NeverarGreat

I would definitely consider using Rekindled, since to my eyes it’s the best version of that film so far.

Hope it lives up to your expectations!

Master Lawdog said:

So, there won’t be a V2, since you just renamed it from V1 to nothing.

I was just simplifying the thread title, there could very well be more versions.

PM sent!

Burbin said:

NeverarGreat said:

I think the Biomes shot might work as-is, since the prior shot is of a very pink/red planet from space, and the forest and lava fields at the end of the shot trend a bit more yellow which transitions into the flyover.

I think even the planet has a bit more orange than the castle shot though, and even then I think it’s more important that the footage of the surface blends together, in that closeup of Kylo’s face you get a good look at the clouds above and they’re a mix of pink and yellow/orange, while on the castle shot they’re a more pale white and pink.

You may be right - the Biomes shot has now been adjusted accordingly to be slightly less pink.

It’s the same link, I just replaced workprint v107 with the new release version so you should be good to go!

Oh, one of them will be pretty obvious 😉

“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what’s incomplete and saying: ‘Now, it’s complete because it’s ended here.’”
-Dune

On that note, Version 1 is complete and will soon be up on the organ. The workprint folder link also has a low bitrate version of the complete edit, so anyone with that link already has access.

In addition to the usual changes from the last workprint, there are one or two changes that I’ve kept largely unannounced in the hopes that they will bring some hopefully welcome surprise.

Thank you again to everyone here, you’re the reason this edit exists!

I’ve tweaked the colors of the flyover to have more pink. I think the Biomes shot might work as-is, since the prior shot is of a very pink/red planet from space, and the forest and lava fields at the end of the shot trend a bit more yellow which transitions into the flyover.

I’ll take a stab at it.

Thanks, here’s a pass at it.

Interesting that you say the sky is brown in that shot, I was trying to move away from the brown ‘Mordor’ look of the place into the more pink tone of the opening planet vista. To me, the forest flyover appears a touch too yellow in the highlights compared to the footage that follows.

I could give it a final color pass if this sequence is locked, try to unify it.

I warn you not to become drunk with power - there are many ways in which that tool can fail.

The Biomes shot to its credit does extend the back of the shot to linger on and move across more of the lava fields, something which has been cut from this sequence to make room for the forest flyover. But yeah, I also don’t have RO memorized and didn’t realize how close it was.

Brilliant! It looks perfect to me as-is.

sherlockpotter said:

You know, after looking at the sequence 40 million times, does the forest shot look a little more - I dunno, orangey? - than the castle shot? Like, the smoke and clouds in the castle shot are on the greyish end, whereas the forest-shot clouds and the sky in the Kylo shot are a bit more colorful.

I say this after watching the scene I don’t know how many times, and also on a screen that doesn’t have the best colors in the first place, so take it with a grain of salt.

Yep, the TIEs over forest shot is brighter and more orange than the surrounding footage, at least the shots before and after it. I tried to correct the Biomes shot to the more pinkish color of the planet and the dominant colors in the Kylo fighting shot, but the forest does throw that a bit.

Thanks!

What makes this better (worse?) is that the phrase ostensibly has nothing to do with actual religion.

Hal 9000 said:

https://vimeo.com/589175076

One thing I just noticed - the scene has a lot less yellow than the surrounding shots, does it look that way on the timeline as well?

Hal 9000 said:

As I said in our PM, it’s very much okay.

If anyone is in a position to add TIEs to that shot to match the audio, feel free. Any speck removal can be done to the resultant footage, so no need to wait.

The link again is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MRUglJE0jJH57_tJFMYWTDS95KStwtSJ/view?usp=sharing

Granted the addition of TIEs would be great, but would it be possible to just move the sound to the very end of the biomes shot to act as a bridge between that and the TIE forest flyover?

No, I decided that SirRidley’s scene worked just fine without them since I managed to rescue the critical shot to an acceptable level.

Hal 9000 said:

Here’s another version, shaving 24 frames off poppasketti’s shot and extending Nev’s.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MRUglJE0jJH57_tJFMYWTDS95KStwtSJ/view?usp=sharing

Hal 9000 said:

Hehe, fair enough! What matters most is what works best but I promise I will lean that way!!!

Betrayal most foul.

What if the forest shot that followed was cut a bit shorter? It seems to linger a bit on the TIEs as they disappear into the distance, so if that was cut out there would be more room for showing the forest in the previous shot.

As for the specks, Maybe there’s an automated tool to clean up film grain that would pick these up? Otherwise I would happily go in and clean them if it meant salvaging the end of the shot.

Anyone else having issues?

Sounds good. I would cut the front end of the shot, personally, since the back end has the hours upon hours of work that was put into the forest 😉

So if we keep one of the establishing shots, would that mean cutting part of the biomes shot or time-ramping it more aggressively to match the audio?

@sherlockpotter: yes, the specks are soot that now flies at about 15x speed.