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

Before

After

Before

After

Before

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!

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.