Hi guys. Here is the story.
I've been around here for a while. I started this edit back when I was 15. And it really excited me at the time. The music I used and the cuts I made were all based on what made me excited when I was that age. It was only 3 or 4 years ago, but I was a different person back then. I think that's part of why this edit is so special and why it needs to be finished.
I’m going to college in less than two weeks. The movie is not done. And everybody I needed to hear back from in order to get it done, whether voice work, SPFX tweaks, and proofing, hasn’t gotten back to me over the past months.
Now I’m not upset at anybody at all. We all have busy lives, and as entertaining as this stuff is, it can’t get in life’s way.
But what it means is that I can’t finish this myself, especially, without having the missing pieces to put together the puzzle.
Now, maybe it’s just because I’ve seen the rough version all the way through, but I think that the pacing, the ideas, and just the pure excitement in this cut is way too good to throw away. If I could only mix the voices correctly, this cut is worlds above AOTC in every way. This has way too much potential to simply be dropped. I would hate to think that I spent the last few years working on this in vain. I would hate to think that the work of all of the people who worked so hard on voice dubs and special effects would go to waste. It can’t.
But I’m going to college, and at this point I can’t be working on this anymore. That’s not to say I can’t cut some video and do some editing over the summers, like doing a rough cut of Ep. III or something like that. That would be fun. But I can’t complete a project like this in college. There’s just no way.
This thing has stagnated. 2 or 3 years ago when I was working on it in full swing and putting all my creativity into it, I was really passionate and excited about doing it. Now, it feels like a dry technical exercise to finish it. And again, there are some critical pieces I am missing which only makes the process slower.
This movie needs a new person.
I think with a new editor working on it fresh, they’d be able to finish it very quickly. 3 or 4 months. But that’s what it would take…a new editor.
If anyone is considering this, please let me know and think about it over the next couple of weeks. If you decide you want to give it a try, I will have my new address at that point, and if you send me an external HD, I will load all of my project files onto it and then send it back to you to do with it what you please.
If you are an editor and you want to see this movie, please seriously consider this. The community (and I) wouldn’t be able to thank you enough.
I think this request might need a new thread. What do you think?
And thanks for putting those clip on Youtube, Josh. That made my day:)
-TM
P.S. Actually, I was considering having one of my friends doing ADR (like Sluggo) upload the entire rough cut onto Youtube or something like that, so that you would all have something to watch until somebody comes along to finish it. Yes, I know, it would ruin the suprise. I don't care about that anymore- you guys need to see this soon in one form or another.
Good idea?
