I think the every voice part is one of the parts of the movie that genuinely works. It’s also a quick way of connected palpatine to it all. I think moving it would moving it would cheapen the revelation.
That’s the exact reason I removed it. Quick way and completely unjustified, IMO
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!
They let him post it because the star wars section on reddit is now full of people who parrot each others opinions and seeing him “fix” the “shit” movie is why they allowed it.
It seems to be one rule for one and different rules for another. I’ve stopped posting on Reddit other than the fanedit page because of so much hostility and trolling.
Extremely crude example but shows how you may see the lightning affecting the surrounding area.
I’m sure this point has probably been discussed before, but what do you guys think of this edit?
https://vimeo.com/512114042
pw:fanedit
This is very similar to my version. I don’t feel you need to delay “my boy” he also says “I made Snoke” but in your version, we see Palp clones. I feel it’s better to keep the Snoke clones after he says that to show and tell.
@Poppa, It’s all good man. You’re one in a billion and done more than your fair share already. 😉
The thing is we’ve already seen the real Palpatine get defeated by Vader. This is a Cloned version, yes he has taken power from the dyad but it still feels like a rehash. Adding red “ultimate power” lightning indicates a much bigger threat and this is why Rey needs both Sabers and the force ghosts to defeat him.
In the version I’m trying to create, It’s Leia’s purple lightning that finally kills Palps which is pushed by the force of “All the Jedi”.
Health bar is an easy addition. 🤣
Well, here’s the options. (Anything is possible) but in the animation just the lightning is red, obviously, it would be a nightmare drawing all the light reflections in the room etc. With live action should the lightning just be red or should it turn the whole surrounding area red?
My thoughts are when Palp hits his “ultimate power” that it turns everything red until Rey hears the voices of the Jedi. Then when she ignites the Saber it turns to just the red lightning as if the Saber is absorbing the power? That way I can do the cinematic red, blue, purple for the finale I explain here 22:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWy5RtoQMMc
Skenera has done an amazing LUT so it’s just a matter of knowing where to mask. I’m really split so any input would be Great?
I love orange Exegol a bunch, but you’d have to do a lot of masking to being back the blue engines, blue lights on control panels, whatever colour lightning, etc. Ditto for the red lightning, which I’ve fiddled with myself in the past - very cool but a lot of masking needed to perfect it.
I’m trying to figure out if it’s easier to mask the red LUT lightning or just redo the effect like I’m doing with the crackling Saber. I’m willing to put the work in as I feel it really adds to this ending. What are your thoughts?
The issue with the Ties is because it’s a pre-rendered 720p greenscreen clip next to the castle and Poppa used Element 3d for the Forrest flyover but I don’t think anyone else other than Poppa knows how to use that program on here so that’s all we have right now.
I don’t think the shot of the Corvette works 1) You can’t get away from it looking like game footage, unlike the stormtrooper shot. 2) The pacing and way it’s shot just doesn’t fit the transition, IMO.
Jarbear good to see another colourblind brother on here but I edited the whole of SOlo just using iMovie so don’t knock it 😉 haha
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. 👍🏼