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The Smothering is Back

YouTube let me cut out the track, I’m told it take ages to process videos and whatnot.

The Smothering quick link

The segment now has some emotive music track I spent roughly 30 seconds picking over the top of it. Better than nothing.

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Until it’s put back up - watch the smothering here.

Is there a torrent of the original The Smothering? Or a vimeo?

THE SMOTHERING LINK

I put it up on my Google Docs.

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It’d be fucking tragic to loose all of these. 

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THE SMOTHERING - has been blocked by Cartoon Network after about 3 and half years.

Very sad. They’re claiming part of the soundtrack since we used Moonlit Battlefield. i think they never noticed the other soundtrack uses because they’re so quiet, but Moonlight Battlefield plays over mostly silence.  Will work on uploading a version that using different music. Probably can’t re upload on the same thing. ugh. 

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When should the episode be watched? Does it spoil any episodes?

It spoils nothing if you’ve met all three Homeworld Gems. I recommend watching it after Catch and Release. 

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Subtitles/closed captions

There was some issue with approving foreign language subtitles for the episode but it’s been fixed.

There’s now 7 different languages in subtitles and below here’s all the dubs I can currently find.

Español Latino

Español Latino (but some else)

Italian 

Portuguese 

 If you made/know a dub that’s not listed feel free to message me and I’ll try and add it later.

#The Smothering #steven universe

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Hey look, someone meme’d our episode! This is the feeling of true success.

#The Smothering #steven universe

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what you use to edit the audio, animation and color to be placed together?

Hey! McKenzie here (editor)! The editing process was done in Premiere Pro! I can outline the whole workflow because I’m an overexcited nerd:

Robin, the colorists, and voice actors all uploaded their parts to Google Drive where everything was organized. Then I took all the pictures and voice lines, and lined them up according to Robin’s instructions + my own intuition. There were several back-and-forth checks with Robin to get advice from him and make sure the timing was good and every joke was hitting correctly. I often exported the ep in segments to show the status so it was sort of modular in that way.

After I timed out the images and voice lines, I grabbed music from online--Aivi and Surrashu uploaded a lot of their instrumental tracks from the show, so I used tracks that matched moods of the scenes (shouts out to commenters who recognized those tracks!). I had to do a lot of fiddling to make the music line up with moments in the show, especially when timing changed in scenes.

Finally I pulled sound effects from freesound.org and matched them to the action. This was one of the most time consuming parts. I was poring through sounds thinking “hmm does this bush rustling sound too aggressive??” and finding the sounds for all the goo was super difficult. But since I don’t have a huge foley setup, I couldn’t record original sfx, so I worked with what I had!

There were some special shots that were more than just static images and required more editing. There were a few pan/zoom shots that took fiddling, and camera shake when people fall or get hit (I used the Camera Shake plugin from Red Giant’s Universe plugin set).

The other big editing thing was the whole scene at night. Those colors were all originally daytime palettes due to miscommunication. Initially, to fix it, we were just going to do a flat color filter overlay, but it made the whole scene look much duller than if there was a while unique color palette for night. But I managed to figure out a combination of overlays and many many “change to color” effects in Premiere to establish a color palette. 

So yes here you go! Let me know if you have any other questions, it was a really cool project!

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The Smothering hits a Million views!

Thank you all. 

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The Smothering Commentary track.

I chat about the interesting tidbits of making the episode. 

Hope you find it interesting. 

#The Smothering #commentary track

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where is the juicy drama from the behind the scene? and the deleted stuff?

Okso, I literally just got a message from MK, telling me she can't findher side of the audio and she's certain she must have deleted itwhile cleaning out her computer.

Solike, I guess I'm just rerecording it solo and I’ll post it today.

Hey, spam me with questions before I’m done and I’ll answer them at the end of the video. .    

#atomsk-00

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Why no more SU? Are you out of ideas or just don't like it anymore?

I still like SU, and I do have ideas. I could script 2 different episodes based on the concepts I already have sorted out. I’d just prefer to make my own stuff; try out different ideas.

Also I don’t want to make a series of videos based on a copyrighted property I don’t own.

#ravenclawer

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I really liked your fan episode, do you plan on making more :D?

More things like it? Yes. 

But not more Steven Universe. 

#zoomzamzim

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Hey The Smothering hit half a million views recently!

Thanks to everyone who watched it. 

We’re glad you all liked it.

#The Smothering #steven universe

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Is there a character sheet or sketches of the monster that was taped on the rock? I really want to make a plush of it

There wasn’t, so I made you one. Send us pictures of it when it’s done!

#The smothering #Anonymous

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I WANT THAT 2 HOUR COMMENTARY I WOULD LISTEN TO EVERY SECOND

Mk has to edit out my dark secrets.

#animegalaxy123

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MK and I recorded the commentary track for The Smothering. 

I managed to make the commentary for a 13:00 video 2 hours long. 

MK swears she can cut it down to just one. I believe in her.  

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