The bad news is that this will probably not be done by the end of the year. This doesn’t have anything to do with Ady; it’s my own messed up schedule.
The good news is that it is being done right.
I just received a new mix from Adywan which was extremely difficult. As an example, there’s one spot where in the very same shot, I went from:
-Newly recorded Owen
-C3PO taken from a radio drama
-Newly recorded Anakin
-Original Cliegg recording
Murder as you could imagine, especially if you heard the differences in how each was recorded. Somehow Ady made this mess sound like something. I would not have gotten it this good by myself.
I sound like a broken record, but after you sit down and watch this, you will realize why this has taken so long. One of the unwritten rules of fan edits is that you do not DO this (dub in so many new voices in English), because it involves so much work to get right. Thanks again to Ady for making this thing happen.
Also, I recently got to actually watch the movie on an actual 16x9 widescreen, and it looks great. Definitely not as razor sharp as the official DVD, but that’s not what I was going for. For some reason the image looks even better on the big widescreen than on my 4:3 monitor….
It’s coming. Just try to forget about it until it’s done. I’m sorry…
TM