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It's now time to address the issue of an ever-growing community of fan editors, their many edits, and the difficulty in nailing down the specifics of each edit. I posted months ago about a fan edit gallery of sorts, a place to post screen caps and general descriptions about your fan edits.
I've decided instead to develop a fully-functional blog interface that will allow people to keep track of fan edit efforts in as much detail as they'd like. Descriptions, screen caps, a blog (journal with comments), user ratings/reviews, whatever you want. I'd like to develop an interface that will serve as a definitive resource for fan edits of all kinds--the kind of database that will absolutely kill all future "Which one should I get?" topics.
What specific things would you like to post about your fan edits or see posted about others' fan edits? What kind of stats/info/etc. would be of interest to you? I'm asking for specific examples because I want to build a structured interface with consistent data instead of a big text entry field where people can throw in anything. Think of the interface as a blog to chart your progress and a profile for you and your fan edit that details everything people would want to know about:
- Source material ("Faces" laserdiscs, Definitive Collection, 2004 DVDs, etc.)
- Soundtrack format (DD, PCM, etc.)
- Software used during production
- Known glitches
- Screen caps
- Tips from the creator (things you've learned, things you would/wouldn't do again)
- Fan reviews/ratings
- Whatever the hell else you can think of...
Built into this "blog" will be the capability to select multiple fan edits of the same film and directly compare their stats, hence the need for a comprehensive and uniform structure to the data.
How serious am I about making this a valuable resource? I just registered fanedit.net, fanedits.com, and fanedits.net (fanedit.com is already taken, but apparently only by a squatter). I really want to build something cool.
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