I’m glad to hear it Utinni! A lot hard work has gone into this project over the years and there’s still a lot more work to go!

RELEASED S02E12 - Twilight of the Apprentice V4.1

Downloads

• 4K recolor: rendering
• 1080p recolor: available
• 1080p: available
• Subtitles: available

Changes

• Altered the Intro text slightly - Thanks for the suggestions here AcBagel!
• ADD: 00:12.00 Adjusted the Intro Text timing to allow better time to read it - Thanks TheDimitrios and AcBagel for this suggestion.
• recolored essentially the whole episode (not quite but mostly).
• Fixed all previous audio issues.
• Recolor graded pretty much the entire episode (I only didn’t touch the Atollon shots at the very end)
• rescored the opening with Stranded on Peragus from KOTOR2 - it fits the mood and completely covers any of the cuts I’d made. It also has the right amount of happy but unsettling to it’s sound.
• Added SFX for Rex Hologram shutting off as it was weirdly absent
• CUT 01:22:08 - 01:24:12 - REX: I can be there in two rotations.
• CUT 01:46:00 - 1:50:09 - AHSOKA: There’s always a bit of truth in legends.
• CUT 02:01:07 - 02:02:23 - AHSOKA: Knowledge.
• REPLACED: 01:49:07 - 01:50:22 with frames & audio from previously cut shot.
• CUT 01:58:14 - 02:02:21 - everything after Kanan’s line is GONE.
• Rescored the entry to Malachor to have the Malachor V theme from KOTOR2. I don’t think I need to justify this, it’s Malacahor V’s theme and we see Malachor! hahaha
• added mountain VFX to all Malachor surface shots so it better resembles it’s depiction in KOTOR2.
• Translated the Sith lanugage Ahsoka speaks “Taka zeech ma toka duuwaj” as “The incantation and touch shall open the way.”
• Added force SFX for when the Jedi fall into the planet and survive their fall… it was weirdly absent previously
• Rescored the sequence where Ezra, Kanan and Ahsoka search around the temple tracking the ship with Ebon Hawk Adrift from KOTOR2. I’ve chosen this track as a) it sounds just creepy enough for this section. b) it mirrors the opening of KOTOR2. Our Jedi are stranded and being stalked by an unknown darkside user.
• Rescored the section where our jedi discuss Malachor being a battlefield with a small section of Ancient Graves from KOTOR2.
• Made the Eighth brothers race a Selkath instead of a Terrelian Jango Jumper. This is so I can change his voice lines to something more alien. I felt we needed an alien this episode and we don’t really have one.
  How I made the voice:
  • I took the Selcath dialogue SFX from SWtOR.
  • Added helmet SFX to it.
• Changed what the 8th brother was saying. Pretty much all his lines are rewritten. This is to a) to build a better atmosphere, b) give him more character and c) better tie in with the EU through references.
• ADD 06:06:05 - 00:02:16 - reinserted some previously cut footage of Kanan and Ahsoka running after the new inquisitor (it was cut before because of the flying lightsabers but doesn’t show them and better blends with the cut back to Ezra. So It’s back!
• Rescored Maul’s introduction with his theme from Solo. I don’t think this needs much justification… it’s Mauls theme after all!
• CUT 08:37:01 - 08:42:33 - the episode just didn’t need to show us how Chopper got to the crew after being ordered to do so by Kanan. And it wasn’t worth the extra CGI work to include it so it’s gone.
• Rescored Ezra and Maul’s second conversation scene (on their way to the sith temple) with Old Wounds from KOTOR2. This music is used when you explore Dxun but the music is meant to represent the regrets from the Exile’s past. I thought it was appropriate to reuse here for Mauls regrets. Maul is also an exile, being cast out of the Sith by Sidious, I’ll make further reference to this later but it’s another good parallel.
• CUT 10:44:06 - 10:47:23 - removing this cuts down on a the chopper antics and has a better flow for this episode.
• ADD 10:44:06 - 10:45:17 - add back in the shot of the saber being thrown at Chopper
• FIXED audio of the saber hitting the TIE fighter. I don’t know if any of my mixing killed the audio here or if it was always just completely wrong… Either way, I fixed it by retiming and adding to the saber sfx.
• FIXED the audio of the TIE Advanced here… it just sounded weak but now it doesn’t!
• CUT 10:49:09 - 10:51:22 - Didn’t need more chopper shots and the inquisitor insulting chopper so they’re gone now.
• Rescored Ezra and Maul entering the Sith Temple with Echoes of the Sith from KOTOR2. This music plays when you explore the sith academy ruins on Korriban and feels very appropriate to reuse here as they find a temple entrance.
• Rescored Maul teaching Ezra in front of the Sith Temple with the Korriban Sith Temple theme from KOTOR. As Maul is a sith teaching what he considers his apprentice I thought this music was appropriate. It also sync’s up AWESOMELY for what’s going on. This also continues on after they’ve entered the Temple until Ezra gives Maul his real name.
• Rescored Ezra getting the Sith Holocron with Kriea’s theme (as in this edit its Kreia’s Holocron) AND with Kriea’s fall again. Both from KOTOR2. Reusing music associated with Kriea here and also eludes to Ezra connecting with Maul I think is a good creative choice.
• I also added in the Sith Holocron talking noises from KotOR2. In general, this holocron is a lot more “chatty” now.
• Rescored the moment when Maul catches Ezra with The Perfect Trap from KOTOR2. This is the moment when Ezra begins to trust Maul. Even though he gave his name to him before. And all of this is a trap to turn Ezra to the darkside so I think this musical nod is appropriate. The music also creates suspense (as the original show did).
• CUT 19:46:03 - “Hey what are you laughin’ at?” from Kanan and it didn’t work with my new dialogue and SFX for the eighth brother.
• added sith holocron talking noises from KotOR2 while Maul uses the holocron to open the doors.
• Rescored the first fight with everyone vs the inquisitors with Battle of Malachor V from KOTOR2, I also managed to sneak the opening of Duel of the Fates over Mauls introduction because it just felt right! (Thanks AcBagel for that suggestion)
• Made the 8th brother call Darth Maul, “The Exile” now instead of “The Shadow”. The exile is an obvious reference to the KotOR2 protag.
• Added a force jump SFX to the inquisitors now jumping away instead of relying on them flying away with the helicopter sabers…
• Rescored The conversation Ezra, Ahsoka, Kanan, and Maul have with Enter Darth Maul from the Phantom Menace. This part was really lacking music, and here Maul is manipulating the Jedi to helping his cause so it made sense to use his music here.
• Rescored Kanan and Ezra’s conversation while ascending the Temple with Past, Present, and Future from KOTOR2. This music is meant to symbolise a journey AND it plays in a Sith temple so I thought it was quite fitting for this moment.
• Added the same force jump SFX to the new inquisitor when he ambushes Ezra and Kanan.
• CUT 24:53:21 - 24:57:10 - Wanted to speed up the new inquisitor almost killing Ezra. It was weirdly slow, probably to build tension.
• CUT 24:55:19 - 24:56:20 - Cut for the same reason as above. This sequence needed to be sped up to be believable. Otherwise the Inquisitor SHOULD HAVE DEFINITELY KILLED EZRA.
• Rescored the moment Maul helps Ezra up with Past, Present, and Future from KOTOR2. Adding this nice little beat here musically suggests that Ezra could fall and go with Maul instead of staying with Kanan.
• Rescored the moment Mauls talks his way into being alone with Ezra with Darth Maul and his Sith Speeder from The Phantom Menace. I just needed some more maul themed music and this fit well enough!
• I rescored Maul and Ezra’s lift ride with Darth Sion’s theme from KOTOR2. The parallels between Sion and Maul are pretty great. They’re both rage filled (enough to keep them alive) and are used as warriors AND he’s explaining how the darkside is ruthless so it seemed to fit pretty well.
• Rescored the fight with the inquisitors with the Malachor V Battle theme from KOTOR2. I thought it was nice to keep that battle theme associated with the inquisitors.
• Rescored Maul trying to get Ezra to give into the darkside with Meeting with Palpatine Part 1 and Part 2 from Revenge of the Sith. I wanted to highlight the connections between Maul and Palpatine as sith in this moment and call back to how Palpatine manipulated Anakin. This music also plays when Maul senses Vader approaching the planet, which also further justifies its inclusion.
• Rescored the final inquisitor fight with the end of Battle on Malachor V from KOTOR2.
• Rescored the Holocron going into the obelisk with Kriea’s fall.
• CUT 29:18:03 - 29:29:04 - to cut the eighth brothers death by flying lightsaber. (Stole this from EddieDean, thanks buddy!)
• Updated the Kreia Holocron voice with the help of AcBagel!
• MOVED the shots of the sith temple and Ezra entering it earlier to cover the eights brother dying.
• Added mountain VFX to shot of the sith temple firing into the air.
• Added dramatic color shift here too, now everything goes RED!
• Rescored Kanan fighting Maul with Binary sunset from A New Hope instead of nothing! Binary Sunset is the force theme, and Kanan HAS to rely on the force here so it fits really well.
• Rescored the 2nd Holocron scene with Kreia’s theme from KOTOR2.
• Rescored Vader’s entrance with the darkside theme from KOTOR2.
• Fixed Vader’s TIE SFX so now you can hear it AND it echoes through the caves.
• Rescored Vader’s fight with Ezra with The Final Battle from KOTOR2. It nicely ties back to the inquisitor’s using the Malachor battle music AND is more ominous. Kreia is the master of the Sith Triumvirate and it plays in her final battle. Vader is the master of the inquisitors so it can play here too.
• Rescored Vader and Ahoska’s meeting with Old Wounds from KOTOR2. Similar reasoning as when I used this earlier for Maul but this time ignoring the fact that Vader isn’t an Exile, it’s more about the old wounds part.
• Rescored Ezra and Kanan reuniting with Past, Present and Future. A good musical call back to using this with them earlier (and to using it with maul too). The first time it plays it represents the past with Kanan, the second the present with Maul and now the future with Kanan.
• Rescored Vader trying to take back the Holocron with Anakin’s dark deeds from revenge of the sith. I wanted more ominous music (which this does) AND I wanted to connect Vader musically to Anakin BEFORE Ahsoka falls for his ploy. It makes the whole moment feel more believable because the music tells us Anakin will try to kill Ahsoka. The original did this with Vader just having Sith eyes but NOW the lack of sith eyes reads as a ploy to draw Ahsoka in to her death (which I like more)

I’ve started rendering Twilight of the Apprentice. It wont be long now until you all can see it! 😄

I’ve given the rebels speech more thought and I think it makes perfect sense without editing! (Not that it’s in my edit)

What we’re seeing in Rebels is the propagandised version of Mons speech. That’s why the speech is more about slandering the Emperor then defending the people of Gormon.

I’ll ignore Gilroy’s comments (that may be the writers reason for changing it but that doesn’t mean it’s be the lore reason). The Empire wanted to shut down Mons speech in the senate… So why would they rebroadcast it later? Because word got out about what she said, so they changed it to seem more like a baseless attack on Palpatine! Its 5D gaslighting on a galactic scale…

Thought I’d share this thought! Haha

Acbagel said:

Everyone, get hyped for the Twilight of the Apprentice update! I’ve seen the draft version and it’s absolutely a gamechanger for elevating the content. Can’t wait for you all to see it too!

It’s gonna be great once I’ve given it that extra polish! 😄

Also g00b, what do you think about replacing the dialogue of Mon Mothma’s speech in S3E18 (not sure where in your series that falls) with the speech from Andor last night? There’s an odd lack of continuity between them now, but I don’t think it would be too hard to bring the Andor audio into that holotransmission to fix that!

Lucky for this edit, I’ve cut that episode entirely! And now the latest sets of Andor episodes, it really doesn’t need to be included at all. Overall that episode didn’t do much to continue the plot for the main crew and you really don’t feel it’s loss in my edit either! haha

Its definitely a cool concept! A fun watch for sure!

Although even if animated to fit the rebels style, it’d break the flow and feeling of the episodes ending.

My biggest problem with the video is the tiny little Palpy! It seems plausible that he’d talk to Vader like that… But I think it’s silly 😂

I’ve collected a good amount of feedback for my twilight of the apprentice overhaul but haven’t had much time to implement it yet!

That episode is going to go HARD once it’s complete and I’m very excited to share it when it’s ready 😃

FredBugg2Gs said:

Link? please and thanks! Excited to check this out.

PM sent 😃

fate467 said:

Hi can i get a link to this fan edit please?

PM Sent 😃

WtarSars said:

I’ve been folllwoing this project off and on for awhile, I think what your doing is great! I just cant keep up with the updates and changes of the files. Is there a master breakdown list that shows your progress so far and what is 100% done?

Kind of??? I’ve got my spreadsheet which will track episode version and for a polished watching experience I’m almost done but all that being said, I still jump around the series to tweak, change things 😂 the first page will link to my changelogs which documents what’s new.

So does it tell you what’s 100% done? No not really 😂 but I’ll make a post here when I’m finally happy and it’s finished. Then it’d just be bug fixes past that!

yoshif8tures said:

I’d love to see it!

PM sent 😃

If anyone wants to see twilight of the apprentice early and give me feedback. Shoot me a PM 😃

aGreatHumanBeing said:

Nice touch! But I think the “y” looks a bit weird?

I agree but that’s just how it looks in the Old Republic font (Which was the closet I could find to KOTOR2’s font). If you have any font suggestions that’d be great though!

RELEASED S01E04 - Empire Day V4.4

Downloads

• 4K recolor: uploading
• 1080p recolor: available
• 1080p: available
• Subtitles: available

Changes

• Added various animal SFX
• Made old Jho speak Ithorese
• Redubbed Stormtroopers
  • special guest voice StarWarsStory
  • special guest voice EddieDean
• Fixed audio mixing between a few cuts.
• Fixed the audio for good!

I’ve found a way to make the subtitles (forced or otherwise) look pretty authentic while remaining customisable in your video player (I.e., you can change size, change the color and font if you don’t like how they look and turn them off and on bc they’re not hardcoded in). It’s a small improvement but I think it’s one worth doing! It also allows me to make the subtitles (forced or otherwise) look like KOTOR2 for the Twilight of the Apprentice episode, which I think is a nice touch!

Normal look - Forced (Alien translation)

Twilight of the Apprentice - English Subtitles

Book 5 is your best edit yet! Can’t wait to see Book 6! If you stream your editing process some more I’ll be there to hassle you in chat haha!

Won’t be long before some new releases. I’m rendering out my Twilight of the Apprentice overhaul to watch, review and send to other faneditors for some extra feedback! I’ll post some more screenshots to share with the finalised designs soon! 😄

All the 4K files and everything are reuploaded and all the links on the spreadsheet are now fixed 😃

For full disclosure this process uses AI but it does not use any kind of AI generation and isn’t possible to this degree without it.

This tutorial uses 1 tool with an extra plugin.
Ultimate Voice Remover - A free opensource AI audio separating program.
Cinematic Sound Demixing - The model used to separate the music and the sound effects

Install UVR (Ultimate Voice Remover) and download CSD (Cinematic Sound Demixing).

Navigate to where you installed UVR and open “models\Demucs_Models\v3_v4_repo”. From here you’ll likely see two files. For me, these files are “955717e8-8726e21a.th” and “htdemucs.yaml”

Screenshot of the folder

Copy a single .th file into this directory. For this example I’ve used “97d170e1-a778de4a.th” and then copy “htdemucs.yaml”, paste the copy in this directory and rename it. I’ve renamed mine to “Cinematic_Sound_Demixing.yaml”

Screenshot of added files

Now open “Cinematic_Sound_Demixing.yaml” - to open it, I use notepad++. It should read “models: [‘955717e8’]” change this to “models: [‘97d170e1’]”. Now we’re ready to open UVR.

Screenshot of Edited File

Open UVR and use Select Input to chose the track you wish to separate the SFX and music. Use Select Output to specify the outfit of the separated audio. Choose Process Model “Demucs” and then Demucs Model “Cinematic_Sound_Demixing” (This will be whatever you named the .yaml file). Once that’s all selected, make sure the other settings are to your liking and press “Start Processing”.

If you receive and error here, don’t be alarmed. Just check your Output folder.

In your output folder you should have a (Bass), (Drums) and (Other) version of your original file. From what I can tell, Bass is the separated SFX, Drums are the music and Other is voice.

From here, you can import your sound effects and new audio for the scene you’re rescoring!

Some things to keep in mind
This works best with stereo audio, so if you’re editing 5.1 like I do, just export out 2 channels at a time and patch them back together before importing them back into your project.

Terabox files are temporarily down. No idea what happened but all my files on terabox are deleted. So I’ll slowly get those links back up 😂

Edit:
Looks like the account got hacked and all my files got deleted and only “recover from Terabox.exe” remained. No way in hell I’m downloading and opening that file! No worries there though, I only had the edit up. In short it might be a little bit until all the 4K versions are available again. They’re all uploading now but then I’ve got to put the individual links in the spreadsheet. I’ve updated the folder encase I don’t get to updating the individual file links fast enough.

This also means the non recolored versions are also down! but to be honest, those versions are mostly for other faneditors! hahaha

EddieDean said:

Goob, are you cutting out the helicopter blades? I found an elegant solution in my Rebels Ahsoka-focused movie.

Most of the time yes! There are some instances where you can’t really (new inquisitor flying up the lift of the temple) & the new inquisitor dying.

But it’s not as goofy anymore because you don’t see them flying with it and the only time you do see flying the Saber breaks and the inquisitor dies.

I’ll rewatch your Ashoka-focused movie and see what you did!

Edit:

• We use the same cut to remove the first flying saber silliness! haha
• I’ve managed to cut more of the inquisitors flying away then you when they escape Maul, Kanan and Ahsoka.
• I’ve managed to cut more of the inquisitor flying up the lift as well! 😄 (but I suppose you could call this a force jump)
• Oh! Wow! Having the new Inquisitor scream off screen instead of showing him flying is a GREAT fix. I’ma steal that thanks Eddie. With this, those silly flying sabers will be GONE (almost completely) from my edit 😃

Okay, so the work for the Collab with Acbagel is complete. But that work also led to me reworking Malachor in Rebels. I’m thinking I’ll release these episodes around the same time (the darksaber episode first as it’ll be quicker to upscale the reedited sections).

They’re not too related but when the darksaber mythos referres to Malachor V. I want the viewers to picture what that planet is in KOTOR2, not so much what we got in Rebels. Hence why I’m going to the effort to fix the aesthetics of Malachor.

I’ve also been rescoring to add in some KOTOR2 music, as well as adding extra sound effects to help change the vibe of the planet.

And, as always, I’ve found some more cuts and changes to enhance the flow of the episode too.

I’ve already changed the color grading from the screenshots I’ve shown off to be a touch greener, less saturated and to punch those reds out a bit more. I’ll share more screenshots when I’ve finalised the look of the planet.

It’s safe to say, twilight of the apprentice is going to have a completely different vibe by the time I’m done! Haha

Here are some before and after screen shots of my rework of Malachor to Malachor V

Before

After

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After

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After

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After

If anyone is interested in previews (more then I show off here) Acbagels YT Channel contains little previews here and there that I’ve sent him. (They only appear in his live streams!)

Collab with Acbagel is going well. Getting close to a release 😃

In the meantime the changed lore is leading to changes in other episodes.

Malachor V in Twilight of the apprentice is coming!