Daiyus said:

EddieDean said:

If I remember right, Rebels never uses subtitled language, even for characters we haven’t ever seen using Basic before. But who cares! It’s your edit buddy. It sounds like a nice touch, and honestabe’s idea is a good one.

I think this was generally due to the younger target audience, and works well in that context. I also agree that a little bit of native language thrown in for flavour would be a nice touch, given the aims and direction of the project. The concept gives me Firefly vibes when they slip into Chinese to utter curses or frustration.

Eddie and Daiyus that’s right! The only character in Rebels who didn’t speak basic was Tseebo in season 1 (if my memory serves). And he had Sabine translating for him. I’ve been on a mission to add in more alien language to rebels recently as I think it makes the show feel more star warsy. Forced subtitles in these moments also gives me more room for story changes (if need be). I’ve already done something like this with the first episode! 😃

So far I haven’t had a good opportunity for Ruhk but if I get a chance to have him speak his language I’m going to use it!

TaggedIn13 said:

hey there! can i get a link? I would love to check this out, the recolor work looks incredible!

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Thanks for that feedback honestabe. Honestly that seems to be the most reasonable approach. If I come across Ruhk thinking (I don’t think he does) or if he’s surprised I’ll use his language. I’m hesitant to change his language when angry as I think that’ll be a touch too jarring. It hints that he can speak more than just basic (bringing back the alien) and keeps him interacting with everyone easily. So far I’ve cut most of his lines anyway as it was mostly him bickering with Pryce bahaha and that seems to have added the seriousness that I felt was missing from his character. It also makes him feel more competent (even if he’s not).

Thanks for the feedback justinbailey!

I was under the impression he speaks Honoghr as well as basic and AI chatbots seems to agree with me (not that that’s much of a source 😂😂😂).

I try to use both legends and canon to help inform my decisions for this edit. If you’ve got a source or reason why he can’t speak / doesn’t speak Honoghr that’d be great! I’m struggling to find a lot of information on this 😃

I do think it could be jarring however. I’ll wait to hear some more input before making a final decision on this idea but thanks again for your feedback 😃

I’m looking for the input on a decision. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m on a mission to add the alien into star wars rebels through things such as making Alien’s speak their own language. I’m currently working on scenes with Rukh and thought initially to make him speak entirely in Honoghr. What does that sound like? I’ve got no idea but I was going to use the Dosh (Trandoshan language) as a place to start and see what I could come up with. As I researched, I found out that the Noghri can speak basic quite effectively.

So, I came up with an idea. What if sometimes Rukh speaks basic, and other times he speaks Honoghr. I’m not too sure I can connivingly pull this off yet but I thought I’d put feelers out there for this idea before I try to make it happen.

If I went with this idea, I’d obviously put some rules in that determine when he uses which language. I’m thinking at this stage it could be a respect thing. I.e., if he respects you, he’ll use your language. If not, you have to understand him.

Secondly, do you think this change would be too jarring for audiences when watching?

Love to get some feedback on this!

I have now recreated all the footage I’ve lost for the episode version of the movie I’m currently putting together for Season 4! I’m very happy to have all that footage back and workable with all my edits!

And don’t worry, I’ve backed all this work up this time! If anything happens I’ll at least come back to this point again! hahaha

Ghobot21 said:

May I have the link please?
Thank you

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tommy7 said:

Congrats on the upcoming wedding!

Thanks! Just happened last Sunday though I won’t be back at it for a little while longer.

This edit sounds awesome, would you be able to send me the link at your convenience?

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I’m sorry to say you probably won’t see many updates form me for a while. I’m getting married soon, with that on top of university and parental responsibilities I haven’t had much time to edit recently. Rest assured, I’ll be right back at it in time! The movie is really looking good so far!

While that does sound like an incredible idea, alas I’m a poor student with little money to my name! I’ve been doing this project on what is probably now a 10 year old PC and what money I’ve got goes towards what I need to edit hahaha

Thanks for the suggestion honestabe and justinbailey627! I do typically keep the files backed up, it’s mostly because they were new that I hadn’t gotten around to it yet haha.

After spending a few days away from the project, I’ve thought of how I can relatively easily recreate the footage I lost for the episode so I’ll likely be back on track in a few days for both versions. It’s frustrating but I’ve been reminding myself it could have been much worse, I haven’t really lost anything! (At least I’ve still got all my source files!)

Staggeringly said:

I would love to be able to see this edit! Are you still able to share?

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Hey guys, I’ve had a hard drive fail on me and have ALMOST lost all the work I’d done of the movie and I did lose everything my work for the episode varient. I’ve kept notes of all my changes and I’m thankful the movie has been recovered in full (though not as workable as it once was). Unfortunately what was lost was my project files for these two edits. I’ve been able to recover the movie as I’d renders out everything I’d edited recently (LUCKILY!) so I can check how the new aspect ratio looks on different screens.

Looking on the bright side this hasn’t affected any of my other edits, but it’s pretty disheartening and motivation killing for what I’m currently working on.

At this stage I think I’ll release just the movie as to get the episodes back I have to recreate everything (apart from the audio) which is a bit tedious. I might change my mind later on but for now I’m going to focus on just editing a movie/s for the final arks of the show.

aGreatHumanBeing and justinbailey627, thanks for the feedback! I think you’re both correct. The text did feel a touch off and I think it is the amount of words. I think you’re suggestion to increase the information provided is a good one justinbailey627 but I’m not 100% sure about your proposed wording. I can’t believe I missed putting grand admiral in there 😂 so that will definitely be included.

I’ve decreased the size of the crawl text slightly and rewritten the text based on your provided suggestions:

The evil Galactic Empire reigns.
Pockets of rebellion struggle
for survival, scattered across
the vast galaxy.

GRAND ADMIRAL THRAWN has
begun construction on a new
starfighter, the TIE defender. It
is far more powerful than the
original design, equipped with
impressive speed and a vicious
weapon arsenal. Thrawn has
hidden the factory for their
construction on Lothal, a planet
in the distant fringes of the
Outer Rim.

As the desperate inhabitants of
Lothal continue to suffer, two
Jedi Knights return to their
small band of rebels based on
Yavin IV…

I’m reluctant to change the final paragraph as it mirrors the official crawls in terms of language and information provided but if I get enough feedback that says to change it, I will! Haha

How it looks:

Looking to get some feedback on the title crawl I’ve put together for the rebels season 4 movie. Please give me feedback on anything from the content of the crawl to how it looks!

https://youtu.be/W1VgpbSXn48

Crawl text:
The Galactic Empire reigns.
The Rebellion desperately
struggle for their survival,
scattered across the
galaxy.

ADMIRAL THRAWN has
begun construction on a
new TIE fighter. One that
is more powerful than the
original design. He has
hidden the factory for
constructing them on
Lothal, a planet in the
fringes of the Outer Rim.

As the citizens of Lothal
continue to suffer, two Jedi
Knights return to their small
band of rebels based on
Yavin IV…

Alright! looks like this idea is being widely enjoyed. For now I’ll continue as if I’ll release both episode and movie versions (the only difference in which will be presentation, maybe a tiny amount of content difference). For now I’ll list what I’m thinking below as a structure for the movie

Opening title crawl (brand new, will be made by me) which pans down into empty space

The Ghost enters from hyperspace and cut to shots of the ghost above Yavin IV. I’m looking at ways to slow this down to give a more traditional star wars movie feel to the opening. Any suggestions here would be good as there’s not a lot of footage to work with.

S04E05 The Occupation: We then begin and continue through all of the episode. This whole episode is how they get to Lothal and what they find when they arrive. Very strong episode and a clear introduction. The final scenes of this episode lead directly into the next with Ryder talking about the TIE defender factory and scoping out the threat.

S04E06 Flight of the Defender: We’ve then got the crew scoping out the TIE defender in the little outpost which leads into Sabine stealing the flight recorder and information from the TIE defender which leads Ezra and Sabine needing to escape which results in Ezra encountering the lothwolf. During this encounter Ezra hides the TIE defender information in the Lothal mountains which leads nicely into the next episode.

S04E07 Kindred: Where they need to recover the information hidden by Ezra while encountering the lothwolf and they escape the Empire with the aide of the lothwolves by going deep into the mountains during a bombardment. (episode structure would end here ready for next episode like how it is currently)

S04E08 Crawler Commandeers: We then continue on the other side of Lothal, the crew find what has been burning up the Lothal landscape and we get scenes of Hera talking with Rebel command on Yavin IV, preparing to attack. The crew then steal the crawler and free Vizago who was captured at the beginning of the film when they landed on Lothal.

S04E09 Rebel Assault: The Rebels attack the TIE Defender factory and fail. Hera is nearly killed and captured.

S04E10 Jedi Night: The crew rescues Hera and Kanan makes the ultimate sacrifice to shut down the TIE defender factory.

Honestly, there doesn’t seem much room to move any events around. It feels quite connected and tightly packed but any structural suggestions would be great.

There’s also possibly some room to incorporate the start of S04E11 at the very end just to heighten the loss felt by the crew and provide a clear more directed opening for the next episode (or maybe movie, we’ll see)

I’ve had an interesting idea for the remainder of season 4 and wanted to get more thoughts on it. A lot of the Lothal ark seems to play out like a movie and unlike the rest of the show, I actually think it could be worked into a film. Honestly, revisiting this long ark with this in mind makes me think there was going to be a movie but they decided against it. Most episodes pick up from where the last one left off (which is quite rare for rebels unless it’s a two part episode) AND at the beginning of this ark we are reintroduced to the characters/their goals/their relationships/their previous presence on Lothal. This doesn’t make much sense in a TV show but if you’re making a movie and consider that the audience watching may not have seen the show, it certainly makes a lot of sense.

My current The TIE Defender and Assault on the factory episodes could be combined for a more “movie” like episode with the final part of the film being the S04E10: Jedi Night. This would also leave room for potentially another feature length episode with the remaining episodes but I’m not too sure about that yet.

If I go down this route, I would likely reframe every shot to give it a more cinematic resolution and add film grain for that extra bit of authenticity as well as make a traditional star wars opening crawl for it. What does everything think about this season in particular?

RELEASED S01E03 - Old Masters V4.3

Downloads

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

Changes from V4.2

• Redubbed Stormtroopers from 12:22:06 - 12:35:01
  • Thanks honestabe for the feedback that led to this change! 😄
• Minor audio tweaks throughout the episode to smooth things out
• Added more creature sounds to the shots of Lothal.

drakesepi0l said:

Hi! sounds great, could I get a link?

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RELEASED S01E02 - Familial Bonding V4.4

Downloads

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

Changes from V4.3

• Fixed the introduction text to make it shorter and readable in the allotted time.
• Reinstated some footage from Fighter Flight to better set the scene of Ezra and Zeb arriving in a town with a market.
• Moved Sabine’s scene about wanting to go on the next FULCRUM mission to around the 4 minute mark to better help the connectedness of the episode. Now at 4 minutes we check back on the Ghost and Sabine, again at 8 minutes and return at 14ish minutes.
• Removed pointless lines during the Zeb and Ezra chase sequence to keep the action flowing
• Cut the TIE pilots stupid reaction to Zeb jumping on his fighter.
• Cut line “all for fruit” from Ezra and kept the shot
• Cut the scene with Hera flying the Phantom and fighting the TIE Fighters
• Reinstated footage of Zeb and Ezra working on the Phantom from Into Darkness to finish their story ark and better blend the two episodes together.
• Added various wildlife sound effects to Lothal scenes.

PsyGemini said:

One thing I think we miss a bit in this project is the “Sabine was with the Empire for some time” subplot.

I think it’s just briefly mentioned once or twice, and then… comes the first episode of the fourth season with the big “Sabine is the one that built the mandalorian killing weapon” twist, and at the least to me it was… “wait what, Sabine was with the Empire? where’s that coming from again?”.

Maybe a little bit more of this subplot could be added? I think there’s an episode that was skipped that focus specifically on this? Don’t remember if it’s any good though!

Anyway, just brainstorming!

I’ll keep this in mind and check a few episodes for usable footage!

The new episode 2 should already help this out just through structure changes. The first thing for Sabine we see in this episode is her being distrustful and she says it’s because she was in the Empire. This should make that detail stick out more even if I can’t find anything else to add in 😃

Warhorn said:

I would really like to watch this cut of the series. Can you DM me a link, please? Thanks in advance! 😃

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I think I’ve fixed up S01E02. Essentially, I was using the wrong parts of each episode. Now, I think they flow together nicely and feel like a cohesive story, sharing themes and arks.

I’ve reinstated Zeb and Ezra going through the Lothal market so we can see the tension between the two as well as be told about it in the intro text. I’ve reordered some scenes so we hear about Sabines mistrust plot within the first five minutes so it’s not forgotten by the time we get to it halfway through the episode like it was before. It’s placement now mirrors Zeb and Ezra’s ark, showing the mistrust both groups have for each other. I’ve cut the Phantom chase scene that opens Into Darkness and reinstated Zeb and Ezra working together to fix the phantom (but failing due to Chopper). This addition works nicely to blend the two episodes together as it forms the conclusion for Zeb and Ezra’s fighting. Now they’re working together… albeit against Chopper and still failing but it works!

I look forward to feedback on it once I get it released for everyone! 😄

bill55 said:

Would love to get a link to check this out! Thanks!

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Thanks Eddie, it’s been a very fun process working out how to do all of this. I’m also very determined to make this show as good as it can be! I’m also feeling like I’m getting close to this show being as good as it can be, so that’s also awesome. 😄