Sorry for the lack of updates, but the good news is, as of right now, the film has been completely excised of special edition footage, and I have something like four wonderful audio tracks to put onto the final DVD, so things are pretty kosher. I took a break from Star Wars to work on an edit of Batman Begins. The idea was to learn about encoding in an HD format (I've always just made DVDs, with MPEG2 encoding). I've been spending the past two weeks or something just trying to export this damn little fan edit in HD. Using several different programs and encoders.
MEGUI: I use debugmode framserver to export my timeline and import it into this encoder. Gives me a radio drama of my fanedit, with blank video and intact audio.
Windows Media Encoder: I use debugmode framserver to export my timeline and import it into this encoder. It causes Premiere to crash half way through
Xvid/Divx: Export it straight from Premiere. Crashes Premiere very early. Although it worked one time...with sketchy looking video.
ffdshow encoder: Crashes Premiere...or maybe this was the one I got to work...not Divx.
I don't know, every failure muddles together, I'm not sure what the real problem is, I'm sure it's something simple, like maybe a broken codec package or something, then again I just updated to the latest K-lite codec package. Anyway, I was thinking of asking somebody around here with experience in encoding HD files...wookiegroomer, you might have a PM soon...Anyway the point is that once I release my edit of Batman Begins, not only will it be the first ever fanedit in HD (me awesome!), but I'll have the know-how to export a sort of "work print" of my Star Wars edit so I can really start moving this thing along.
OT all the way,
PaulisDead2221