Just understand, at this time a year ago I knew nothing about digital video. Nada. My desire to see Star Wars the way I wanted it was my sole motivator to learn what I learned. I say this in hopes of inspiring everybody to follow suit. With time and patience, anybody can pull it off.
hear hear.
Now of course you are right, everybody could be doing this, but it seems there is a vast difference between people, who want something done and the people doing it. There was this guy on the MFN forums, who started his edit of Matrix Reloaded and he was very ambitious about his project, talked and discussed his ideas a lot, and he really started his edit and came close to finsihing it even, but then adobe premiere did not work properly and failed to render his movie. And that was the last thing he ever wrote in this forum. He just gave it up. Many people don't even start, although they have ideas. I think there are few people, who are willing to put the amount of time into their project it needs to get finished. Whenever I tell someone about my "hobby" they raise their eyebrows and say: "interesting... and what do you do for a living?"