I’m surprised they allowed him to post that on star wars reddit. I always get my stuff removed.
Not sure if he’s using a low quality source as there’s a lot of pixel distortion on my screen.
Red Exagol seems to be so much more dramatic. That’s kinda the effect I’m going for during the battle sequence. Nice!
I haven’t seen rogue one in ages, was this clip ever used in the movie?
I had to add that so you can see them in and exiting hyperspace.
The concept art may not show a broken crystal but the movie clearly shows it in two pieces
Yeah, I first thought it was just the body that snapped by later viewings shows the crystal did break in half so I’m going with that.
I would also suggest throwing on a subtle 35mm film grain overlay to help mask the fact that it’s a video game. The sequels were shot on film after all, so it’d fit well anyways. That + 24fps + color grading/adjusting exposure are all that I can think of to make a video game look like real footage.
I wanna add grain to all the scenes I’ve been doing but haven’t looked yet. Is it an Pr or Ae effect? I’d like to know what setting you use if I May?
Pretty sure you can do it in AE if you want but I’ve only ever tried it in Pr. Basically there’s 2 options - use the noise filters built into premiere and adjust them to look like film sort of like this https://youtu.be/k7P_sSUH9fE or the other method is you download an actual clip of 35mm camera footage that’s just blank grain and then you go into opacity settings, set blend mode as “overlay”, and then adjust opacity from there. Sorta like this https://youtu.be/g_lEPb5-_9I
Now for the sequels their film grain is pretty subtle so you obviously don’t want to go overboard and make it look like something out of the original trilogy but you get the idea. The process isn’t 100% accurate to real film grain but it’s very close and for our purposes of just adding it for a few shots it’ll do just fine, in my opinion.
Oh cool. Yeah, ep1 was on film and had way too much grain when compared to recent footage. I tried it in AE but I could see much difference. I’ll give it another try. Thanks.
Yeah, we went through a bunch of colours but landed on magenta that just wouldn’t look right. Someone also made the Rey meditation jungle scene purple that looked pretty cool but looked a bit avatar-ish.
I’m not sure it needs changing?
I just wish we didn’t get three new desert planets in the Disney movies, you know? Between Jedha, Jakku, and Pasaana, it seems like they could have given one of them blue or teal or orange or purple sand, or something.
Totally agree. They all seem like Tatooine rip-offs. Not many original ideas in the sequels.
The streaks? Do you mean the star lines to indicate them coming out of hyperspace?
What makes that ROTS footage any better than the one already in TROS?
There’s no planet shot in TROS. Adding the 3 Tight fighters makes it a little more seamless rather than jumping straight into the castle shot, imo.
I would also suggest throwing on a subtle 35mm film grain overlay to help mask the fact that it’s a video game. The sequels were shot on film after all, so it’d fit well anyways. That + 24fps + color grading/adjusting exposure are all that I can think of to make a video game look like real footage.
I wanna add grain to all the scenes I’ve been doing but haven’t looked yet. Is it an Pr or Ae effect? I’d like to know what setting you use if I May?
What do you have in mind, MR?
I gave an example here at 8:51 https://youtu.be/wWy5RtoQMMc
I’ve used a green screen shot of the ties but they’re too slow compared to the next shot. If anyone can add 3 ties to this clean plate I think it would be a great addition to finalise that scene.
jonh was working on a couple fixes to the haircut scene last we heard, and then I’ll pass it to skenera to hopefully de-blue it if jonh hasn’t already.
And here’s the opening: https://vimeo.com/506231329
If anyone can do element 3d or cinema 4d, I’m working on a tie fighter planet establishing shot before the castle scene. I’ve got the models and the Mustafar clean footage but I just don’t have the time to get the lighting and speed of the ships right atm.
Yeah, we went through a bunch of colours but landed on magenta that just wouldn’t look right. Someone also made the Rey meditation jungle scene purple that looked pretty cool but looked a bit avatar-ish.
I’m not sure it needs changing?
Yeah, I just watched the movie back on a tv and MAN he’s blue! It doesn’t stand out that much on my monitor. Is Jon still working on it?
All Mustafar shots are finished as far as I know.
Yeah, after Skenera did the yellow Rey lightning clip I did think about that. I’m gonna put it up for public vote once I get 1000 subs to unlock the community tab.
I think yellow for the Palpatine shot may be lost so the red vs. Purple/blue lightning back is the direction I’m thinking.
Massive thanks to Jake & Poppa for tech help. We’ve now fixed my Pr playback issues, and the rendering problem. For some reason Af defaulted back to animation settings despite me never using it so I now have to re-render all the scenes again.
It seems that animation clips just didn’t agree with my computer and replacing those should fix the other full movie render issues I was having.
I’m still getting drop frames on Af playback so it’s still a nightmare to finish the crackling saber but I should be able to continue those scenes now.
Love this community! Thanks for all the help folks. 🏆
Red lightning is certainly appropriate here. The hinted lore is that it’s the most version of lightning, and aside from looking much better visually for the shot, it would signify a Palpatine at his peak, especially considering how he used the lightning to such powerful effects.
That’s pretty much the idea. Glad it’s backed up but lore. 👍🏼
I did research it back when I had the idea and it did seem plausible but I can’t remember the exactly details. I’ll have to check wookieepedia etc.
Good call. What if it’s Beskar?
Something that bugs the hell out of me, and I’d love to see removed in a fanedit, is the ring of little spikes that pop up on Rey’s yellow lightsaber at the very end of the movie. I was watching this scene earlier and it occurred to me how incredibly easy it would be to remove them, by taking a small rectangle of footage directly above them and duplicating it over them (I made a mockup from a still frame, but I’m not sure how to upload it in here).
Is it only me that hates those little spikes? To me, they turn a perfectly fine lightsaber design into something from 2012 DeviantArt. Hell, if it doesn’t bother anyone else nearly as much as it bothers me, and if someone can send me the bit of footage and tell me what to do with my export settings (Premiere Pro CS6 for Mac), I’ll even do it myself.
Are you talking about the triangular vent/flap things on top? They don’t bother me from a visuals/design standpoint, I’m more confused by how they seem to be entering the beam of the saber without being destroyed.
I’m with you on this. So, the Saber beam pushes them open and closes them again? Seems a little far-fetched.
Thanks. I’m so amazed at everyone’s contributions to this project. The idea came from this and it will only turn red once Palpatine takes the energy from Ben & Rey. I’m working on the wide shot of the lightning going up into the sky and hitting the ships. It starts off blue but then turns red. I just felt Exagol needed more colour and this would show that Palp has reached “ULTIMATE POWER”. It does take a frame-by-frame colouration much like the crackling Saber so it’s gonna take a while to finish.
I’m Celebrating my 1 year youtube anniversary today so I thought I’d make a video walking through of a bunch of new VFX scenes and ideas for this cut. A massive thank you to everyone who’s helped so far, especially to @poppasketti, @Dominiccobb @kewlfish, @snooker, @skenera, @bobafett89, @jxeditor, @luka, @21 peasant
I much appreciate the layman’s terms as all this export stuff is completely new to me. Way too many encoders and options but I always render in ProRes with .mov files but nothing I’ve rendered this year plays back in real-time anymore and neither Premiere pro nor After effects allow me to playback without glitching. It’s killing my workflow. 😦
Weirdly the old Fortress is playing fine in VLC but the new one doesn’t. AHHHHHHHHH!!!
I’m wondering if its my Adobe media encoder 2020 update. I can’t open the program in applications but CC and AF still use it.
I export all short clips in ProRes and AF files are .mov
For some reason my rendering times have gone through the roof. I used to do quick renders in 480p as it only took a few hours but now they’re up to 8-14 hours to render the whole movie. I’ve literally ran out of ideas.