Hal 9000

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.

I did, and I didn’t begin fading in until after your sequence! But it doesn’t matter, because now that I look at the output, it does add a very slight degredation of the video and noise. Oh well, no color correction for that scene. It was just a “may as well” thing. It’ll be in NeverarGreat’s edit, though.

Thanks for that cutlist. I was going to write one up this morning anyway, so that’ll help. I’m not going to crop Chewie out of the shot with Leia, though. I’m doing something slightly different with the ‘late afternoon’ grade of the Maz’s Castle battle sequence… Since the color corrected versions overlays perfectly with the original, I am going to fade in the effect very gradually until it’s just slightly less pronounced than when it originally appeared to be sunset. Sort of a middle ground, and subtle.

I’m pleased to report that I am exporting a test file of the entire film, to send to Mala to get subtitles going. I can still tweak audio and put in foley, but I think we’re good in terms of sync. We could spend another year easily on further tweaking things, but I really like where we have ended up here in the eleventh hour.

Crawl from Ridley: really a beautiful job. It lines up perfectly, and there are no problems. We went over the wording a while back, and I like what we arrived at.

Maz’s castle sequence: Wonderful, just what we were waiting for. Finn’s new line sounds pretty damn seamless.

Snoke scene: This sequence has come a long way in a short time, and I think Ridley has got it about as good as we’re going to be able to get it. I’m not ruling out a V3 if compelling new resources become available, but I am happy with what’s here. For all it’s weirdness, I do “buy” this version as a legitimate scene, which is valuable in the fan edit economy. (And that superfast, awesome FX work… Jeez Louise.)

Ridley has been able to make the slowed down shots look unrecognizably seamless. If you haven’t downloaded them to check, trust me.

About the opening theme. I agree with DominicCobb on this one, as I said, for the reasons he outlined. I actually like that, aside from AOTC and ROTS, each film’s opening has its own characteristics. To hear it come on and be able to tell, “Ah, that’s ____'s opening theme,” makes me happy. But, I have zero problems with anyone making a second audio track.

On my to do list for tomorrow is to add X-wing and Resistance base foley to the Starkiller firing sequence. But, you guys, other than that and any problems the test export may reveal, I think we’ve got the edit locked in for V2.

FWIW, I agree with DominicCobb on this subjective question. Given the aim of the project, I’ll err on leaving it alone, but welcome anyone to make any alterations to it they want in crafting edits from it.

Yes, and thank you very much for doing so! ChainsawAsh, and anyone else, please do absolutely anything you want with any of this stuff, including the edit as a whole. Don’t even ask! 😃

Regarding the alternate music; it’s the sort of thing I really would prefer not to do. Not sure how to put it into words, but it’s the same instinct that drives me to reword the TFA:R crawl to closely follow the original, and the reason why I intentionally varied the crawls in my prequel edits (color, glow, and angle).
I do want to let each movie feel distinct. I like watching ESB’s crawl and instantly recognizing that crawl for what it is, with it’s idiosyncrasies. Some people really like that the PT used the same recording for each crawl and want to use that one for TFA as well. Me, on the other hand, I wanted to find alternate recordings of the opening theme to use for Episodes II and III, though this didn’t pan out.

It’s all rather moot, though, as the existing audio provided doesn’t sync with the theatrical. Presumably Adywan crafted it for his universal crawl template. If anyone wants to build an edit from TFA:R V2, that alternate opening score will be available for them.

Just checking in briefly from work! You’ll have to imagine wild praise from me for the time being, because all I have time to chime in about right now is about the slowed down shots. Once the Starkiller begins to fire, most if not all of the shots between that point and the Hosnian system coming into frame are from elsewhere in the film and have been slowed down. And yes, all of these are present in the ‘big test’ video. However, I cannot enable downloading of the video without paying Vimeo, and I can’t upload the clip another way unless I’m at home. 😕