Hal 9000

Have Rey be Palpatine’s granddaughter, and he tries to possess her.

Yeah. It seems like there’s no good options for editing anymore. The hell if I’m going to pay a subscription fee, which would make the software cost an infinite amount of money as far as I’m concerned.

I could navigate around FCPX fine if I had to for video, but I’m not sure how to translate the nuance I’ve been able to achieve via FCP7. As things stand, it should do for future projects to lay out the sequence in 7, and do the audio. Then I’ll send the sequence to X for further processing and exporting.

I don’t think I’d go back to Windows. That’d feel like moving to Asia or something; unfamiliar and foreign to me. Macs aren’t magical or anything, but they’re familiar and feel somewhat wholesome or solid to me. They can be a pain in the ass sometimes, like with this stuff. Windows 10 or whatever the OS is up to now could probably still run Bonzi Buddy from 1998 if one wanted it to.

I can export audio from FCP7 just fine so I’m only migrating over the visual sequence. I think I’ve got it ironed out and can export a candidate. I don’t doubt there’ll be some things to spot and fix, though.

I’ll take it! FCPX doesn’t work the same way so I’ll take yours and if it looks right that’ll do for me. Thanks, man.

oojason said:

Hal 9000 said:

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
A NEW HOPE
RETURN OF THE JEDI
THE LAST JEDI
REVENGE OF THE SITH
THE FORCE AWAKENS
THE PHANTOM MENACE
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
ATTACK OF THE CLONES

PSYCHO_DAYV SOCK CONFIRMED! 😉

Just going with how the titles appear in the crawls. If I were a sock I’m a hell of a sock. A Force sock!

Would your software allow you to export a LUT of your overall color correction to the movie?

Exactly.

Shitty double post

/r/shittyaskscience may have some necromancy techniques you can use.

They’re almost hybrid versions of each other already! But I’m glad you’re able to do that, and that you won’t have to start from scratch.

In migrating my video sequence to FCPX, I will need to re-do the color correction. So, does anyone already have a LUT I could apply to the film? Worth checking since that’s an option with FCPX.

TFA V4 (fixed) is up on the usual places. 😃

lol

The blood flows back into his head.

https://youtu.be/oISZxiCMSqg

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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
A NEW HOPE
RETURN OF THE JEDI
THE LAST JEDI
REVENGE OF THE SITH
THE FORCE AWAKENS
THE PHANTOM MENACE
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
ATTACK OF THE CLONES

I’m sure this wasn’t intentional, but I always felt like the flash that occurs when Han shoots the door on his freighter after Chewie is shot in TFA looks just like the thing that would have masked a jump cut back in the day. Felt retro.

Interesting idea! I don’t think I will do that, though, at this point. But I like the way you think.

It’s not bad, but I’m not sure its better than what was there.

This one looks good, so the 1080p and DVD versions are up on Google Drive. The others will likely be tomorrow, and I’ll get torrents ready whenever I can, too.

Yeah, no problem!

Let us know how it all goes.

FWIW, Here’s a quick stab at a crawl. Do with it whatever you like:

The spark of rebellion has engulfed the First Order. Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, protective of his newfound reign, searches relentlessly for the source of his former master’s power.

Rey continues her Jedi training under the ailing General Leia Organa, hoping to commune with her spiritual predecessors.

As Resistance operatives pursue intel from a possible spy within First Order ranks, Kylo Ren travels to Mustafar to reclaim his grandfather’s SITH WAYFINDER…

Hi, thanks for the interest. Sounds like you’ll be in for a treat.

As far as viewing order, my edits don’t modify this aspect of the prequels, so whatever personal calculus you would do would apply to these as well. Personally, I recommend release order for a true first-timer, as that’s the most organic presentation of the drama. However, chronological order also works.
If you’re going release order for a first timer, I would just run through the ‘saga’ films first. (You could lead with Rogue One, but ANH is the perfect introduction.)
If you’re doing chronological, I’d put Rogue One before 3 and 4 but skip Solo. (Maybe include the Clone Wars Microseries between 2 and 3 if you like that; part one right after 2 and part two right before 3.)
I’ve done machete order before but I honestly would prefer not to break up the trilogy structure or skip 1. However, whatever viewing order you like should work as well with my edits as with the official versions.

My primary source for these are the commercial BluRays and HDTV captures beaten into shape by schorman13. So. X264 is where they come from and the best output abandoned-in-2011 software can deliver. At this point my project files for the prequels are a smoldering heap that used to be a house; any valuables left inside are beyond my reach now. I’d have to recreate the visual sequence and align all clips from scratch, and there’s no reason for me to do anything like that. The PT is complete and I’m satisfied with that.
I don’t really know much about how x265 differs, but my output should be about as good as the input and that’ll have to do for posterity. Considering several scenes in the PT are sourced from deleted scenes from the DVD releases, I’d say that’s even a good thing to prevent the disparity from being overwhelming.

All films (except Solo and TROS) have finished edits that are watchable. ROTJ is available as a perfectly serviceable workprint, to be filled in with its primary video source sometime soon once I get the new discs. And of course TROS will be a project.

I envy your home theater; I’d like to view these with some friends and family at some point after they’re utterly complete in a nice environment. I hope you enjoy these, and will report back with your thoughts. Even if they aren’t open to new changes at this point, I enjoy tossing things around and interacting with them as complete works.

EDIT: Oh, and if I were going to watch Solo I would pick up DigMod’s edit “The Coaxium Heist.” (My quick edit of Rogue One is merely a partial version of his.)

I’ll be merciful. It’s text against an empty background. (It’s an end credit, once it starts scrolling.)

I agree technically, but it doesn’t register to me as any more of an issue than any other pieces that add up to the very rushed pacing throughout.

No one has found it. Only hint is that it is text replacement.