Originally posted by: Trooperman
*triumphant Star Wars theme music plays*
My files are back, and SOTDS is back along with them. You all have Adywan to thank for this one. My deepest thanks, sir. I won't go into details, but he supplied me with an.... alternate method of getting the files;p All of the important stuff is here. My ADR, everyone else's ADR, all of the audio tracks and the custom surround splits, the transitions, all of the video tests, the rotoscoped frames, soundtracks... everything. I really believe that this program rescued all of my files.
"I've been there, slaving away and then *poof* it's gone. It's like a nuke goes off in your brain."
Think about I felt on Thurday/Friday, thinking that this entire thing was down the drain. I felt sick almost. But the files are back and I will continue work shortly.
*triumphant Star Wars theme music plays*
My files are back, and SOTDS is back along with them. You all have Adywan to thank for this one. My deepest thanks, sir. I won't go into details, but he supplied me with an.... alternate method of getting the files;p All of the important stuff is here. My ADR, everyone else's ADR, all of the audio tracks and the custom surround splits, the transitions, all of the video tests, the rotoscoped frames, soundtracks... everything. I really believe that this program rescued all of my files.
"I've been there, slaving away and then *poof* it's gone. It's like a nuke goes off in your brain."
Think about I felt on Thurday/Friday, thinking that this entire thing was down the drain. I felt sick almost. But the files are back and I will continue work shortly.
*Does a triple backflip* I'm so glad you weren't seriously hindered by this setback.
Well I was thinking about your edit today and what in AotC needs to be re-worked for the better and one thing that struck me as i was thinking was the arena fight. I can't remember what you planned for it but I think it might be one of those things that's irrepairable. i know in some ways the film can't ever actually be improved because of how inherently flawed it is due to lucas' carelessness: Boba has to be in this as a pointless cameo... jar jar, a complete idiot, has to be given the important position as representative to naboo... Portman still looks very boredand the rolling in the grass... the Sifodyas nonsense... etc, It's a lot to attempt to fix and like you said before you were having some trouble with editing the ridiculous lightsaber battles. So I'm not expecting to miraculously see a completely different movie if you know what I mean, but what you're doing should definitely make it watchable.
One thing i overlooked myself because I was blinded by cgi fx everywhere was how stupid it is that Anakin and Obiwan are handcuffed to a few pillars. I'm thinking simply "They're jedi." And Dooku doesn't tell the geonosian (who should know anyway) that they have this power called the force that could not only unlock the handcuffs but probably lift a rock or something and crush whatever animals are released. Just shoot them. I always felt there was something wrong with this whole scenario but never cared enough to think about it much until toy selling General Grievous came along and Lucas had to have obiwan waste time dueling a ridiculous coughing android guy. It screams, "yeah, it doesn't make any sense, but I just don't care." It's nothing but an action figure commercial to set up the three beasts to find later in happy meals... gosh it's so obvious to me now why that was done...
I'm seriously trying to think of a way to make this play out better; maybe have the force be disabled within the arena but that won't work... this will probably not be one of the things you can fix outside of dubbing new dialogue maybe... yeah maybe you could have Anakin say "these cuffs are force proof or something?"