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5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 29 WIP Clip #2 - The Rise of Foreshadowing 

So, about ¾ths of the way through editing the episode, and I wanted to show off a bit more of what I’ve done so far–starting with the big “Road of the King/Atlas Rising” gala scenes.  I translated the movie’s poster, using the dub’s version without the text for simplicity, and used the dub’s name for it as I worked it into the footage (I also did versions using “The Road of the King”, in case I ever, uh… need more to eventually do lol)–I first added the text in Photoshop and redid the zooming shots in the outdoor scene, then adapted the translation for use in the indoor shots.  

For the audio, as I mentioned last video, I used some Duel Links lines for Carly over the poster shots since there was a dub commercial here, I used a Carly Duel Links line to make her line to Angela “No way! Angela!” instead of “Angela! Fancy seeing you here!”, and during the gala, I used the Japanese audio to take out the unneeded MC lines before Goodwin steps down the stairs, shortened his teasing lines about the movie, and used Duel Links lines so that Jack’s dialogue in the movie was actually consistent with what was said in those scenes originally in the Japanese version.  (Also didn’t show it here, but I had to keep the reporters who react after Angela breaks that Jack’s a Satellite in Japanese, because of the way 4Kids decided to have the two that talk talk back and forth after each other instead of one having the most dialogue.)  I also had to tweak Misty’s foreshadowing line to Carly because 4Kids gave her added lip flaps; I think it came out well, and works if I try to do a later scene for fun, lol.

Most of this sounds about final since I’ve tweaked the audio levels for this section already, but let me know what you think!

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 29 WIP Clip #1 - Yusei Makes Moves/Carly’s Fortune

So, work on dub-uncut!5D’s episode 29’s been coming along well, I’ve gotten the dialogue and music drafted, so now I’ve been going back and adjusting audio levels and adding back SFX; currently up to the commercial break on this front, and I figured now’s a good time to show it off a little bit.  I haven’t shown off how I translated the Showcase/Noteworthy Cards segment at the beginning, so there’s that (and I managed to use some Duel Links lines for the twins to try and translate their original lines, recycling how I handled “check out the show for more!” in 27 [but I noticed after upload that Sony Vegas botched my mask for Rua on top of the English banner so some of the Japanese is visible… Will fix this before release]), and then I used some Duel Links lines to get Trudge’s dialogue in the cold open more accurate to the Japanese script and dial down the whole in-your-faceness of him working with Yusei rather than Yusei willingly letting Ushio take him to Godwin; as that was already established at the end of 28 since I couldn’t edit around it, thought I’d be able to do something here.

Also thought, since this is the last full episode I’ll be doing (for now), that I’d work in Mark de Groot’s awesome English Last Train - A New Morning cover, so there’s a preview of that, as well.  Then there’s the Carly scene, which uses a pitched-up/sped-up version of Carly’s theme which took some playing around to get recreated just right; just need to grab the SFX that plays as Carly’s dejected over her fortune to get it sounding right.  Also worked in some Duel Links lines to do a good translation of the line about Fortune Fairy Sui’s fortune, and had to work in some more to cover for the commercial break the dub has between Carly getting her second wind and the Road of the King/Atlas Rising red-carpet event (and I’ll also try to translate the poster for this). 

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 28 WIP #1: On Thin Ice

Finally have enough work done on 5D’s 28 to start showing it off a bit! I’d gotten started on it about 2-3 weeks ago and drafted up most of the dialogue, so now I’ve gone back to add the music and all.  The effect applied to the video later is to get through the Content ID system, which kept blocking that section (managed to edit the early parts enough to avoid it there, and then the ending bit wasn’t blocked because 4Kids didn’t dub that Carly scene) 

Here, along with showing off the Card Showcase bit–where I used Duel Links lines again to cover for Rua and Ruka’s lines–I also have the recap tweak to the end of episode 27, where the “Dark Tuning” track was pitched up and sped up a bit.  

In the episode proper, you have the scene with the Dark Signers talking about Yusei–where I moved Roman’s “new champion” line to play where Demak originally said it after the rapid zoom-out, mixed with a laugh to space his lines out a bit–and then back at the duel, when possessed!Dick uses Dark Tuner Catastrogue’s effect, which I had to stitch together a proper explanation for, since an annoying Card Interruption did it in the dub; I recycled bits from episode 27 when he activated Blizzard Lizard’s and Call of the Haunted’s effects, then moved his line about the shadows to later when I redid his declaring Frozen Fitzgerald’s attack and explaining its effect to take out a ton of fluff.  I moved Carly’s lines about “what we’re seeing” and real damage to play during the scene here where she sneezes that was cut from the dub, using Japanese Carly’s sneezing, and then I recycled Dick ending his turn from 27 to take out his fluff about Goodwin and just stick to the JP script. 

Special thanks to yugidmx5 again for isolating the vocals for Roman’s “new champion” and some of Dick’s lines; the latter let me also stitch together a “Blizzard Strike!!” shout for Frozen Fitzgerald’s attack.  Their help with that will also be helping with Turret Warrior later and other lines I’ll be trying to work in. (Preliminarily, I may have to keep the scenes with Yusei at the end of the episode talking about having to see Goodwin and “hiring” Ushio as a bodyguard because I don’t have enough dialogue from either of them to make it totally more accurate to the Japanese version, but I might be able to edit it enough so that it’s not so blatantly obvious the latter was an added thing… Be nice if I knew folks who could re-record the dialogue, lol.) 

Stay tuned for more WIPs as I get work done on this!

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 27 WIP #4: The Dark Signers Appear

(Don’t mind the extra effects, YouTube being YouTube and all they were needed to get past the Content ID match) 

Been a bit eager to show this one off, haha.  So, in the last WIP, we left off with Carly’s intro; here, I show off the near-final product of the scenes with the Dark Signers making their first appearance, along with Yusei and co discussing their birthmarks (including my attempt to fix the dub’s dumb mistake calling Yusei’s the “Head” mark, but since I didn’t have a clip of him saying “tail” handy, I combined a clip of him saying “T[ake]” with another one to give me the “ail” sound, along with tweaking Leo’s line after; if someone knows an episode in which dub!Yusei might have said “tail,” lemme know lol), and then possessed Dick showing up to duel Yusei.

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5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 27 WIP #3 - A Foreboding/Carly on the Scene

New WIP video! Would’ve uploaded one sooner, but I was working on a footage fix for finalized!GX 56 (fixed the backwards store signs as Ryou’s walking in 57!). (Fourth upload now, and thought I’d just go back to the effect I used in my second WIP video… dangit YouTube)

Anywho, showing off the scene with Yusei and Ruka discussing the vision they saw, and then Carly’s interrupting Angela to ask Godwin a question to lead into her driving scene.  First, major thanks again to yugidmx5 for the great-quality rip they were able to provide for the “Vision” theme playing in the former scene; I tweaked the dialogue a bit near the end to remove Yusei’s commercial-break-inducing monologue by looping footsteps and recycling an earlier gasp along with a “Hmm” sound he makes.  For the first Carly/Angela scene, I was able to shorten Carly’s dialogue over her fortune card to match the JP lines a bit more by slightly slowing the relevant parts and using those, while I removed Goodwin’s “sheen/sunshine” line by getting “still” from episode 23 and keeping the line at “I’m afraid I didn’t see that.”

As Carly’s driving scene comes up, I had to shorten her line to remove “that means I’m onto something” (for recycling later) and keep it at “Goodwin dodged my question! Better not let it slip…”, then as she’s driving, the Editor’s last line to her was shortened a bit given it was fluffed up in the dub, while I let Carly’s line play on a different audio track so that as his line finished Carly’s line starts as she starts lip-flapping (unfortunately, with the limited audio, I couldn’t do away with the Editor’s junk lines about what interns are supposed to do).  Then, as she sees Yusei’s arm glowing, I had to shorten her line a bit because the dub held it on Yusei to give her extra dialogue; I grabbed “wait” and “there it is” from somewhere, shortened her line about Goodwin to just “Goodwin tried to feed me that bit,” and borrowed “The whole world will know…” from later on (as it’ll go unused; thanks to Tiny Spider Productions for the inspiration with his take on a Dub-Uncut #27).  Also, Veronica Taylor does make a great Carly, which is nice to hear with the original OST.

(BTW, don’t suppose anyone has that one SFX handy that plays when Carly sees Yusei’s birthmark? I’d like to have it to play in full instead of having it cut off the way it is now because of how I spliced the line, lol.)

Lemme know what you think! This should be how these scenes sound in the final product, which I’m still going over, but I’ll likely be able to wrap up by the end of the week; I’ll likely have another WIP or two coming!

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 27 WIP #2 - Enter Stutter-Stammer Carly

Wow, this new arc looks brilliantly flashy! 

nah, it’s just me making sure YouTube doesn’t block, don’t mind it lol

Getting into episode 27 proper after the first WIP weeks ago, here’s another preview of what I’ve been working on! Work’s been gradually coming along on this; I’ve drafted the music and dialogue for much of the episode, so now I’m tweaking things and adding SFX where needed.  I wanted to show off this clip, but wanted to also retranslate the Last Train OP and actually translate the ED, which I just finished up (I’d already translated Last Train for myself a while back, while I’d never done CROSS GAME, which also had me write up some singable translated lyrics for it that I’ll flesh out and post sometime). 

Here, for Carly’s debut scene, first off: major thanks to yugidmx5; they provided a cleaner rip of the in-hindsight-poorly-named “Tenpei” theme for me to work with, along with some other help later in the episode.  Dialogue-wise, I cut out some of Angela’s offscreen fluff dialogue by throwing in the Japanese audio as Carly got herself ready, then cut Carly’s “from one journalist to another” bit as she walks over after Angela shoves her and gets Yusei’s name wrong (which I’d have edited out, but not much to work with lol; I also edited Angela’s line a bit to remove her last name since, well, she never had one originally).  Wish they kept Angela calling her “Stutter-Stammer Carly…” Then, I looped some of the crowd chanting “Yusei!” at the end to edit out Yusei’s unneeded internal monologue.  And then, we get into the fully translated OP, which speaks for itself, lol. 

Stay tuned for more WIPs!

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode #27 WIP #1: What Will Today’s Card Be?

Just about getting started with dub-uncut episode 27! Though I’m doing it in bits and pieces while I finish up finalizing GX episode 54’s subs, but I have been looking forward to this one.  And part of it involved figuring out what to do with this clip, since of course 4Kids left these segments undubbed. 

Luckily, Duel Links has these Duel Carnival events with the twins where they use their lines here, so it makes it easier to work with! The only trouble is that it’s Eileen Stevens playing the twins in Duel Links, as opposed to their earlier VA pre-65, so there’ll be an inconsistency there with the episode proper, but not much I can do, lol.   I also made use of more of their Duel Links lines to fill out the clip; since Rua and Ruka question the card before encouraging viewers to stay tuned, I combined an “Oh!” and “No way!” for Leo, followed by a “what’s” and “this?” from two different lines for Luna, then “You’re lucky!”/“You get to”/“see!” (though it sounds like a question since he’s saying “See?” in the original DL line), and finishing up is a “Here goes!” from Luna.  I kept the beginning SFX before the twins pop up, then redid the SFX for the cards flipping and the showcased card moving forward.

Think it came out well, given the limits! Just have to see if the Duel Links audio is enough to tweak for 28 and 29’s clips… Also, I had the subbed video with the English over the sign’s Japanese there handy since I’d edited this episode for myself a while back for a personal DVD; I’ll likely try to actually translate the sign at some point while I work on this. Stay tuned for some more WIPs!

5D’s Dub-Uncut 24 (REDO) WIP #2: Duel of the Dragons Incoming

So, as noted before, YouTube has apparently gotten stingier with my WIP videos; it’s been a pain to show off my redone 24 ;_; (The white flashing you might see is me trying to bypass that YouTube nonsense, if it even helps lol)

Anyway, here I’m showing off the Synchro chants from Duel Links being added back for Aki and Yusei; I did tweak Aki’s lines as she’s summoning Dark Verdure to more properly explain its effect, taking some dialogue from 61 that I vocal-isolated (I also swapped her “You want combos? Watch!” line for an “It’s my turn–I draw!” line from 22, and subsequently combined Tanner’s “This isn’t good” with his “Yusei better think of something fast” line from 26 to wipe out his “Here comes the combo she was talking about” line), and I also threw in Akiza’s “Black Binding Bloom” and “Black Rose Flare” from Duel Links as I had her command Black Rose Dragon to attack like in the JP script.  Leo doesn’t talk as Junk Warrior’s powered up (I added back some SFX I left out my first go-round), then yeah, Yusei brings out Stardust.

Currently polishing up the part where Aki puts her mask back on, so stay tuned; let me know what you think! Looking forward to using yugidmx5’s newest Hopeless Battle rip~

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 24 (REDO) WIP #1: A Rose by Any Other Tentacle

So, YouTube has apparently gotten stingier with my WIP videos, and is now retroactively blocking some of the earlier ones I posted, so it was a pain to even get this much from my newer 5D’s 24 WIP through… I might decide to show some off on Google Drive instead, going forward, if it ends up being too big a hassle.

So, this is my newly revised dub-uncut attempt with 24; I stitched together an explanation for Ivy Shackles to take out her fluffy “greenhouse” comment and make more sense than “under Rose Tentacles’s control,” and I pulled from dialogue I vocal-isolated from 16 and some newly isolated audio from 61 in her duel with Misty, which hopefully sounds good.  I took Akiza’s “It’s your turn” at the end of her turn from 22 and later in 24 to wipe her “it’ll take more than that to stop me” line.  I did more effect explanation stitching later, including to fix Yusei’s “damage for each of Rose Tentacles’s ATK points” gaffe with Junk Barrage and have Akiza explain Copy Plant’s and Dark Verdure’s effects.  I’ll see if I can post those… 

Let me know what you think! Currently revised up to about the commercial break, and it shouldn’t be too intensive since 24 was really when I started adding back SFX well and getting into my groove, but adding back in the Synchro chants and using a newer Hopeless Battle rip should be neat.

(5D’s Dub-Uncut Masterpost)

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 23 REDO - WIP #2: Mind-Game Kickoff

Howdy, people! I’ve been spending the past few weeks going over what I previously did with episode 23 for this dub-uncut project, readjusting the process and editing that went into it now that I’ve established a routine after handling 4-5 of these now.  I realized I didn’t share too many WIP clips from 23 the first go-around, so I thought I’d show off a little more of this now that it’s nearly the finished product.

Getting into the duel stuff now (see WIP #1 here), this second WIP has a bit more editing to it.  For starters, adding back some SFX that was quiet in the BGM-less mix, with the Japanese audio as usable.  Dialogue-wise, Akiza’s “[And] I place…” line had “And” replacing “Next” because I wanted to trim out the SFX from the dub’s DEF counter reveal, I added Yusei’s “Hyper Sonic Slash!!” from Duel Links, then I stitched together Aki explaining Cursed Ivy to move “I bring my Wall of Ivy back!” a bit later and cut out her extra banter lines (here, “In case you can’t tell, I’ve got a green thumb”), and then I fixed a dumb dub error where Akiza tries to imply that Wall of Ivy (a Monster) powered up Cursed Ivy (a Trap). 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ (I may try to make her consistent with “Wall of Ivy” over “Ivy Wall” since it’s bugging me lol.) Then, some spacing-out for Yusei’s thoughts, and a recycled line from 22 to end Akiza’s turn!

Check out this brief revision video I did after it was suggested I try to stitch together a line to clear out some more of Akiza’s fluff; I stitched together an explanation for Cursed Ivy so I could clear out her “remember when I did this” line.  Think this came together decently, especially once I added back the SFX; thankfully, I found the right SFX for the vines from episode 24 as Black Rose attacked lol.  Akiza’s voice sounds a bit echoey at the beginning of her “now I can equip” line because that part’s taken from 24 once she has her mask back on; I tried to apply an effect to reduce the echo via messing with a filter, but seems I couldn’t do too much, but it’s the only near-usable line I could find where she mentions equipping, so. This’ll likely be in the final product!

Have another WIP video coming (which was split in two to get past YouTube and its copyright shenanigans), so stay tuned; that’ll show off what should be the final version of the Thorn Whips scene with the ending helped a bit thanks to Duel Links’s audio~

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 23 REDO - WIP #1: Pre-Duel Jitters

Howdy, people! So, I’ve been spending the past week or two going over what I previously did with episode 23 for this dub-uncut project, readjusting the process and editing that went into it now that I’ve established a routine after handling 4-5 of these now.  I realized I didn’t share too many WIP clips from 23 the first go-around, so I thought I’d show off a little more of this now that it’s nearly the finished product.

Here, there was more minimal editing involved; I recycled Luna’s lines from earlier and reverb’d them for the flashback, spaced out Yusei’s thoughts to match JP Yusei’s timing (and reordered a line or two to match JP Yusei), and shortened Sayer’s line to Aki because of the added fluff it got for the dub.  Probably not as impressive a clip as some of the duel stuff I hope to show off, but hopefully, you’ll still like it!

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 22 - WIP #2: Profile in… Profiling

Here’s a second preview of what’s to come! (WIP #1 here, ICYMI)

This one shows off the start of the Aki/Kodo duel, and there were a few tweaks here to some dialogue to match the JP script more; I recycled Akiza’s “first move is mine!” line from 23 and added an “I draw!” combining a line from Duel Links with a “draw” shout from 23.  I also used an “I set a card!” line from Duel Links (to scrub out the 4Kids SFX added to her setting the card), recycled a laugh from Lazar that’s close to his JP laugh, and threw in a “Battle.” line from Duel Links for Akiza to match the JP script.  

Otherwise, it’s all kinda as-is from the dub, since I also don’t have much else to work with for Koda.  Though I scrubbed Tanner’s “Did he just say Duel Academy?!” at the end since… why.  I don’t have a line of Yusei questioning “Duel Academy?” so I left it with him just shocked lol. 

The version of “Showdown” playing here is also sped up by about 5 seconds compared to the soundtrack version; wasn’t too bad trying to make that work, but “Dragon” later on in the episode, though… oh, boy. 

Lemme know what you think!

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 22 - WIP #1: Post-Attempted Murder on Motorcycles

Howdy, people! I’ve been getting some work underway for the next in the 5D’s Dub-Uncut series since finalizing my GX 44-46 subs, and wanted to post a preview a bit ago… but what kept me busy from finalizing said subs extended to getting around to this, lol.  

So, just a little preview here for you; I recreated how I ended Dub-Uncut!21, slightly tweaked to match the JP recap’s script, then led it seamlessly into the new audio from 22 proper (save for the SFX around Greiger’s “Goodwin!” scream which we’re stuck with), giving Goodwin the reverb effect I give the MC.  I also tweaked what I did with Greiger’s grunts before he screams, incorporating some of Bommer’s whimpers in between his grunts to make it sound more natural.

At this point, I’ve pretty much drafted the whole episode, and I’m now tweaking audio levels and adding SFX where things sound quiet.  Also, thanks to Duel Links, I’ve been able to restore Aki’s Synchro chant pretty well, which I’ll show off in a later video once levels are fixed.  I also need to find ways to hopefully minimize the annoying Akiza lines against Koda later in the episode…

5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 21 WIP #4: Revenge

I’m almost done with the episode! Here’s another preview showing off my edits to this scene, but with a twist: I’ve always thought the original track playing here, “Rage” from 5D’s Sound Duel 2, sounded a lot like “Standstill,” one of the unreleased GX tracks.  So I thought I’d mix it in to see how it’d look in the scene proper, and I think it did work pretty well! This won’t be in the final dub-uncut episode, this is just for a little fun!

Edit-wise, this one was a doozy–edited around all the talk of Greiger breaking into Goodwin’s office just before this starts to make it bear some resemblance to the original, and between recycling some of Greiger’s lines and reappropriating them in other spots, I think it came out decently enough! Also had Yusei call after him like he did originally as he rides up to try and stop him (dub!Yusei just shouts “No!” which is fine but to try and match the original and all~), and I got rid of Yusei’s extra line before Greiger screams at Goodwin by recycling some of Greiger’s grunting.

Thoughts? Stay tuned for a link to the full thing, as I give the episode some quality-checking now that I’ve pretty much finished it.