Happy New Year!
I have finally gotten the courage to finish this edit, and I am going to re-do the master cut on Davinci Resolve instead of Premiere to better take advantage of the color grading, node compositing and advanced stuff rather than Adobe constantly crashing on me. The expected release date of this edit will be on “May The 4th” or May 25 (Original release date of A New Hope) and the changelist will be hardened and finalized within this week to begin doing the more VFX-heavy changes.
As a quick teaser here is the recomposited version of Sky_'s speeder shot with a more visually accurate shadow that matches the surrounding shadows of the surrounding people and droids, and added the SE shuttle at the end to tie it in better to the rest of the sequence which will heavily borrow from the SE version. Note that this is still WIP as I didn’t color grade it to match the other shots, and the detail on the guy’s legs are a bit hazy since it’s sourced from 4k77.
To be honest, I forgot that this project started back all the way in 2019, and how COVID + Lockdown + Lack of Motivation just really hit me like a brick wall in terms of forcing myself to make this edit as clean and visually appealing as possible, which caused the long hiatus due to personal issues, as well as technical issues in my lack of literacy in VFX and slow hardware. But now I have the tools and the laptop necessary to finish this edit so I can finally put this 4 year old beast to rest.
