NeverarGreat

There’s a popup banner thingy on the Fanedit site informing people not to ask for fanedits there, perhaps something similar can be done here? Like:

“Fan projects must not be bought or sold. To access such projects, please read the first post of the project thread in question, and if you are still unsure where to go many creators would be happy to answer your questions via private message.”

We still need a dedicated section of the forum laying out exactly how to
1: Access projects - with Myspleen closed to new members, this isn’t as simple as it has been.
2: Access Disc art and labels
3: Download and burn discs

Sir Ridley said:

Progress! Here’s the latest version of the Maz’s castle sequence. Thoughts?

https://youtu.be/TqZeT7FN0c0

Watching this again, I realize what I disliked from this sequence in the original film.

In the original and in this edit, Rey runs away and intends to keep running…into the forest? Forever? I understand that having a Force vision can be traumatic and everything, but it doesn’t seem in character for her to suddenly run away from both her destiny and a way back to Jakku. She’s too competent for this sort of thing. What would make more sense is if she ran outside to get some air and deal with the traumatic Force vision, with the intention of returning once she’d recovered.

So for this sequence, remove ‘I’m leaving…no, you can’t. They’ll help you’.
Then we’re left with 'What are you doing? BB-8, you have to go back. You’re too important.'
This makes it sound like she’s still dedicated to BB-8’s mission even if she doesn’t want anything to do with the Force vision.

I also think the scene would flow better if Rey stopped running before Finn sees the Finalizer, but there’s probably not enough footage to make that seem natural.

JEDIT: What might be more effective was if all she says is ‘We have to go back’, and then it cuts to Finn and Maz in the basement. This way Rey makes the decision to return without seeing the First Order ships, and only sees the attack when she gets back to the castle. It also shortens the time between Finn seeing the Finalizer and the inevitable attack.

It feels like this movie is being worked on during weekends whenever a director wanders into the backyard for some pickup shots.

I like the partially destroyed Death Star idea. It could even be established in ANH that Yavin is actually Endor (just change the one line in the film establishing this), and it makes sense that the damaged Death Star would remain in orbit around the moon.

There is the issue of Yavin 4 being more tropical than the Sanctuary Moon, but you could even fix this by making the matte paintings more deciduous. Being incredibly bold, you could film one or two people in Ewok costumes and have their shadowy forms peeking out of the woods at this point:

So now there’s a reason for the Rebels to protect the planet rather than immediately evacuate, as there’s a native sentient species, and there’s a reason for the Ewoks to treat Leia as royalty, since she may have been known to the Ewoks as a leader of the Rebellion.

I’m surprised that some of the links on that thread still work.

I don’t know what’s going on, but:

JEDIT: Or maybe:

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Jeebus said:

NeverarGreat said:

Sausage Party.

What a supreme waste.

I made the mistake of watching it with family.

I’ve never seen AOTC on film.

It’s weird, looking at this stuff now. When I was younger I thought that the Death Star just hovered above the moon in a northern latitude, since that’s where redwoods grow on Earth. Of course it would be at the equator.

I stand corrected.

That’s some fine disc art.

TV’s Frink said:

I’m not sure what you expected…

I wasn’t expecting much. I got even less.

One real suggestion - remove Ackbar’s first line ‘You can see here the Death Star orbiting the forest moon of Endor’. It’s technically incorrect, since the Death Star must remain above the shield generator. Also, he repeats the info about the forest moon later, so nothing is lost.

Sausage Party.

What a supreme waste.

At the risk of derailment, what would you suggest as the best way to convert a blu-ray to one of Resolve’s accepted video formats?

Are we turning Beru’s haircut into a full-blown conspiracy theory?

I wasn’t trying to imply that the Star Wars Blu-ray looks the same on a monitor as on a TV (or for that matter that a Blu-ray is directly comparable to film), my point was that there’s a known software problem that makes certain programs misinterpret the Blu-ray colors, and that if you avoid this issue you can get frames from the Blu-ray looking consistent to each other, even if they’re not comparable to TV broadcast. VLC in my experience manages to not screw up colors too badly, so it’s a workable way for most people to export the frames.

I wish I could contribute, but I’m quite poor right now. I hope you get the funding you need.

The movie was really good, better than the first for me. Then again, I didn’t care for Blade Runner since it felt like it was 4 hours long. This one felt long, but not terribly so. The only thing a bit lacking was the score.

The frontier was in the DNA of our country for a long time, and to a certain extent still is judging by the number of TV shows about Alaska. The problem is that the rest of the country is well and truly domesticated, so guns are not necessary for the vast majority of the populace to remain safe - gun ownership is now technically a hobby for most of the US population.

And I would disagree that rights can only be won through violence - see Gandhi, Martin Luther King, the women’s suffrage movement, etc. Anything won through violence can be lost through violence. And there are rights other than the right to bear arms - the right to life among them. If one right infringes on another, which one should be honored? Do we accept the deaths of thousands of people each year as fair sacrifice for our right to own weapons?

Tyrphanax said:

considering we’re not yet at the point that we don’t elect dangerously insane senile old white men into the highest office in the land, I’d kinda like to hold onto that kind of right, personally.

I find this extremely convenient reasoning, seeing as how the right wing was responsible for electing this ‘dangerously insane senile’ old white man.

SparkySywer said:

No green Lightsabers until Return of the Jedi. All PT Jedi have blue lightsabers.

I’ve always loved this idea, but keep in mind how difficult it’s gonna be to get the color exact. I tried to do this in my fanedits but the former-greens never looked close enough.

There’s a simple fix for this.

Black and white Prequels!

Someone on the Fanedit forums also mentioned the problem, and there are several places where it feels quiet. The first is Ben’s scene, where I had to crank up the volume to hear the additional music and the voices. Then it goes quiet after 3PO’s storytime, and I think it only returns as the fighters enter the superstructure.

It’s been one of those years.

Good work.

One thing to keep in mind with the Channel Mixer - the values for each channel must equal 100, or the color will either clip or be too low. Therefore, if you want to add blue for example, the Curves Adjustment is the best way to do that.