Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

See you folks on wednesday!?

 Happy Fourth of July? =)

50% of the way through...

And just to be clear, this is just reel 2.  I still have to do the same for reels 1 and 3.

Finally, rendering of reel 2 is done.  Encoding a test .m2v now.  Already synched the audio (I hope... you're never quite sure with the pulldown), so at long last there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Reel 2 looks great on DVD playback.  One minor fix but I can do that later.

Reel 3 rendering.  Another couple of days for this one.

Reel 3 is done and looks great.

Starting on reel 1.

You're not. I think I might hold a mock midnight premiere when this is done. ;)

Reel 1 done, and looks great.

There are four very minor fixes I have to make, after which I'll start on the "making of", menu, and extra.

1. yellowing at two corners of reel 2
2. yellowing at one corner of reel 3
3. bright scratch in one frame of reel 1 - brief but surprisingly noticeable
4. hair for a couple of seconds in reel 1 - already have fix but forgot to splice it in.

All simple stuff.

And of course I need to watch the whole thing on DVD to make sure I didn't miss anything else, and that the sound synch is solid.

Awesome. Totally awesome.

Doing the DVD first.  I still consider them first and foremost to be research material, and the DVD allows me to include an extra with relevant details, leaders, etc.  Also easier to cover up the shortcomings of my capture :)

And a DVD is a lot easier for lame people like me to watch =|

After several experiments, I decided to do some of the corrections, but to leave some of them alone.  So the film is pretty much done.  I have to watch the whole thing for a final test to be sure, and I'll probably have Jaxxon take a look at it too before calling it a wrap.

I also sound synced the "extra", and finished encoding it.

Next up is the "making of" mini-doc.  I pretty much know what I'm going to do for that, so it shouldn't take all that long.  After that, I'll do the menu.  I've decided to stick with the same menu theme as PG, as that would give the trilogy a unifying "look".

In short, this thing is coming together a little faster than first anticipated despite my crunch time at work.  Expect an August completion.

excellent! just what we've been waiting

to hear! great job!

later

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