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5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode 22 - WIP #3: Planting the Backstory Seed

Heya, folks, here’s a newer WIP video as I get more of this episode taken care of! Though I did have to trim a few things out just so I could actually upload it here and not have it blocked for everyone, so apologies for the jumping music.  Been a bit busier the last 2-3 weeks as an election I was volunteering on was wrapping up, but I’ve been able to get more done since which is good.

Really enjoyed how this one came together with “Izayoi Battle” fueling the dub, but I also tried to fix some of the dialogue to match the Japanese script a bit more because of how “meh” some of Akiza’s lines here were; the wonky methodology below the cut, if you’d like to see.

But let me know your thoughts! I’ll also be trying to make the mashed-up lines smoother as I quality-check everything before releasing the episode; I’ve pretty much finished it now, and I’m now adding back SFX and QCing with last-minute audio-level tweaking.  I’ll share one more WIP which will have the full episode’s link as usual.

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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.

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!