Star Trek vs Star Wars 2: The Multiverse Collides [AI-assisted; VERY GOOD]
I saw Part 1 of this and it was pretty good and fun to watch but dead-ended: Q brings a Darth Vader and his Star Destroyer to confront Picard in the Star Trek universe. That video is summarized in the first 30 seconds here.
But this Part 2 is really, REALLY good. Next level. There are all kinds of places the author can take this.
Speaking of whom:
A lot of people have asked how I actually make these videos, so I thought I’d use this pinned comment to explain the process.
There isn’t a button I press that spits out an episode. 😂 A video like this involves hundreds of individual generations, tests, failed attempts and edits before I get something I can actually use.
I start by developing the story and writing the dialogue. From there, I break everything down into individual shots and work out the camera angles, character positions, eyelines, performances and continuity between shots.
I then create the reference images needed for each scene and use ComfyUI and MiniMax H3 to turn those images into video. A single finished shot can take multiple attempts because the movement, facial expression, performance, timing or continuity has to be right. If it isn't, I generate it again.
Dialogue and voices are another part of the process. Depending on the character, I use generated voices, voice references and, in some cases, recordings from real people. Those recordings then need to be edited, cleaned up, EQ'd and mixed with the rest of the scene.
Finally, everything goes into Adobe Premiere Pro, where the episode is assembled shot by shot. That's where I do the editing, timing, colour work, dialogue mixing, sound effects, ambience, music and all the other little details that turn hundreds of separate pieces into the finished video you're watching.
AI is obviously a major part of the toolset, but it's a filmmaking tool here rather than the filmmaker. The story, writing, shot selection, performances, continuity, editing, sound design and the countless decisions about what actually makes the final cut are all part of the production process.
Hopefully that gives you a better idea of what actually goes into making one of these videos.
"This isn't reality, this is fantasy!" (Uhura to Mr. Adventure) [ST3 Movie]
A clip from The Search for Spock - Directed by Leonard Nimoy
Scene: Getting Dr. McCoy and Stealing the Enterprise
"In one hour and *for-ty-five* minutes, the entire inhabited surface of your planet will be destroyed" -- Commander Montgomery Scott
S01E23 A Taste of Armageddon
https://antifandom.com/memory-alpha/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon_(episode)
A rare situation for Scotty-- both in command of the Enterprise, and also making a typically Kirk-like bluff. Or was it, really..?
60 Years Ago First Episode of Star Trek
cross-posted from: https://crust.piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/134836/good-news-in-history-september-8
Good News in History, September 8
60 years ago, the first episode of Star Trek, featuring “Space: the final frontier” and the USS Enterprise, began its three-year mission of exploration on TV screens across America. The science-fiction television show created by Gene Roddenberry was set in the 23rd century and starred William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. The NBC show has since […] The post Good News in History, September 8 appeared first on Good News Network.
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Mirror universe conundrum
I recently started a rewatch of DS9. And it's going so well I found myself in S5 in no time. There are a bunch of mirror universe episodes in that series. I used to hate those when the show came out. I look at them as interesting diversions now. Kind of like making a Muppet Show episode.
So if we put to the side the notion that MU episodes are acting bones thrown to the cast by the writers and producers. And that this is sci-fi and you have to suspend disbelief: how come most of the characters in the show DS9 have mirror copies? If we just look at relationships: MU's Sisko and Jennifer hooked up but had no children. MU Smiley was never forced to eat Sushi or Cardassian food with a botanist of our acquaintance. There is no Molly in the MU. Kirayoshi hasn't been born yet where I am on the rewatch. If Molly avoids all temporal trap doors and grows up, beams over to the MU for whatever fabricated reason, she'll come back disappointed. Same with Jake and his offspring. That's just three examples of people who don't appear in the MU. What are the odds that Bennifer, Kira, two Daxes, Bashir, Quark, Rom, Nog, Garak, Odo, Brunt, O'Brian - all of these guys make an MU appearance. All their parents met up and procreated (or they got shot out into the universe for fun by the MU great link). This doesn't seem likely. We have three examples of a group of people of about a dozen main and recurring characters who didn't get born in the MU. The family tree is cut off in about 10% of the characters I listed. That sort of variance must accumulate through time. Identical MU copies should be the absolute exception, not the norm.
If we go to Disco, MU I'm gonna name you Saru is there. In a universe where they eat Kelpians. What are the odds his parents survived long enough to meet and make a really tall baby?
How can this make Star Trek sense?