and more in the background, that I didn’t include.

I’ll add that, and upload another clip when I can. I’ll just try to keep it from sounding too muddy. Ideally every contributor would technically be included. But we’ll see!

Yeah it may have to do with Vimeo downmixing my uploaded 5.1 mix.

The previous one I posted?

Ugh, can we just get a short deleted scene of Lando mentioning having a daughter?

Here’s that clip for you: https://vimeo.com/429010558

Lol, yeah, makes sense. I wondered if maybe it was a typo or something and wasn’t sure what you meant.

“I’m mad about my flat.”

Thanks to axlanian, here’s the intended-as-final version of the arrival of the civilian fleet. Awesome to have so many of you contribute, and it makes for a wonderful fan editing moment.

https://vimeo.com/428986564

I’m not familiar with Cowboy Bebop beyond a fun ‘Cosby Bebop’ YTMND from back in the day.

But this should be fun to watch, maybe all the more, when finished. I love the creativity. 😃

thebluefrog said:

Hal, may I get a pm too please?

PM sent.

No, I know! Lol

What do you mean by tick scenes, though?

I’m waiting for LILLIAN to send me the Mustafar footage and foley so I can put that together.

Dominic is going to send me his flashbacks once he’s got them where he’s happy with them and halfway confident they’ll be the final versions.

DarthYCey sent me a better way to handle the lightspeed skipping skip, but I’m holding out on giving it the check mark in case someone is interested in painting Klaud out of two shots. (Actually, maybe Klaud can be added to the night briefing scene in order to have a character deliver subtitled dialogue. Probably not; I don’t think there’s usable footage with his mouth moving unless from behind the scenes.)

I can post a clip of the Rey and Leia scene. I remember that I joined all channels except center somewhere just once, from the beginning to the end, rather than jumping around, adding the left and right channels to center to bridge, then re-adding center’s dialogue. If you do like it better I can send you the raw audio stems even.

Has jonh finished the hair already? I thought he was still working on that.

No worries, and too bad about that, but the prime directive must be upheld.

The only alien in that scene is Ackbar Jr., and it wouldn’t feel right to subtitle him. Anyone have any other ideas? Or want to comp in anything else?

This is a long shot, but does anyone know of 3PO dialogue speaking about a rumored or hidden imperial fleet?

I don’t get the appeal of these.

Just updated the OP. Almost everything without the check mark ✅ next to it involves things needed from other people.

It’s coming together, which is nice to see. And a pretty short time since the BR came out, too.

I hope I’m not forgetting anything or missing any good ideas others may have heard about or had. (“Good” including being a good fit for this project, that’s not to say any idea I didn’t go with isn’t necessarily good.)

One thing I know we tossed around is trying to imply that the Final Order is a stashed fleet from the days of the Empire. In the current cut of the movie, we don’t ever see inside one until the First Order people go to Exegol. One would probably just assume these clearly imperial star destroyers to be leftover from the Empire anyway, so this just doesn’t contradict that assumption. It’s not at all obvious that they’re a different scale, so that doesn’t matter to me. The weird part is the underbelly cannons that aren’t ever commented on. I would imagine assuming they had been modified, enough to “attack” “all free worlds.” Whether you want to imagine that to mean planet destruction or just something like an orbital bombardment is up to you.

We tried a line for Poe that just didn’t fit, but I wonder if anyone has any other ideas. Subtitled alien closeup during the early Resistance meeting scene? Oolab Puba saying “The rumored lost fleet…”?

No need to apologize; I’m grateful you have put such care into it. That makes the whole project worthwhile right there.

Just wondering, what’s the source of the new Obi-Wan closeup?

That plus making the Death Star prototype (?) have its dish along the equator, matching the stolen plans, would be great to see.

Sent

Personally, while I have allowed anybody to send in pretty much anything they wanted to record, I prefer to emphasize names and voices that we came up with ourselves. Ideally, it would be a bunch of fan edit enthusiast inserting themselves into the universe directly.