adywan

Ryan said:

Matt.F said:

Vader also “somehow forgets” to read the mind of Captain Antilles, the captured Rebel Troopers and Princess Leia to find out where the Death Star plans are and where the hidden Rebel base is. There you go, a similar contrivance just as you asked for. Now please stop being such a pedantic killjoy!

Does Vader have the ability in OT to read minds? I never thought that. As Vader used torture to get information i.e. with Leia and Han.

yes, He read Luke’s mind in ROTJ. It’s how he discovered Luke had a twin sister

DrDre said:

Matt.F said:

RE: Reys fast progression, the ‘Mary Sue’ complaint.

I thought this was explained and dealt with very elegantly in the sequence within Snoke’s chamber. Snoke’s “Darkness rises… and light to meet it” speech clarifies that as Kylo’s dark side power has grown, the Force has found natural balance by also growing the light side. Snoke had mistakenly assumed this growing power was manifested within Skywalker, but in this speech he makes it clear that it was Rey that was the recipient.

I guess the Force forgot to grow the light side when Darth Sidious and his apprentices wiped out the Jedi order and brought tiranny to the galaxy. Every Jedi including Anakin, created by the Force, and Luke have had to work hard at getting control over their Force powers, but Rey just magically gets them, because Kylo Ren stepped on the scene, a poor man’s Darth Vader, and an even poorer Emperor/Supreme Leader. It’s a pretty weak defense in my view.

But there was still Obi-Wan, Yoda and a maturing Luke. This time there was just Rey. Luke had closed himself off from the force and that just left leia. But she also what she said she knew about the force before meeting Luke; lifting stones and controlling peoples minds. Something she heard about and something she tried out ( after somehow being able to block kylo during the interrogation and then failed the first couple of attempts) and was shocked she was able to do it.

SilverWook said:

Wasn’t the original hologram footage shot on videotape though? I know it was shot off a tv screen to get the original effect.

It may well have been. i know it had been transferred digitally and cleaned up. The footage in the tribute looked a little too sharp to be 70s video tape.

SilverWook said:

I like that Artoo gave Luke a bit of a beep lashing, (and Luke cautioning him not to curse) and finally guilt tripped him with the old Leia hologram. Was that the original footage or a recreation?

They scanned in all of the original footage they shot for the Leia hologram back in the 70’s ( you can see the newly scanned footage in the Carrie Tribute that was shown at celebration). So they just added the hologram effects to the original footage (and new angles)

Mocata said:

The intro crawl theme didn’t sound like a new recording.

I watched the TFA/ TLJ double bill and have the TLJ soudntrack CD. It is NOT the same theme used

Valheru_84 said:

Hey Ady,

Sorry to hear of your issues with Encore. Having a read of the below link sounds like the same or very similar issue which is attributed to a Microsoft Windows update of all things (actually they are quite often responsible for breaking many things with 3rd party software). Even if it’s not the same update affecting yours, do you think you could attribute when you started having the issue to when some updates were applied or the install date of any particular Windows update?

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2292099

I take it you’re pretty clued into this type of stuff though so if this is all well treaded and old ground, just tell me to bugger off 😛

.Val

Thanks. i did see a page a while ago that mentioned the updates causing conflict but they never mentioned which update was causing it. Unfortunately it now seems its a windows 10 issue with the update and i’m using windows 7. This was on a clean install, before any updates were applied, Just the programs i use. Yeh Encore cs5 seems to work fine, it just lacks the features that i want, like pop-up menus.

towne32 said:

Ady,

some of us have come up with and used a method to get around the dts (and other types of incompatibility) issue.

Build your iso with an another track type in place, such as ac3 (leave enough space on disc for the larger file). then open the iso in multiavchd. replace track and rebuild.

This was a route i was thinking of going down but i have had compatibility issues after using multiavchd. Didn’t the guy who create it discontinue it though?

Shopping Maul said:
The thing is Star Wars films always have those moments where the viewer is taken out of the ‘logic’ of the movie for whatever subjective reasons. For some it might be Starkiller Base, or Leia’s space-walk, or even ‘sound in space’. For me it was seeing Threepio boarding an escape shuttle while a respected leader was supposed to blow herself up for the greater good. It pushed the ‘droids are people too’ notion of the series over the line (IMO).

Her intention wasn’t to blow herself up. She stayed behind to pilot the ship. yes, she knew there was zero chance of making it, but sacrificing themselves to save everyone else is a tactical decision. She was and Admiral and , Now leia is back, she relinquished her leadership and went back to doing what she does best. But do you really think 3P0 would have tuned the ship around and self sacrificed himself when push came to shove like she did? He was a coward. plus he wan’t a tactical droid so it’s doubtful he would have even come up with a solution like that in the first place. Nothing to do with “droids are people too”

Matt.F said:

adywan said:

They didn’t want to use a different voice actor for Ackbar after Erik Bauersfeld, who originally voiced him in ROTJ & TFA, died. Which is why he only had one line which was recorded at the time of TFA. I fully respect their decision on this.

They recast Peter Mayhew, they refilled R2 after Kenny Baker’s passing, a new muscle man wore the Vader suit, and they even brought back Peter Cushing. Life goes on, and having another voice artist provide the vocals for Admiral Ackbar would have meant no dishonour to the late Erik Bauersfeld.

Well , peter gave them his blessing and they credited him as chewie consultant, Kenny also gave his blessing for another actor to be in the tin can, Peter Cushings family gave their blessing. Eric Died when they started making TLJ.

Edit: seems this may not be true after all, just a rumour

They didn’t want to use a different voice actor for Ackbar after Erik Bauersfeld, who originally voiced him in ROTJ & TFA, died. Which is why he only had one line which was recorded at the time of TFA. I fully respect their decision on this.

Mocata said:

Horrible though - are the gold dice being set up to connect the dots in the Solo movie…?

Han originally re-hung the dice in the Falcon in TFA. It was filmed but cut ( you can see it in the BTS footage).

DominicCobb said:

darthrush said:

The animal cruelty message just felt kind of forced in for me. I feel like despite there being some cool stuff on Canto Bight, I feel that cutting it down significantly would benefit the pace of the movie as a whole experience. Each man to their own. Glad to hear about some more people who enjoyed the film.

It wasn’t really an animal cruelty message, that was just used more as a specific example of the pervasive inhumanity of the casino/galaxy at large.

Exactly. they couldn’t really show the kids with all the scars on them, not in a film like star wars. So they used the animals to show that.

I’ve seen people complaining about the agendas and messages. Some have even said that the porg at the beginning when Chewie was about to eat the roasted porg was " a forced vegan message". I guess they didn’t get the joke 😉

The casino planet actually added quite a bit to the story and for what is to come. Little threads in the film that lead up to the ending and also showed that not everything is black and white (the resistance is dealing with the same people who deal with the first order). The resistance has now become the rebellion and is all but gone at the end of the film. Something that was said earlier on (and again later). “We are the spark that will light the fire that will burn the first order down”.

Canto Bight is a planet where the rich and elite congregate in luxurious overindulgence while the rest of the inhabitants live in extreme poverty and slavery, including the children. Finn and Roses interactions with those inhabitants is a major factor here. they show the willingness to fight for freedom. At the end we see the children telling their story and then a single child use the force to grab the broom, he has the rebellion ring. The seeds of rebellion are planted. So Finn and Rose are that spark that will light the fire that will burn the first order down.

There are so many little details that are easily missed on a single viewing. I’ll write a proper review once i have seen it again. So far i liked it.

Editroid said:

adywan said:

Editroid said:

adywan said:

Possessed said:

nightstalkerpoet said:

TV’s Frink said:

Editroid said:

TV’s Frink said:

nightstalkerpoet said:

adywan said:

MalàStrana said:

trimboNZ said:

adywan said:

I said a while ago that the Blu_ray/ DVD versions won’t be available until mid next year at the earliest

Thanks, I obviously completely missed that!

Why waiting that long by the way ? I understand that making a full bluray with menu and features takes time, but if the fanedit already exists in high quality I fail to understand why a mkv of the ucompressed version of the edit is postoned to next summer.

The mkv is already out there. I’m not sure what you are referring to here

I think he’s requesting a second MKV be released that matches the bit rate you plan to use on the Bluray.

Otherwise, he’s requesting what we’re all secretly craving, a lossless 10-bit x265 encoded mkv that is an exact representation of what’s on your computer as a finished project, complete with the audio in LPCM. Then everyone can customize/reencode the file on their computer on their own time to fit their target device or media.

I think he is a she, and if you think I’m gonna complete that ROTS quote,

Actually, it’s an AOTC quote.

Exactly.

I’m pretty sure this is the moment for that signal Obi-Wan does stroking his mustache.

An example of actual decent comedy in the prequels.

And of course that’s the one they cut.

I thought the comedy in that scene was terrible, but much like 99% of the attempted comedy in the prequels

Can we please not bring the Prequels up again just to criticize them for the billionth time?

I’m pretty sure i can discuss what the hell i want (inside of the forums rules of course) and have my own opinions on those crap films, in my own damn thread. This isn’t the “you can only discuss what Editroid wants to hear” thread

Sorry for being so rude.

Apology accepted, Captain Editroid

Anyway, back on topic, many people have asked me why there is a long delay for the blu-ray of ESB to appear. Well there are a few reasons:

1 - I haven’t had enough time to set up the new PC as yet. Problems at home with a burst radiator saw to that, then xmas just around the corner.

2- I’m having hell with Encore Cs6 crashing as soon as i import an asset for a timeline. The other Blu-Ray authoring software i have seen ( that i even have a chance of understanding how to use the damn software) won’t accept DTS as an audio track or have pop up menu capability. Seems like its a common bug and adobe are less than useless in sorting this problem out, especially now the program is discontinued, and no one seems to have found a fix. If anyone knows decent software that will accept a 6.1 DTS audio track, had pop=up menu capabilities along with being able to build proper menus without having to sue their inbuilt templates, and doesn’t cost a fortune, then please let me know ( or know of a working fix to the Encore issue)

3- Special features. It’s going to take some time to create these. Even though the making of featurette isn’t going to be a overly long video, i do need to do a lot of editing work (including getting interviews from the Revisited team). So i wil be doing all of the special features for the Blu-Ray inbetween working on ROTJ:R & ANH:RHD so there is no delay on fully working on these projects.

So it’s likely to be the second half of 2018 before the blu-ray & DV9-9’s are available

Editroid said:

adywan said:

Possessed said:

nightstalkerpoet said:

TV’s Frink said:

Editroid said:

TV’s Frink said:

nightstalkerpoet said:

adywan said:

MalàStrana said:

trimboNZ said:

adywan said:

I said a while ago that the Blu_ray/ DVD versions won’t be available until mid next year at the earliest

Thanks, I obviously completely missed that!

Why waiting that long by the way ? I understand that making a full bluray with menu and features takes time, but if the fanedit already exists in high quality I fail to understand why a mkv of the ucompressed version of the edit is postoned to next summer.

The mkv is already out there. I’m not sure what you are referring to here

I think he’s requesting a second MKV be released that matches the bit rate you plan to use on the Bluray.

Otherwise, he’s requesting what we’re all secretly craving, a lossless 10-bit x265 encoded mkv that is an exact representation of what’s on your computer as a finished project, complete with the audio in LPCM. Then everyone can customize/reencode the file on their computer on their own time to fit their target device or media.

I think he is a she, and if you think I’m gonna complete that ROTS quote,

Actually, it’s an AOTC quote.

Exactly.

I’m pretty sure this is the moment for that signal Obi-Wan does stroking his mustache.

An example of actual decent comedy in the prequels.

And of course that’s the one they cut.

I thought the comedy in that scene was terrible, but much like 99% of the attempted comedy in the prequels

Can we please not bring the Prequels up again just to criticize them for the billionth time?

I’m pretty sure i can discuss what the hell i want (inside of the forums rules of course) and have my own opinions on those crap films, in my own damn thread. This isn’t the “you can only discuss what Editroid wants to hear” thread

Possessed said:

nightstalkerpoet said:

TV’s Frink said:

Editroid said:

TV’s Frink said:

nightstalkerpoet said:

adywan said:

MalàStrana said:

trimboNZ said:

adywan said:

I said a while ago that the Blu_ray/ DVD versions won’t be available until mid next year at the earliest

Thanks, I obviously completely missed that!

Why waiting that long by the way ? I understand that making a full bluray with menu and features takes time, but if the fanedit already exists in high quality I fail to understand why a mkv of the ucompressed version of the edit is postoned to next summer.

The mkv is already out there. I’m not sure what you are referring to here

I think he’s requesting a second MKV be released that matches the bit rate you plan to use on the Bluray.

Otherwise, he’s requesting what we’re all secretly craving, a lossless 10-bit x265 encoded mkv that is an exact representation of what’s on your computer as a finished project, complete with the audio in LPCM. Then everyone can customize/reencode the file on their computer on their own time to fit their target device or media.

I think he is a she, and if you think I’m gonna complete that ROTS quote,

Actually, it’s an AOTC quote.

Exactly.

I’m pretty sure this is the moment for that signal Obi-Wan does stroking his mustache.

An example of actual decent comedy in the prequels.

And of course that’s the one they cut.

I thought the comedy in that scene was terrible, but much like 99% of the attempted comedy in the prequels

sans_fi said:

I don’t know if this will be overkill, unnecesary or already posted. But I saw it and I thought about the Revisited Editions.

This file contains sound effects from Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) including starship passbys, laser shots, explosions, lightsaber sounds, cockpit sounds, walker steps and a long list of other sounds. Very diverse, perfectly sorted and named.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/n11kg2icsrpm1kq/sfx_v1.rar

Credit goes to “Rancor022” from the facepunch forums.

That you ( an that you Rancor022) for these files. they will come in very handy

Collipso said:

Editroid said:

Are you going to keep the Stargate SC-1 explosion for Alderaan, or are you creating a new one?

I’m not Adywan but I think he will get a new one, since that one looks kind of dated and I believe it’s only available in SD.

I have the SG-1 explosion in HD, but i’ll be using different elements to create the explosion

Liked what i saw. So much to take in with a single viewing so i’m going to wait until my second viewing on sunday before making up my mind. But Yoda was god damn awful. I was gobsmacked at how bad it looked.

bromeo said:

About the scene itself: the rathtars devour all of Kanjiklub in a matter of seconds but for some reason one of them starts dragging Finn somewhere? Why, oh why? Also… what a way to waste the talent of the Raid cast.

But they don’t though. They drag a lot of them off without devouring them

Yes, he does have breathing problems. its been evident in many interviews. What was also worrying is how much his hand shake. He was on Jamie Oliver’s show here in the uk recently and that was quite noticeable. But it is none of our business if he smokes or not. No one has the right to think they someone should intervene. I know people who are younger than him who have breathing problems and other health issues and have never smoked. Sadly old age creeps up on all of us. But Mark still looks in better shape now than he did prior to filming TFA.

2 days for me. that is if the damn snow starts disappearing. We’re snowed in here 😦

NeverarGreat, just watched your hyperspace jump video. That works really well (loved the exit shot and the faint hyperspace drive failure sound effect. That works perfectly). The only thing i would suggest is to shorten the shot when it jumps to hyperspace. That shot is a little too long and i feel it would work better if it jumped slightly earlier.

MalàStrana said:

trimboNZ said:

adywan said:

I said a while ago that the Blu_ray/ DVD versions won’t be available until mid next year at the earliest

Thanks, I obviously completely missed that!

Why waiting that long by the way ? I understand that making a full bluray with menu and features takes time, but if the fanedit already exists in high quality I fail to understand why a mkv of the ucompressed version of the edit is postoned to next summer.

The mkv is already out there. I’m not sure what you are referring to here

Anjohan said:

TIP: Remove Rathar sequence entirely. Proof of point, this took me five minutes to edit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=736lH16Szns&feature=youtu.be

It does nothing to the story, it destroys pace, it gives us deus ex machina’s, it gets Chewie shot within his first five minutes back into the movie, we are introduced to two silly gangs that serve nothing to the story or the characters and the CGI for the rathars is not particularly good or interesting.

Just watched it and its going to create some problems if you cut the complete Rathtar sequence. For one, why would Rey be copilot when Chewie is perfectly healthy? There is no way Chewie would just lie back, on the bunk, while Han is trying to escape. Then later why does Chewie suddenly have a bandage on his arm if he wasn’t injured? You also have Finn following Han with rey and then he is suddenly back in the hold area. Why did he just suddenly stop running along with Rey and Han when he is obviously after some answers? (you can also see that they run right past the cockpit). It’s a very harsh jump cut that doesn’t work i’m afraid.