Starlight is a a spectacular edit, one that should become the natural successor to Restructured. Watching this was an early Christmas present for me and I appreciate the all the hard work NeverarGreat put into this. I loved all the enhancements made here and improvements to the storyline— there were so many. Notably the finale was just spectacular. The death of Han, Chewie’s reaction, the smooth transition into Starkiller base firing, Rey’s darkness in the final battle. Wow this is a real achievement!
I just love this edit. It’s a diamond that needs a final polish. Below are technical issues I noted (wearing headphones to hear everything well) that hopefully can be addressed in the next version to really make this the polished masterpiece it deserves to be:
18:50 music added to Ren’s call to the light is not stereo, sounds very thin, perhaps monaural (is it only added to center channel?)
22:45 click noise before they fire upon the fleeing TIE (clicks are usually from beginning/end of new sound clip that’s not faded in/out)
26:42 click sound
39:35 Rey’s line to Finn is garbled
1:02:43 audio transition to Rey going down steps not smooth. Right into middle of reverb sound.
1:10:36 Great new VO of stormtrooper. First few lines are just too darn loud.
1:14:20 audio transition to Kylo not smooth—happens right in middle of music cue
1:24:49 weird swoosh noise as Han talks. Also the whole convo between Han and Leia in this scene sounds very thin. If this is because of music replacement it has really affected the voices too much in this instance. Try phase inversion trick to remove music instead of noise reduction??
1:25:56 audio transition here sounds monaural before transition and stereo afterward.
1:25:53 sound of previous scene lasts much too long into the next scene with shot of starkiller base
1:30:49 click then sudden, non-smooth change in music/ambience
1:31:34 noticeable sudden changes in background ambience in this scene with Jedi Mind trick. Also having Rey say the command 4 times was excessive (if it was the same in the original then that was excessive too).
1:32:58 click sound
1:33:00 fragment “s” of cut dialogue audible
1:38:05 Rey saying “to escape” cuts out strangely
1:34:25 audio transition not smooth
1:34:56 some audio on a track suddenly drops out here
1:35:46 music while Ren is on the falcon sounds like its in a tin can/ monaural
1:36:49 audio (music) again sounds weird/monaural
1:47:01 monaural/ off sounding music again
1:56:31 very small click
I did not list every time added music sounded monaural instead of stereo. It happened a lot and each time did not sound very good.
I hope the above is taken as how much I really love this edit and want it to be the best it can be.
Thanks very much NeverarGreat and Merry Christmas!!!