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The 2.0 version of The New Padawan is great. I only watched a bit of Dark Force Rising but I noticed when Obi-Wan says “Yes” in the office scene, it’s a lot softer than the other dialogue. Also your removal of the antagonism between Anakin and Obi-Wan in the hangar doesn’t quite work because they still kind of glare at each other grumpily. I wonder if it’s just better to leave more of it in, Anakin is still a padawan here after all.

Hal 9000 said:

Hal 9000 said:

I sat down to see if I could possibly get that transition to sound any better, since I agree it’s probably the worst out of the whole fan edit. The trouble is I can’t really replace the music since there is subtle foley that would be very hard to replace.

Here’s a fresh attempt at it. I think it’s fundamentally the same, though maybe a little smoother as I let the outgoing music stay strong for longer. If this feels like an improvement, I could reissue the edit with just the audio track being replaced. It is utterly beyond my means to reissue any of the prequel edits with any visual changes anymore.

Clip (audio only): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ocaukPMLP6gezpGWDscqgtS14yNyy6_J/view?usp=sharing

Let me know what you think.

Forgive the bump but I wanted to make sure people saw this recent post since most of this thread is people asking for links, including the last couple.

It sounds good to me but I didn’t do an A/B test with the current version.

sherlockpotter said:

Had some time to fiddle with “Leia sensed the end” some more. Still needs some clean up, but…is this at least in the right direction?

https://streamable.com/mghfm0

This is the way.

I finally got around to fixing the issue with muted surround channels. There’s some very small patches of audio where I had to mirror the surround channels to make it work but I listened to the whole thing on my 5.1 setup and it was pretty unobtrusive. Feel free to PM me for the new “V2.1” link.

Would someone be able to start seeding these again on Myspleen?

BMadden said:

Another vote here for the Spleen. I’m hoping someone will have it up there pretty soon.

Done.

Agree with Burbin on this. Should just be “sensed the end of her Jedi path”. No need to tie it up in Ben.

I think just “I…I’m a Jedi” works fine. I don’t think it needs to be “I am a Jedi”

Shaddy Zaphod said:

I think we should keep Rise of Skywalker’s bad decisions native to Rise of Skywalker, personally.

Yup

I honestly think it works okay to have “you are nothing” over the shot of Rey. This whole change is a really great idea.

“Leia told me that she sensed the end of her Jedi path.”

I’d really like this if it can be made to sound seamless. I’d really prefer it not be tied to Ben at all. I think it’s in character for Leia to end her Jedi training because she feel she can do more good in getting the new government off the ground.

Yeah, my personal vote would be no to the Star Destroyer establishing shot, yes to using the new Mustafar footage in place of the Rogue One footage.

Honestly I’d be very sad to see the “Babu Frik, he’s one of my oldest friends” line go.

IMO, the best version of the Mustafar opening is still the “1-shot” version present in Ascendant V1. The Castle shot still looks janky and the new shot doesn’t really flow with the others.

The first thing I would do is cut everything that is only there to tease a future film that is never going to happen: Martian Manhunter, Lex Luthor and Deathstroke, the Knightmare sequence etc.

Then I would focus on making small cuts here and there for pacing, and reintegrating some small bits from the Whedon version that work. I think there’s a great 3ish hour cut of this film.

Movies Remastered said:

Poppa, I did exactly as you instructed but the audio was still playing in the left speaker despite being in a dedicated center channel. It works fine with left or right setting but it won’t isolate to the center channel for some reason?

ThisIsCreation the new EQ track seems to have the gain turned up to 11. I’m getting a lot of hissing from that clip when I import it to PP so I wasn’t able to match the current dialogue levels with your effort.

Here’s an update anyway…

Changed the timing of the sequence so it’s a little tighter.
Removed Lukes Close-up
Changed the timing on Rey’s close-up to match the new dialogue.

https://youtu.be/apbeCXcjfQE

Ooh I wasn’t sold on this line before but I actually really like this.

Looking good!

I like this idea. I’d love to see the Luke puppet brush the dust off his shoulder, eliciting a laugh from the children.

NeverarGreat said:

My two cents: the trailer music uses an entirely different musical language than Williams, and is thus impossible to integrate into the film.

Yup

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Honestly, it sounds to me like people on here have two different approaches to fixing this film:

1. Make TROS become more in line with what TLJ set up.
2. Make TLJ become more in line with what TROS settles, and fix a couple issues with TROS here and there.

Hmm, I wonder which one we should change? The critically acclaimed, thoughtful sequel that questions deeply-held assumptions about the Star Wars universe and pushes the franchise into exciting new directions? Or the frantic, pandering mess that goes out of it’s way to retcon anything remotely interesting in the previous film and wraps up this 9-movie saga with a whimper?

Obviously I’m being snarky but I’m starting to think the best sequel trilogy is actually a sequel duology. Ben’s arc is the only thing that even comes close to working for me in TROS and that’s only because of Adam Driver’s stellar performance. Hal and DominicCobb have both done a lot to make this movie more enjoyable, but to (mis)quote Count Dooku “The movie cannot be fixed. It’s time to start over.”

I want to be clear that I’m not trying to disparage the work of anyone in this community. Creating new effects shots that don’t feel out of place in 275 million dollar movie is not easy. I just feel like we haven’t quite gotten there yet.

Honestly I agree with jarbear. None of the video game footage works for me at all. Also, I feel like any/all of the castle shots need more work put into them. At this point I feel like V2 should just be V1 untouched.

DZ-330 said:

Quick mockup of Mustafar:
https://vimeo.com/512027766

The shot before Kylo needs to be cleaned and slightly extended.

I think this sequence of shots works better for me, but the castle shot still needs a lot of work. The TIES look like cardboard cutouts and not 3 dimensional objects.

Sorry to be a party pooper, but with or without the dimmed windows, I’m not sure that the castle shot works for me. It just feels like it doesn’t belong in the scene.

JakeRyan17 said:

422 HQ might be overkill depending on your source, you won’t be able to make something higher quality than what it was to start with, but you can make the files larger.

What’s your source? If it’s a 1070p BluRay, you likely don’t need more than ProRes 422 LT. If it’s a UHD-BD, you might need to go to an even larger format to handle the HDR aspects, like ProRes 4444.

I mean, you can’t gain quality but you can lose quality by recompressing, even if the file is higher bitrate than your source. I’m just trying to minimize the amount of generational loss.