Oh, I will eventually. I left that forum a bit back partly in protest of Lucas' policies and partly because I was kicked out by some people who claim their unreleased and unreleasable and almost nonexistent Star Wars edit will cure cancer, make blind people see and lame people walk, and bring the dead back to life!
Please let's not get into that again though. I don't want to talk about that situation. And the day their edit comes out and cures my nonexistent brain cancer, I'll applaud.
>> You mentioned that you're fixing the hallway in the detention block shootout. I understand your purist tendencies, but I think this is one of those very minor changes that you should keep. To me it's equivalent to fixing matte lines.
I kept it in last time.
This time round, I'm having some fun putting the old stuff back in. Errors and all.
For example, there's a shot where Vader's saber wasn't colored in. I've restored that shot to its uncolored glory.
I actually prefer it this way, for some reason I find all the changes distracting in some way.
These are such minor changes that I don't think most people notice them either way, so I like to err on the side of 1977ness and reward the few fans who know to look for these "errors."
>> And are you still going the same route with the '93/mono soundtrack? I'm sure you're aware of Belbucus' ongoing restoration of the mono mix, but I don't know if you want to wait for that.
I wasn't really aware, no. Yes, I'm still intending to combine the 93 and mono mix.
>>Would you ever consider using the '97 mix as your base soundtrack?
No.
>> Lately I've heard several people around here say that the '97 mix was a "recreation" of sorts of the original mono mix, using many of the same elements.
That is much more true of Empire and Jedi, for which the 97 mixes restored the essence of the earlier 70mm mixes for some reason. The 70mm mixes and 35mm mixes of Empire and Jedi both have their good and bad points, and so I mixed the two together, 1993 and 1997 mixes.
I don't think the 97 mix sounds like the mono mix in any way. I consider the mono mix pretty definitive in terms of content, if not in terms of quality! So putting back little bits of it into the similar 35mm stereo mix was worth doing I think.
The 97 mix was too busy for my tastes. Although I can see why someone would use it as their base mix, it's clearer and has a good dynamic range.
The 2004 mix is a travesty.
Today at my messageboard/blog, FFrevolution.com, read a depressing post about me winding up in handcuffs, to be arrested on made-up charges of assaulting a police officer ...
Or better yet, don't.