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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 26 Clip - VS [Elite 4?!] Jack

Just a random little edit I wanted to throw together; I’ve been rewatching Pokemon–well, Pocket Monsters since I’m doing so in Japanese now–and as I’m almost through Advanced Generation (Haruka’s off to the Kanto Grand Festival! also no huge VA scandal neat), I’d been wondering what 5D’s would be like with some of the OST, and I thought the Hoenn Elite 4 theme (a personal fave) would work really well with this part of the episode.  Not making this a thing (…maybe), just wanted to have a little fun, but I do like how it ended up coming out since I also had to recreate the SFX for a few shots where I used the Japanese audio when editing the original dub-uncut episode with the Japanese soundtrack (and had to borrow the roar used for Red Daemon’s in the old 5D’s promo clip 4Kids made, along with a game SFX for Stardust’s roar I had handy [don’t mind how it kinda sounds inconsistent haha]). 

It’s a shame Shinji Miyazaki didn’t work on an anime version of the Hoenn Gym Leader theme (apparently–or Emerald’s VS Frontier Brain theme, for that matter…), or I think that could’ve worked well too. (I may look into isolating the Japanese vocals sometime to do this with the Japanese version, lol.) 

Keep an eye out for some 5D’s Dub-Uncut 29 clips coming soon as I get started on it!

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.

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 #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” 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 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” 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!)