NeverarGreat

I stumbled upon a new resource for separating vocals from music: https://makenweb.com/SpleeterGUI

You can find the source files on GitHub, but the GUI is drag-and-drop easy. Unfortunately, that means that it doesn’t have much in the way of adjustable variables.

Just for fun, I ran the Leia Hologram audio through it to see what would happen, you can download the result here:
https://mega.nz/folder/yR0SERTA#o6bkOu2Rm4nGOJO-b39A0g

In this example, the Knockout program does a slightly better job at removing traces of the music at the cost of the vocals, while Spleeter retains more vocal clarity at the cost of some low-level music seeping through. While it wouldn’t be able to create a totally music-free scene, I’d bet this program would be able to facilitate a fairly convincing music replacement in many circumstances.

Perfect.

Eh, I think every film since the first has been a bit too over-the-top ridiculous with how they’ve tried to one up the previous installments. Not that they aren’t fun, but only the first feels like a story for Ethan Hunt rather than an excuse for stunts.

I mean, their bodies are in completely different positions…

Yep, the light is red for the magma. I really wanted to give the scene that extra drama because even though we know she’s going to be rescued I believe it still gives a bit of unconscious tension 😉

It’s definitely a more prolonged sequence than in the theatrical, but it feels to me like the theatrical is rushed in this regard. You’re right that the sound effects are not totally there, a second pass at those will hopefully make it more natural like the chasms are opening closer and closer as time goes by.

I’ll definitely see about adding more camera shake and dynamism in the wide shots after playing around with putting some chasm motion in the upper right.

Apropos of nothing, but with the improved puppet show this project has taken the prize of ‘best single change of all time’ from Adywan’s ESB Revisited and the AT-AT falling on the AT-ST.

Just wanted to say that, now back to your regularly scheduled discussion.

“I’m Ben.”

“Ben who?”

“Ben Obi-wan Steve Kenobi…Solo.”

PM Sent!

Another issue that’s become apparent on rewatch is small, but crucial. The moment where the Starkiller is falling apart around Rey before she is rescued by Chewie is brief in the Theatrical version but functional. In Restructured and in this project however, I’ve had to all but remove the moment, hamstringing the emotion of the scene.

My fix is to kill two birds with one stone and move the shot of the massive chasm opening up between Kylo and Rey, opting for a smaller crack in the ground to stop their fight. The big fissure now happens when the planet is more clearly doomed, and it has allowed me to go back in and fix the Restructured issue of a half-dozen time-stretched and glitchy shots where Rey is rescued:

https://vimeo.com/560371717

Password: fanedit

What would really sell the moment would be to animate the chasm opening up in the wide shot of Rey and Finn in the forest, since here it remains just a dark, hardly visible smudge in the background.

I’ve always preferred S1 for those reasons, among others.

Hal 9000 said:

NeverarGreat said:

Needless to say it’s quite beyond my capacity.

FTFY

I’m not much more than a faneditor, and not very good at making comments.

I’d like to see this one.

That would be very possible if it were a simple zoom or panning shot, unfortunately it’s much more complicated so significant castle damage would probably have to be modeled in 3d and tracked onto the existing shot. Needless to say it’s a bit beyond my capabilities.

Ha.

“Nooo…neaooooo, two lightsabers, my one weakness! Shit, did I say that out loud again? I need to stop doing that. No, that was just in my head. Oh, I seem to be dead for good this time. Or am I?!”

“And I…I am all the Jedi.”

(Holonet Fact 237 - This pivotal moment in the galaxy paved the way for each Jedi of Rey Solo Organa Skywalker’s New Jedi Order to use a minimum of two lightsabers to defeat Sith adversaries, and many of the more able-bodied species have since opted to use three or more, becoming the most powerful Force users in recorded history.)

Wait, so the leader of the Republic was just hanging out with a clearly identifiable Resistance officer?!

That’s hilarious.

“Gave us” is strong language considering that fact and character isn’t named or shown in the film.

Huh, so http://www.framecompare.com/ doesn’t seem to be working, but here’s what that ESB fragment looks like without the red fade:

Thank you!

I did use that partial shot of the man looking at the message in Restructured.

PM Sent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfXYK4eo4fs

Just a short clip, but it’s cool to see what’s possible with the latest game engines.

Give me a ghost of Anakin as a partially melted, still smoking cyborg horror and you’ve got a deal.

axlanian said:

Okay, I think this is better, while still obscuring the background music.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dHO9Ox2T94RPV_iC_lO1I4FeW0xOL3Cx/view?usp=sharing

That is nicer for sure!

Sigh.