Poppa, could you send me just the “lately” line you adjusted? I feel it sounds great, but I guess I have a different pair of ears than everyone else.
Sure thing, here you go:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gBvp6UH1oMWW0O9z_rNUqOcMlZoFuE0L/view?usp=sharing
Yeah, I agree. Not quite working, especially the first line. “Tell me” would be nice.
Here is the version I would prefer you to watch tomorrow Hal (only includes the line I feel is the most flawless):
https://youtu.be/UAuBBKQzuTQ
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13qfrRPUpAa6qRl6Tb8k4Npc2IAD-KlGt/view?usp=sharing
Hey Jar Jar,
May I suggest you try pitching down her Lego lines? Not only would it bring a little bass into her voice, it would also make her tone a little less chipper I think. That plus a little EQ might get you closer.
Here’s a quick test:
https://vimeo.com/526096739
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Not sure if it works enough though?
However Poppasketti,
I think you need to… reflect on that clip you posted. If you catch my drift… 😉
Outrageous shiny floors. Who works in such a place? Can you imagine being the person who spends all day buffing that floor only to have some rebels muck it up?
hehehe. I’ll see if I can make it more goldy when I get a chance, but it may depend on what works best across all of the shots. I think it’s also okay if it’s more yellow anyway?
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Here’s a quick test of the Tie with gold trim instead of red.
https://vimeo.com/525241929
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[Edit: Burbin, sorry, didn’t mean to post so quickly together. That looks nice!]
Man, A shiny gold tie. That’s the dream.
Looking at those hanger scene shots, I think the best hope would be to mute the red, since that shouldn’t require as much precise tracking. It would still take a good bit of concentrated time to lock that in, though, I think. Happy to try a test.
If it’s just the scene where Rey steals it than it’s two shots. The absolute easiest thing to do I think is remove the red coloring around the center. That may not be enough though since it would just look like the shot is a bit desaturated (which it already is). Changing it from red to something else like gold may be doable. I think changing the “wings” is the hardest because you’d really have to lock in the motion tracking to each piece.
I’m sorry I haven’t been able to help much lately. Hal, if you wouldn’t mind sending me those two shots of Rey stealing the tie, I could take a look at it. I don’t know when I’d be able to get to it though.
IMO this movie needed to be 3 hours long in order to work right. Reminds me of the whole Justice League situation. I hope one day we get a longer cut just like with that movie.
I guess I can see why Disney would balk at departing too much from the other saga films in terms of length, but I agree with you. And I think at this point fans and movie audiences in general have gotten used to longer runtimes for these big tent pole movies.
An extended edition would be nice; would been a good use of resources after a year without much production.
I love the pink sunrise, Nev. I found it striking the first time I saw it. I didn’t know about the intention to hint at Leia, but I think it looks like beautiful dawn light. The only thing I wonder about it is if the sun would have shone on the X-wing as it rises up based on the sun’s position in the shots of Luke. That’s the only reason I can think of to maybe warm it up a little bit and move slightly away from pink. Overall, it’s a beautiful grade, though!
Scandalous!
Finally
Big thanks go to PodracingThisIs91 for the painstaking effort in creating Spanish subtitles for this project! I have uploaded the SRT file to the drive for those who have already downloaded Rekindled and simply would like to mux in the subtitles themselves, but I also have remuxed the full films myself and re-uploaded them to drive.
These are currently only for the main V3 version with the Palpatine teases. I hope to be able to provide Spanish subs for the “No-Palp” version in the future.
Once again, thank you PodracingThisIs91!
Poppa, I did exactly as you instructed but the audio was still playing in the left speaker despite being in a dedicated center channel. It works fine with left or right setting but it won’t isolate to the center channel for some reason?
Hey can send me a screengrab of your timeline? Or better yet, can you send me your project file with just the one audio clip you’re trying to change (even if everything else is offline). I can record my screen to show you what I did, and hopefully it will make things easier for you in the future!
Great job, MR! Nailed it!
I agree with ThisIsCreation. Great job, MR! I think the line and pacing feels right, but the cutting back and forth to Luke is a bit abrupt. The second cut to Luke feels like it’s clearly the same camera move as the first. Can you hold on Rey instead of cutting back for “This is your fight”? I think it’s better to see Rey for this line, anyway, so we can see her thinking it over.
The line was in stereo so I had to export it to audition and convert it to mono for it to sound right. If anyone knows how to do this within premiere please let me know.
This was in the other thread, but here’s what you do:
Right-click on the clip in the project panel. Select Modify > Audio Channels. Change the Clip Channel Format from Stereo to Mono. Make sure Number of Audio Clips says 1. Then, below that, make sure either the L or the R is checked (you should only be able to do one, and it doesn’t matter which if the audio is the same on both, as it should be for a voice). Once done, when you drag the clip into a sequence it should show as mono.
Hope this helps!
“but this is your fight” is not included in the video as I realized it is a contradiction for this edit. “We’ll always be with you.” works much better for foreshadowing than “A thousand generations live in you now, but this is your fight.” If it is Rey’s fight then why do ALL the Jedi show up at the end in spirit?
I think I agree with this the most (though admittedly, a lot of the ideas and mockups do work for me).
“We’ll always be with you” feels like it matches well with Rey’s “Be with me” lines at the beginning and end, which helps with foreshadowing (although I realize some people think that may not be a good thing to keep the surprise).
“A thousand generations live in you” works for me too (metaphorically, the way RL explained is how I always took it).
However, I agree “this is your fight” doesn’t feel right. Not just because of the Jedi helping her later, but because it feels forced. Luke is basically saying that she has to go because she’s the only Jedi left, not for any personal reasons that make it her fight. Which is true, unfortunately. In ROTJ, Luke’s confronting Vader was deeply personal, and the stakes for the galaxy and for Luke himself were so intertwined. That kind of tension is there in the Rey and Kylo fight in TROS, but Palpatine really just needs to be stopped because he’s going to destroy the universe. There’s nothing really personal for Rey to deal with in Palpatine, despite the filmmakers efforts to make it so. “This is your fight” draws attention to that failure and just kind of highlights a weakness of the film, instead of smoothing past it.
While we’re on the subject. Does anyone know how to pan audio using keyframes in Premiere? I’ve done it before but completely forgotten.
Hey MR! Just click the Panner in the clips “Effect Controls” like in the image above. In the example I set the panner to go from 0 at the first keyframe to -80 at the second keyframe.
Love all the new work, and that color correction on Ahch-To is beautiful. So much more atmospheric and thematic.
I’ll try to work on the puppet show, I have some ideas >:)
Edit: and I mean no disrespect for the incredible RogueLeader, I just didn’t realize snooker was still around!
For those interested in playing with the puppets, I’ve put the clean backplate in my master clips folder, and here’s a direct link to the clip: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1geT4mYlgOu8wHf1j1tSzMiOIFOYnONvC
There’s a prores backplate and a prores 4444 of the front bottom of the stage with an alpha channel, with the idea that you can place puppets between the two layers.
I didn’t change the timing. I tried After Effects frame interpolation, but it really didn’t like the the dust in the foreground and got very wonky. Regular frameblending looked just okay (the alien moves a bit too much for it). If someone has twixtor or another interpolation software they’re welcome to try, as I think stretching an extra second or two out of the shot will be helpful!
I think “fanboys who can’t let go” is the opposite of this. The fact that this is all in-service of a community effort to turn something they didn’t like into something they do (or, well, tolerate) purely for the sake of their own personal enjoyment is inspiring.
Agreed. I think RL and I were just having a little fun. If we didn’t agree with you, none of us would be here! Although it is becoming clearer that many of us our losing our minds (*are, was going to edit but realized it just helped my point). Maybe one day when I can stop wiping down bags of potato chips with lysol, things will be in better perspective.
ThisIsCreation, I think that click removal helped! With the headphones on, you can hear the difference.
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Hal, after V2 and the Rey Nobody cut, would you consider having this thread published?
Thousands of years from now the pages can serve as documentation of contemporary discussions of the ways of the force, only to be (nearly) destroyed without being fully understood.
