I’d say the line is juuust on this side of working convincingly. I appreciate the effort toward it, and I folded it in as well as I could. The original line is present in just about every channel and there wasn’t a lot of coverage to stitch into it, hence the dropout.
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I’ll try it and see how the moment goes.
Really just the things indexed in the OP. I’m more of a mindset to achieve and lock in those things more than brainstorming new ones.
I’m really very pleased with how this whole thing turned out, y’know.
Wow, I never really noticed how bad that is. Great job!
Well, those shots have all already been done. And that’s okay, since you are far from the first person to submit that idea and I’ve declined to go with it.
Also, here’s the full conference scene, including “Captain Hux,” for everyone’s consideration.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HbFxcA-pHnrmTmZ6VEnVH4SuQ5EMMK1E/view?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1HbFxcA-pHnrmTmZ6VEnVH4SuQ5EMMK1E/view?usp=sharing
Seems unlikely due to the crackly saber which has a handful of sequences remaining.
I could put out a workprint that would be viewable, omitting changes that aren’t complete.
If Sherlock is able to export it as music only (and get far enough info the credits to let me find a good edit point to segue back into the main source), I shouldn’t have an issue baking it in.
Or… what’d be ideal is to export the outgoing Rey’s theme and incoming end credits music separately, each synced to a reference video file for sync. I can then recreate the finessing of the original easily enough. (Like making the music fit the 5.1 soundtrack and blend with sound FX, but use your transition to credits.)
Original ending for comparison: https://streamable.com/15r2vd
Potential new version: https://streamable.com/asygmi
I mainly tried to smooth over the pickup note between Rey’s Theme and the End Credit fanfare. Oh, and shoutout to bbghost for helping me find the correct music clips!
BOOOOO. Booooo. 😂 (it’s been a while was that in the original soundtrack?)
I do think this transition is a bit cleaner. Has a nice punch on that first note of the credits. Good work!
Edit: after listening a few times I think what I like about the new version isn’t so much the punch of the first note of the credits but the last swell of violins from Rey’s theme. It feels a little longer and rises to a bigger crescendo, which I think is appropriate for the last note of the Star Wars saga.
The music is different. Originally they straight up used TFA’s music leading into credits, same recording even.
If people prefer Sherlock’s tweak, perhaps if he sends it along I can implement it.
^ I’m open, Sherlock.
I honesty think the transition to end credits sounds and feels right, moreso than letting the cue play out longer. Only other thing I could think of is mixing in the transition to credits from another film to get a little tiny bit more of a build up “bum buuuuuuuh” before it kicks in. I think it’d take ingenuity from someone else to do, though. But as is, I really don’t have a problem with it and I think it certainly could have been what was put out and I doubt anyone would’ve commented. At least not by that point in this movie.
And yeah, Finn and the lightspeed skipping. It’s… I think it’s the best solution, and a cleaner removal of the offending sequence.
I recall Darth Editous handled that shot nicely, like a million years ago. I don’t have a soft copy of his edit to rip a clip from, though!
From what I can surmise, I think he morphed frames to cover the jerk in motion from the jump cut and animated the saber igniting.
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I wonder what a deepfake would look like for that.
Will do. It’s a tough call!
Right before the Death Star blows up, show stormtroopers and other enlisted men looking at family photos with tears in their eyes.
Oooooh, gotcha. Well, if you want to wait I can try to decide whether to go with yours or Dat’s.
Very kind of you. How you mean “to match the 97SE,” though?
I really like both your and Dat’s current Alderaan explosions. Straight from using the 97SE to an embarrassment of riches.
I don’t loathe the Praxis ring, but what I don’t like is that every major explosion of a planetoid object in the OTSE has it. To me, one is fine but multiple gets weird. And personally, I feel the original Death Star explosion is the one to keep, since I’d feel a little weird going from the SE Battle of Yavin to the original explosion, though its probably just from conditioning.
It’s a little bit awesome to have two people at once working on impressive replacements for the Alderaan explosion (that don’t have Praxis rings). Just one bit of feedback comparing yours, Dat’s, the OOT, and the SE: I think your explosion goes too far from the planet too fast. The other three, the explosion hangs more tightly to the planet body. Yours looks fine the way it is, I am just zooming way in to pick nits and vet.
What bbghost said. No one can ask more of you than that. If you can export what you’ve got so far that would be greatly appreciated.
He’s like a machine.
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You’d like Q2’s edit.
In TLJ as Kylo runs at Luke to land a killing blow, Luke dodges it Matrix-style and sidesteps before retracting his saber again and vanishing.
EDIT: I mean, may as well, right? Same diff?