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No worries, I’m sure there will be more work done on these shots before being finalized. Honestly the biggest part is getting in the headspace for devoting the hours to work on it, as the Snowtrooper shot has taken less than a dozen hours despite being by far the most complicated in the scene and the next shot only uses the content aware filter at the moment.

JEDIT: Updated previous video so that it’s 100% timecode free 😉

There is no version of the story in which Rey’s parents being the progeny of Palpatine are ‘nobody’. At the very least they have a claim to the remnants of the Empire, regardless of what Force power they do or do not have. Rey being the grandchild of Palpatine absolutely gives her a place in the story; it is literally a noble birth.

Rey throughout the trilogy is desperately searching for someone to validate her abilities and place in the story, and TLJ does the thematically necessary step of ripping that away from her. TROS gives it back on a silver platter.

I’ve just been made aware of the new Star Wars: Biomes and Star Wars Vehicle walkthroughs footage, and there’s some really nice stuff there for fanedits. Specifically, the closeups on the Falcon’s cockpit controls would probably work well with Kylo’s Falcon scene as he reminisces on his past.

Similarly, there’s a good shot or few of the interior of a FO Star Destroyer, in particular a slow zoom in on a door which could be used to make a better transition to Kylo’s prayer.

Don’t know if these have been posted already:

Gabriele Dell’otto

You’re quite welcome 😃

Big thanks to Axlanian for providing a replacement line for Kylo’s Deleted Scene on the Falcon!

https://vimeo.com/544422829
Password: fanedit

sade1212 said:

Personally, I’ve had good luck using Handbrake to detelecine the DVD rips to 720x480 square-pixel lossless CFR 23.97fps h264 mp4s, and then running Topaz VEAI’s Dione Interlaced Robust V3 on them. The great thing about this model is that it keeps the majority of the detail while making things a little cleaner and sharper. It never massively blurs any areas of the image, like Artemis has a tendency to do, nor does it have the lengthy processing time of Gaia. It also sorts out the occasional interlacing artifacts left in my detelecined rips (which are usually the result of post-process screen shake). Other models tend to exaggerate them instead. The only big downside is that the sharpening causes the image to lose a little of its perceived depth - but that’s not so noticeable in motion, at TV-distance.

Here’s images of the Defiant, the Station, the Replimat, and the Sisko.

Those are impressive comparisons, the only obvious issue I see is the background of the Replimat has some lights with oversharpening artifacts, but if that’s the biggest problem it’s a damn fine one to have.

I feel like what has happened with the NuEU is analogous to the Special Editions replacing the Original films. Sure, the new versions of the films may play nicer with the prequels occasionally, but it feels like replacing a part of history.

Gone are the multitude of perspectives on the nature of the Clone Wars and the Old Republic, the nature of the Jedi of old, the nature of the Force and the surreal explorations of long-lost technology. In its place is an anodyne catholic dogma written by writers often too shackled to the multitudinous rules of the established canon to really imagine or create. There are still good stories in the NuEU such as Leia: Princess of Alderaan, but I fear more stories like Queen’s Shadow or Queen’s Peril, meandering travelogues constrained to the point of irrelevance. Perhaps the High Republic Era will bear fruit, but even so the Wild West of Star Wars is gone.

Yep, though the other changes will be more technical and take more effort to achieve.

On a related note, I’ve been considering what to release as far as versions of the project, and I’m pretty sure there should be two versions: The first containing the original ending for people who want continuity between this film and the sequels, and the second incorporating the ‘Luke Vision’ ending. In addition, since the second version would be the more complicated one, it makes sense to reincorporate the delayed Starkiller firing sequence from act 3 that has been practically completed but abandoned in lieu of a more Restructured change. That way all of the major changes can be viewed in either version 1 or version 2.

This also means that the pared down V1 could be completed as quickly as it takes to remove the timecode of the Kylo Falcon scene and add the Sith Eyes to Rey.

I made the graph based on this article plus some manual calculations for the sequel trilogy, using just scenes where a saber was active. I don’t have any idea about TROS though, if anyone would like to contribute a count for that one it would be most appreciated. 😃

Incidentally, the graph inversely correlates with my opinion of the films. A lightsaber percentage of 4 indicates a classic, 5 is acceptable, 6 is perhaps salvageable via fanedit, and anything above that is unsalvageable.

This is what I imagine users with ‘Darth’ in their name would post unironically.

Eh, even if everyone runs out, sixty-six pages of bad ideas isn’t too shabby.

It’s like two-thirds of a TROS.

Update, completed changes crossed out:

-Include deleted scene of Finn and the villager (Optional, probably not for V1).
-Insert a shot or two of Unkar Plutt in his first scene with him still not speaking.
-Finesse Leia’s audio during Poe Interrogation.
-Darken the sky when Finn wakes up from crash – more sunrise pink.
-Slightly darken some of the Falcon on Jakku shots so they aren’t blown out.
-Integrate Hux better in odd shot of first Snoke Scene.
-Change Obi-wan’s ‘Rey’ to audio of Luke saying her name.
-See if there’s an acceptable shot of Rey on the big wall to place before the troopers walk past.
-Remove timecode from Kylo Falcon scene.
-Put another shot of Han and Kylo gripping the saber after the sun goes dark.
-Quiet some of the sounds of the Starkiller firing.
-Tweak shot of Rey and Finn looking at Starkiller beam.
-Delete casual Resistance officer from Leia’s mourning.
-Make more definitive musical transition between Leia’s shot and Oscillator.
-If good audio is found, have Poe interject that he wants to ‘get even’ with the FO after the attack. Abandoned
-Add Sith eyes to Rey after her Force trance.
-Remove timecode from deleted scene of Rey.
-Add sinister whispers in Rey’s final dream, as well as the shot from her vision with Artoo and Luke.

Here’s the CUBE Lut for my version:

https://mega.nz/file/fFlhDYBA#hRF4lpAM6wpP984TMlx61RdFKXxL1wn-COz3X8rqrkA

That’s actually a decent idea. Though I imagine it wouldn’t need to be as dramatic, maybe just applied at 50% opacity.

You could try masking out her body and desaturating her skin tones to imply a drain on her life force, though the scene’s so blue I don’t know if that would even be noticeable.

I don’t know of any examples of an inverse of the ‘so bad it’s good’ phenomenon, other than the obvious examples of Oscar Bait tending towards over-seriousness and pretension.

However, media can certainly become a victim of its own success in terms of overexposure, such as Hamilton, or exploitation of nostalgia, such as Star Wars.

https://imgur.com/gallery/OOmk8AS

Magic the Gathering recently released a set with strong Godzilla subtheme. It’s cynical as hell from my point of view, but in terms of profit it appears to have been exactly the right play.

Anything that makes this movie more ridiculous is a win in my book.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a wall of text so deserving of the designation.

A few seconds, really.

Episode 7 would take place in a galaxy that has devolved into a cold war between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic. Leia controls the Senate as Chancellor and acts as master of the new Jedi council. Her son, Ben, is her star pupil and the public face of the Jedi as he seeks to bring ‘peace and justice’ to the galaxy.

The story begins with Rey, a young girl who has been adopted by an old freighter pilot with a robotic leg who lives in the outer rim. She returns from a scavenging expedition one day and sees that there is a visitor, the dashing young Ben Solo who has arrived on a New Republic shuttle and demands of the old pilot that he give up the girl. The old man refuses, and Rey causes a distraction which allows them both to escape in the Millennium Falcon. The man tells her that he is indeed Han Solo, and Ben was there on a hunt for Jedi students, of which Rey is one. She is astonished, asking him why he never told her, and Han says that it was for her own protection. They must now go to find Luke, who is living in exile in Imperial space, and along the way they meet Finn who is an Imperial trooper and Chewie, who is free from his life debt from Han and is captain of his own ship. Poe Dameron is introduced as a pilot for the elite strike force of the New Republic, and is tasked with tracking down our Heroes.

Our heroes eventually find Luke, who reveals that he found Rey at an early age but then Leia turned to a dark place in her attempt to hold the New Republic together before Luke could find more than a couple young recruits. Leia demanded more of the students than they could take, with Ben and the rest of the students being corrupted by the necessity of gaining too much power too quickly. Luke eventually went into exile, unable to destroy his own sister and her son. Han took Rey under his wing for her protection, as she was the youngest of his students by far.

Leia and Ben arrive on intel from Poe, and Leia confronts Luke while Ben confronts his father. Han and Chewie and Luke all die, Han and Chewie aboard the Falcon in one last act of sacrifice with Rey and Finn only barely escaping. The Imperial Remnant arrives through Finn’s help to face this threat to their territory, and there is a pitched battle between old Imperial ships and New Republic vessels, and Poe secretly switches sides to join with the heroes. The spirit of Luke arrives to aid Rey, and she bests Ben. The Republic retreats with Poe undercover and Rey vows to become a true Jedi and rebuild the Order.

The second and third films would continue this conflict, with Rey and Finn and Poe attempting to reconcile the two sides of the conflict guided only by the spirit of Luke.