Thanks everyone!
FYI, I’ve also just added the “Ship’s Clear” voice replacement by Axlanian as a separate file in the folder if anyone wants to use that in their projects.
Yep, I’m not losing sleep on those TFA scenes remaining timecoded unless someone has a brilliant idea on how to use them.
Great work! Can you DM me a downloadable version? I’d like to keep it in storage.
PM Sent!
Glad y’all like it 😄
For TFA the remaining scenes that could be used in edits would be:
-Finn and the Villager (Mostly done by others, but some shots are merely cropped)
-Jakku Message (Though not sure what else could be used in edits if they save the Leia Reveal)
-The first three shots of Unkar Plutt at Maz’s Castle (The rest has unfinished CGI of course)
-Tunnel Standoff (Though it’s a legitimately bad scene with no payoff and also has a larger timecode than the other scenes)
and
-Finn Will Be Fine
I showed the scene to my girlfriend who wasn’t clued-in beforehand, and it took three playthroughs before she figured out what was happening.
So I think we should definitely look at slowing it down a bit, though even if it was unchanged it would still be a dramatic improvement to the film.
Watching the scene again, I think it would work to simply duplicate the theater shots, and put one after the establishing shot of the children that shows Luke simply facing the AT-AT, then show the closeup of the children looking in rapt attention, then the existing shot of Luke deflecting the fire followed by the children laughing.
I appreciate you showing it to her! I always like to think of the hypothetical first-time viewer when making certain edits, so it’s great to get that perspective.
And that idea is sorta what I have been thinking. Maybe I could slightly scale the shot up so it looks slightly different (or scale up the fireball shot), but as far as the action goes, just have Luke and the AT-AT literally just standing there. At the very least, Luke could step forward a little or something. But the important thing is that the minimal-to-no action might help the audience register what the puppets are. Because in the fireball shot, your eyes just sort of follow the action of the puppets, rather than focusing on the puppets themselves. If that makes sense.
And I’ll also make it clearer that Rey is reacting to hearing “Skywalker”.
Yeah, keeping the wide shot on the introduction to the puppets and then zooming in on the fireball shot would be the logical way of doing it.
PM Sent!
That sounds good, zooming in to cut the presenter out of the shot would probably be best since that’s the only really identifiable thing that would stay the same.
The Kylo Falcon scene is complete:
Password: fanedit
And of course a high quality version available via PM.
JEDIT: I’ve also added the “Ship’s Clear” voice replacement by Axlanian as a separate file in the folder.
Your wish is my command:
Password: fanedit
Indeed! I’ve gone back and worked on shot 1 a bit more. I wasn’t able to completely smooth out the trooper movement, but it’s at least a little better.
Anyway, I’ve gone ahead and rendered it in ProRes format so anyone who wants the scene, let me know via PM 😃
Watching the scene again, I think it would work to simply duplicate the theater shots, and put one after the establishing shot of the children that shows Luke simply facing the AT-AT, then show the closeup of the children looking in rapt attention, then the existing shot of Luke deflecting the fire followed by the children laughing.
I showed the scene to my girlfriend who wasn’t clued-in beforehand, and it took three playthroughs before she figured out what was happening.
So I think we should definitely look at slowing it down a bit, though even if it was unchanged it would still be a dramatic improvement to the film.
Here is the puppet show! It’s very short, but hopefully people will think it’s worth all of the effort. I’m sure I’ll need to tweak it some more, so I’m just gonna share a streamable link until it’s finalized.
Also wanted to note who all contributed to this very small edit.
I may be wrong, but I believe DZ-330, Cinefy and DominicCobb all had this idea at one point or another.
Proof of Concept by Cinefy
Clean Stage Plates by poppasketti and MoviesRemastered
Puppet Designs by Captain Faraday
Alien Dub by ThisIsCreation
Produced by RogueLeader
Well, uh, there it is.
Yeah, but the upside is that I’m much more comfortable with After Effects due to this scene.
With my new knowledge, I think I can do a better job on shot 1 so I’ll take another stab at that later and then render the whole thing. 😃
Timecode Removal Ver 1 is complete!
I haven’t had the energy to talk about this movie at all lately. But here’s something: does Anakin’s voice say “bring back the balance, as I did”? or something to that effect? because that always struck me as an awful line. He didn’t bring back crap
What are you talking about? Palpatine did die, albeit temporarily. In TLJ Luke specifically says “for many years, there was balance” when talking about the time between episodes 6 and 7.
To be fair, that’s the only line that establishes that and it is arguably contradicted by Tekka’s ‘Without the Jedi, there can be no balance’. Luke never finished bringing back the Jedi, so it’s a bit more up for interpretation.
Lol.
I remember trying to use a Kylo ‘Captain’ line in my edit, but ended up removing it because it didn’t sound enough like Adam Driver. Hopefully there’s a better version in there somewhere.
I got my second Covid shot last week and it kicked my butt for a day or two, but I am back to working on the timecode removal! Shot 4 also kicked my butt, but at least it’s done and I’m officially over halfway done with the scene. 😃
JEDIT: Shot 5 complete!
ROTJEDIT: Shot 6 Complete!
Updated first post to clarify the status of both versions of this edit.
TJEDITA: Shot 7 Complete!
TLJEDIT: Shot 8 Complete!
Yeah, it’s a nice change.
I love that TROS sticks out horribly even in this example.
I couldn’t find it so I did it myself real quick (maybe I did this on my own originally…)
“And” being cut might be noticeable to some who are aware of the change, but I honestly believe your hypothetical first time viewer, or people who just haven’t seen the movie since release, wouldn’t even notice this change. I moved “Me” up a few frames earlier, and I think the slight shift helps sell it as well.
I like how Finn assumes it’s Ren with such conviction, only to be left not knowing what to say after Rey says it was her. I think this is the simplest way to handle it.
Seamless.
Totally unbelievable. Anakin was never this self-aware.
