Glad it’s only a couple of things 😉
I’ll take another stab at it, but keep in mind most of the sounds are replacements and it will only be an approximation.
Thanks, I’m glad it works! I played around with the 5.1 audio for the implosion in Audacity for a while, and if there’s a way to extract any of the explosions from the music without making sound like it’s underwater, it’s beyond my abilities. Some of the sound effects earlier in the scene benefit from being between musical notes, hence why I was able to keep them, but here the music saturates the effects.
Gotcha.
And, hey, it’s pretty great. In the interest of making it even better…
Could there be a ramp clattering and steam release sounds dropped in as Rey and Chewie head into the Falcon, perhaps? Also, and this might just be how it has to be to work, the music does a sing-song refrain of itself after the wipe back to the Resistance base, the second half of which is gone now. The second half of the sing-song thing occurs right after the first shot. Hope that makes sense.DAMN, you guys are awesome, coming out of the woodwork to spruce this thing up. I feel like I should be able to draw on a metaphor from fiction about this, something about people showing up out of nowhere to repair a broken house or something. I only embarked on this project because I wanted the end result to exist. Despite what you might infer about me from my behavior, editing is painful for me to do at times! I’m like Captain Kirk from that episode where his inner aggressive, decisive side was separated in a transporter accident. You all are my Spock and Bones.
You know, I just noticed the ramp sound effect in the original after rendering the latest version, so I’ll see if it can be put back in. As for the refrain, I think I know what you’re talking about, but I’m pretty sure all the notes are there. I shortened the first shot of the Resistance base but the second shot is the same length, and I overlaid the music over that so nothing should be missing.
Totally understand about the editing fatigue. I am doing this now because I need a break from the Technicolor project, but also because it’s a brilliant idea that makes the film better 😃
I’ve tweaked the levels of the sound effects and edited the Starkiller implosion. I think it’s rather an improvement, hopefully it is to everyone’s liking:
https://vimeo.com/201216702
Password: soundNOT BAD. It’s nothing if not seamless. Even if only tiny snippets of the original explosion foley can be salvaged from the fully baked soundtrack, even that would be great. I’m thinking about how the Phantom Editor subtly weaved together original vocals and his own voice for Zam Wessel as she was giving her last words.
Don’t get me wrong; as it is now, it’s perfectly usable. I was leaning toward not going with that idea (and sticking with stitched together music and leaving the existing effects in place), but you sold me.JEDIT: It’s only after doing a direct comparison to the original that I notice what you mean by removing cheers. I thought you clipped a shot, but no, you replaced the audio seamlessly and I didn’t have a clue. 😃
Thanks, I’m glad it works! I played around with the 5.1 audio for the implosion in Audacity for a while, and if there’s a way to extract any of the explosions from the music without making sound like it’s underwater, it’s beyond my abilities. Some of the sound effects earlier in the scene benefit from being between musical notes, hence why I was able to keep them, but here the music saturates the effects.
I’ve tweaked the levels of the sound effects and edited the Starkiller implosion. I think it’s rather an improvement, hopefully it is to everyone’s liking:
https://vimeo.com/201216702
Password: sound
That bootleg correction is very close to ideal, as far as I can tell.
Oh, it might actually have that capacity, I just avoid that effect because it’s been known to cause problems with my renders. If I were to do this project again I would definitely find a different software first.
Premiere doesn’t actually have that capacity either, the program I used for the LUT was Speedgrade. I’d just wait for a higher quality scan before considering a shot by shot project - it has a tendency to take over your life 😉
Idk why people are worried about Luke dying in future movies. If they kill Luke in TLJ (or later), they’ll surely Force Ghost him and he’ll still be there, just bluer and less opaque.
Luke as a Force Ghost would be cool, if it were to ever happen. As a Force Ghost, Luke would still be helping out with the knowledge he gained over the years. Though, he’d probably have Yoda on his back, because he’s training Luke, to perfect his Force Ghost.
Perfection.
Indeed, that’s what I eventually realized. It’s not a problem now since I have corrected for it, but it certainly was a hassle.
Yet another iteration of the crawl:
Luke Skywalker, last of the
mystic guardians of peace
in the galaxy, has vanished.
In his absence, the sinister
First Order has risen from
the ashes of the Empire.
His sister, General Leia
Organa, has failed to
convince the Republic of
this new threat, even as
the First Order hastens
to complete a secret weapon
that will strike at the
Republic’s very heart.
Desperate for her brother’s
help, Leia mobilizes a
covert RESISTANCE and sends
her bravest pilot on a mission
to Jakku, where a clue has been
discovered to the whereabouts
of the last Jedi. . . .
Thanks, it’s my first real attempt at this wholesale sound replacement.
And yeah, those implosion effects are better. I wonder if they can be isolated…
Yeah, I think that you would need to mention the SKB in the final paragraph or not at all to make sense of Leia’s knowledge of the situation.
In somewhat related news, I’ve made a version of the music only SKB destruction that isn’t music only!
https://vimeo.com/201158969
Password: sound
Most of the sound is recreated, and I went ahead and took out the crowd cheer at the end.
I think a SKB mention in the crawl is warranted, for the reasons that DominicCobb stated above.
Check this shit out … LMAO!!!
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/trump-freezes-obamas-221000000-parting-gift-to-the-palestinians
If websites are to be judged by the quality of their comments, then I would trust Jihad Watch about as much as Kellyanne Conway’s ‘Alternate Facts’.
Granted, the OT off topic section is not a sterling example itself.
On that note, what do we think the color of the Episode IX title will be? It looks like JJ and Rian took the most obvious ones, so it will probably be green or blue. White would be an interesting choice though.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
In my travels across the cosmos, I studied humans for a time. I observed that there were innumerable pathways in the human brain dedicated to sexual desire, and only some of these synapses fired in response to indications of a specific sex. Most were concerned only with general arousal, indicating to me that humans are overwhelmingly homo(meaning human)-sexual. In other words, they are attracted to other humans, and this attraction is only then filtered through gender specific channels.
See: Cinderella (2015), The Jungle Book (2016), Pete’s Dragon (2016), Beauty and the Beast (2017), and Mulan (2018) for further examples.
It is a shame, as I doubt this scene could work in any other edit. There simply isn’t a place for it unless the Hosnian destruction is moved to the end, so I feel like it should go in - if for nothing else than as a proof of concept.
So the blu-rays were encoded RGB Full, rather than RGB limited?
As I understand it, TVs use a video range from 16-235. It considers levels below 16 to be black, and information above 235 is white. A calibrated TV will never display anything below 16 as anything other than black. Most will also treat everything over 235 as white since it should not exist in video content.
PCs are different and use a range from 0-255. There is no data below 0 or above 255 with an 8-bit video signal as there are only 256 possible values. In short, this is much simpler to understand as the TV concepts of Blacker-than-Black and Whiter-than-White do not exist.
Therefore to make the conversion between RGB Full (“PC Mode”) and RGB Limited (“TV Mode”) all you need is the following levels adjustment in AVISynth
// PC to TV ; scales a [0,255] clip to [16,235]:
Levels(0, 1, 255, 16, 235, coring=false)Not exactly 😃,the encoded materials use a video range of 16-235 for luma and 16-240 for chroma.
If the input is yuv limited range every tv before the yuv-rgb conversion does a levels expansion from 16-235 to 0-255 for luma and 16-240 to 0-255 for chroma,so the tv can display true white and true black.
From what i understand the blurays were encoded in non-standard yuv limited range,so instead of 16-235 we have for example 16-242.The good is that the highlights aren’t really clipped.
This makes sense. If it is some strange non-standard format, it would follow that Adobe encoders don’t know how to handle the video.
One more oddity to add to the mix: Premiere misinterprets the TS video of the Blu-ray, so I have to apply a LUT to correct that error. Interestingly, the error (and solution) are both applied at the render stage, so presumably there’s no loss of quality. I found a description of a similar problem online, this time with Fraps: https://encodingtalk.com/threads/encoding-fraps-videos-solving-colorspace-issues-wrong-color-faded-etc.1537/
Almost every render setting incorrectly interprets the video, giving it a purple cast and stronger greens, except for SD DVD output and untouched Lagarith codec AVI. If I later use different encoder on this correct Lagarith AVI, it incorrectly interprets the video anyway. So most video comparisons (for example, on Vimeo and Youtube) suffer from the added purple cast of this incorrectly interpreted video stream.
^Interesting. This is a laserdisc source, but do you think a similar script would work for the Blu-ray stream? I tried several Avisynth scripts to reduce the highlights before converting to RGB, but none of them worked.
OK, Spicer just said that 14% of the votes in 2008 were illegal. FOURTEEN PERCENT.
Neat, I didn’t know that.
The one thing I never noticed was that the dish bisected the equatorial trench in the plans. I wonder if that is something Ady will fix for his new Star Wars Revisited project.