Hello Everyone,
Since this project is currently dead/hibernating I decided to do my own version. I’ve re-edited the entire Macross Saga from Booby Trap to To the Stars. Ive followed the Deculture Edition’s spirit in having a higher resolution source for the video while using the audio directly from the Legacy collection DVD’s, no terrible stock sound effects here. The way I edited was to use the legacy footage as the basis for editing the higher resolution source. So anything that wasn’t in the legacy video footage I edited out. I tried to keep it in line with the legacy editions video footage almost frame by frame. Though there will be times in the footage it was about 1 to 2 frames off. From rewatching it myself it is not noticeable at all. And I think you will find it very faithful to the Legacy editions. I should mention I did take some liberties (during Force of Arms I removed Minmay’s To Be in Love song and replaced it with “It’s You” which I found was the original song she sung before the dvd were released) I will be going through each episode again one by one to make sure I didn’t miss any mistakes (missing frames, editing mistakes, etc.). I will be evaluating a way to make the file sizes smaller without quality loss. Most of them are around 1 to 1.2 gig each episode, all MP4. I’ve played a number of them through plex.tv and streamed them directly to my tv and the results have been awesome. Hopefully I can get them to a smaller size. As for where to hosts the files I’m also trying to figure that out. I will update when I have a better idea of how to go about getting these to the public.
I did want to ask the creator of the Deculture Edition if it would be ok to use their intro and end credits in my version as they did a superb job. Making my own would take a great deal of time and I’m not sure if I could do as good a job as they did. But I will leave that decision up to them.
Anyways I’ll put them up when I figure out all the logistics but I estimate possibly having them up around the end of this month. I just want to make sure that everything is near as perfect as possible before releasing it widely. Hope you all enjoy it when it does drop. Thanks!