I’ve made an alternate version of this that also includes Hal9000’s revised ending from his Labyrinth of Evil edit in which Padme survives, plugging an infamous plot hole.
Ha, it’s the inverse of what people usually ask me for: ‘Labyrinth Of Evil’ but with the original ‘Padme dies’ ending. 😃
I’d prefer to go about this by merely removing the “Episode [X]” portion of the actual films’ crawls, without generating new material. As authentic as you can get with minimal meddling. (Might be good to time the appearance of [FILM TITLE] to the appearance of ‘Episode [X]’ and re-sync footage between the crawl fading out and beginning to pan downward.
Maybe Disney put out some death threats.
Can I do both?
Well said, NeverarGreat. I’m very much looking forward to episode 8, but I feel like the past several years for me were a second wind in a marathon.
Y’know, over analyzing and all the things we’ve covered at length many times here.
Random thought.
I’m kinda getting sick of all this Star Wars shit.
Well, great, now we’ll have to wait another four months.
Here’s a candidate for that scene:
https://vimeo.com/223159154
Password: bull craft
Could you pass along just the modified, “All craft,” audio clip?
Sheesh. I’ve had a sense of distaste at the idea of a young Han Solo film from the beginning, and I’m glad these standalone can be ignored easily. Star Wars is special, and I hope it doesn’t spiral downward into Marvel… I guess the best word would be oversaturation, that sense of having so much content that none of it feels special anymore.
Even as a kid, I had a strong preference for the original version of ROTJ.
My Star Wars is a pan-n-scan 1997 Special Edition (of ANH and ESB) and original (of ROTJ) VHS rented from Blockbuster.
During the intro to the special edition VHS, the Darth Vader statue behind Lucas had a bent lightsaber.
But I do miss the announcer inviting me to sit back and enjoy the ___ installment of the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition.
Hayden Christensen in the library at the beginning of Ghostbusters?
If it can be, but it remains to be seen.
For years I’ve wondered in the back of my mind what it would look like to take every possible color correction attempt that got very far, average them out, and apply to the BluRays. In my head, all of them have equal weight, and for yucks the GOUT, 97SE, technicolor scans, and the BluRays themselves all get a vote, too.
Incredible stuff you’ve achieved, Dr. We march ever closer to our sought-after ultimate restoration.
Yes, the two biggest missing scenes are Leia trying to warn the Republic during their assault, and the First Order preparing to rearm and target the Resistance base afterward.
Thanks, Ridley. I’ve got some BB8 motor sounds at present, but we’ll see if these can’t make it better. I think it works well without any 3PO sounds, but I will see what can be done!
Also, minor note: the female pilot reaction shot during the firing sequence has been replaced with a now unused shot of Poe craning his neck to look at something off to one side.
And I invite anyone to try their hand at a scene between Snoke and Hux to depict them planning to rearm and target the Resistance base. I’m afraid my methods yield YouTube Poop levels of sentence mixing. 😛
No, no. Mockup is great! Making it seamless as a real thing to be published… is a different beast. 😛
That’s all I’m gonna be able to do today, but I’m happy with this new take on the X-wing scene.
I’m not optimistic for the Snoke and friends scene, so I invite anyone who is capable to try to weave together something. I wasn’t able to get it sounding anything but awful! But, I might just be out of my element due to being tired at this point; will try again later.
https://vimeo.com/221674605
password: snackbar
I still think Ackbar’s, and I can’t put enough quotes around what follows, “lip sync” works better without reversing that shot.
Thank you! The center channel is not just for dialogue, and so I’m not surprised to hear other sounds there.
Here’s my best attempt at implementing a revised X-wing sequence with Ackbar. Same as before, not perfect, but I don’t think anything stands out in a bad way.
https://vimeo.com/221590694
password: radio
Here’s a full-sized version of the firing sequence, if a anyone would like to test it out on their audio equipment!
https://mega.nz/#!DYYQXBaS!aohr1KhLoJLegDGn7ZcNKPRiaTdmPm_Bc3Yes84Z20w
Would it be sufficient to insert that little scene along with a line from Ackbar? If everything else played out from that point, I don’t see any incongruities. It’d even help address the apparent problem (for those who have the theatrical TFA on the brain) of SKB exploding into a new star.
Thanks; that does help some. I’ve spent about 2.5 hours this evening laser focused on making what’s there sound as good as I can get it using all my tricks. I’m rendering a high-quality encode of the whole sequence, and I’ll upload it for you all in the morning. It’s not quite what a professional would be happy with, but we aren’t exactly working with source material, and I think it sounds very decent, and well worth the slight tradeoff.
I was working on implementing the firing sequence, but there are a few clicks and things in the audio.
Any chance you’d be able to export your isolated sound effects tracks in 5.1? Or just the separate mono files for each stream?
EDIT:
The only clicks I hear are during the shot of the (now darkened) SKB firing (the one right after the two control room shots). Is there a way to fix this click sound, or re-export and see if it’s gone?
Also, is there any way to export without downmixing to stereo? You were able to do this for the SKB explosion sequence, which really helped the final result.