The editing is now completed. Thanks to Rebel11_38, there is now a beautiful title crawl to make it FEEL like SW. How could it be SW without a crawl? The color correction is as good as I can make it. Until you've really had to study the 2004 dvd, it's hard to truly understand how botched (no, butchered) the color correction (no, destruction) is on the official disc. There is no continuity at all throughout the movie even from scene to scene with color values or brightness, except that for the most part it's incredibly dark and blue. I could have easily gone down the slippery slope of trying to fix every shot for consistency, but I don't have the time or skills, really, to do that. I have for the most part brightened the whole thing (darker scenes much more) and have attempted to adjust the blue cast to something warmer and reminiscent of the real movies. It's hard to bring out detail when it's not there to begin with. It's interesting that the movie clips in the menus of the official disc have really good brightness and color. Van Ling did these himself independent of Lowery. Compare Van Ling's menu cantina clip to Lowery's. GL should have had Van Ling do the whole damn trilogy. Anyway, I digress...
Things To Be Completed
Subtitles: Never done this, but seems real straightforward. I would be interested in supplying my subtitle file for translation to other languages. I would love to have Spanish and French. I know we have some Scandinavian members here. That would be cool, too. Let me know.
Authoring: I'm going to work on some nice menus for this, maybe even multiple random menus like the official disc. Does anyone have any suggestions for easter eggs? Please PM me if you do. We'll try to keep it secret
Cover and Disc Artwork: I'm planning on doing this myself. However, I am open to collaborating with some of our great graphic artists here.
getting closer...