Jonh, you just let us know when you have it where you are once again happy with how it all looks. It’s a gem, so polish it to your heart’s content. 😃
If I’m very lucky I can totally finish up with everything ROTJ for the time being and then have sporadic time to implement the things that have stockpiled for TROS.
It sounds good to me, coming through my phone anyway. If each channel in the 5.1 mix feels right compared to its original, it should do fine. This’ll be super helpful in getting this together. The first thing I’ll try is the unused score for when Rey catches the saber in TFA. I just don’t think triple-dipping Burning Homestead would have felt right in the theater. It’s great but it was already (re)used in TFA.
There may be cause for an alternate audio track. That’d be a safe place to add music to scenes that didn’t have any, like the Death Star Duel or fight on Pasaana. And maybe using Burning Homestead for the saber catch. Just an idea…
Wonderful, thanks so much for doing that. Is that link a full highest quality export?
Poppasketti killing it again. Whenever you’ve got them how you like them send me the full quality export!
The TIEs in the opening shot appear to be heading toward the Star Destroyer, not down to the planet. If we cut to TIEs leaving the destroyer, I’d probably assume they’re different ones. Personally if we wanted to put TIEs in an extra shot, just going from the opening to a forest landscape with TIEs presumably heading to where the action is would work. Maybe a couple troop carriers could be there, as though the troops had vacated them and already left the area. But then we’re just opening a can of worms of what can or should be done with such a shot.
I’m happy to utilize any end result that feels natural, but I repeat I never was bothered by the way the film opens, other than the sucky crawl and mentioning Palpatine right off the bat.
Turns out I already made the corrections. I think what happened is I made the corrections but didn’t update the “ready to be muxed whenever the video stream exists” audio files already sitting there.
So bear with me.
I’d believe it was done in reshoots, similarly to Anakin’s change in motivation toward the dark side in ROTS. In that one it was pretty easy to tell almost shot by shot whether you were looking at reshot material or not.
Yeah it works really well. I’ve got it patched up and “final” in my timeline. I can always go over again and try to improve the audio, but it’s in there ready to go. The weakest point is removing the music from the transition into Chewie being seen, replacing the blast door sound effect and fading into the scene’s audio.
Hehehehe… boy. The audio files I had prepared for this for months do not take advantage of the the improvements to the Sarlacc sequence I did for an update to the OOT-synced 1997 SE audio project. The shot where Luke stares down the Sarlacc from the plank has the wrong sound.
I only put out the 1080p version so far, so I’ll pull it until I can correct and reupload.
Yeah it does. I didn’t feel it was worth the shifting of sources in order to remove since the difference is much more noticeable than jumping between 2011 and 2004.
I imagine that feeling strange and disjointed. 😕
Unrelated: can I ask for a single volunteer to send me a recording to be able to add an extremely subtle nod to ROTJ? The line read is, “Die, dickheads!”
Google it if you don’t know what I mean.
It’s not even half baked but here’s where I’m at:
Flames of rebellion burn across the galaxy. The tyrannical First Order has moved to suffocate a growing uprising through __________.
As Rey continues her Jedi training under General Leia Organa, their brave agents attempt to unite the disparate worlds in the name of RESISTANCE.
Meanwhile, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren has traveled to Mustafar, chasing whispers of a hidden power that would allow him to destroy any threat to his rule…
ROTJ should be appearing real soon in the usual places. The BR quality one is uploading now, and the others are being encoded. There’s no Sarlacc tentacles, though there will hopefully be a V2 someday with that. But in case that never happens, and so that no one has to wait, V1 is upon us.
That shot… it’s amazing to me that something like that can be cooked up in an evening or two.
See above comment. TIEs if that era are explicitly stated in ANH not to have hyperdrives, whereas a shuttle is seen using hyperdrive in ROTJ.
Looking great! It’s such a short, dynamic shot, but you’re pouring such care into it.
I won’t speak for the one who renders the crawl, hopefully Ridley, but I’m sure someone can render out an alternate for use with a non-Mustafar edit. Maybe it can just be worded so it doesn’t matter either way. If Mustafar is gonna be there I’d like for first-time-me to know what I’m looking at.
And that’s a good point so I will avoid referring to a galactic censorship in the crawl. I’d hope to mention Leia in some way, if not Rey. Alluding to her sensing Palpatine could feasibly work. Maybe I can take a new pass at it later today. And the opening sentence needs to be perfect.
Jeez, what else was there… Oh, the Falcon. I’m not planning to open with that shot, but if it’s made available I know someone will!
Just popped into the thread. I once tried to find a way to recolor AOTC background Jedi sabers, so its nice to see that brought about!
Good work! Are there any lightning sounds from elsewhere in the movie relatively free of music? Even if you leave what you’ve got more or less, mixing in a few ‘authentic’ lightning sounds might help sell it.
Also, when you do have it how you like it, would you mind maybe posting a version without added music, to let others experiment with that aspect alone?
And it sounds like it’d be very doable to remove explicit mention of the underbelly cannons as being world killers, if Kijimi is to be spared. They’ll still be seen, but who knows what Cos has been up to over the years. The visual is silly but it makes sense: omg big guns.
No lightspeed conversation, smooth and less abrupt:
I also cut some of Poe repeating himself.
That’s good! Little is lost and it flows well. In that case, would Skenera or anyone else like to visually extend the end of the iceberg escape scene with the Falcon jumping to lightspeed but without TIEs?
I’m out of it for a little while and everyone gets delusions of grandeur!
I had no idea this edit had picked up so much steam! Looks like I have a lot to catch up on.
Yeah, this thread added 25 pages in the last week alone. It’s all I can do to just track everything! Good problem to have.
I have no love for the lightspeed skipping scene, and to me it’s more flippant than the SKB magical galactic death beam. I know I’m a geek weirdo and people shouldn’t care about this, but to me it’s sooo bad.
To me, seeing the TIEs follow the Falcon into hyperspace is enough to allow for a later lightspeed skipping reference to spark imagination about other things Poe had to do to shake the pursuers. Even seeing TIEs with technology last scene only on capital ships doesn’t feel right.
Ideally the mention of lightspeed skipping could be elegantly removed without losing the earlier or later portions of the scene. Ending the iceberg escape scene with the falcon entering hyperspace without TIEs would be ideal, save for effects or holes left later on.
Lol why do people keep honing in on that? I haven’t changed it and it’s like that in the original. 😛
There are so many great ideas on the thread that would contribute to many great edits that I would love to watch… do I personally like the Mustafar sequence… yeah. But I would be super interested in seeing edits where Kylo drops out of hyperspace and goes straight to Palpatine… that after-crawl pan that poppa did was pretty sweet and did feel like Star Wars.
Well put. Thanks to all; calls have to be made.
Accompanied by Also Sprach Zarathustra.
Lightspeed skipping because lightspeed is not random improbability-drive teleportation,
And the chess scene is (probably) being moved to the ending to imply Rey has friends accompanying her to Tatooine.