Can I get a link to the latest workprint that was distributed? I’m interested in seeing the scenes that were extended. Thanks.
Can you send me a link? I’m interested in this retelling 😄
Does anyone here still have xxtelecine 7xx’s work on removing the timecode from this scene? I really want to get my hands on it, since he made it private?
Same here. I saw a folder with clips, was wondering if I can see all the WIPs and clips. Can someone PM me please if they can share? Thanks!
Oh I would love to use a shot from his channel. It’s real good stuff. Though I’d have to do some more polishing to make it be more seamless considering this shot is amazing and animated.
Boba fett saying “this is the way” too?
I think “Din Djarin standing by” or something like that is doable. I can find some audio that matches.
Ideally, I would like for lines like all three of them saying “for Skywalker!” I could use them for different occasions in the scenes. However, I don’t have access nor ability to use AI voice. If someone wants to collaborate and help me with this, please lmk
I can start with “Din Djarin here to join” or whatever I can piece together with previous footage.
Thanks! Hmm, I can try to remove some lines of pilots dialogue (like maybe boba fett or Nien nub) and see how that works. The audio is something I’m struggling on polishing it up
Thank you for the feedback. You’re absolutely right for the sound mixing. I’ve been solo on this, I’ve spent so much time with the visuals that the audio part is not my strong suit. I have an improved version of the audio. Can u tell me which graphics in particular? So I can do some touch up
Yes, we don’t know which ones may end die or not. But for now I’m safe, and if worst comes to worst, it’ll be my “personal elseworld legends” thingy
Finally, here it is!
https://youtu.be/J017hH8LnQk?feature=shared
Please see the time stamps for the new scenes added. I was able to add some pilot shots. Cleaned up the ROTJ deleted footage and finally was able to age up Crix Madine to the point where I’m satisfied with it for a first pass.
Description of the edited scenes:
Newly made or added clips at
0:05 - Inserted FO TIE pilot inside cockpit prior to transitioning to scene shooting down Snap
0:49 - Rogue One Gillette commercial pilot
0:50 - Hera Syndulla inside Ghost ship rotoscoped onto passing New Republic Cruiser
0:52 - ROTJ Mon Cal pilot with scratches and dust removed, upscaled, color corrected, and to match with audio sync “Mon Calamari fleet standing by”
0:56 - Bo Katan cameo (footage from Mando S3), color corrected to exegol background. “This is the way”
0:57 - ROTJ Nien Nub pilot with scratches and dust removed, upscaled, color corrected
1:07 - Mandalorian inside N1 starfighter. Rotoscoped a shot of Mando inside N1 starfighter with galaxy fleet arrive in background
1:10 - ROTJ Crix Madine footage inserted. This footage is cleaned. Face was aged using FaceApp to generate key frames for ebsynth to age the clip. Pretty rough but pleased with this first pass
1:33 - Mandalorian inside N1 starfighter, performing a spinning maneuver in cockpit in response to Poe calling to take out the star destroyer cannons
1:37 - FO TIE fighter cockpit shot with rotoscoped out of focus exegol background
1:38 - Action FX millennium falcon shooting down FO TIE fighters upscaled, and color corrected to match Exegol background. This scene is a falcon action scene to match before the Wedge cameo saying “nice flying Lando”
1:50 - inserted amazing ILM deleted scene of ships flying to attack Star destroyers. Upscaled and color corrected to match movie original footage
1:56 - ROTJ deleted Mon Cal pilot with dust and scratches removed to match dialogue of “Take out that cannon”
2:07 - A sequence of shots in the order: Side cockpit view of Bo Katan piloting Gauntlet fighter approaching star destroyer cannon, Boba Fett cockpit view rogering that, Outside ship shot of Mandalorian fighters with Slave I with resistance ships blasting a star destroyer cannon, Switch to Bo Katan’s POV blasting star destroyer cannon, to two mandalorian gauntlet fighters flying off from the imminent blowing up destroyer. ~8 seconds long
So, with the advancements with AI to generate new dialogue that fits into the films, I wonder if that could be used for this deleted scene seen in the TROS documentary on the Blu-Ray in order to make it workable for fan edits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpPjvA49ukQ
Obviously, it would have to take some more work seeing that one would have to figure ut what they’re even saying in this scene. Plus, you have the added challenges of green screen replacement in the background. But, this could be a valuable asset if it’s fixed!
I’ve tried taking a stab at seeing if this scene is usable for anything; however, with my limited skills, the scene is too low quality because it’s a zoomed version of something in the corner of the screen in the original documentary. Topaz upscaling didn’t do much for me in bringing the scene to some acceptable quality. Be happy to see if others can get th quality of the footage improved
Thanks! I’m currently working on putting Hera in it, since the ghost ship is present during landos arrival. I found some additional pilot scenes that I can put in there. (Pilot scene from a rogue one Gillette commercial) If you know of any pilot/cockpit scenes from deleted scenes or extra footage, let me know, it’s a lot of footage to sift through. I’m trying to make an effort to not make it just people from the mandoverse showing up.
Hey everyone,
Here is an update I’ve been working on recently. Because the ILM BTS and extended scenes shows some mandalorian fang fighter, gauntlet class ships, I’ve worked on incorporating some of these ships into the battle of exegol, thanks to the tons of footage from Mandalorian season 3. I’ve been working on incorporating Bo Katan, Din and Boba Fett into the mix. While there are tons of footage I can rotoscope and attempt to composite into exegol, I wanted to keep the incorporation of these characters and ships to be brief as quick cameos for fun.
Attached is the youtube link. In the description of the YT video I put in timestamps so you can just jump straight to the new scenes.
https://youtu.be/2Nb43_v7P84?si=AigOe51poBe7DAqA
Description of scenes:
1:07 - Mandalorian inside N1 starfighter. Rotoscoped a shot of Mando inside N1 starfighter with galaxy fleet arrive in background
1:33 - Mandalorian inside N1 starfighter, performing a spinning maneuver in cockpit in response to Poe calling to take out the star destroyer cannons
2:07 - A sequence of shots in the order: Side cockpit view of Bo Katan piloting Gauntlet fighter approaching star destroyer cannon, Boba Fett cockpit view rogering that, Outside ship shot of Mandalorian fighters with Slave I with resistance ships blasting a star destroyer cannon, Switch to Bo Katan’s POV blasting star destroyer cannon, to two mandalorian gauntlet fighters flying off from the imminent blowing up destroyer. ~8 seconds long
Remaining scenes that need to be cleaned up/worked on.
ROTJ deleted scenes (Nien nub pilot, Mon calamari pilot scenes)
Deleted General Crix Madine scenes - will work on aging him up
If you checked out the video, I thank you so much for your time. Please drop a comment or feedback if you can. I worked tirelessly on these clips by myself and I have absolutely no VFX or film editing background. If you can drop some feedback on how to make these clips better I will greatly appreciate it. My goal is to attempt to make these clips as seamless as I possibly can. Thanks and MTFBWY!
Hmm. I think that’s a nice change to change to supreme leader, but to play devils advocate, as a first time viewer, I think it risks taking away the slight suspense in the air wondering if Ben solo would actually come to assist Rey. Since it was indirectly implied via changed line to new supreme leader pryde
Wow that is amazing! It’s so seamless
I agree with you. I was boosting the Whites of the color pallet way too much. I’ve significantly reduced that now! Thanks for the feedback 😄
I’ve also now added another screenshot to the original post which shows off the work I’m doing on Marrok’s lightsaber. In my opinion it goes from looking like a toy to a lightsaber haha.
I think the color of the sky looks much much better. Nicely done. Can you put the original HDR or non-DV screenshot for a proper comparison. I think the saber re-work is a good idea, however, I think the middle bright white is also too bright. I like the increase in red, but I think the central white bright blade is a little too wide. Just my opinion. I do like the renewed colors though
I’ve now updated my screenshots and video to reflect the changes I’ve made since updating my source file. Thanks Smudger9, gflorese3199 and jadenkorr41! 😃
No need to thank. Just saying what I see.
In your updated version, I think colors look better however the white clouds are overly bright (based on the YT updated link).
If you could tone down the brightness of the white clouds, I think it will be much better imo
It looks like you’ve downloaded the Dolby Vision version, which has muted colours. You need to download a non-DV 4K file. There are plenty out there.
Yes! It looked like this when I saw the original. You will want to find the HDR only if it’s 4K editing
I think the sky look very blue like that kind of makes me feel like it’s a green/blue screen imho, however the rest of the colors look great and more vibrant
Here’s my as many frames extended of force ghosts as I can. I realized it’s 1080p, because I didn’t want to upload the 4K on YouTube. But it was from a 4K source and compresses for YouTube uploading.
Thanks for sharing man. I use Artemis Low Quality, though it works better if the scenes are CGI (spaceships). I’m more than happy to share you clips of what I have upscaled if you are interested for comparing with what you have. That’s a super clever idea for upscaling the blue saber clips first for jonh force ghost.
For the motionVFX mSaber, is that a final cut pro plugin?
My goal of my edit for other editor’s scenes are similar to yours, however, I want to keep HDR, so color adjustments to blend them in has been a very tedious process. Sometimes, using final cut pro color match and manual color grading in davinci resolve.
Things are happening. I finished and posted the 4K Leia Training sequence with my own application of the purple saber effect previously and now I’m moving on to Rey using Leia’s saber on Exegol. It’s very tedious but so incredibly rewarding to watch it in full resolution with my own color correction applied as well.
I’ve already upscaled jonh’s force ghosts and am pretty happy with the detail, grain, and color balancing when compared to the 4K source without the additional FX work. I can’t wait to see it all come together with the rest of the purple saber effect and I’ll be posting progress updates here. Stay tuned!
4K Color Corrected Purple Saber - Exegol Pt. 1
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Can you share with me your workflow if you are going in and changing the saber color? I think it would serve a 4K preservation compared to me upscaling the edited scenes made by fan editors.
Which program and model did you use for Topaz for jonh’s force ghosts? I’m assuming you used topaz. Looking forward to what you come up with. Good stuff man
It’s hard to keep objectivity after a while. Here’s a test of the idea. Let me know what you think because I might just have to render out a V2.1 of my edit for this.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_vnit8T_z1A9Z7QJDN5lTvlPG9S6KoU-/view?usp=share_link
Cheers!
I like that alot! My only commentary (i dont know how to do that), is if there’s a way to have him say I love you a little bit slower, so the audience can digest the mini emotional impact it gave. But i really like that edit. nice job!
I’ve been waiting for an edit like this since the beginning. Check out my battle of exegol extended/enhanced if you havent seen it already. There are some youtube links to see soem of my WIPs.
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Battle-of-Exegol-extended-and-enhanced/id/93587
Heya Acbagel. Not sure if u ever saw my battle of exegol enhanced thread. I was wondering if u have any way of looking to enhance battle of exegol in your next workprint. Particularly my capital ship scene. Sorry I’m not trying to be an attention seeker. It’s more of I like the scene, but im looking for ways to seamlessly incorporate it into TROS, so looking for ideas to toss around.
Yes, i knew they were placeholders. Was wondering what’s your workflow for rotoscoping that? Love the idea too btw, sorry if i shifted gears getting all technical.
I noticed some rotoscoped shots of the falcon. I’m not sure if you have seen my battle of exegol enhanced thread, but i’ve been in a sloth of tedious frame by frame masking/rotoscoping. I could perhaps help with the falcon. I think I could luma key them out with davinci resolve.