Originally posted by: MTHaslett
But...
InfoDroid and Trooperman and Commander Courage all editing Episode I together!? That sounds like a topic worthy of another thread!

If everyone is serious about it, then we should start it. The first collective fan-edit... Stone soup style.

I'd love to join in the fun, but can officially rule it out until spring. But at that point, maybe I could jump in for a last minute "hands-on" contribution.

So just help handle the writing aspect of it for now.

I guess we probably need to start with the "bible" that Demon Hunter talked about.

Definitely. That's something we can start right away. So, let the brainstorming and debates begin! We can talk it out until we solidify the direction we're taking.

InfoDroid -- I can't wait to see Ben's Hut!! How's it working out?! You know we're going to Hell for this, right?

We're definitely going to Hell, but hey... Take comfort in the fact that we can blame Lucas for being the first to defile that holy ground. My view is this:

-we can have the original OT preserved for when we're feeling sentimental about the better portion of the 70's and 80's spent building forts for our action figures and eating C-3PO's for breakfast.

-we can have the special edition DVD for the times we feel like drinking George Lucas' poison Kool-Aid.

-AND we can have the one we watch when we want to share the entire saga with our friends and family as one long movie - and that's the one we're making.

P.S. - Trooperman, if it's against your religious beliefs, you don't have to contribute to the OT if you don't want to.

Really. We understand.

This is my proposal: MTHaslett, Commander Courage, Trooperman and myself should be the primary contributors to this project. If MTHaslett and Commander Courage can duke it out until we're able to come up with a (feasible while compelling) "bible", then I should be able to handle the bulk of the basic editing work, then Trooperman can put the final finishing touches on it. Things like the opening crawl someone else will have to handle, because I haven't a clue how to go about that. But, I'm sure if we all pool our resources on this board we can make things happen rather quickly.

If you're all in agreement with that, then we can take it from there.

As a token of my good will... I present to you a gift...

Ben's Revelation

This is a link to my edit of the Ben's Hut scene in ANH based on some of the suggestions of MTHaslett from a previous post. It's a rough and preliminary version of a portion of that scene, but it seems to have turned out pretty good. I made it mostly to gauge the potential of my equipment. Let me know what you think, and how it can be made better.

As I've explained before, I've had a few hang-ups while exporting it, so if you notice any jumpiness, or other technical problems while watching it, please let me know.

The only down side is that it's around 56mb, so my apologies to those of you on dial-up. If anyone has any suggestions on how to compress it to a smaller size without losing a massive amount of image quality, then please be kind enough to give me the info.

In closing, I'm tired of bitching about this crap on message boards, it's time to take some action and make it happen.

--InfoDroid