CaptainFaraday

Servii said:

Change Obi-Wan’s Krayt Dragon call in ANH to a Godzilla roar.

I’m losing my shit over this one.

jarbear said:

So it’s simple, we just need to make Faraday work all night, since sleep is over rated.

You joke, but between my job and my kids, I’ve been getting three or four hours of sleep a night, when I’m lucky!

Re: the Jedi voices scene, I really just need one day to dedicate to it and I reckon I’d have it done. With my current work and family schedule, I don’t see that happening any time soon, so, with the view to releasing V2 in time for the film’s second anniversary, I’ll see what I can do in terms of chipping away at it gradually in the odd spare moment. Of course if anyone else wants to have a go, send me a PM and I’ll happily share all the files I have with you!

Moving this over from the Ascendant thread:

Master Lawdog said:

ELAYEM said:

moripro2311 said:

Someone managed to recreate Sebastian Shaw’s appearance using Tobey Maguire as a template and faceapp noting that they have a similar hairstyle and head shape, maybe that would help for future attempts? https://m.imgur.com/t/faceapp/Xn1rp99

That was me, but aside of that picture, I didn’t do anything else
I can see some potential, though

I know this discussion should be moved to another thread, but potentially taking footage of Tobey Maguire’s head and using some sort of image manipulation or deepfakes to put Sebastian Shaw’s face onto him and change the hair and clothes to Jedi robes could work.

I’m really stunned how well this works. What a keen eye!

It’s kind of incredible how little footage and how few images there are of Sebastian Shaw out there, considering he was a well established actor of stage and screen and also played arguably one of the most significant characters in modern film.

Thank you for the kind words! Keep in mind that Sherlock did most of the work; I just came along and replaced a couple of the words.

I’ve got to find the time to send all my audio for it back to him so he can have another look over it but I just haven’t had the opportunity yet.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Is there any way around Finn trying to desert the Resistance in TLJ? I still want him to meet Rose.

Off the top of my head, I think it would be possible to make it sound like he’s exclusively trying to find and warn Rey, not actually leave permanently himself. But then his character arc over the movie wouldn’t have a clear starting point.

Hal 9000 said:

R2-D2 has a tattoo.

It’s this one.

Add a laugh track to all nine movies.

Anakin Starkiller said:

This is the story of one man taking over the Galaxy and those who fought against him.

“It’s Arrested Development.”

Oh man, I didn’t realise how much the BRs needed a regrade until I saw this. I’m also looking forward to the finished product!

I’ve just had another idea that I want to try, watching it back. There’s a huge gap between “I” and “am a Jedi,” and by the time it gets to “am a Jedi” my brain has sort of lost the priming to hear it as flowing on from “I”, which makes it easier to hear as “I’m a Jedi” to make sense of it. I want to try and bridge that gap by taking the “am” and placing it over one of her big pants of exertion, so it goes “I”… “am”… “a Jedi” instead. This would also mean the slight hum on “am” is hidden by the theatrical soundscape. It just depends on a) the lip sync (but I’ve found you can get away with a surprising amount when it comes to lip sync looking right), and b) how it actually sounds in practice.

Hopefully I can try it out sometime over the weekend.

The dialogue in my clip has been altered from the version Sherlock posted; I mixed together the phrase “am a Jedi” from a few different sources, but in blending the phonemes to get the word “am”, there’s a slight hum from the crossfade which is unavoidable (it’s simply a side-effect of how blending separate pieces of audio works). I hoped the lightsaber hum would be enough to render it unnoticeable.

Here it is without the lightsaber.

The issue is, the current placement is specifically to mask an unavoidable audio issue with the line of dialogue. I don’t disagree with your point, it’ll just be a case of group consensus whether it’s worth the altered line of dialogue. To me, it’s a very small trade-off for a larger payoff - but I’m not the final arbiter. (Also, I agree with comments that the SFX could be massaged into the mix better than I’ve currently got it.)

Edit the final dogfight of TROS so it looks like the thousands of ships are attacking the Star Destroyers by urinating on them.

Pryde: “Where did they get all these fighter craft? They have no navy!”
Officer: “It’s not a navy, sir. It’s just pee”

Hal 9000 said:

Anakin is the father, isn’t he? I’m Obi-Wan Kenobi.

“Obi-Wan Kenobi is the father, isn’t he?”
(Repurpose Bail flying away in the speeder)
(Distant) “I’m so sorry!”

I believe you guys that there’s a second ignition in there, but even listening closely for it, for the life of me I can’t hear it. I always figured the lack of an ignition sound was just for non-diegetic dramatic effect.

RogueLeader said:

That sounds really good imo.

Not to bring up shit that’s already been finalized, but did we decide not to phrase Palpatine’s lines as, “A scavenger girl is no match for the power in me! I am all the Sith! You are nothing!” because we wouldn’t see Palpatine’s face on the “nothing” line? I feel like Rey’s “I am a Jedi” being a direct response to “You are nothing!” would be the clearest way to phrase it, but I can see how that was decided against based on the shots available.

Yeah, that was why the dialogue order in the clip I posted was decided on. Though frankly, I like it being a response to “scavenger girl” better anyway; it shows Rey’s journey since the start of TFA, and is a direct challenge about how she can’t defeat him because she’s just a scavenger, to which she essentially replies “Guess again, bitch.”

Hal 9000 said:

Makes me wonder where Jedi Rocks could be edited into each of the movies, as an audio-only alteration.

Trench Run.

Edit: No, wait, I take it back, Neerb’s is perfect.

sherlockpotter said:

Hmmm…honestly, I think I prefer it without the sound. Just like how the music drops out at that point, I think the line has more weight when there’s nothing to distract from it. Obviously, that comes with the huge caveat that the original edit can be made flawless; barring that, I think the lightsaber sound is a clever band-aid over it.

That’s basically it - it disguises the slight hum on the phoneme mix that can’t be removed.

That said, I agree with oviniboy that it doesn’t quite sound organic to the scene yet. I think it needs more bass maybe? Just something to give it more “oomph.”

I’m happy to make my files available to anyone who wants to play around with it - it’s not that I’m unwilling to work on it myself, but just finding ten minutes to sit and produce that version was a rare crepuscular ray shining down through my current schedule of Real Life Commitments (which is also why the mix clearly wasn’t the greatest).

I should be very clear, Sherlock did 95% of the work here including most of the heavy lifting. I’ve just come along at the very end and tried to tweak a few bits.

I’m glad the feedback is to make the saber activation louder, cos I was worried it was too loud! I’ll boost the volume and re-export, hopefully later tonight.

Finally. I’m as happy with this as I’m ever going to be with the current audio sources, frankly, so now it’s up to group consensus to decide what they think of it.

https://streamable.com/x0pdfq

hinventon said:

Sounds great!

How is the “I am a Jedi” line coming? Has it gotten to a finished state yet? Very excited for that one!

I think I’ve somehow fallen into being the current leader of the charge on that - I’ve got something I want to try, but I haven’t had the time to implement it. One way or another, though, I think it’s approaching the home stretch. Without derailing the thread with personal matters, some recent things both personally and professionally have sucked up all of my time, so the most I’m able to do right now is check in occasionally with this thread/site. I’m still around, not going anywhere, and hopefully I’ll be freed up a bit again soon.

Eyepainter said:

“Back away! I will deal with this jedi slime myself!”

“Your move!”

“You fool! I’ve been trained in your jedi arts by Jar Jar Binks!”

It’s not a Darth Jar Jar edit; edit the scene so Grievous immediately trips and falls down to the wheel bike without Obi-Wan having to do anything.

Remove Yoda from ESB. The Force is better when it’s more mystical and ambiguous, like it was in ANH. Having a character sit down and explain its powers to the main character ruins it.