cm

The last time Ghorman was mention is dedra and partagaz at coruscant. Then the next time is syril in ghorman. The gap is 45 minutes long and 15 mins after dedra and syril scene. For a movie it is too long. Instead i moved syril in ghorman from the beginning to the end of his conversation with his mother forward to after luthen said, “how nice for you” then he was seen walking pass everyone dancing. This shows one scene of celebration and the next scene ghorman going doomville. The gap is now 29 mins long and only 10 mins after dedra and syril last scene. It works out better. However the end of episode 3 the montages is too long. cass meets up with bix and wilmon then show brasso dead and tie taking off and flying away toward space - back to wedding one long dance joining the scene naimos and scene before ghorman. Remove vel on the floor, don’t care - cinta in car with kolma, don’t care - tie prolong scene over land, don’t care - bix andor wilmon inside tie, don’t care. Blended frames from dancing to ghorman wasn’t star wars. I don’t recall ever seeing blended frames, only wipes. Instead i did about 65 frames wipe, yes the wipe was very slow transistioning from mon dancing to ghorman and allow the music to flow nicely into ghorman. It need to get on being a movie and not look like 1st 3 eps then 2nd 3 eps glued together.

smudger9 said:

Josanael said:

I’m surprised that there aren’t any reviews of Episode 3 yet, because … it’s absolutely brilliant again! The pacing in the first half in particular feels much better than in the original episodes. 😃 We, as viewers, are now staying tuned on all the storylines, and the connection between the wedding and the events on Mina-Rau in particular creates a very nice contrast. Personally, I didn’t miss the scenes on Yavin at all. And I also found the time jumps to be hardly noticeable. The kind of mentioning of the time jumps felt unneccessary in the original to me when viewing it at first. But your edit really shows that viewers hardly question the different passing of time when the scenes are edited together appropriately. It just feels like a very well-rounded movie — very well done! 😃

A few things caught my attention, but these are really just minor details:

• 09:19: Krennic’s voice is a tad too quiet in the first sentence (‘Gorman is of great interest to the empire’).
• 24:40: The music piece that starts when Mon walks off feels a bit cut off. The transition to the next song (24:50) is great in itself, but the piece before that feels somehow incomplete.
• 25:52: Here the music from the wedding party feels cut off again, for my taste it’s a bit too abrupt.
• 27:00: Is there any chance to stretch Cassian’s scene in the TIE? It feels to me like it would benefit from more breathing room to really grasp as an audience what happens here, since we haven’t seen him for a while.
• 47:30: The here mentioned ‘freighter’ is news to the audience, if I hadn’t miss anything. I’m not sure what a solution for this could be, but it somehow caught me off guard, since Cassian was only flying the TIE up to this point.
• 1:07:17: Not something specific, but the chapter ‘Noble Sacrifice’ had too much back and forth from the wedding to the imperial investigation on Mina-Rau. Especially the last bit with Cassian and Bix could have gone longer for my taste. In addition to that I felt like the imperials were a little less intimating without Bix’s encounters with them before.
• 1:34:12 Bix’s mentioning of the boy Cassian killed, because he had seen her face, feels a bit off, since we never saw the nightmare of her before. This was a bit jarring in the original episode as well, but here the audience lacks even more information about that incident.
• 2:48:13 Is it possible to stay a little longer at the rebels on Ghorman? For the kind of loss we just saw, my feeling was, that the scene needs more breathing room.

Thanks so much for the feedback.

1. I’ve upped the volume on Krennik’s vocal.

2. The music that starts as Mon walks off isn’t an edit, it’s as it was in the series. It may be slightly jarring because I’ve then cut in a different scene. I’ve altered it so that the music playing during Mon and Kolma’s conversation continues as she walks off.

3. I’ve modified the slightly abrupt music cut by trimming a few frames which brings the music from the TIE scene forward slightly, thus smoothing out the transition.

4. Cassian in the TIE is the full scene, so no option to extend it.

5. I took it as the “freighter” being code for the TIE itself.

6. I’ll try to swap two of the noble sacrifice scenes around to get rid of 2 location transitions.

7. Yes the Imperials are a little less intimidating, but that is the style is was going for having removed the Bix scenes. They are now presented as more of an encroaching off-screen threat.

8. It’s difficult to remove reference to the boy in that scene. I’ll take another look at it.

9. The Ghorman rebels scene has been cut to removed Vel’s lecture, which felt really out of character and not great on the acting front. I’ll see if I can reinstate a tight edit of it.

5. Correct, no need to remove it. All conversation with kleya and Luthen were done using codes. It is well establish mode of communication.

6. Too many flipping back and forth. It felt too jarring because the scenes were too short.

7. Correct, the rape scene had to go. Disney often said Star Wars is for children not grown up old men. Why did they think rape is suitable for children? The mind boggles and doesn’t fit in Star Wars. The same with young Leia torture scenes in Obi Wan series. I removed all that in my edit as child torture is not suitable for children and not Star Wars.

8. I moved the Dr Gorst and ‘boy’ dream scene before andor and bix go shopping and it worked well. There was a year time jump so what happened to the tie fighter? Don’t know. I don’t think it was ever mentioned again. The dream then shopping then flat conversation about ‘boy’ seeing bix face makes sense. It would imply that the tie fighter was dumped somewhere and the imperial ‘boy’ and others were in a shootout with andor, bix and wilmon and the ‘boy’ had to die because he saw bix’s face and from season 1 bix is already a wanted woman. I am tempted to drop the shopping scene as it slows down pacing.

9. Longer no way. It needs to be much shorter. shot fired - dead body - vel runs over and reveal cinta is dead - syril through binoculars - isb response team - museum - syril head against wall then overview of vehicle escaping - back to luthen and kleya leaving museum. That’s all. Vel and cinta are minor unimportant characters. Their role in aldhani heist is done. All the men except andor are dead, yet two woman magically survives because kk says so. Season 2 they had nothing. Vel just hang around doing nothing important. Cinta turns up to kill kolma then nothing until ghorman. When a extra or minor character dies, no one makes a fuss about it. The aftermath of cinta death was way too long and i couldn’t give a damn she dead. Movies make a big thing and main important leading character death. Remember after Han solo death, nothing much happened and Han was 1000 times more important than bloody cinta. A lesson here is don’t waste too much time on minor characters death, almost no one cares.

Is there a point to Rey-based movies? Star Wars is over the moment Leia and Luke died. The Star Wars saga was about the Skywalker family. Rey’s a Palpatine (uurrghh) so who wanna watch a film about Palpatine magically out-of-the-blue daughter?
Might as well focus on another Solo/Lando film, Mandolorian and Andor.

Wow I am impressed with the additions to make Rey as Jaina Solo. Also impressed with Snoke on the Throne instead of bringing back Palpatine. The dead should stay dead.

The best bit was the 2nd film, 50 mins 30 secs onwards. The original falling into the hole scenes was naff, but you not only made it better, you rescued those scenes with the vision of Leia and Han. It was beautifully done. Hope you don’t mind me using it in my fanedit.

Jackpumpkinhead said:

There should be an MKV in the rar once you extract it

Finally got it sorted. Changed render engine from eevee to cycles.

Is the instruction provided correct?

All I got is a avi clip of the star and no crawl text at all.

Really do hate softwares with too many icons haha, long live avisynth.

Since there isn’t any subtitles I need a quick favour.

Changes were made in Ren/Snoke dialogue with

• 38. Cut mention of Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon from Snoke’s dialogue

This is the current subs.

00:39:39,455 --> 00:39:41,371 There’s something more.
00:39:42,468 --> 00:39:46,932 The droid we seek is aboard the Millennium Falcon.
00:39:47,588 --> 00:39:50,549 In the hands of your father…
00:39:50,550 --> 00:39:54,684 Han Solo.
00:39:57,014 --> 00:39:59,516 He means nothing to me.
00:39:59,517 --> 00:40:04,607 Even you, master of the Knights of Ren…
00:40:04,939 --> 00:40:08,698 have never faced such a test.

Can someone please tell me what are the new dialogue.

SW-ANH

Time 2:24 to 2:26 space suddenly turned blue, is it suppose to be like that? Just thinking it was horrid to watch.
Time 16 to 17 minutes, wireframes above certain droids?

Animaxx said:

cm said:

JadedSkywalker said:

Not to derail the thread but i wasn’t aware there was a good source for Babylon 5. The DVD is fake widescreen and you cannot find the original 4:3 ratio version on DVD.

And with frame blending due to the special effects you cannot restore 24 fps.

As for SG1 i hope you use the uncut pilot film and not the censored directors cut version.

What did you meant by ‘fake widescreen’?

B5 was filmed in anamorphic widescreen to allow future proofing on 16/9 tv. There is, as far as i know, no original 4:3. Watch B5 on TV only and not your computer monitor as the technology is different. The monitor will show B5 in ‘squishing effect.’

Skywalker probably meant that the live-action scenes were filmed in 16:9, but the cgi/vfx were done in 4:3 to save production costs, so when you watch the DVDs the computer generated scenes (space scene, composite shots) were cropped and zoomed in, which caused blurriness and artefacts.

As for my own approach (once I get around to it): I changed my opinion on the VUDU-version. I compared them and in my opinion to much information is lost left/right since the live action has been cropped in the 4:3 version (there is a scene in the episode “Midnight on the Firing Line”, where the B5-guards next to G’Kar almost completely disappear, which does not happen with the DVD-version). Since the cgi/vfx only makes up for about 15-20% of the actual episodes, I’d rather see more from the live action shots; also, my filtering setup would take care of artefacts. As for having a little less space to look at top/bottom of the screen and sometimes ships being zoomed in, I think I could live with that (but that’s a matter of personal taste, I guess).

Yes, CGI were done in 4:3. There is a slight difference between PAL and NTSC. PAL has more ‘information’ at the top of the screen and NTSC at the bottom. When comparing some CGI scenes you can see it. PAL turned out better than NTSC. I made some improvements to the CGI for the first season. Slightly faster, Sharpened/textured graphics using Reshade. Looks good for now. Just hoping someone knows how to improve the explosions etc. Using MadVr helps a lot.

JadedSkywalker said:

Not to derail the thread but i wasn’t aware there was a good source for Babylon 5. The DVD is fake widescreen and you cannot find the original 4:3 ratio version on DVD.

And with frame blending due to the special effects you cannot restore 24 fps.

As for SG1 i hope you use the uncut pilot film and not the censored directors cut version.

What did you meant by ‘fake widescreen’?

B5 was filmed in anamorphic widescreen to allow future proofing on 16/9 tv. There is, as far as i know, no original 4:3. Watch B5 on TV only and not your computer monitor as the technology is different. The monitor will show B5 in ‘squishing effect.’