Originally posted by: WESHALLPRESERVE
Oooo...Been Following this for so long! I'm wild with anticipation

I know you have. Everyone has. It's been a long time. But this is definitely the final stretch. Within the next day or two, all of the video will be encoded and locked from the beginning of the film to the arena on Geonosis. Then, the only hurdles to completing all of the video are finishing rotoscoping Mace’s saber and altering the end credits to remove certain names (like “Eli Sleazabaggano”

) and add names from OT.com. Also there is the problem of eliminating Anakin from the Dooku duel in a convincing way without using force lightning. If I can solve that problem, then the entire video track is good to go.

I’ve encoded for double-layer. I will probably shrink it down to single layer size without too many problems because the double layer movie will not be THAT much larger than the single layer size- the real advantage will be in room for the uncompressed audio and possible alternate audio tracks, probably including a commentary track.

I have this film in 20 sections. What I’ve done is encoded each section separately, oftentimes in more than one piece, and then stitched the MPEGs into one using Womble. When I have solved the three issues above and I have the complete, locked video file for SOTDS, I will create a new master file, drop all the audio tracks from the 20 sections into this master file, and then go through the audio with a fine-toothed comb, piece by piece, until I am happy with it. When I’m finally happy with all (nearly 2 hours) of it, I’ll simply render it out, synch it with the MPEG, and burn the first disc.

Basically, if I can figure out the Anakin/Dooku problem, then there are no further issues with the video and I can put full attention into the audio and then finally be done with this monster! Also, I should mention I’m going out of state in a couple of days and won’t be back for 2 or 3 weeks. If any of you could brainstorm on the Anakin/Dooku problem, or if one of the effects people would be kind enough to take a stab at erasing the lightning from the frame or something like that, I’d be very, very, very, very grateful.

Thanks for following!

TM