*actual literal cringe* Good luck. I feel lucky not to have suffered computer trouble, when I think about how often I hear about it happening to us. Fingers crossed for you.
No. He's not had time yet to finish it, and has personal things going on. And it takes about a solid week for me to encode each version. Any ETA would be useless; it's just when he finishes his rotoscoping. But be patient; there's no real deadline for this.
I do not know that. I would think so, but we haven't talked about it.
No, that's too much information out of nowhere. It need to be just enough to allow for her to live a few years and imply she will ultimately die from her injuries from Anakin. The jist is that she is going to live but she's hurt enough that she will die from it eventually. Because I'm not changing the thoroughly 'prequell' nature of the movie (compared to Q2, for example), I have the theoretical advantage of the viewer already having seen ROTJ. If they haven't, then this is merely reason #47 why it doesn't work well to see them chronologically on one's first viewing. Even so, it would leave her final fate hanging until you get to ROTJ.
^Episode II is waiting on some FX work from Jackpumpkinhead. He's rotoscoping Sam Jackson's lightsaber blue. Once it's done I can begin encoding immediately.
The very last one was meant as a joke, but the first part alone is okay. I'm not sure if referencing her "will to live" is a bit too on the nose and counterproductive.
Here's some ideas for phrasing. Any thoughts are helpful.
She has sustained severe injuries. I cannot say how long she might survive. We are preparing to deliver the babies. She's carrying twins.
Her injuries are severe, but she is fighting for survival. I cannot say how long she might last. We're preparing to deliver the babies.
Her injuries are rather severe. She is stable, but I cannot say how long she might last. We're preparing to deliver the babies.
Her injuries are severe. I cannot say how long she might last, but her determination is evident. We're preparing to deliver the babies.
Despite her severe injuries, she has a strong will to survive. I cannot say how long she might last. We are preparing to deliver the babies.
She has a strong will to live, despite her severe injuries. I bet she'd live long enough for at least one of the babies to remember her.
I won't repeat what I said at FE.org, but thank you!
Here's a new version of the scene, slightly different from before. I hated this part the most because of my own voice coming into play at a crucial moment. It is not too late if anyone would like to record the lines themselves and send them to me, or post them here. Ideally, it'd be someone else's voice! I have the affect roughly what I'd like, or somewhere between what I've done and what the robot sounded like originally.
https://vimeo.com/116035849
Password: fanedit
Yoda seems eager to let major issues slide with Ezra that he is very critical of with Luke. I guess his metamorphisis into a crank is only about 65% complete by this point.
Great, then! I'll try that out; thankyousir.
It's okay, PumpkinMan. There's no real deadline or anything. I think I will go ahead an release a 1080p V3b of Eps 2 and 3 as a Myspleen exclusive in the meantime. If Jackson returns for a Windu spinoff film or other such nonsense, we'll be ready for it.
Someone else advised that Qui-Gon's voice was too loud, so I've taken it down a little. I listened to ANH and tried to have this voice roughly match that one. I'll try a little reverb and see how it sounds. That and recording the slight variation in the medical droid's dialogue.
I didn't really remove Dooku's Sith alter ego, just removed the name Darth Tyrannus because throwing a second name for him into the mix only obscured him even more. We didn't get much of him to begin with. Even if the scene with him and Sidious is removed from the end of Ep2, there's still enough in Ep3 to cement him into that role.
Anyway, I did not know that Clone Wars had a yellow lightsaber; that's pretty cool. It's not me doing the rotoscoping, so I'm merely utilizing what Jackpumpkinhead is doing anyway.
better graphics in high def. gotta have moar defs
That seems pretty convoluted, and personally there was never a question about what color Anakin's saber would be. It's the saber that went to Luke, therefore it is blue. Introducing a red saber through fan editing adds a host of questions that need rationalizations, as you demonstrated.
Two other minor saber FX I wouldn't mind would be to give Plo Koon a yellow saber and Ki Adi Mundi a purple one, matching their pre-2002 depictions and implying the possibility of other saber colors out there while keeping the vast majority the standard blue or green. Their two sabers are only onscreen in AOTC for about twenty seconds, plus Ki Adi Mundi's death scene in ROTS.
Thank you for the dialogue suggestions, sir. I quite like the third one; it sounds medically professional. I'll try recording it several times. As long as I can convince myself that one of the takes is okay, I'll put it in. Its rough to use my own voice. A commentary is one thing, but it's gotta be up to snuff if it's gonna be in the actual movie.
It looks like the links are offline. :( I will try again tomorrow but my client isn't reporting any of them as being online.
I won't ask you to reupload it in its entirety, but I'd like to hear what Jango sounds like with his helmet on during JasonN's Episode II. Entire audio track or just clips. Particularly the fight with Obi-Wan in the rain and fight with Windu on Geonosis.
Going back to the cookies analogy. Let's say the OOT is a tray of delicious fresh baked macadamia nut cookies with a few overdone-but-still-good ones in the back. In that case, the SE would be those same cookies braised with teriyaki sauce because someone wanted to ruin them in order to practice making Chinese food.
And I guess the prequels would be poorly cooked Chinese duck. (According to Plinkett's definition of "tshi.")
Hopefully the ST will be moar cookies without that many duck chunks. Maybe, if anything, there'd be the occasional chunk that was so small you don't even notice.
The Clone Wars series would be dinner served across the street that I don't really care about. Rebels is served on my neighbor's deck and smells all right, so I might walk over to the fence and see if I get invited over.
The Thrawn trilogy are off-brand Oreos that someone left open and are stale, but are okay if you have milk. But apparently now Dad says you can't have them anymore and you're not sure whether to be mad.
Jar Jar is a piece of gristle in the duck meat. Luke Skywalker is a white chocolate chip.
Podracer for N64 is the fortune cookie that came with the duck.
WELL THEN YOU ARE LOTS
I'd also like to open the floor for last minute ideas about dialogue for the medical droid. The idea is to communicate that Padme is injured in such a way that she will die a few years down the road.
Currently the droid says, "She has sustained severe injuries. She will survive, but she may never fully recover."
It needs to be a sentence or two. I'll re-record if a better phrasing or way of saying it is presented. Otherwise it's fine as is. Just thinking of anything that can be spruced up before V3 is locked.
That option easily adds six weeks of time to the process. I'd really rather there just be one. The not-all-that-different V2 will still be around if one prefers the purple.
EDIT: Perhaps releasing just a 1080p version with the purple saber would be a good option. Blue is the preferred release, but one could snatch and reencode the 1080p purple version if they desire. May as well begin encoding it while I wait.
While waiting for the aforementioned FX package, I'm wrestling with whether to even use it at all.
It's about Mace Windu's lightsaber; another user is in the process of recoloring it to blue. It always seemed slightly silly to me that Sam MF'ing Jackson was the only character to have a differently-colored saber. He was depicted with a blue saber pre-2002, and I think leaving it as blue would have been a better decision when making AOTC.
Now, 12 years later, I have a decision about what to do with it in my edit. Someone is doing the actual work either way, so I can either profit by this or be destroyed let it be. I think for the films on their own it would be a positive change, but it does come at the cost of causing superficial visual continuity errors with other Star Wars media like the Clone Wars series or EU novels.
Bah, what am I saying? It's worth it. Like I said, it's a superficial continuity issue. But that's the FX package I'm waiting on before I can encode and release Eps 2 and 3.
Very good. I think we're all on the same team, and want the best edits possible.
Sure, I'd like to see it. I can pass it along to Kerr as well.
As soon as I get a small FX package back, plus encoding time.
It'd be for Kerr to do, as all I'm doing is consulting and providing feedback. It's really a misnomer to call it an HD version of Sharkey's, though that's where it began.