Hal 9000

Krausfadr has volunteered to do just that.

OP updated with final writeup of V2.

I think the Google drive that I have used the past year or more will be up to the task, as I haven’t had any problems since using it. It was graciously provided by somebody called Hondo’s Trove.

It doesn’t give me an ETA but I’d expect close to 24 hours.

There’s an 8GB or so 720p version and a 1-2GB very small 720p version.

And V1 was released November 2020.

Well, nothing else to do for the moment but wait a long time for it to encode. Unless I find anything show-stopping, I expect I’ll be able to get the big ‘ol 1080p version up sometime tomorrow. Then the two 720p mp4 versions, and then I will do the DVD5 whenever I can (I’m sure this is the least valuable).

So anyone hoping to make a Christmas viewing out of this, I hope not to disappoint.

Right now I need one shot from Luka and one from Nev.

Sending PM.

And as of a few minutes ago, it is.

Well hey, I’m sure Nev will handle it admirably, and it is not the only thing outstanding.

It will, yes. That’s the current state of things. 12/20 suddenly came up as a goal when the kewlfish saber footage was discovered by Master Lawdog, but it only would’ve happened if the relevant people happened to be able to just strap right in and do the work immediately. Real life says otherwise and so it’ll be released as soon as I have those bits in hand. Now you know everything I know.

I agree, having a non-arbitrary story reason helps a lot.

Anakin building 3PO (or the droids really having anything to do with characters in the PT) feels random and weird. At least chronologically it makes enough sense how these droids ended up connected to OT characters since it was not by chance but because they were stationed with Leia’s parents’ staff.

There are just a few things being worked on, after which point all I’ll have to do is encode and upload.

These are:

• Removal of Rey’s milky eyes (Nev)
• About 4 or 5 shots of the crackly saber (Luka)
• German language track (redditor KetchupGore; wouldn’t let this one hold things up, though)

Haven’t heard from Nev in about two weeks and last I heard from Luka it may be next week before he could start work on the shots.

So, the outstanding items are few, and that’s about all the light I can shed on things. I will say, though, [REDACTED; let’s not spoil things].

It’s a fairly static shot in terms of framing and camera… I wonder if it’d be possible to make Finn and/or Rey (but mainly Finn) less hyperventilate-y in reaction to Han being stabbed.

There used to be a YouTube game where after that week’s ‘60 Minutes’ you would take Andy Rooney’s segment and edit out all but the first and last sentence. Sometimes it’d be funny, other times not.

So for Star Wars, just pick a character and identify their earliest and final spoken sentences in the saga. (And feel free to go with whole saga, individual films, or even EU material.)

I’ll start with Padme:

“You will not be so pleased when you hear what I have to say, Viceroy.”

“There’s good in him. I know there’s… still….”

It’s finished now. It’s the unaltered video track and a forced (soft-coded) subtitle track for Spanish Buzz lines. Also has an English subtitle track for the whole movie.

Audio track 1: Hyper-Spanish Buzz (Southern Spain)
Audio track 2: Medium Spanish Buzz (Spain)
Audio track 3: Regular Spanish Buzz (unaltered English track)

Replace the Jedi voices during Rey’s “be with me” sequence with audio from interviews where their actors threw shade on their time with Star Wars.

Yes it would!

I’d also love a link. It’s kinda crazy I hadn’t already downloaded this, though I’ve been aware of it.

Nah, it’s such a minuscule alteration and it already pretty much says the same thing. Silencing in the sense of retaliating to make them stop. Plus Ridley’s been absent a while. I really don’t feel a need to fret about this one.

Nothing! Just that one never knows, but I have no plans.

Seems a natural thing to give this treatment to the ROTS novelization.

I imagine so, and yeah it’ll be good to get this thing out there and have it finally feel finished. Even so, you never know if enough compelling material will compel a V3 someday. But everything we’ve worked toward will be in this one and it’ll really be something.

Rey Nobody will for now remain something I plan to passively keep an eye on and would make use of whenever it’s fully formed and ready to go.

Or Luka Frik more likely, but that’s right.