And in all honesty, all you’ve seen are a few screenshots, a couple video clips, and you’ve talked to me through this forum. You have no reason YET to think that I would do a better job than anyone else at this editing. You have no reason to think that someone else couldn’t do every bit as well as I could using my plans and notes for the movie.
You know, you're right. We don't need you. Who do you think you are coming in here with your ideas and bossing us around! We don't need you at all!
In all seriousness, I'm glad you made that post, TM. Things were getting a bit out of control in here.
Everyone is coming up with some great stuff, but we can't just expect you to actually do all the work. It must be pretty intimidating for you to come in here every few days or so to find pages and pages of new ideas for your approval or whatever. I completely understand where you're coming from when you say II and III might burn you out; you're doing a heck of a lot of work which by no means you're obligated to do. You could stop right now just to spite us all; we'd be in quite a predicament if that happened now wouldn't we? Your suggestion of passing the baton for I is very reasonable. Simultaneous "production" on I and III would be a great way to speed up the process so we can have the complete prequel trilogy before the end of the decade. Hopefully one of us can rise up and take the reins for I and possibly the OT (though our views on how the originals should be edited would most likely constitute many variations). If someone were to take us under their editing wing so to speak and lay out for us an Idiot's Guide to Editing, I'm sure MTH and myself would be up to the task. Creativity is not the problem, it's the time and the resources. If we could learn the secrets of economically reasonable and technically efficient editing, I'm sure I can speak for both of us when I say we'd love to come onboard as more than creative consultants.For now though let's focus on to task at hand, Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side, and how it will fit in to both our new and improved prequel trilogy as well as the saga as a whole. Here's to you, Trooperman; we all appreciate your efforts and will support whatever decision you make in regards to the project.