I've finally just started my editing project today. This weekend I upgraded my computer, and now after years and years of talking about it, I'm finally doing it. Initially I had intended to use Adobe Premier but it seems that, unbeknownst to me, Premier is actually no good for editing of this variety. A little stunned to be quite honet. Thus far the edit is looking pretty sweet. I'm finished the first vob file of ROTS, moving on to the second. My intention is to eventually create my own personal versions of the whole saga to my liking. My main philosphy is the OT came first, and therefore over-rides the prequels in terms of canon and philosphy. Therefore, I;m cutting things like buzzdroids and the like because they just don't fit. If buzz droids existed in the prequels, then we should have certainly seen the aliance or the empire making use of them. Battledroids are going to be mostly silent, because battledroids should never have been endowed with personality. They're killing machines, they shouldn't say shit like "uh oh" or run away or get scared, that's just stupid. My main goal though is preservation. That is, preservation of the OT and it's big moments. So, no revelation of Anakin becoming Vader in ROTS. I've started with ROTS because right now it's the one I've been watching the most and the one I have the most ideas about how to cut. Man it's exciting to finally be doing it. I can't wait to see how my first rough edit turns out.
one thing I wish I could do with womble is "scrub" the audio, like you can in macromedia flash. It's hard to make an edit sometimes when it's not dependant on the visual but on the sound, I want to be able to scrub the play line across the audio track until I hear said sound, and thus pinpoint exactly where to place the cut? Any programs out there good for that?
Eventually I do want to get into doing things like playing with the multi-channel soundtracks and doing effects and such on the video, like speeding up or slowing down fram rates, wipes, adjusting saber colours, stuff like that. Are the programs listed in Digital Man's "how to" good for that, or are there more advanced programs I should be looking for? I've got a dual layer burner, and my hope is to produce edits of quality as close to on par with the original dvd release as possible.
Tips, Tricks, reccomendations? anyone?