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#1467616
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Worst Edit Ideas
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Play endless adverts on television for the Empire Strikes Back Hotline that casually spoil the movie for viewers (“Now you can choose whether Luke strikes back, or his father Darth Vader strikes back instead! Just call 1800-555-555 today to vote. Only 4.99 per minute, terms and conditions apply”). You can achieve this in the modern internet age of streaming and direct download by including a dozen such adverts as separate video files, and requesting the viewer sprinkle them liberally in whatever viewing playlist they use.

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#1467536
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The Last Jedi: Stoic Edition (WIP)
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I found something else I need to do. I’m adding the Master Codebreaker musical motif to the scene where Maz tells them where to find him; the score isn’t long enough to fit the dialogue beats it has to cover, so, I need to extend it. It’s a juggling act of making the music sound natural while also hitting certain frames at the beginning and end, which sadly don’t care about whether the score mickey-mouses or not. Just one of the more overt differences between fanediting and editing rushes.

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#1467194
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The Last Jedi: Stoic Edition (WIP)
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Updates:

  • Blended the audio on Rose’s line better, and recut the visuals that accompany it.
  • Removed the lightsaber hum in the third flashback.
  • After brief consultation with poppasketti, I’ve visually cut out the plomme bloom so that I can track it onto a new background plate that I’ll have to film.
  • ThisIsCreation is recording a new Abednego line for me!
  • I’m having some fiddly technical issues with the opening crawl which have to be solved, to do with frame skipping.
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#1467183
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Star Wars Episode VIII: The Eyepainter Fanedit (Released)
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Eyepainter said:

CaptainFaraday said:

I think there’s two directions you could go with it:

One, you leave as much of Finn in as possible in the Crait Battle. That’s basically what I did - I cut it all down as much as possible, but I didn’t really change any of Finn’s parts. If you have a look at my workprint you’ll see how I handled it (and I can always send it to you at native resolution if you wanted, but I’m working in DVD quality, which I think is lower resolution than you are).

Two, you go the other direction, and trim as much of Finn out as possible. This would gel with him being absent from the rest of your edit; treat him like Rose in TROS, a main character in the previous film, now a minor Resistance character.

Or, if you want to split the difference down the middle, keep him in the Crait Battle as much as possible, but leave his suicide run out entirely. Poe tells everyone to pull back, then the next time we see him is back inside the mine talking about the vulptexes. Since he’s absent from your version, his suicide run isn’t the thematic resolution to a journey he’s been on, so leaving it might feel weird.

Just did an exhaustive re-edit of the Crait battle, and so far, I’ve gotten it down to mostly Finn, with Poe occasionally mentioning something important. Still, I’d love to take a look at your workprint just in case I’ve missed something (Which I might have). Oh, and it’s okay if it’s in DVD quality. My computer is running out of storage space at the moment.

I sent you a link to the workprint. I’ll be keen to see your version of the scene once it’s done!

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#1467171
Topic
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Eyepainter Fanedit (Released)
Time

I think there’s two directions you could go with it:

One, you leave as much of Finn in as possible in the Crait Battle. That’s basically what I did - I cut it all down as much as possible, but I didn’t really change any of Finn’s parts. If you have a look at my workprint you’ll see how I handled it (and I can always send it to you at native resolution if you wanted, but I’m working in DVD quality, which I think is lower resolution than you are).

Two, you go the other direction, and trim as much of Finn out as possible. This would gel with him being absent from the rest of your edit; treat him like Rose in TROS, a main character in the previous film, now a minor Resistance character.

Or, if you want to split the difference down the middle, keep him in the Crait Battle as much as possible, but leave his suicide run out entirely. Poe tells everyone to pull back, then the next time we see him is back inside the mine talking about the vulptexes. Since he’s absent from your version, his suicide run isn’t the thematic resolution to a journey he’s been on, so leaving it might feel weird.

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#1466924
Topic
The Star Wars Novel Editing Ideas Thread
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I’m glad there’s a general thread for novel edits now! I think it’s something that’s only had the surface scratched. (I’ll finish my TROS one eventually!)

I had an idea to edit together Han Solo At Star’s End and Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, to result in a book that had all of the main cast in it, but when I read SotME I found it to be of incomparably worse quality than Brian Daley’s Han Solo books, so, it would either require a tonne of new writing, or a different “Luke and Leia without Han” source.

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#1466570
Topic
The Last Jedi: Stoic Edition (WIP)
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Oh, something else. My optical flow function has stopped working and I can’t figure it out.

I’m trying to use it to smooth over a jump cut; the two frames are almost identical, but I can still just see it when I’m looking for it. My plan was to use the optical flow tool to slow down the (rendered and exported and reimported) shot, creating a new tweening frame with its optical flow magic, which I would then put between the jump cut frames to smooth the seam.

While I can publish the edit without it, if someone with Premiere CC wants to do a minute’s worth of rendering for me, I certainly wouldn’t say no.

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#1466553
Topic
The Last Jedi: Stoic Edition (WIP)
Time

Something else left to do actually - the lightsaber hum sound after Luke has already deactivated his saber in Sparky’s Third Flashback VFX shot.

This is a change that I really want to be in there, because I think it makes a massive difference - but if I can’t remove the hum, it won’t work. The lightsaber hum sound is on the same channel as Luke’s dialogue, and after my best attempts, I have to concede that I lack the technical tools to do any more.

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#1466456
Topic
The Last Jedi: Stoic Edition (WIP)
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So, what I have left to do:

  • Re-record Abednego line about Holdo. I’m considering subtitling it instead with the alien speech audio; I’m struggling to fit any variation on the information that I’m trying to convey into the mouth movements.
  • A few bits of tweaking on Rose’s new line. I’m fine with it for a V1 release as it currently is, but I’d swap it out for a V2 release if something better comes up.
  • VFX insert of DJ with the plomme bloom. I’m actually considering recording footage of some similar fabric with a plomme bloom pinned to it for this, but that would require making the prop myself. Which would be great fun, but, I probably will not have the time.

I want to get a V1 of this edit out soon, so I can tick it off as nominally finished. I’m proud of my work on it (and of the work of everyone who’s helped and made suggestions or observations!) and, watching it back today, the movie is finally the film I always wanted it to be.

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#1466449
Topic
The Last Jedi: Stoic Edition (WIP)
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StarkillerAG said:

I was thinking about your planned edit of turning DJ into the codebreaker, and I realized something: if you’re keeping the character who was originally supposed to be the codebreaker in the movie, wouldn’t you need to get rid of his red plom bloom? At the very least, you’d need to recolor it. I’m just worried someone would watch the movie and think “Wait, that random background character also has a plom bloom? Are there two codebreakers or something?”

Good catch, but thankfully, it’s really not visible in the movie outside of the insert shot of it on his lapel. In the wide shot it’s too small and quick to see, and in the midshot, it’s conveniently framed out.

Also, I feel like you’d need to remove Maz’s line about the codebreaker “rolling on a high-stakes table”. It feels like it creates a bit of a contradiction, with Maz saying that the codebreaker is a rich classy guy and him turning out to be a bum in prison.

Maz never actually says he’s classy or rich in that scene; just that he’s an expert codebreaker, a good gambler, good with a blaster, and good at sex, all of which tracks with DJ. Remember, in TFA, Maz hangs out with a seedy crowd. To me, the more jarring concept is that in the theatrical version, this type of codebreaking is so expert and difficult that Maz only knows of one other person in the galaxy who can do it, and then a third person just happens to stumble into their path in a giant coincidence.