Master Lawdog

I’m doing an edit, using a deleted scene that features Stereo sound. It comes with music that I want to replace, but I don’t know exactly how to remove it and keep the dialogue, ambience and sound effects. A few other edits I’ve seen have been able to do this with Stereo channel audio flawlessly, and I want to find out how to do it myself.

If anyone can help out, it would really mean a lot.

Funny enough, I’m listening to your past commentaries while you’ve recorded this one.

Hal 9000 said:

You mean in the end credits? No, because I hadn’t for 7 or 8, for consistency’s sake. But absolutely yes in the documentation.

Okay, although I still find it a bit odd you didn’t add credits like you did with the Prequels, as a lot of hard work and VFX were put into your Sequel edits, more so than for the Prequels.

Will you be crediting yourself and others this time around?

Hopefully this thread will continue.

Here’s an example of re-scoring the scene. It can be done. What I did here was trim off the beginning of the wide shot and trimmed the beginning and end of the next shot of Rey holding the saber.

https://vimeo.com/470457783
PASSWORD: fanedit

Hal 9000 said:

What I mean is that the audio needed for that moment will not conform to the existing video track, requiring me to essentially manually replace each clip in the TFA timeline and do more than it’s worth. And it would all be to do something to actively detract from that moment.

Okay. I’ll still give it a shot.

Hal 9000 said:

I agree with you, which is why I tried it. It didn’t work very well and it would require me to do a lot of work to rebuild TFA’s video stream because doing it at all requires adjusting sync. Even so, the moment felt very underwhelming.

I agree, but there hasn’t been anything else to fit in adequately in practice.

I could give it a try, what you said about re-adjusting the video sync. Even though it would be better for me to put that in your TFA thread.

I know that this has been discussed already, but I don’t really think that the Burning Homestead track needs to be in both The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker. It kind of takes away from a powerful moment.

Personally, I think it would be best to use the original piece of music composed for when Rey takes the saber in The Force Awakens so the Burning Homestead track can have an even more powerful impact to when the ghosts show up. That way a familiar piece of music plays along with familiar characters.

This is the original part John Williams composed when Rey uses the Force on Anakin’s saber on Starkiller Base.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACVE5nYGJxI&list=PLWKXJQUwVcfexiFdxZDrFGCx7RGbsuQUV&index=20

We’ll just have to wait and be patient.

Seems like the download quota has expired for all of your downloads, Hal.

Hal 9000 said:

Well said, I agree with you. I felt bad after seeing 9 in the theater and was reluctant to enter this arena. You all have provided great ideas and improved this to a satisfying degree.

Someone on fanedit.org wrote reviews on your edits of the Prequels saying that Episode III was the best, but Episode II was the most improved. I think we can say that Episode IX has so far been the most improved of your Sequel edits.

This is an attempt in enhancing the listener’s experience with the official British Harry Potter audiobooks read by Stephen Fry.

The released audiobooks were very standard with only audio of Fry reading the books. I’ve felt that with a franchise as big as Harry Potter, there should have been more effort put into taking the readers/listeners to that magical world created by J.K. Rowling.

These projects include ambience, sound effects and music taken from the films and video games.

If you’d like to hear these new audiobooks, send me a private message.

Hey, JJ! Can I ask you a technical question? How were you able to remove the music in some of the deleted scenes when they’re in Stereo? A great example is the scene with Umbridge forming the idea of the Inquisitorial Squad as she watches Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle bully a student. The music that plays during the scene in the bonus features is “Professor Umbridge,” and you were able to re-score it with “The Room of Requirement.” How were you able to do that with only Stereo audio?

https://youtu.be/Tp59c657ZEk?t=180

For version 2.0, are you going to redo/improve the VFX and green/blue screen backgrounds?

JJPotter said:

Since what I had planned on being a v1.7 release was ruined by someone else, I have taken time away from the community for a while. Recently I found the spark to start editing again and have decided to work toward a v2.0 release at some point in the future. I don’t know when that will be exactly, so don’t get too overly excited or ask me for previous versions. I will make my edits available again once I have completed the edits that I want to make and have found a new way to release them.

As a teaser, I have completed new intros for my releases. In my playlist, I also include intros for Philosopher’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets. Those will not be released publicly. While I made my own edits of those films, they are different enough from the officially released extended editions.

Finally, the HP Extended Editions shields are being retired and are now replaced with WW Extended Editions shields for “Wizarding World”.

​​​​​​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq1vZH5J4qs&list=PLuPz1NGkZjdQdOLwt2YdS8P0bgu7wzhDi

I am so happy for your return! Keep up the great work and don’t let these degenerates win and put you down. You’re far better than they are, JJ!

Hal 9000 said:

I do wonder if they would be sufficient material there to realistically redub general grievous. Probably not.

There is. Just wanted to point that out. 😛

dgraham414 said:

I’m in class right now but there is a ton of Kylo helmeted lines here. Not sure if any will be useful though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db9NsZJjcNs

Only one problem, though. That’s not Adam Driver’s voice. It’s Matthew Wood, Star Wars sound engineer and voice of General Grievous and the Battle Droids in Clone Wars.

Tommym38 said:

nl0428 said:

Tommym38 said:

Doctor M said:

Yeah. I had avoided getting the official extended discs of SS and CoS since I thought they were the same crappy ABC edits.
On the advice of people here I got them and they are indeed more professional than what ABC/Disney cobbled together.

I think I took issue with a couple of music cues and the fact that in Chamber… they didn’t fix the overdub of Hermione, at dinner, telling Ron and Harry to put on Crabbe and Goyle’s robes.

The overdub was added to the theatrical cut to explain the Slytherin robes they wear later. Hermione saying she got the robes for them from the laundry is a deleted scene. Both shouldn’t be in the same cut of the film.

Huh, didnt know that. Well now Im gonna think of Hermiones overdub (like Lukes if he even exists on Dagobah) whenever I watch CoS now lol, cool piece of trivia

Which line is overdubbed?

My bad idk if you’re talking about the Harry Potter one or the star wars one so I’ll just explain both.

In Chamber of Secrets when Hermione tells Harry and Ron to pluck hairs from Crabbe and Goyle at dinner it cuts to a reaction shot of Harry and Ron looking at eachother and you hear Hermione say “and you’ll need their robes” (or something to that effect. If my understanding of the post is correct Emma Watson never said this line when filming the scene and they had her record it and put it in later.

In Empire Strikes Back when Luke is setting up his camp on Dagobah and plugging in R2 into the power generator, he says “Now all I have to do is find this Yoda…if he even exists”. The line originally ended at “Yoda” when filming and they had Mark Hamil record the “if he even exists” part after. Unlike the CoS add in you dont see Hermione’s face when she says it so you wouldn’t be able to tell (at least I didn’t) unless you had prior knowledge. In ESB Luke’s mouth is open but not moving (enough to say the line) when the line is added in, so it kind of gives off a ventriloquist vibe (I forget what youtuber I heard make that comparison, probably HelloGreedo if I had to guess based on my watch history). In the DVD they tried to make Luke’s mouth move but you can still tell. Theres a little blurb on it on the ESB IMDB in the category “goofs” under “Audio/visual unsynchronized” if you want to read more, but that’s pretty much the gist of it.

I didn’t know about the ADR line from Chamber of Secrets, but I already knew about the one from The Empire Strikes Back. I’m a bit confused that they kept that line in the extended edition, considering that Harry and Ron didn’t put on Crabbe and Goyle’s robes, and Hermione snuck out Slytherin robes from the laundry for them to wear.

axlanian said:

Hal 9000 said:

It works implausibly well. 😉

Maybe add any Jedi actors’ songs who have recorded ant to the Exegol confrontation, singing rather than speaking to Rey.

https://youtu.be/HLRaO6icNrg

Let’s not forget about the SNL skit of NSYNC as Jedi.

I gotta admit, Carrie Fisher wasn’t that bad of a singer.

Brewzter said:

Probably a bit late to suggest this but has it been considered to add in this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owrmLeX20CY

I’m thinking 1:50-6:23 (abruptly cut at the end) would work well as the vision Kylo experiences when he meditates on Vader’s helmet.

-It shows how Kylo struggles with living up to Vader’s legacy (especially with Vader demeaning his as Ben)
-Essentially adds in the Vader/Kylo duel from the DOTF script/concept art
-Could be seen as continuity in him rebuilding his mask? He sees himself in this vision defeating Vader so that could represent him overcoming his internal struggle with Vader’s legacy and then rebuilding his mask because of it
-Overall just a really cool scene

I know Kylo’s vision in this scene has already been edited (in a way I also like 😃 ) but I think this is a really cool alternative that I might put it on my own

We did discuss this, and Hal said that he wasn’t too keen on using footage from a fan film.

Tommym38 said:

Doctor M said:

Yeah. I had avoided getting the official extended discs of SS and CoS since I thought they were the same crappy ABC edits.
On the advice of people here I got them and they are indeed more professional than what ABC/Disney cobbled together.

I think I took issue with a couple of music cues and the fact that in Chamber… they didn’t fix the overdub of Hermione, at dinner, telling Ron and Harry to put on Crabbe and Goyle’s robes.

The overdub was added to the theatrical cut to explain the Slytherin robes they wear later. Hermione saying she got the robes for them from the laundry is a deleted scene. Both shouldn’t be in the same cut of the film.

Huh, didnt know that. Well now Im gonna think of Hermiones overdub (like Lukes if he even exists on Dagobah) whenever I watch CoS now lol, cool piece of trivia

Which line is overdubbed?

jonh said:

Yes, I took the shot from the “Idkartist” video, I tried to find the original shot from “Marriage istory”, but I can’t find it … could someone help me find the original shot?

I gotta say that in the end, having his head on Luke’s farmboy body doesn’t look that bad in the end. Like Hal, I feel a little bit of touch up can be done like having him nod towards Rey, but overall, well done, jonh!