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.
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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.
That’s the best I’ve heard yet!
Fix it if you like to, there’s nothing wrong with that at all.
Darth Jar Jar has always been a joke. One of those tongue-in-cheek theories that is amusing how it can almost sound plausible. But it’d be a terrible idea to put out in a movie for real.
It’d be like Return to Oz having all the munchkins hang themselves at the end of a song.
You convinced me, jonh’s ghost clip is in! 😉
I modeled the audio transition out of the icewall moment after what DarthYcey sent me, and I think it’s an improvement. I’m happy enough with it to leave it alone until I make another pass later on.
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The comm chatter really ought to just be in the center channel. It’s not all around the viewer really, just coming through the X-wing’s shitty radio receiver.
But, since there’s so many clips and they overlap each other, we decided spreading them out into the front channels wasn’t too much of a stretch.
The Wookiee sounds all right, that’s cool! Just making sure.
Okay, finally was able to listen with earphones. I agree, it’s awfully noisy. I truly hate not to include a clip from everyone who submitted something, but maybe it’d be better to actually hear what people are saying… That initial mockup had some chatter and calling in, with some boosted to be audible and others less so, but there wasn’t as much sheer content then. Maybe going back to having fewer clips, selecting those that sound the best and making sure to include the ones from people who have contributed to this project the most regardless.
I think I prefer option A overall, but maybe it’s just because it’s closer to the clip I listened to a bunch to do my initial mockup. I do think that the wookiee roar should be a little earlier, unless intended to represent Chewie himself, since it happens as the Falcon swoops into frame.
I do appreciate you tackling the mixing for this, and hope this isn’t a big setback!
Sounds great, axlanian!
And I did try having both say “always,” but it didn’t sound as good as you’d hope since only one is whispering.
Sounds like this project would be better served to leave Lando’s introduction in Panama. Though I used a foreign language track to replace the muppety “okay!” line with something milder.
And I think pacing-wise they may have made a good move structuring there opening as Kylo > Falcon > Rey.
And yeah, I haven’t removed Rey handing Leia the saber. I don’t see any reason to aside from the continuity error. But, do you happen to already have a clip posted of the change? What all are you cutting? I know the Leia footage is fleeting and so I hate to cut it down.
I know at least DominicCobb and I are making that change. But I don’t think Leia should appear visibly unless you move her body disappearing to earlier.
Being worked on, the music cue is the issue. I can’t wait for that to be audibly polished.
I did a version of this with cleaner audio. I know some people didn’t like my transition, but it should be clean enough to re-work.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-5kuYFOjTgF5FavIgoqgVN0jbtX0zLJZ/view?usp=sharing
Your version sounds fine, but I think the issue is that Hal wanted to use the extended jump without TIEs that skenera and poppasketti worked on. I think ya’ll are probably looking for something more like this with the audio:
https://vimeo.com/427153302
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That might be the best I’ve heard so far. Could you send me the audio?
Is there a consensus about whether to move the first Falcon sequence to between “I’ll earn your brother’s saber” and “the Falcon’s back”?
And I hadn’t really considered removing Lando but doing so makes sense and would make that middle chunk a little less cluttered. Any against?
Amen.
Thanks, man.
Thanks, jonh! And thanks for providing the alternate Obi-Wan shot. I like how the added glow makes the slight aging applied to Anakin a little more noticeable.
Jake, did you do anything fancy to do those cross fades?
Shaped like CGI dinosaurs.
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Just parent and child, yes.