Hal 9000

Here’s what I’m working from at this point regarding a V2.1. (Of course for now I’m trying to get V2 distributed!)

Hyperspace ambience post-Jakku shouldn’t include cockpit whine since that’s not the part of the ship they’re on.

(Kylo Ren’s helmet appearing and vanishing during second Snoke scene.) If one of you pull this one off, I’d… Well, at this point I’d probably be surprised at how unsurprised I’d be.

3PO walking away sound effects - If anyone has some sound effects that would work that would be a big help. None I could find online didn’t seem hokey.

Recolored Leia deleted scene

(Make deleted scene audio just a little bit louder)

Ridley - match up each shot with the theatrical, retiming any that are necessary, from immediately after Han is shanked to Leia’s Force reaction.

Updated version of Starkiller shot as X-wings arrive - NeverarGreat

Maybe dub tech guy to tell Hux “weapon reprimed in 30 seconds” or “weapon fully recharged.” Can’t be myself; needs to sound vaguely European.

Seems like there will either be a V3 (if TLJ prompts any reconsiderations) or V2.1 (if only minor tweaks are called for). I’ll put off upgrading to High Sierra, as after that point I’ll no longer be able to work with all the things I’ve done using Final Cut Pro 7. With my life preparing to change soon, if V2.1 is the path to head down, I’ll want to expedite that. We’ll know for sure inside of a week, I guess.

NeverarGreat, if you wouldn’t mind, please send that Starkiller shot I apparently missed, and the Leia deleted scene recolored whenever you can.

Fair enough, you guys. 😃

What I mean is that after V1, I still didn’t feel like it was viable as a replacement for the original. It would’ve been an easy restructure at the script level or even reshoot level, but not fan edit level. You have proven me wrong.

I just watched the edit myself this evening with the wife. (I had to watch the crap quality version but that’s all right.) It really is amazing how the film works with what we’ve done to it. It makes the original feel off.

I don’t recall there being multiple versions of that shot. Not saying there weren’t! I can’t imagine it looking better.

The continuity issue during the second Snoke scene is indeed the highlighted remaining problem with the project, to be sure.

Yeah, I tried to add 3PO servo sounds to the first scene with R2, but I couldn’t seem to get it right, and I figure the audience is not focusing on him in that moment anyway.

Sunset regrade: My method for doing what I wanted to was to overlay footage from NeverarGreat and reduce transparency, to apply the effect only in part. This proved impossible, as the output had a great deal of noise. Since it was only a change I was going to make ‘because it was there’ and is not really relevant to the project’s goal, I left it out without another thought.

I see what you mean about the Leia deleted scene’s colors, though it doesn’t stand out to me. Though, those kinds of things generally don’t.

I had forgotten that there were some additional shots that were slowed slightly. I’d never had noticed, either.

Thanks for the feedback! I probably won’t do an updated version without a “big deal” coming along. But who knows? Maybe we’ll get one in a week or so. I’m thrilled with how V2 turned out, after I frankly regretted doing V1. You are all amazing.

On the way opposite end of the picture and sound scale, the 800MB tiny version is now available as well. The 8GB 720p version is top priority right now, and hopefully will be ready early tomorrow.

jarbear said:

I did a quick preview of it, at least viewing the first minute or so then at the credits. From those quick glances & listening the audio sounds good on the computer. The file size I have is 30.5 GB.

Kexikus said:

Just watched it and wow, that was amazing. It made TFA not into a masterpiece, but a really enjoyable movie! Thank you all so much for making this happen.

There are some (tiny) things that could be improved in a possible future version, but overall it’s really seamless. I don’t think I’d have noticed any edits if I hadn’t known about them. Honestly, I’m not even sure if I catched all.

So once again: Thank you very much.

“The edit. You’ve seen it.”

I am glad that those who have viewed this so far find no obvious, glaring problems. I’m sure the things you’d point out are things I’m aware of, too. It will never be perfect, but I am very, very pleased with how dramatically better you all have helped this V2 to become.

By the way, PCM is uncompressed audio. The audio track for that one was nearly 5GB!

The 720p encode failed, as I found when I returned home just now. It quit about a third of the way into the movie. I should have a less than 1GB version appearing in the same download location this evening, and hopefully a successful 720p encode of about 8GB ready to go sometime early tomorrow. But, as always, we’ll see.

It’s also on the spleen, if that’s more expedient. 😃

Also, the 720p should appear late this evening, which will be a fraction of the file size while still looking pretty good.

Is there enough pieces of dialogue from relevant characters to perhaps change his name to ‘Snokehouse’?

And it’s live! Seek out the Reddit post to get the BD50 version. 720p mp4, DVD5, and probably a tiny encode to follow.

Have I ever not delivered for you before? 😉

Good news and bad news.

Bad news: The PCM audio is giving me trouble so I am going to exclude it for now, but it will be available as a separate download.

Good news: The BD50 version should be available for download in just about one hour’s time.

At the very least, I still use your shot of Kylo Ren standing before Snoke alone. 😃

(Looks like yes.) Onward.

Anyone know what file format would be most compatible with BluRay for lossless audio? The PCM track I generated is in the form of a QuickTime .mov.
Is a .wav file muxed with the film going to work with BluRay format?

ziggyonice said:

With Hal’s TFA Restructuring version 2 coming out this weekend, I’d love to see his fanedit and your fanedit combined.

That’s the idea. The plan was to use TFA:R V2 as a base, which is why he’s focused his efforts on helping get that one done first. I’m looking forward to checking this project out, too!

Ah! Yes, it’s temporarily out of commission because I modified it to reflect V2 and it is under moderation.

It’s the version that has to be encoded first anyway. And I’ve got a sturdy fiberoptic connection, so it really shouldn’t take very long. Fingers crossed there’s no issues with the encoded output, though.

I haven’t removed V1 from Mega, though I don’t really know what goes on at FanEdit.info these days. I just send emails into what is usually a black hole.
And yes, I hope to be able to begin uploading the BD50 version tomorrow, if all goes well. Mp4 and DVD to follow once they are encoded, which takes time.

There shouldn’t be any problems, but then again, there never should be. Can’t promise!

Tobar said:

So, I know it’s too late for V2. But I think I’ve solved the Chewie problem for V3, check it out! 😉

Thanks for the legitimate laugh. 😄

And thank you, I will correct the changelog; it was hard to remember and apparently I did not remember everything!

I don’t why the Reddit post shows up as [removed] but I posted the post’s content as a comment and asked the subreddit’s moderators.

Very nice video. The part at the end about the Death Star is very relevant to V2 of this project.

I just put up a post on Reddit about V2 of this project, promising links to download. I can’t post them here, nor can I a link to that post. But that’s going to be the place to keep an eye on, though of course I will alert you guys here first. I am hoping for the enormous BD50 version to be suitable for uploading sometime tomorrow morning, which should not take long. (Gotta love Google Fiber.)

Haha! Hey, NeverarGreat, I noticed as I was reviewing your cutlist that you include Leia denying that the Republic has sent word during the briefing. I don’t recall, but I thought we decided not to use that. It seems a little forced, according to my memory. I think it’ll be something for your edit, though not this one.

I think we had considered it, but to my mind it’s outside the Starkiller Restructuring idea pretty cleanly. (I guess it’s another mirroring of ANH; a WTF Chewie/Leia moment at the end.)
And once the encode gets going, the ETA went down, should be just over a day.

I’ve done some vetting of the test output, and found a few things that needed fixing. These have been attended to, and I am exporting what I expect to be the final output for the BluRay version. Should be something like 33GB in size, and will include 5.1 640 kbps AC3 and a (lossless? very low loss?) 5.1 2GB PCM track.
There’ll be chapters stops, as well as English and French subtitles. It’s a 53 hour encode time on my 2011 MBP.

Once this is muxed and pretty, I will simultaneously encode the DVD and 720p versions. (I encode these from the BluRay version rather than the NLE timeline because other, non-Apple converters do a better job.)

I plan to host these myself for now, as there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that they’d be able to be zipped and uploaded to Mega, let along listed on FanEdit.info in time. I plan to post about this soon on Reddit, so they will be easy for you all to find.