Instead of cutting it completely, here's how I fixed it:

WARNING: Highly compressed DIVX file: http://www.thirdwishproductions.com/soj/sojtrain.avi

I may edit it a bit more, and I definitely plan on blurring his hand when he waves. When they sped it up, his hands sort of strobed.

-T

Thanks for sharing your thoughs. I'm surprised it doesn't work for you. There were only two parts in the original scene that I didn't like. My main problem was his full body shots where his legs were showing and were obviously not going fast enough, plus he's not leaning forward. Way fake. I remember disliking it when I first saw the film as a kid. The other was when the little girl on the train points to Clark and the mom looks over while Clark is still running alongside the train, and the mom still doesn't believe the girl. I took care of both of those problems.

As for your claim that his legs go too slow in my edit, I think your mind is playing tricks on you. If you watch it frame by frame, every time you see his feet you'll see that his steps match the ground perfectly. Most probably they filmed him actually running along the ground, with a train going very slowly, then sped the film up. As opposed to the shots I removed where he was pretending to run while being suspended from a moving vehicle.

You're right that the arms aren't moving fast enough in some clips, but it's not so bad that it ruins the scene for me. I'll see if I can improve it with motion blur though.

The "wahoo" never bother me. I think it fits for a high school kid.

I'm not sure if it's possible to completely cut the scene, even if I wanted to. You have to link the football field scene to the scene where he arrives at the farm ahead of his school mates, which leads to Kent Sr. explaining that Clark doesn't need to show off, which leads to him attempting to race Clark to the barn and having the heart attack. If you take out any of those scenes nothing fits together.

-T

I totally respect tweaker's opinion, even though I don't completely agree. If it doesn't work for him, it doesn't work for him. And I like that he speaks up about it.

The “running with the train” scene is excellent, and I love this nice little edit you've done. It works very well.

Keep up the great work!

Nah! I'm glad you spoke up. I like hearing opposing viewponts.

-T

Thanks! I have a lot to go. Most of the editing is done, although I'm the kind of editor that keeps going back and polishing and polishing. So there will be at least a few more weeks of that. I like to work until I'm out of ideas, then step away for a week or so and come back to it and re-watch everthing.

When that process is done I'll start working on the visual effects. Not sure how long that will take. Then I'll be fixing the audio. Hopefully I'll be done by the end of September or early October, but I don't know for sure.

Since the sound is still screwy on most of the edits, I probably won't be releasing any more for a while...

-T

Thanks Ollie!

Thanks. That was one of the simpler edits. Just some snipping, and no-rearranging And since there was no dialog, I could do a quick and dirty audio mix. But it'll get better when I focus on the audio remix at the end. Some of the scenes are so re-arranged, it's going to take a lot of work to get it to sound good.

-T

I love the concept, do you have a completion date?

Sometime before the offcial Superman DVD bundle comes out. So early November at the latest. But I'm a little stuck right now. I've decided to abandon editing with Womble. I thought the better image quality that Womble would produce would make all the downsides worth it, but I've changed my mind. So I'm considering how best to go forward. Any time I change programs I'll have to re-do the work I've done so far, so before I re-start I want to make sure I'm doing things right.

So basically there's been a bit of a stall. I'm going to make time this week and this coming weekend to get things started again.

-T

i personally like to use Sony Vegas on a lot of stuff, its a good simple program, one of those easy to learn, difficult to master sort of things. There's all kinds of stuff you can do with it if you want to study up a bit, but the basic editing is really, really easy. That would be my recommendation. e-mail me if you want some help obtaining it.

STATUS UPDATE

I've decided to do the rest of my editing in Premiere Pro. I'm reverse-telecyning the source so that I'll be editing in 24fps progressive video using Huffyuv lossless compression. I bought a new hard drive yesterday, and as soon as it's installed I'll start re-editing what I've done so far. I have a babysitter for the weekend, so I hope to get a lot done.

-T

yeah Taolar, how is this going? Also dont forget the richard donner cut of Supes II comes out in a week or so. Could be some good material in there.

Hi All,

Unfortunately having to re-do all the edits that I'd already done in Womble really took a lot out of my momentum. It's been difficult to get going again, and since the new discs are coming out so soon, I've put my efforts off until then. Sorry to everyone who was looking forward to it coming out this month.

So once I get my hands on the new Superman discs, I'll be making this my only hobby, and WILL have it out in February (in time for my annual birthday re-edit film festival). Hopefully you all will think it's worth the wait!

-Taolar

Thanks Darknight! I just rewatched it and realized I put the wrong email address at the end! Crap!

So to anyone who emailed me at that address and didn't get a response, sorry! I'll fix that soon with a good email address and a better rendering of the superman logo...

-T