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

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! 😄