Hal 9000

Nah.

I am pleased to be encoding a V4 for TLJ:L. It’s just got a few things that poppasketti was gracious enough to supply from his V3 efforts. Those things are:

• Adding Rey’s voice calling out to Finn immediately prior to him waking from his coma, to gently tie into his Force sensitivity that was not bridged between TFA and TROS

• A puff of blue smoke rises from Snoke right after he is cut in half, out of focus in the background, providing a very subtle clue about his nature (though I did not use the flash of red Sith eyes as he is stabbed)

• Special effects during the deleted scene with Finn and Rose on the shuttle have been spruced up by poppasketti, including adding floating debris and fixing the perspective of the planet

• The shot of the rebel alliance insignia ring at the very end has been removed

I don’t think that I’ll revisit TFA and TLJ after this (and fixing a video glitch in TFA:R V4), even if you all keep coming up with cool stuff. I have revisited them once each following TROS to tie into it in appropriate ways, so I think this will be it for those two.

I mean, it should be trivial to add one, so… sure!

Oh, no problem! Are you talking about the very end, though?

What are you talking about? The very end of the credits?

And even a different time of day.

I don’t see any reason not to pursue this! It can always be put in an alternate audio track at worst.

I’ve had it not work out more than actually work out, so I avoid using proxies personally.

I definitely want to at least put out a version of this that won’t change Rey’s Palpatine lineage, even if I do end up doing so. Because I will take a heavy ‘project management’ approach to best leverage my extremely limited time and Dominic already has efforts in his pipeline to tackle that aspect of things, I will start off focusing on other areas.

Rey feels insecure about the darkness she perceives inside her, especially as it presents danger to her loved ones. Having a repressed memory of killing her parents would fit in naturally.

If the scene already had music I’d just try to work in a single instance of the “dun dun duhduhduh, dun dun duhduhduh.”

Something about communication being cut off would maybe help bridge Poe’s sense of despair and the enormous civilian fleet that musters once given the chance. But something else to serve that purpose could be put in its place.

Cool! I wonder if there’s ever been an alternate recording of the track. That may help it feel like it’s what was originally done.

Lessening it would be welcome at least, it seems.

Not scrapped, but not committed either. If I had free time I probably would.

Here’s another take on a crawl:

Episode IX
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

The iron grip of the FIRST ORDER has spread to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. To suffocate the spark of rebellion, all communication between neighboring systems has been silenced.

As Rey, sole heir to the Jedi, continues her training under the ailing General Leia Organa, the fledging Resistance gathers intel to forge a path to freedom.

Meanwhile, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren searches relentlessly for his grandfather’s SITH WAYFINDER, to unlock the secrets of his former master’s power…

Ah, I see. I’m sorry, I haven’t been in a place to pay quality attention when I check in.

It sets up the necessity of using the wayfinder and the nebula of insanity that serves as a barrier.

I like the opening. We see that he has to find a thing to get him to Palpatine, no dialogue, quick. I don’t see myself removing it, since there’s no alternative scene or anything to use in its place.

Does a single setting applied to the whole film do well?

Not saying it should, but the opening crawl could spell out that the planet we open on is Mustafar.

Maybe something about how Kylo “searches relentlessly for his grandfather’s SITH WAYFINDER to unlock his former master’s power” or something.

Maybe a floating space sign?

I’d prefer a LUT so as to retain picture quality, since I’ll be exporting my work in turn for others who may do the same.

Hmm… TFA:R no longer names Hosnian Prime onscreen. Inserting a shot of Coruscant into TROS:A may be slightly confusing. I’d do it anyway, because it’s not a real problem, but something to consider.

Ugh. Gross.

I agree that the fact wouldn’t keep me from using her voice anyway. It’d probably need to be that way, as removing her from the Poe scene would be a lot of work.