As long as you don't suppress your first edition and claim that your second "special" edition represents your original vision.
Ha ha! Hopefully I'll get everything right the first time
SOTDS is probably the thing I've been looking forward to the most all year.
Wow- thanks to and Bespinsec for the encouragement. This movie WILL be done this year. And thanks again to LTH for considering making an Ep. I to match. I'm really very excited.
Now, as far as a commentary track- I probably have enough material for 3 commentaries. That's not an issue
I guess the question is whether you want a commentary on the single-layer release (which would probably diminish the video quality of the actual film). One thing I noticed in my cut of ep II though was how much screen time was lost by all the necessary cuts. May I therefore ask how this cut is shaping up length-wise? Best of luck with completing this most important work.
Actually, I think SOTDS is turning out to be around 2 hrs (or a little more). I don't have a final running time yet (but I should soon). This is because a lot of rotten scenes were given new meaning, dialogue, and music, and actually became good scenes. Rather than cut out a lot of scenes, I tried my darndest to make what was already there good. Not just adequate or watchable (by cutting out offensive dialogue, etc.)- but good. I think that's what will differentiate this from a lot of other edits. I replaced things and changed things that worked fine. Why? Because I wanted it to be breathtaking! I'll leave it to others to decide whether it worked or not...
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My cut is almost complete. I need to do the Jar-Jar scenes, which will be possible once I receive hairy_hen's dialogue. Then, I'll have a running time for you.
At that time, I'll sit down with a pencil and paper and run the film from start to finish, making a list of every single technical flaw or pacing flaw that I see/hear. Then, I'll go through the movie and implement all of the changes, which will hopefully not take very long.
Then, I'll tackle the end credits. I have discovered the font used for the end credits- now I need names.
Please PM me with your name if you have assisted in any way on this project, in physical help or in ideas (if you have posted anything constructive in this thread, in other words).
Then, I'll dump all 20 sections of the film into one master file, render out in uncompressed AVI, and from there, start encoding in MPEG-2. Once that's finished, I'll join all of the encoded pieces into one MPEG file, render out the soundtrack, synch both of them, add chapters, and possibly add a commentary. And then burn the first copy