Originally posted by: Donnerfan
One thing I'm curious about: I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but at the 3:52 mark, just as the planet explodes, there's a 'pop' in the audio. Is there something wrong with my speakers or was this simply a technical difficulty that was unavoidable for ADM?

I was re-watching the "Vergence of the Force" edit of TPM that he did (I still think it's an unwieldy, bad title, sorry ADM

) and I noticed this for the first time with my sub. I'm thinking it might have something to do with compression--it's not so much a pop as it is the low end has a very, very tight "THUMP" when it should be a smoother "boom" as it is on the retail dvd. That said, I didn't notice it when Krypton exploded, but I wasn't watching it on my 5.1 setup, either.

A little off-topic, but when I was grading the fan-edit competition last year, I gave Vergence lower marks than I think I should have. upon re-watching it, I'm pretty pleased with the flow, moreso than when I was grading. Maybe I was thinking a little too much like an editor and less like a plain old viewer, but I think I'd bump this up a grade and a half if I re-rated it now. I still think the "Hyperspace" cue is a little over-used during the podrace, sometimes more like a video-game loop than actual scoring, but the cut to the trench run cue really packed a punch this time.

Anyway, hoping DJ gets this up or ADM mails me the Superman Returns edit really, really soon, because I'm getting more anxious by the day. Seriously. As in I'm daily checking both the inbox AND the mailbox