I’ll fix that too, thank you! Glad you guys had a good time, and that the edit seems to be really working with people.
Fleet sounds good to me! Just performed the grade again (just applying skenera’s LUTs to varying degrees). Just need to tweak the audio side of things a little more, hopefully tomorrow, and have Ash do new DTS encodes and then I should be good to re-render and reissue things for a fully complete V2.
I can imagine having up to 8 minutes of fun finding the right shot to replace the throne with in that vision, so consider it done.
Very much on that note, it looks like I’m going to totally have to redo the FCPX grading process, since relinking files is not working. Should take probably a good hour or so, so not a big deal. The danger is, of course, fixing my mistakes but then making new mistakes.
I just got done showing my dad, who introduced me to Star Wars, your Sequel Trilogy, Hal. He went crazy over the Force ghost sequence tonight. I’m real happy that I was able to make him happy with these edits, everyone. Well done, Hal, and everyone else who contributed with ideas and VFX.
We are all hoping we can contact jonh again.
Awesome, man! Really great to hear.
Very nice! Could you dial it up a little? Kylo’s is a little stylized and different than it looks onscreen. Doesn’t have to grab your full attention, but maybe a little stronger.
And I’ll include this in the cover artwork folder!
I don’t really recall anything too special about the first one, but I could put the audio file out for it if desired, or the TinyEncode version. I don’t want to do all the work to bring it into sync though.
Yes.
I think we need a version of this poster with the slight crackle effect added, from a hi-res source.
It will probably be at least a little while before I fix those errors, in order for all feedback to come in first, and to enjoy some Christmastime.
However, what’s there now is perfectly watchable and fine.
D’oh! (Pie d’oh)
I don’t think that jives with Hux and the other officer’s reactions. They register an immediate, credible threat as soon as they infer what she’s doing.
Thanks to all for the expressions of enjoyment and appreciation, both in the thread and via PM! There have been too many to respond to individually, but I’m so glad this was able to get out when it did.
You all deserve it! Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwazy Kwanza, a tip-top Tet, and a solemn, dignified Ramadan.
It does for me.
Yes we do, baked right in.
There’s no way that should be the case, knowing my process. But I’ll check as I do the eventual reencode. Thanks.
Yeah I don’t know if it’s my display, but I redownloaded it to check and the grading still switched. There’s another oddity with that scene too. I didn’t notice it in the changelist, but 0:45-1:07(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfZcUC2rB_I) are missing. We go from Rey calling Poe a difficult man to Finn suddenly talking about just landing. I don’t know if that was intentional.
That was intentional, yeah, to remove the lightspeed skipping reference. It… had a lot of discussion multiple times, so I don’t want to go into it, but yes it’s intentional.
Also, I can’t verify any apparent color change at that moment. Looks fine to me, and the way I applied the color changes at the end of the process, there’d be no way for the setting to change right then. It’s an edit point earlier in the process but not then.
Just wanted to wish everyone here a very happy holidays!
And…if the edit will be re-rendered anyway, might I suggest one final tweak to the finale in the spirit of the season?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bcwm4AM0cxorLSwpSC2unc0jNK1B7HTQ/view?usp=sharing
That’s wonderfully put together! When I reissue V2 to address the issues, let me bake this into the gag reel!
There’s no way that should be the case, knowing my process. But I’ll check as I do the eventual reencode. Thanks.
Really enjoyed watching this again. Not sure if this was noted by someone before, but the color LUT doesn’t seem to have applied to the scene after Poe and Rey’s argument. The color grading completely changes between those two scenes.
Which two scenes exactly?
D-O: “W-what is that?”
Rey: “It’s the Death Star.”
Pie: “This was the Death Star.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the commentary. We recorded it right after Thanksgiving, before we had any idea it was about to be released because you were about to discover kewlfish’s old saber footage!
And I’ll check in on those audio related issues to fix them in due course. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the Jedi voices, though, as they sound perfectly normal to me. What version were you watching? I wonder if perhaps it’s only playing the front channels and you aren’t hearing the rears, either due to the process of converting for the two mp4 releases or your software player.
Krausfadr and I worked out a plan to hopefully export the video stream again in a better way, but I’m going to wait a little while before doing it in case any problems come up to address while at it. (And I’ll probably make the less-big, formerly 720p version a little smaller.)
So far there’s the “death of her son” being in the subtitles, and I noticed I accidentally applied the LUT to the space establishing shot of Endor.
And I really hope you all enjoy our commentary track!! I wish I could have included more people but I wanted to keep it to a manageable size. Went off without a hitch but I was afraid the chance would go up that there’d be someone whose recording would be screwed. I think we got out of it all right.
^ Darn. You’re right. Oh, well! Dialogue changes that don’t affect sync are tricky because they only get corrected if you specifically remember them in the moment.
Also… y’all really gonna make me have to spell out the hidden special surprise in this release, huh?
Hmm, I’m not sure I’m looking at the right thing, but I picked a specific moment to evaluate. That is when the serpent slides away and light from outside begins to shine in. I’m looking at the light itself, Rey’s face, and Finn’s silhouette. Doing this I see some fuzzy, compression-y softness. When I look at the ProRes output from FCPX (that is on the Drive) I see it as well. When I look at the FCP7 output (ProRes) that was imported into FCPX for grading, I see it as well. When I look at the raw source material (BluRay ripped to ProRes HQ) I do not see it, and instead see nice, fine grain.
I guess ProRes HQ must just be that much better? It wouldn’t take a lot of effort, just time, to run it through those export/import/encoding passes, leaving things in place. So, let’s see whatever else may roll in for feedback and I’ll tentatively plan to do that after a little while. (What convinced me was seeing it in the ProRes master output, because that’s something I would like to be able to always hand off and have someone do whatever might be needed at any future point.)
Pleased to report that now everything is fully in place!
I wonder if that has more to do with the color LUT, since I’m sure that darkness has less detail or color information to begin with.
All versions on Drive now, torrents of the last version coming soon.