Hal 9000

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.

Well, wait. I suppose it doesn’t matter if it’s implied to be Hux there, in this new context. Does the shot have to be reversed to use that line?

I think I prefer the shots not flipped, and without Gleeson’s unmistakable (to me) “Fire.”

But the second firing mockup ain’t bad. We’d processed the overall idea and found it wanting in the past.

In the reading WAY too far into things department, I like the use of those two ‘control room’ shots in the firing sequence for what it telegraphs:

Now, in the ‘weapon charging’ scene, it goes from a propaganda speech to the brainwashed masses to seemingly two or three people overlooking… something, and pushing the buttons to begin the process.
Then, when we get to the actual weapon firing, we get some people scrambling to comply with orders, one of which looks somewhat uncomfortable with it.

Yeah… it’s the only instance in the entire movie they do that sort of “salute,” and we see them facing the (now) drainage from the star later.
As far as sync goes, there’s not any wiggle room whatsoever; the shot needs to begin and end in that spot with every frame it has. But I think it’s perfectly fine in a series of movies with stormtrooper footstep audio synced like this:
https://youtu.be/YLFhbLSl1CU?t=21s

That works flawlessly. Here’s the sequence at present, leaving no problem using the control rooms shots for the firing sequence:
https://vimeo.com/221300542
password: “wars”

Perhaps you could use the beginning of the Hux shot. (The ending has a nice graphic of the Sun being drained that’s more relevant to earlier.)

EDIT: NeverarGreat, would you mind sending the cropped shot? It’s not that I couldn’t do it myself, it’s just that… you already have. I may not have time to right away, but I will see if that longer shot would let me remove the two control room shots in order to save them for the SKB firing sequence. 😃

It’s a lot of listening to the same thing over and over, monkeying with volume levels, crossfade points and lengths, isolating channels, and then scrapping it because a simple uniform crossfade actually sounded better.

marduk666 said:

Hal I was reading a few posts back and you were iffy on weather to keep kyle knowing Finns number. The numbers are stupid. Good cut. My 2 scents

I agree, but it’s outside the goals of the project. This isn’t necessarily “Beautiful Finished Product Fan Edit of First Disney Star Wars Movie,” but rather “Simple Concept Applied to Movie (Can Be Source For Your Beautiful Finished Product Fan Edit of First Disney Star Wars Movie If You Like)”.

Yes, absolutely! Updated that post to include that. 😃

Update: While we are sorting out the proposed SKB firing sequence, I’ve applied sound effects to the “R2 hard drive” scene, and gotten Leia’s faltering shot after Hosnian Prime is destroyed to sound great as I said a few posts ago.

So, what remains:

Opening crawl (Sir Ridley)
Maz’s Castle sequence (Sir Ridley)
Deleted scene: Leia and the Resistance (NeverarGreat)

And possibly:
[Kylo Ren’s mask during second Snoke scene, and Snoke suddently standing (Pie in the sky, most likely)]
[Proposed SKB firing sequence (NeverarGreat; I leerily like it)]

Yeah… I don’t think those earlier FO control room shots from the ‘weapon charging’ scene can be removed, unless someone wants to rotoscope out Gleeson from this shot:

https://ibb.co/i2czHa
https://ibb.co/mTPPiF

NeverarGreat, do you think it’d be doable to remove those two shots from your firing sequence, or would the music need to begin at an awkward spot?

EDIT: At the VERY least, I can use this to let the musical cue plan on from the big planet explosion through Leia faltering. I love it as a mockup, but I’m leery of the reused shots, particularly the FO control room.

Anyone have access to halfway decent and/or isolated 3PO and BB8 gyro/motor sound effects?

No, I meant the First Order control room shots.

Approved! Haha. I’m going to see if I can’t comfortably excise the ‘control room’ shots from earlier in the movie.

Well, there’s only a few things to plug in for this thing to be ready. Those are:

New opening crawl (Sir Ridley)
Maz’s castle sequence (Sir Ridley)
Sound effects for Threepio and BB8 during R2’s new hard drive scene
Kylo Ren mask, and Snoke inexplicably standing, Fx for second Snoke scene (Would be nice, not gonna be a holdup)

I’m afraid my Mac is going to spend the better part of the day restoring from a backup, but that’s what I have on my list, and I don’t think there’s anything missing from it as far as what’s needed to finish the project. I fully hope and expect to have it out well ahead of Episode VIII, for everyone’s viewing pleasure.

Silly question, she remembers because of all the quality time they spent together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5UmTwj6Y18