Resurrection 'F' - Super Cut [COMPLETE!]

[Ajay]

After beginning my Battle of Gods 'Super cut', I felt like I was editing for the sake of editing. That film stands on its own just fine, and the major differences between the TV retelling and the film made editing a real pain. The gains for the level of effort put in weren't really worth the trouble.

Resurrection F is a film that I felt was heavily flawed. Super's retelling was equally as flawed, but when combined, they seem to produce a significantly better final product; one that that also required only some strenuous editing to make work.

I've been working on this for a little while now, and I feel I'm at a point where I can start showing clips and getting feedback where necessary.


UPDATE: Quite a lot has changed, so this is no longer accurate.

Spoiler:

Here's the layout of the film (not that you can really see anything with it so zoomed out):



- Opening Titles
- Goku & Kuririn reminiscing (Episode 16)

• Battle of Gods Super flashbacks replaced with film footage.

- Vegeta vowing to reach the level of gods (Episode 16)
- Freeza in Hell (Movie)
- Vegeta arrives at home.

• Comedy scenes convincing Whis to train him.
• Scene ends with Vegeta & Whis flying off.

- Freeza's ship scenes (Movie)

• Text reads "Sometime later..."
• Discussion about reviving Freeza.
• Scene ends with Sorbet and Tagoma heading to Earth

- Whis and Bulma pacing around Capsule Corp grounds (Episode 17)

• Goku flies in and asks to train with Vegeta, too.
• All instances of Gohan stalking Goku removed.
• Scene ends with Goku celebrating that Whis agreed.

- Pilaf Gang on Earth as Sorbet & Tagoma arrive (Movie)
The film plays out normally up until Shenlong explains how many wishes are allowed.

• Three wishes clip inserted from Super Ep. 19.

Freeza revives as seen in the film. Film plays out normal up until Tagoma says that perhaps they should leave the Saiyans alone.

• Insert Freeza torturing Tagoma. (Episode 20)
• Scene plays out to end. All mentions of power levels removed.

- Goku arrives at Beerus' place with Whis (Episode 18)
Episode plays out as normal. The eyecatch of the episode is replaced with the Freeza training scenes from episode 21. Original music has been removed and replaced with slower, eerie music from the F soundtrack.
- Remainder of episode 18 plays out until the nighttime scene where Vegeta says he won't lose to Goku.

- Jaco's spaceship heads to Earth. (Movie)

• Title reads "4 Months Later".

- Film plays out as normal up to Freeza's explanation to Goku and Vegeta about training to achieve his new strength.

• Combo of clips edited together to form a flashback depicting Freeza training and killing Tagoma.

- Films plays out as normal up to Freeza's tranformation.

• Freeza's movie form reveal combined with Episode 25's.
• Beginning of fight replaced with scenes from episode 25 & 26.

- Film plays out as normal up to laser scene.

• Combined movie and Super #26 clips to depict Goku powering down and being shot in his base form.

- Films play out as normal until Vegeta's transformation.

• Scene has been totally overhauled to mix the film and #27's rendition. Transformation feels more climactic, as a result.

- Remainder of film plays out until Goku kills Freeza.

• Ending entirely replaced by episode 27 of Super.
• Gohan damage and Piccolo death mentions removed.

- End.

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Preview Clips:
- Freeza Training

• Major audio artifacting due to hacking out the original background music. I'll be able to do this properly once Super's OST is released. Consider this an alpha version.

- Tagoma death shown during Freeza's training explanation.

• Created using Tagoma's death by Vegeta, and Freeza screaming at Goku in another episode.

- Freeza's Transformation.

• There's an awkward Jaco cutaway here that I'll be removing once Super's OST is out. It references something that hasn't happened in my chronology, and just feels tonally out of place.

- Goku's Laser Fun Time.

• Depending on how fussy I am, I may either move the penetration location, or edit his shirt hole later in the film.

- Vegeta's Transformation.

• Pretty much 100% happy with this. Currently deciding whether to add music to his Freeza beatdown. Probably not, though.

- Gohan Continuity Fix.

• Thanks to /u/Plowkiller for helping me with this. I handled the other edits, but I was nowhere near good enough to fix the holes with that level of motion going on.

[Doctor.]

Aw, you're gonna cut out Freeza torturing Gohan? That's kinda sad.

[ekrolo2]

The Faulconer score actually works quite favorably with the film

Aw, you're gonna cut out Freeza torturing Gohan? That's kinda sad.

Its a damn shame, that was actually a pretty good bit.

[Dbzfan94]

I personally think the Faulconer SSJ Vegeta theme fits with that scene, but has to start earlier when he first starts transforming. But even then it sounds weird with the JPN voices

[SSGSS Goku]

Will you make another version of this if they correct episodes on the 2nd and 3rd Blu-Ray box? Also, will you do an english dub of this when FUNimation dubs Super and releases it?

[Ajay]

Aw, you're gonna cut out Freeza torturing Gohan? That's kinda sad.

I did try it, but it's impossible to make that fit properly without killing Piccolo, and I'm not really interested in doing that. I'd also have to cut out the music so that I could easily remove Goten and Trunks from the scene, so that'd be another pain in the ass edit to make. Then, of course, you'd have to deal with the absolutely disgusting animation of Goku arriving, and that's 100% not being in my edit.

It's a good scene, but for it to properly work with my edit, it'd need to be re-animated. You can't cut around it either since Gohan powers down after killing Shisami.

Too many issues for a scene that was perfectly fine in the movie.

Will you make another version of this if they correct episodes on the 2nd and 3rd Blu-Ray box? Also, will you do an english dub of this when FUNimation dubs Super and releases it?

They probably won't, but on the off chance they do, I'll cut in where necessary. Won't be doing an English dub release, no. Though the dub always having a 5.1 mix means someone could do a much better job of this than I can with the Japanese.

[Zephyr]

Oh, and uh, here's a nightmare scarier than anything you could have ever imagined. Faulconer meets Resurrection 'F'.

Nice! I'm a sucker for Faulconer score + Japanese voice mashups. For some reason.

[Lord Beerus]

This looks fantastic so far Ajay.

[ZombieVito]

Oh, and uh, here's a nightmare scarier than anything you could have ever imagined. Faulconer meets Resurrection 'F'.

Ugh...

[Ajay]

Ugh...

Ha, that's the reaction I was looking for. Didn't expect so many people to like it.

Also didn't expect almost everyone to ignore the actual project over a joke clip.

[emperior]

That's quite awesome, can't wait to see it. It's basically what I hoped Super would have done but for some reason looks like they can't/they don't want to re-use movie footage and it's quite a shame. What will you do about the ending though? When Whis saves everyone Piccolo should be there so you should use movie footage.

[Ajay]

That's quite awesome, can't wait to see it. It's basically what I hoped Super would have done but for some reason looks like they can't/they don't want to re-use movie footage and it's quite a shame. What will you do about the ending though? When Whis saves everyone Piccolo should be there so you should use movie footage.

After Vegeta's transformation, the film plays out as usual up until Goku kills Freeza. Whis saving everyone is all movie footage -- Piccolo is still there.

[worldmonsters]

Your edits look great, I want to put that front and center. Even though I can kinda see it from the artstyle what is from Super and what is from the movie, it's actually VERY well done editing wise. The only thing I'm not sure about, though this could be because it just doesn't work, is that you omit everything that Super brought to the table that is pretty neat. Well of course that's completely opinion based, let's be honest, but still that's how I feel about it. What I think would add value (in my opinion again) to your edit is adding:

- Seeing Buu actually sleeping.
- Gotenks vs Tagoma (and yes, with Ginyu). Freeza seeing Goten and Trunks, to me, would feel pretty much essential to the plot.
- Maybe seeing everyone on Earth before it explodes? I thought that was a nice touch, and everyone who survives is a little more upset in the Super version.
- Gohan being super weak and in the end realising that "shit, I need to get my shit together else I risk my friends when Vegeta and dad aren't home".

Now I get that that's mostly Super, and I get that that is one heck of a job to get all those things to mesh (especially pacing wise). But those, to me, are the things that Super added to the story that felt... well at least better I wish they did more with Gotenks vs Tagoma and all that stuff, sure. But still

Anyway, what I DO like about your editing project is the addition of the third wish thing, the beginning with Krillin (though I wonder if you paid it off as Super did with Krillin during the fighting), and of course knowing when to use the movie footage for the fights So while I might not agree entirely with your decisions, I think the craft behind it is very well done!

[Ajay]

- Seeing Buu actually sleeping.
- Gotenks vs Tagoma (and yes, with Ginyu). Freeza seeing Goten and Trunks, to me, would feel pretty much essential to the plot.
- Maybe seeing everyone on Earth before it explodes? I thought that was a nice touch, and everyone who survives is a little more upset in the Super version.
- Gohan being super weak and in the end realising that "shit, I need to get my shit together else I risk my friends when Vegeta and dad aren't home".

I appreciate the kind words.

For Boo sleeping and the clips of everyone on Earth, those are things I really want to add, and did try to add during the initial edit. I couldn't make them work, but they're definitely on my list of things to retry once Super's soundtrack is out. They definitely add a heck of a lot more impact.

I hated everything they did with Tagoma in the end, so I won't be using that. Difference of opinion, as you say. Sorry! Felt like they entirely wasted Tagoma's character for the sake of a silly callback to Ginyu. They ultimately did nothing with him, so I feel like it'd just pad out the film for no real reason. Had they actually used Tagoma properly, I'd 100% keep him in. My edit gives him a little more purpose in the form of Freeza's training pet, so that's something, I guess!

As for Gohan being weak, I've got that all in there. Whether he gets tortured or whether he simply gets one-shotted, I think the results are still the same. It's definitely made clear by my use of the ending talk with Piccolo. Thankfully there's no mention of Piccolo dying in those scenes, so it just comes across like Gohan's apologising to his old teacher for not keeping up his training.

Assuming that Super makes no mention of his death -- which I imagine won't happen, considering the whole thing was glossed over in the end -- it should all work out nicely.

[Lord Beerus]

A bit of meaningless question, but I wonder Ajay, how long did you work on the Super cut of Battle Of Gods before you scrapped the project?

[Ajay]

A bit of meaningless question, but I wonder Ajay, how long did you work on the Super cut of Battle Of Gods before you scrapped the project?

Quite a while, I guess. But it didn't feel like I was making much progress since I kept changing my mind on things or hitting brick walls due to impractical editing.

Most of my timeline ended up looking like this:

Spoiler:

I was having to reconstruct scenes almost any time I wanted to use Super clips; extracting audio, replacing sound effects, adding in music, and redoing mouth flaps. It was just really excessive work for a final product that didn't really feel like much of an improvement. The differences in Goku's characterisation pretty much put a total halt on the entire thing.

Though I appreciate a few things about Super's retelling, it didn't do a whole lot to really improve on the film. Battle of Gods was such a strong film on its own that I felt like I was beginning to take things away from it with my own additions. It's often hard to find a good balance between the pace of the film and scenes you really want to extend. Essentially, I was doing more harm than good.

Editing Resurrection 'F' feels entirely different. Super didn't stray too far from the original, but it added a heck of a lot of good, even if it did eventually hit the lowest I've ever seen the series hit. All of the minor niggles from the film have pretty much been erased. I've been able to fill the gap between the two films, add in all of the info fans wanted, and fix up the little plot points that really stood out.

That reminds me, actually. Regarding Whis' time powers; shall I remove his explanation from the film, and replace it with Super's little hint: "Seems there's no need to redo anything this time". I seem to remember a lot of people praising this since it keeps the power a surprise, but I'm wondering whether making it more subtle is going to make it feel like an even bigger deus ex machina. Whis' explanation early on in the film does make the ending very obvious, but it definitely prevents it from feeling like a power out of nowhere. What do you think?

[ekrolo2]

Leave the Super version. Whis' hint feels more natural than the movie sledgehammering you right in the face about how the endings gonna get reserved no problem. At least this way there's a bit more mystery to his ability.

[DMS]

wow ajay your amazing love the preview clips but one thing I recommend you crop that japanese logo on that upper right hand corner. Its up to you. Here's what I did for one of my videos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjgsR-deFMg

and your transformation is better than mine lmao damn.

[Ajay]

Cropping it would result in inconsistent aspect ratios. As I mentioned in the original post, I'm just gonna run a delogo on it or replace those sections with deloged NST footage.

Glad you like the edits though!

[Zephyr]

Any particular reason you're removing Piccolo dying? It doesn't bother me one way or the other, just curious.