NeverarGreat

The problem with Mustafar is that it’s not really a scene. It’s just ‘Kylo goes to a place and finds a thing he was already looking for’. For it to earn a place, something has to happen that changes a character or plot element, otherwise it could just open with Kylo arriving at Exegol.

Maybe the crawl tells how Kylo is trying to make good on his promise to end the Jedi and the Sith, and this has brought him to Mustafar to wipe out Sith cultists. When he finishes killing them, the ‘Find me’ can lead him to the wayfinder.

This would at least help give the scene some element of interest as Kylo may not have realized the wayfinder was here.

Well it’s not as bad as the original version, so +1.

‘Palpatine sort of forgot about Rey’

caressed the prosthetic fish person

Yeah no reason to apologize! It’s great work.

I think there is some value in giving Rey these darkside abilities, since Palpatine or not she is struggling with some dark emotions in TROS. The lightning especially feels very right for Rey, and I like it even more if it is unconnected with her heritage because it feels organic to her struggle with Kylo.

schnitzeraffe said:

Not quite sure how you spotted that Nev.

You have a much keener eye than I.

I tried a frame by frame on the computer and couldn’t see it.

Did so on the bluray and easily saw it.

NEVER would have seen that if you didn’t bring it up though.

Did you watch the whole show in slow-mo or something?!?!? 😄

Anyway, I’m good with it.

I’ll never see it again.

Good catch Nev.

And thanks again for the edit Poppa!

This issue would crop up all the time on my edit due to time-stretching, so I’ve become almost hypersensitive to it 😉

I’ve detected an error in V3 - it’s during the siege cannon run right after Finn yells ‘Rose’ and there is the shot of the Resistance officers. There is a single frame of Leia before cutting back to Finn.

The collection grows

JEDIT: The Archives were Incomplete

Here’s to hoping!

Since it was Snoke who turned Kylo evil (presumably through voices in his head) and since Sheev says that he’s been every voice in Kylo’s head, I assumed that they were trying to have Sheev be responsible for turning Kylo. Whether or not Sheev is directly controlling Snoke or in spiritual possession of an otherwise lifeless meat puppet, the point is that Sheev is Snoke in every way that matters.

Ding dang it, that aint righ.

Encoding the entirety of Starlight took less than three hours from Premiere.

Chase Adams said:

Here’s my shitty proof of concept for extending Mustafar:

https://youtu.be/mrXKT4gguGc

Clearly you can see here that nothing really works with this clip as the video quality of the added shots is very poor as well as the added music.

There are some good aereial shots here, as well as a dramatic take of lava exploding around trees at this point:

https://youtu.be/s1yV1kTrVGA?t=117

Maybe the trees shot, when slowed down, could be used instead of the ring of fire to introduce the forest?

Of course!

Auralnauts already did it.

If you infect someone who is 80+ years old, they have a 14-20% chance of dying from the virus. This is nowhere in the realm of car accidents or shootings.

Y’all acting like we didn’t already get a character named Obi-wan Ben Larry ‘Steve’ Kenobi.

I don’t know about that, but this channel releases lots of unreleased music:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheARMusicGroup

Was that in a trailer somewhere?

act on instinct said:

Also for colorists be mindful you’re not crushing any existing detail at least before finalizing, noticed in the Ren fix (which I still prefer) the blacks reduced the amount of information in the padding of his outfit and some of his hair.

Maybe there is a very slight amount of detail loss in the deepest blacks, but if you look at the histogram the red channel was already being clipped before the correction. The green and blue channels were elevated, which created that bluish haze, so either I raise the red floor (which would cause undesirable effects) or decrease the blue and green to more closely match the red.

DominicCobb said:

NeverarGreat said:

My attempt at reducing the color cast (more screencaps in each comparison):

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/DZYG7NNX

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/JC1EJNNU

These look great, much more of a throwback look. Personal preference truly, I actually don’t think the Rey is too much red but I’d say in both of the Rey stills you’re kind of shifting into a more monochromatic look, less pop of the green jungle vs. Rey, and the sky vs. the desert. Probably a little too far in that desert pic in general (look at Finn’s pants and the stripes on his vest).

Thanks, throwback look is what I like! Agree that the desert shots are not quite there yet.

No that’s fair. When trying to remove a cast, it’s difficult to avoid going too far in the opposite direction. In this case the green and blue had to be reduced, and this meant that the red was always going to be more prominent. Maybe bright yellow/red scenes will need individual correction, but I bet with more delicate correction these scenes can be preserved.

Shmi.

My attempt at reducing the color cast (more screencaps in each comparison):

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/DZYG7NNX

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/JC1EJNNU

Execution is more important than checking boxes.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Currently reading Duel of the Fates. It’s so much better than TRoS in some ways and yet so much worse in others. It’s kinda frustrating. And both of them needlessly add to the story of Rey’s parents, taking away from what was established in TLJ (obviously TRoS’s meddling is much worse, but still). It’s honestly kinda hilarious how, had this film been made, every film in the trilogy would’ve given Rey a different love interest. I really don’t get why they went for Rey x Poe. It comes outta nowhere (aside from that one scene Trevorrow requested be put in TLJ, and the romance was just as weird there), and is so much less interesting than Reylo, which was established. I’m also one of the twelve people on the planet who wanted Palpatine back, so there’s that. But I can’t help but wished they’d kept things like the inclusion of Coruscant and Mortis. It’s clear the people writing DotF had a love and understanding of SW as a whole whereas Abrams and Terrio just saw it as five movies.

I’m 2nd of 12 who thought Palps could have been good. And the weird thing is that his inclusion actually worked to make previous trilogies better from a lore perspective, which is almost unheard of with the ST. Too bad that he was crap in this one though.

And yeah, Coruscant should have been in Episode IX no matter what, there’s really no excuse. I’m definitely taking more elements from DOTF than from TROS for my rewrite, which goes to show how many more details it got right.

Neither TROS or DOTF really give Rey a decent character arc in keeping with the previous two films though, which is really what sinks both attempts.