I am being asked to leave this apartment tomorrow, which is about 14 days sooner than I expected to leave it. What I'm going to do with myself livingwise for 14 days I have no idea.
I am trying to get packed and get my affairs in order today. My flight is on the 14th, a saturday.
I will be checking my email periodically I'm sure, but I won't be "around" for the next month in the way that I am normally "around."
Any unfulfilled orders I'll try to take care of today if possible.
Images from my test copy of the second half of Star Wars Classic Edition 2.0.
I did complete editing on most of the Star Wars Classic Edition 2.0 .... my "first cut" of any fanedit, particularly a Classic Edition, is pretty much a test, and huge changes to the look and color correction will probably be made once I see it on a TV screen.
The big challenge color correctionwise was the black dropoff - the 2004 DVDs have very crushed blacks, and brightening up the dark areas of the image is the main thing I'm doing to give this disc that "Classic" feel. The blacks are lightened up greatly, and then I use Chromakey to key out the darkest areas of the image - a "black dropoff" to true black so that the image won't have grey blacks, but have true black.
It was hard to give the image a "true black" without taking away detail that ought to be there, or making the blacks too milky, and due to the slight PhotoJPEG and MPEG compression, the darkest areas of the image, when brightened up, often became very grainy and nasty in shots that are entirely dark, such as just shots of starfields.
So I'll see how it looks.
I completed most of the first half of the film also. I will probably have to do yet another sound mix for this edit from scratch. But we'll see.
At the moment I have bigger things to worry about - like moving.
Best wishes.