Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 2 - The Prism Edit
by Prism Fan Edits
Discussion for this fanedit.
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 2 - The Prism Edit - Discussion
Discussion for this fanedit.
Okay so I have begun work on this edit again, and I think it's pretty close to perfected, I've got a few grinding issues that need fixing but I now also need previewers. If anyone is interested please dm me on fe.org with the source of course acquired, and I'll happily reply.
For now here's the changes!
The second workprint / final edit is nearing completion though there's 3 glaring issues that need major fixing and I could use insight.
1. The aspect ratio changes twice: The scene where Benji briefs the team on the plan using Spence's edit and the scene of Tom getting out of the ice and the tub scene, using Spence's edit. Not his fault, I think what happened is he maybe ripped the IMAX file? and now I am forced to try and work with it?
The music during the house fight to the next scene: I thought way, why don't I rearrange the plot a bit? so I moved the brief interlude with the President and her agents being upset to right after the house fight so we go to the sledding scene perfectly, but now it's weird because the big loud music does not sync to the lower mood of music at the start of the President scene, so now I've gotta figure that out, suggestions are welcome. I'll upload images of my problems too when I get the chance. Here's all the changes. For the edit, this is more-or-less the final cut.
0:00 Opening Logos
0:20 Entity visuals with dialogue from different places to bring us into this flashback / dream Ethan's having of the entity
0:49 Ethan wakes up, Gabriel scene with many trims - all of this was mainly done by Dandy98 who I know is no longer allowed here, but he was friendly to me at first and together we constructed this cool opening, I'd feel off removing it and unsure what to do, so I've left it with credit.
5:16 Into credits!
6:09 Transition into Ethan running down the street to Luthor.
Following scene of Ethan & Luthor has very slight trims, need to fix audio or remove (unsure ATM)
Everything stays the same till the briefing with Benji and the team at around 27:19
I full-on used Spence's edit of the scene which he was gracious enough to provide, it really helped.
28:58 back to Ethan he's waking up, then just dives to go to the actual watercraft so he meets sub-team and such
29:50 No longer she President sad about her son just cut from map to Ethan talking with the captain about needing a sub.
32:36 Go from the Captain to the team landing on St. Matthew Island
35:51 go from team to the craft then back to team when appropriate
45:22 Grace and the wife of the guy in the dog feeding house to Ethan has been removed, we stay with them, with a few frames trimmed to smoothen so we go from seeing the guy in gear, to the wife beating head with shovel
House fight with all the trims back to Ethan removed!
47:48 I have moved the scene of the President being challenged by her advisors to here, so she's talking and blah blah blah, basically we go from Donlow being told we gotta go, to her in order to get us out of the fight and move on, otherwise we go from house to randomly sledding, it felt off.
49:09 transition to the said sledding scene
1:11:28 We have the scene of Ethan leaving from under the ice, the framing gets weird, we go from wide to Imax ratio?? I need to talk with Spence about a way to fix or some1 who knows how to.
Used his ice tub scene to remove Grace, it was just akward.
1:59:00 The entire scene with Luthor and Ethan needs to be reworked and scored, I am gonna move around dialogue I decided against killing Ethan, I'm gonna still trim the ending though it's too long.
and then credits and that's about it!!
Overall the film clocks with credits 2 hours and 10 minutes, it's way shorter, removing a ton of fluff and instead creating for a faster paced adventure.
I might still trim some rough edges but PLEASE! :) I need viewers if your interested send me a PM please own the film on Blue-Ray and I'll send a copy of the workprint!!
It's not perfected but it's watchable
PS: I might trim out all the president stuff near the end apart from the countdown, Pertex Productions on YT made his own edit and suggested it should be cut because it distracts from Ethan and the conflict, and I agree, I've not decided though, It's easy enough just haven't chopped it yet.
For now here's the changes!
The second workprint / final edit is nearing completion though there's 3 glaring issues that need major fixing and I could use insight.
1. The aspect ratio changes twice: The scene where Benji briefs the team on the plan using Spence's edit and the scene of Tom getting out of the ice and the tub scene, using Spence's edit. Not his fault, I think what happened is he maybe ripped the IMAX file? and now I am forced to try and work with it?
The music during the house fight to the next scene: I thought way, why don't I rearrange the plot a bit? so I moved the brief interlude with the President and her agents being upset to right after the house fight so we go to the sledding scene perfectly, but now it's weird because the big loud music does not sync to the lower mood of music at the start of the President scene, so now I've gotta figure that out, suggestions are welcome. I'll upload images of my problems too when I get the chance. Here's all the changes. For the edit, this is more-or-less the final cut.
0:00 Opening Logos
0:20 Entity visuals with dialogue from different places to bring us into this flashback / dream Ethan's having of the entity
0:49 Ethan wakes up, Gabriel scene with many trims - all of this was mainly done by Dandy98 who I know is no longer allowed here, but he was friendly to me at first and together we constructed this cool opening, I'd feel off removing it and unsure what to do, so I've left it with credit.
5:16 Into credits!
6:09 Transition into Ethan running down the street to Luthor.
Following scene of Ethan & Luthor has very slight trims, need to fix audio or remove (unsure ATM)
Everything stays the same till the briefing with Benji and the team at around 27:19
I full-on used Spence's edit of the scene which he was gracious enough to provide, it really helped.
28:58 back to Ethan he's waking up, then just dives to go to the actual watercraft so he meets sub-team and such
29:50 No longer she President sad about her son just cut from map to Ethan talking with the captain about needing a sub.
32:36 Go from the Captain to the team landing on St. Matthew Island
35:51 go from team to the craft then back to team when appropriate
45:22 Grace and the wife of the guy in the dog feeding house to Ethan has been removed, we stay with them, with a few frames trimmed to smoothen so we go from seeing the guy in gear, to the wife beating head with shovel
House fight with all the trims back to Ethan removed!
47:48 I have moved the scene of the President being challenged by her advisors to here, so she's talking and blah blah blah, basically we go from Donlow being told we gotta go, to her in order to get us out of the fight and move on, otherwise we go from house to randomly sledding, it felt off.
49:09 transition to the said sledding scene
1:11:28 We have the scene of Ethan leaving from under the ice, the framing gets weird, we go from wide to Imax ratio?? I need to talk with Spence about a way to fix or some1 who knows how to.
Used his ice tub scene to remove Grace, it was just akward.
1:59:00 The entire scene with Luthor and Ethan needs to be reworked and scored, I am gonna move around dialogue I decided against killing Ethan, I'm gonna still trim the ending though it's too long.
and then credits and that's about it!!
Overall the film clocks with credits 2 hours and 10 minutes, it's way shorter, removing a ton of fluff and instead creating for a faster paced adventure.
I might still trim some rough edges but PLEASE! :) I need viewers if your interested send me a PM please own the film on Blue-Ray and I'll send a copy of the workprint!!
It's not perfected but it's watchable
PS: I might trim out all the president stuff near the end apart from the countdown, Pertex Productions on YT made his own edit and suggested it should be cut because it distracts from Ethan and the conflict, and I agree, I've not decided though, It's easy enough just haven't chopped it yet.
have you added foley? one thing I couldn't abide in this movie was the bizarre sound choices.
the flashbacks don't work for me, they are too fast and make me feel dazzled. did you add the iris transition or was that them? The iris transition doesn't work for me. if you're cutting for less time, I would probably have less shots, rather than the almost strobe like shot changes.
when you open with ethan running in London, do you address why Grace is no longer with him? Or is this implied elsewhere?
did you add the cross fades during the plane travelling ethan captured bit? those cross fades work well.
I have to stop watching here, my attention has gone elsewhere. Good work so far though, keep it up!
the flashbacks don't work for me, they are too fast and make me feel dazzled. did you add the iris transition or was that them? The iris transition doesn't work for me. if you're cutting for less time, I would probably have less shots, rather than the almost strobe like shot changes.
when you open with ethan running in London, do you address why Grace is no longer with him? Or is this implied elsewhere?
did you add the cross fades during the plane travelling ethan captured bit? those cross fades work well.
I have to stop watching here, my attention has gone elsewhere. Good work so far though, keep it up!
can you specifically highlight timestamps? Your saying less shots for flashbacks?
I didn't address why Grace isn't with him, idk how to. That's a good point. The crossfades were done by Spence, the whole plane sequence I borrowed from his edit (with his explicit permission ofc) `
I didn't address why Grace isn't with him, idk how to. That's a good point. The crossfades were done by Spence, the whole plane sequence I borrowed from his edit (with his explicit permission ofc) `
it's not really possible to give timestamps for fast edits in a youtube video. but my feedback applies to all of the flashbacks, and my feedback was written as I was watching so they are in the right order for the sections you have shown.
The edit has changed a lot since last posting here
Dandy98 has been resourceful in realizing I could cut the entire first 30 mins pretty much and still end up with a good opening. So I let him do that, and then messed with it and we constructed an opening where Ethan wakes up from a nightmare (after having been knocked out by Gabriel's members.)
We have the scene of Gabriel and Ethan & Grace, and then cut straight from that to the credits once Ethan & Grace fight it out, to Ethan running to save Luthor... where's Grace? We'll just say she went with the rest of the team.
I've moved aorund a lot of scenes, the Ethan team at the House comes earlier, and so does the team briefing, with assistance by Spence & Wraith.
The latest edit has been the entire firehouse fight, where they fight in the house and getting that to transition without the dumb aircraft fight (the fight's great, storywise unneeded. So I chopped it.
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Last night I fooled around with the audio, and got it so the House Fight ends... more smoothly, not perfect. But it's better, and I re-arranged shots of the President's convo with her team so we start on the countdown, then go to the conversation. (used Spence's dialogue separated) ending to the scene.
The video here is the edit in my timeline, you can see my cuts, I admit I noticed one where I forgot a fade (whoops!) but otherwise.
How does this sound?
My edit clocks in around 2:09 (2 hrs obvs) maybe 2:15 but its pretty short, I want to make it longer.. but idk how, so you might get a shorter finale! Which I don't like... but I guess once I smooth this, to move onto reconstructing the ending.
Dandy98 has been resourceful in realizing I could cut the entire first 30 mins pretty much and still end up with a good opening. So I let him do that, and then messed with it and we constructed an opening where Ethan wakes up from a nightmare (after having been knocked out by Gabriel's members.)
We have the scene of Gabriel and Ethan & Grace, and then cut straight from that to the credits once Ethan & Grace fight it out, to Ethan running to save Luthor... where's Grace? We'll just say she went with the rest of the team.
I've moved aorund a lot of scenes, the Ethan team at the House comes earlier, and so does the team briefing, with assistance by Spence & Wraith.
The latest edit has been the entire firehouse fight, where they fight in the house and getting that to transition without the dumb aircraft fight (the fight's great, storywise unneeded. So I chopped it.
-
Last night I fooled around with the audio, and got it so the House Fight ends... more smoothly, not perfect. But it's better, and I re-arranged shots of the President's convo with her team so we start on the countdown, then go to the conversation. (used Spence's dialogue separated) ending to the scene.
The video here is the edit in my timeline, you can see my cuts, I admit I noticed one where I forgot a fade (whoops!) but otherwise.
How does this sound?
My edit clocks in around 2:09 (2 hrs obvs) maybe 2:15 but its pretty short, I want to make it longer.. but idk how, so you might get a shorter finale! Which I don't like... but I guess once I smooth this, to move onto reconstructing the ending.