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5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 21 WIP #3: “Something I Must Do”

Here’s a third preview! Here, showing off the changes I made to this unfortunately rewritten scene to make it flow with the Japanese script.  There’s not much I can do with the staff member so I opted to keep the idea that Greiger snuck in, but make it a lot more subtle and implied rather than having all the dialogue that makes it super obvious he did, but do note that this is actually his own contestant room he’s in, and the staff member was originally seeing if Bommer was ready to start his duel.  I also kind of recycled some of Greiger’s whimpers to match where Bommer was doing so as he read the news about his village.

I ditched Greiger’s turn-starting “and you’re in my way” line for a recycled “It’s my turn!” so I could tweak the billboard SFX a little, then recycled his explanation for Chariot Pile from later and tweaked it to match where Bommer says Yusei can release his Monster to negate it, adjusting Yusei’s dialogue accordingly by recycling a later line.  And his lines for Junk Warrior were taken from Duel Links; I may see if I can tweak some of them to recreate his original chant.  And for some SFX tweaking, I replaced “Send his LP to the scrap heap” with a Duel Links “My Monster attacks you directly!”.

I had to snip this preview a little to get this under the time limit before it’d get blocked.  Also I know it’s kinda noticeable when the JP audio is used, thanks to having to use the fan-recreated “Hopeless Battle” here; will see if I can make it less so.

Lemme know what you think!

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 21 WIP #2: AIRRAI–SKYFIRE Closes In

A teaser for the first two mins of the episode proper! This one also shows how the MC sounds now that I have a setting I’ll use to restore the echo in his voice, but for the OST, “Enemy Attack” plays at a quicker pace here–it’s a few milliseconds quicker than the album version–but it’s pretty subtle; it took me a few times to get the timing right, lol.  You’ll notice dialogue is a little more paced with the Japanese version; I moved some of the MC’s dialogue around a little and I overwrote Yusei’s “and so do I” to Greiger with a later “It’s my move!”, for example.

(Also dumb that they had to change AIRRAID’s shooting SFX for SKYFIRE; makes it a tiny bit more noticeable when I’m switching audio from the dub to the Japanese version, lol.)

Progress so far has gone pretty well; I’ve drafted the whole episode, including the preview, and now I’m finalizing things with SFX and audio levels.  I’m up to the commercial break on this, though I do still have to rip the Rally flashback from episode 3 for use here.  I wish Bommer was already in Duel Links so I had more to work with for him D:

Lemme know how you like it!

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 21 WIP #1: Recap!

Getting to work on dub-uncut!21 for 5D’s! 

In case you missed it, I started doing this with episode 23-26 (26 being my most recent one), and now I’m going back to do 21 and 22 before I do 27-29.  But here, I had an interesting situation: a mostly-recap of episode 20, which wasn’t accidentally uploaded musicless.  I looked into how to isolate vocals and came across PhonicMind.com, which I did a test on, and it actually removed the music really well! I prepared the recap audio I needed from episode 20, then saved it to a wav file that I uploaded there, and threw in the good results into Vegas.  

I do need a good Greiger gasp I might get from 20 if the one I sampled in from later in 21 doesn’t sound quite good here, but we’ll see.  Also had Japanese Max and Annie scream as the quality on their musicless scream in the dub was decent but couldn’t figure out how to place it behind Greiger’s thoughts… May revisit. 

Stay tuned!

5D’s “Dub-Uncut” #26 - WIP #4: The People of the Stars

It’s been a week or two! I actually just finished the episode up [I kept going back so much to revisit things lol], so now I’ll be working on the bells & whistles and giving things a good quality check.  Also had to cut out quite a chunk of this scene to make it under the copyright check threshold and not have this blocked~

For a change of pace, just showing off a non-duel scene for this episode.  This scene should be finalized, but do let me know if the audio doesn’t feel as clear as it should or anything! I tried to fix the dumb “With the power I possess as the fifth Signer” line the dub threw in by making it “of the fifth Signer” so it’s not totally retcon’d later; I mixed in an “of” from a line in a different episode.  I also switched around two of Jack’s lines near the end here (“the Crimson Dragon won’t let us back until one of us wins” and “whoever wins will show the Crimson Dragon they deserve to save the world”) to match the Japanese dialogue more.  Sounds so much nicer with this track, too. :’)

(Also, fun fact: they slightly sped-up the OST track for its use in the show here; I had to slightly speed it up and then cut it into the version used; same for “Dragon” just after this.)

5D’s “Dub-Uncut” Episode 26 WIP #3: The King Strikes Back

Here’s another peek! I think I may have finalized how the sound here will be, but I’m sure I might end up tweaking it more as I look it over at the end.  Really doesn’t help that Jack’s VA doesn’t sound as strong in certain parts in the original episode’s audio, which kinda makes his levels go all over the place… Had a few more Duel Links lines mixed in to get rid of the dumb trash-talk lines about Jack’s and Yusei’s time in the Satellite which was a bit improv’d; let me know if it sounds okay? Also got rid of Yusei’s “That was then and this is now!” line for a Duel Links “I activate my Continuous Trap” line; Duel Links’s really going to be a blessing~

Do let me know how you feel about the overall levels, too; I tried to match the volume of the BGM with how it seemed to be in the original, but sometimes the vocals ended up sounding lower so some had to be tweaked more in spots… It’s kind of annoying, actually. 😅

I’ve timed the music and lines up to about the People of the Stars bit, so once I finalize the mix pre-commercial break, I’ll draft things up some more.

5D’s “Dub-Uncut” Episode 26 WIP #2: Take Flight, Stardust Dragon!

Got a bit more done! This is one of my favorite scenes, so it’s fun timing the Duel Links/no-BGM 5D’s audio to the episode under this BGM.  Hoping it’s not too noticeable when the audio switches to the Japanese audio track for the SFX, but this isn’t the final mix yet; I have some more background SFX to add back, and I’ll probably tweak the levels a bit more as I look it all over once I’m done.  

You’ll notice the extra bit from Yusei during the pan up Lost Star.  4Kids cut that pan out in favor of their stupid Card Interruptions, so I had to get creative; I took some audio from when he explains it in 28, then added back “Synchro Monster” from a Duel Links line, and fluffed it a bit with his line for Junk Warrior in Duel Links.  Likewise, with the MC’s line at the end, since that was a commercial break in the dub and they had him break the fourth wall, I snipped in a repeat line from 24 and mashed it with his “Dragon vs Dragon” line when the commercial break’s over.  I redid the line as he summons Hyper Synchron a bit because I wanted to move it a bit but the SFX originally there would have its timing be off.

Let me know what you think!

5D’s “Dub-Uncut” #26 (WIP #1): Unreleased Footage of JACK Destroying Junk Warrior

Finally getting to work on “dub-uncut” 26! Which meant I had to figure out how to work this scene which was stupidly cut from the dub that shows JACK using Red Daemon’s to take out Junk Warrior; if you watched only the dub, you’d be forgiven for wondering what happened to it! Thankfully, Duel Links just released the 5D’s world, which meant a bunch of new lines I’m now able to throw in to salvage things like this! I used a few of his taunts and his “Absolute Powerforce” shout from there, the MC’s line is from the beginning of dub!26 proper that I’ll be removing anyway, and I used a Yusei grunt from Duel Links as his LP drop.  His “I’m setting three face-downs” line is a combo of his “I’m setting a card!” line from DL, “three” from his “King is three steps ahead” line in DL, and “face-downs” from later in the episode.

Let me know what you think!

5D’s “Dub-Uncut” Episode 25 WIP #4: Riding Duel!

Here’s one more preview! This one’s to show off how it sounds with a ripped version of the “Speed World” remix playing in the background; a piece of this version only played in episodes 1 and 25 before being used in full in episode 119; it’s one I’d really like a by-ear recreation of from the Japanese fandom (or whoever’s good at it, really). D: I was going to use the version GoldenUmi was able to rip, but there’s a skip a bit into it that I couldn’t work with, so I vocal-removed the DVD audio and got a clear-ish rip to use here (the D-Wheel whirring is still there, which helps here since the dub track can be a bit quiet SFX-wise).

I also tweaked some of Yusei’s thoughts to match JP!Yusei’s, and Jack loses a second of added fluff. And also readded some SFX as Speed World activated, since the dub track was a bit quiet. I finished the credits, so I should have this up and ready soon-ish; I’ll post it with a preview of the preview (since I haven’t shown off the custom previews yet) later.  Lemme know what you think!

5D’s “Dub-Uncut” Ep. 25 WIP #2: A Tempting Offer…

Here’s a second WIP video! Progress is slowly moving along–things in life are a bit hectic thanks to volunteering with a campaign or two lol–but I’m enjoying this as I get to work some more on it! Here’s what I’ve done with the tail end of this scene; I moved some of the dialogue around a little to match Yeager’s pacing more (he’s also quieter as he makes his entrance), especially during the close-up on JACK.  Also recycled Lazar’s laugh from 23 in a spot or two (since it was closest to Yeager’s).

Also, the cockroach stomp was cut from the dub, so to keep it, I just looked for a grunt from Jack that I could throw into that scene–I think from ep. 29 here. This might be the final sound, since the audio’s well-leveled in this scene now.  Stay tuned for more! Looking forward to getting to the duel already, haha.

5D’s “Dub-Uncut” Episode 25 WIP #1: THAT SCENE

Just a little preview, as I’m getting things started with uncutting dubbed!5D’s episode 25, and I couldn’t resist showing it off a bit with this clip.  I’d have tried editing Yusei’s line out, but it’s too good to leave out. [and also how would I replace the grunts’… grunts 😅] Stay tuned!

(If you’re new, the “Dub-Uncut” project is where I take the accidentally BGM-less uploads for 5D’s on the Spanish YGO channel and restore the Japanese OST, while also editing the dialogue to match the Japanese script a bit better in terms of where it happens, not so much what’s said in most cases given the rewrites.  It’s been pretty fun to work on!)

5D’s #24 - Dub-Uncut Edition (Ft. Japanese OST?! WIP #1)

(I would’ve preferred to preview what I did with the Black Rose-to-Stardust summoning scenes, but these can only be so long before they’re blocked so :|)

A sneak peek at my dub-uncut edition of episode 24, currently underway; I’ve already drafted what I want the dialogue to be like and I’m recreating the OST, already past Izayoi Battle’s scene.  Grabbed some dialogue from no-BGM!21 to cut out the “Let’s Rev it UP!” bit and make it closer to the Japanese script, including the “Scrap Fist!!” line from 21.  I think this scene is final now, but I’ll be leveling the tracks out and reworking things a bit if I get any ideas.  I’ll try to post another preview closer to completion!