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

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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!

honestabe said:

Working with acbagel to align this show with his excellent Way of Mandalore is absolutely spectacular news. This whole edit has taken leaps and bounds these last few years. Every time I think there cannot possibly be more, we get a new surprise.

I’m determined to produce the best Rebels edit I can! The show has such potential and falls just short.

Best wishes to both of you on the edit and your personal lives as well.

Thanks mate! The editing is going well and so is my personal life!

Fun news!

I’m collaborating with Acbagel to a) slightly rework the Darksabers backstory to make our edits compatible and b) give a more lore rich breakdown of the weapon in S03E05 - The Darksaber of Mandalore.

Acbagels helping rewrite the dialogue and sort out the voice lines for me and I’m changing and adding to the animation.

All these changes are going to take place in the sequence where Fenn Rau tells Kanan about the darksaber and why it’s important to the Mandalorians.

^ Here is a little sneak peak from the new animation I’ll be inserting into this scene. (It’s totally not finalised at all yet!)

If you haven’t seen Acbagels The Way of Mandalore project, I highly recommend it! It’s awesome! 😄

RELEASED S01E03 - Old Masters V4.4

Downloads

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

Changes

• Fixed the audio for good!

RELEASED S01E02 - Familial Bonding V4.5

Downloads

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

Changes

• 11:30:10 - 11:33:13 (CUT 00:03:03) “Okay you can do this” - as pointed out this line is redundant with Ezra celebrating that he’d get the hang of it immediately after.
• 23:03:03 - 23:08:05 - Took feedback that this wipe was a bit odd going from Hera and Sabine to a different shot of Hera and Sabine. To fix this I’ve swapped the order of this initial shot (that I wipe to) and the shot of the asteroid. So we wipe to the asteroid, then get the establishing shot for context about the shadow. I also sped up this wipe as it was a little slow.
• Fixed the audio for good!

RTXmate said:

Hello Man. Can you PM me the links? Your edit sounds fantastic and I wanna check it out.

PM Sent. Hope you enjoy what I’ve done mate 😃

RELEASED S01E01 - Spark of Rebellion V4.11

Downloads

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

Changes

• Fixed shot at the beginning with Hera moving the ghost towards Lothal as you could see stars going in the wrong direction.
• Fixed the VFX of the Ghost in the establishing shot of Lothal directly after as it was obvious it didn’t belong to that shot. It now looks like it’s always been in this shot.
• cut 13:08:17 - 13:09:20 (00:01:03 CUT) - Tua saying “I saw 5”
• cut 13:12:04 - 13:13:17 (00:01:13 CUT)- Tua saying “An old C1 droid”
• Both these cut lines didn’t make sense as Tua couldn’t possibly have seen chopper as he was on the Ghost with Hera. Granted this was my fault in the first place for replacing Kallus’ introduction in this episode but regardless, this scene now makes sense! 😄
• Fixed the audio for good!!!
• Fixed timing issue with the subtitles going out of sync like 10 minutes in.

S04E03 - Assault on the Factory is now released!

The next thing I’ll likely release is ANOTHER version of the first episode… There’s a few reasons for this. Mainly, I’ve found a way to properly fix the audio rather then just mask mistake after mistake after mistake until it sounds good. So all my episode rereleases should sound perfect again instead of pretty good! AND there is some VFX work in that episode I’m just not happy with. It was the best I could do at the time but I’ve come along way since then! 😄

I should be releasing S04E03 - Assault on the Factory - V4 fairly soon (within 24 hours). I’ll be running it through handbrake while I sleep then updating the metadata when I wake up, then uploading it!

I’ve now released S04E02 - The Tie Defender V4! S04E03 is still to come 😃

EddieDean said:

Season two subtitles have been added, thanks to g00b ❤️

Included in these subs are translations of all alien dialogue! Some translations are quite direct (as much as we can decipher anyway) and others are creative interpretations.

If you’re interested in just the translations and not the full subtitles, check the subtitle folder link for the season on the tracker spreadsheet and then download the “.forced.en” subs 😃

Just an update: I haven’t worked much on this project since getting the movie released. I’ve mostly been focusing my editing time on other projects however I’m currently working to get the episode versions of the movie released sometime in the near future. They’re all edited, I’ve just got to work on chapters, subtitles, then get them compressed and uploaded.

Rengokuzan007 said:

This is awesome I have been following this fan edit for a while can I get a PM link pls

PM Sent 😃

RELEASED S04M01 - Shadow of Lothal V4

Downloads

• 4K recolor: available
• Subtitles: available
• S04E02 - The Tie Defender and S04E03 - Assault on the Factory, episode variants: available

Changes

S04E02 / Movie Part 1 -

• cut title card
• rescored opening to blend well with the traditional crawl and kept it for both versions (episode and movie) as I liked it more than the original score.
• cut Ezra’s line “no!” when he has his vision but kept the footage
• cut Zeb saying “What is that, clone humour?”
• cut Zeb arguing with Vizago about how many times he’s had a TIE fighter escort.
• cut the sequence of Chopper making fun of the crew
• cut fade to black
  • trimmed prior shot so the music could blend together nicely for a smooth transition between shots.
• cut Ezra complaining about his younger image being used.
  • cut dialogue of Sabines response but kept the shot so she makes them both keep moving.
• cut Ezra introducing Jai as for this edit, this is when they’re first meeting.
• cut the death troopers talking in basic and replaced it with their normal sound.
• cut fade to black
• trimmed next shot to help audio flow after previous cut
• cut the death trooper talking basic and replaced it with their normal sound (again for the next shot he spoke)
• cut Ezra referencing Saw Guerera in the sewers
• Fixed the Deathtrooper audio again before he enters the sewers
• slowed the ship down in the last scene of the first episode to give me more footage to wipe to the next episode with.
• screenshotted and recoloured a sable frame of the Lothal wilderness to use as a wipe destination before the lothcats reappear.
• cut Ryder and the rest of the gang talking about the “new” TIE defender and that its strong then the one they previously seen as in my edit this ark was cut.
  • as an aside, I’m fine with Mon Mothma having experienced the TIE defender before as she’s a minor character in Rebels but the Ghost crew encountering it should be onscreen. Hence my decision here versus my decision not cutting Mon Mothma’s line earlier.
• cut Sabine saying “do you see it now Zeb?”
• cut title card
• redubbed and drastically cut down the Loth-cat attack on the stormtroopers gag.
• cut a bunch of needless shots that setup the ad break and trimmed the shot that pans down to Thrawns transport ship for flow reasons.
• cut “are you crazy?” “Don’t just stand their jump!” from between Ezra and Sabine.
• cut Ryder and Zeb staying behind to watch the chaos after being ordered to return to base??? no idea why they did this.
• cut the stormtroopers chasing the loth-cats (why did we even return to this horrible gag!)
• cut Sabine “remembering” the TIE defender has a killswitch… such a stupid oversight and in this edit she never finds that out… until now of course.
• cut fade to black
• cut establishing shot of the fighter crash site
• Swapped the opening sequence of Kanan and Hera with the next sequence with Pryce informing Thrawn of their progress to better blend the two episodes
• cut the title crawl
• cut “I smell it” - “You smell what” - “I smell Lasat” exchange and just kept Ruhk sniffing.
• added in missing sniff sound effects
• cut “we’ve checked out this area and we’re reporting, should we continue the search” “no” exchange. too much sniffing not enough action. Ruhk is on a mission and he’s not slowing down even to heighten the tension.
• cut Ezra “don’t shoot me, shoot him!” just some needless Ezra sass
• cut Ruhk calling Ezra a Jedi as in this edit the Empire is far more clueless about their existence.
• cut Jai asking Ezra if they’re being followed and Ezra’s response…
• cut Zeb responding to Hera about Ezra and Jai to just cut straight to them.
• cut Jai asking how many where following them on the speeder and Ezra giving a nonsense answer with “more than enough”
• cut Ruhk telling Pryce he’s got he base coordinates (we can piece this together from the zoom into the tracker)
• cut fade to black
• cut Ruhk and Pryce bickering on the tank
• cut down Ruhk and Pryce bickering again, now Pryce just takes charge before Ruhk can act.
• cut fade to black
• cut “the empire is bombing the mountains.” yes Ryder, we know that, we can see that!

S04E03 / Movie Part 2 -

• cut title card
• trimmed watching the trandosian miner listening to music
• cut Zeb saying he liked the song
• cut slapstick action of the captain escaping Zeb
• drastically cut down the absurd conversation over com with mining guild
  • Use flowframes to double framerate and half speed of some footage to help with the changes made.
• swapped the footage for the trandosian pirate so Zeb knocks him out immediately after he speaks out and resynced the lines to the new visuals.
• cut fade to black
• cut establishing shot of crawler as it’s not needed now that there is no ad break.
• cut sequence showing the trandosian captain being locked away - it just highlights Sabine and Ezra not listening to Kanan, which is weird at this point in the story.
• moved Hera’s scene at Yavin 4 forward to fill the whole in the fight choreography made by previous cut.
• cut establishing shot of Kanan and Zeb with the freed slaves (no longer needed with the Hera scene moved)
• cut ezra coming out and Vizago feeling betrayed, without the break in the battle it was too awkward to get continuity right instead I took a line from Sabine and put it over for scouting the imperial ships. The next few scenes are pretty cut up and audio was rebuilt until you see the ships out of the scope. I don’t know exactly what I did as it took A LOT of tinkering to get the flow right.
• cut fade to black
• cut scenes of the trandosian captain crawler complaining that Vizago took the captains chair
• cut Ezra saying “all we need is that lizard to start flapping his mouth again” and kept the shot of them hiding as much as possible.
• cut Vizago “gone? I mean see” the empire would be all over him if you said something like that. Just doesn’t make sense.
• cut the entire subplot with the captain of the crawler escaping.
  • We now cut from the Empire ships taking off to Ryder arriving at the Crawler.
• cut title card
• cut Imperial voiced by Filoni questioning Thrawn’s orders.
  • This makes Thrawn much more menacing as a Villain because his troops obey him without question.
  • As an aside, this change felt more needed considering how many higher up imperials actively disobey Thrawn.
• cut fade to black
• cut Ruhks response to Thrawn “It will be done grand admiral”
• cut shots of Hera and Ruhk looking at each other and the fade to black for flow purposes.
• cut title card
• cut fade to black
• cut establishing shot of the Lothal mountains immediately after fade to black as it’s not needed now that there is no ad break.
• cut fade to black
• trimmed both the shot before and the shot after to achieve a smooth blend between scenes with the ad break gone.
• added the opening scene from S04e11
  • Reordered the events having Zeb know about Kanan’s death first and moving the Pryce conversation to second.

Movie only changes:

• Added traditional title crawl
  • used the music from Empire strikes back’s opening
• reframed literally every shot to best fit the new aspect ratio.
• reordered scenes from S04e08 to make Hera’s briefing take place sooner and cut out an establishing shot to better blend S04e07 together.
  • cut Ryder questioning if Hera made it, we don’t need that reminder as it’s not the start of a new episode.
• Added traditional credits
  • used the music from Revenge of the Sith

Episode only changes:

• cut out the exposition about the transmitter at the start of S04E03 as this is partly covered in the intro text

Hey everyone! Thought I’d post an update as it’s been a week and I haven’t released the movie yet hahaha.

It’s probably a couple days away. I’m going to run it through handbreak overnight and then I’ve got to add the final touches to metadata and upload. So shouldn’t be long now!

As teased in my last post, here is the poster for the movie matching the style as the other artwork I’ve done.

The Upscaling process for the film is now complete. I’ll be doing my final watch through, creating chapter markers, then running the movie through HandBreak to have a manageable file size. After those steps it’ll be uploaded and ready for everyone to see! So in other words, I’m hoping I’ll be able to release it within a week 😃

In preparation I’ve made this poster for the movie! (I’ll make another one that fits the style I’ve used for the rest of the series as well)

seandynamite said:

Can you PM a link please?!? This looks amazing!

PM sent 😃

honestabe said:

Will there be major differences between the movie(s) and episodes?

Major? Not really but there will be differences.

There’s the obvious differences like different aspect ratio, film grain and opening crawl (or intro text) and how the credits are presented (traditional vs concept art). There are also some differences in the middle of the film versus how the second episode starts (just for flow purposes).

For example, the movie cuts from Hera with the TIE defender parts from the end of S04E07: Kindred to her talking with the Rebels in S04E08: Crawler Commandeers. The episode however ends in it’s normal place for S04E07: Kindred and the next episode opens normally with S04E08: Crawler Commandeers which then cuts to the scene with Hera at Yavin later on. This was mostly changed because of the difference of format and has some very slightly different cuts due to differences of things needing to be covered (e.g., I don’t need to emphasise the lack of rebels soldiers in the movie because we haven’t stopped watching, but in the episode it’s better to do this. There’s also some expositions cut from the episode as it was better to cover it in the intro text). But this is the biggest change between the movie and episode variants.

I think the movie is the better way to watch this ark but that’s probably because I’ve spent the time to reframe every single shot for the new aspect ratio hahaha

==> Thank you for the continuous hard work. Always appreciated.

No worries there! I’m just excited to get these cuts out there! They’ve spent a long time cooking that’s for sure.

I’ve got 30 or so minutes left to upscale for the movie, and I’ve finally gotten that voice acting I’ve been waiting for! I’ll be sitting down for a final watch through and polish in the near future. At this rate I’ll release the movie first and sometime later release the episode versions.

Heres a comparison shot of the original show vs how the movie edit is looking after my first round of upscaling is complete.

Original:

Movie:

The movie has been reframed to better suit ultrawide resolution to make it feel more filmic, it has been recoloured to give it a more HDR look (same as my regular recolour), upscaled and film grain has been added.

For a better, more direct comparison, see https://imgsli.com/MzQwMzQ3 and as an added bonus https://imgsli.com/MzQwMzUx

With a lighter and darker shot (as seen in the comparison image links above) you should get a good idea of how the grain will look and behave for the film version 😃

The “completed” version of the subs for the Movie version of this edit “Shadow Of Lothal” is now uploaded into the TeraBox subtitles folder for those interested in the subtitles. @justinbailey627 This will be the last subtitles I release until the episodes and movies are themselves released 😃

EddieDean said:

Wow! Absolutely loved watching that, looks like super arduous work but it’s really coming together. It’s always great to see behind the scenes. I’d love to update my Clone Wars episode to include the Canon Project’s content when they’re done (fully credited of course) - do you think the team would be willing to permit that? I’d be eager to get in touch if so.

I’ll have a chat with star wars story for you! 😃

I was going to make a post about it here… I guess I forgot hahaha! If you’re interested in what I’m doing on that project, you can have a look at the “behind the scenes” video I put out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfmvVBAtM-o