adywan said:

rlockhart said:

Adywan will all the previous work on ESB be in 720p ? a better way to putting it will all of ESB be 720p quality. One more thing why not 1080p is it because of the source material ?

I will be starting from scratch so everything will be in 720p. All the project files ahve been saved so its just a matter of dropping in the 720p source foir the colour correction first pass. shouldn't take me too long to catch up with what i ahve done already. 1080p is impossible to work with on a project like this due to all the colour correction and FX work i will be doing. Even a quad core can't cope with all the work being done. it just crawls or grinds to a hault

I'm not sure what your video editing program is (you told me once, and I forgot. Vegas?). Anyway, when I did Batman: Year One in 1080p, I did it with Adobe Premiere Pro. As long as your video editing program has multiple video tracks, this will work. I put the 1080p version on video track one, then above it, on video track two, I put a 480p version of the same film, frame accurate to the HD version. I then set video track one to be invisible, and just made sure that every change I made to my visible 480p footage, was also done to the 1080p version. Basically, every edit you make is made twice, then when it was time to encode, I set video track one to be visible, and video track two to be invisible. It still slows things down excessively, but only during the final encoding stage. I'm not sure if this information may be helpful to you, or how stressful, if implemented, it would make editing with all the color correction/fx layering you do (which I would imagine takes up more than two video tracks). But I thought you might find a way to temper the method to make 1080p editing work for you.