Originally posted by: caligulathegod
Just to let the world know, this is still on. It had slowed down for a bit, but has started up again. Only issue is that unlike most fanedits where they just rearrange scenes and insert footage, I'm doing it literally frame by frame. There's a surprising variation between versions in the arrangement of shots to the use of completely different takes with differing lengths. It's almost like doing animation, but I really want to get it right. It's probably going to pick up speed soon and I can see it being done in a few months. Oh, and I also just replaced my laserdisc player that had died on me, so I'm going to attempt to get a digital PCM rip of the soundtrack rather than just the analog capture I had been using. I'm pretty excited about that. It should sound great.
I'm glad someone is finally doing this! I saw the Moroder version of Metropolis in a movie theater in NYC in 1984. There are good aspects about both the Moroder LD and the Kino DVD. The things I like best about the Moroder version is the soundtrack, the color tinting, and the way they used still photos to fill in the missing footage. That's my biggest disappointment about the Kino version- the fact that they stuck all of the still photos they had in the supplement section, rather than insert them into the film. The Kino DVD shows many more stills than were used in the Moroder version (which may have not been available to Moroder at the time) and I think it was a waste for them not to have used them. Just to let the world know, this is still on. It had slowed down for a bit, but has started up again. Only issue is that unlike most fanedits where they just rearrange scenes and insert footage, I'm doing it literally frame by frame. There's a surprising variation between versions in the arrangement of shots to the use of completely different takes with differing lengths. It's almost like doing animation, but I really want to get it right. It's probably going to pick up speed soon and I can see it being done in a few months. Oh, and I also just replaced my laserdisc player that had died on me, so I'm going to attempt to get a digital PCM rip of the soundtrack rather than just the analog capture I had been using. I'm pretty excited about that. It should sound great.