^^You read this entire thread? Wow. You probably know the movie better than I do now;)

PaulisDead2221 said:
I was going to spend some time converting the projects to Vegas 8, and then to HD. I realized the conversion to HD was going to be tougher than I thought. Trooperman had an idea that I thought would work, but it will take some time to get perfect. I'm concentrating on audio at the moment. The only problem is there is a lot of audio missing. Trooperman has almost a gig of audio that was on another drive when he copied his hard drive to mine. I am assuming most of the missing audio is there, and I'm sending him lists to see. I am also seeing an issue with a project file or two not converting to Vegas 8. I can't install the old version of Vegas because for some reason it requires me to install version 1.1 of the Microsoft NET framework--Don't ask me. So hopefully Trooperman will have the strength to finish off work what appears to be only a couple "sections" of the film. I'll have to ask him.

So, with that in mind, what was the general agenda before Trooperman had to duck out? Was there anything that needed to get done from anyone except the editor? I know for a fact I won't be able to do any of the rotoscoping for Mace Windu's lightsaber that is still left. Besides that, was there much more than audio left to work on? Whoever made thecrawl might have to do it again in HD, or if they're not available anymore, we need somebody to take up the challenge.

I'll really start setting to work and getting our priorities straight today and tomorrow. This will go much better if we all pull together like I know this thread has been doing from the start, and I hope discussion can continue to relate to getting the project done and problem solving, and not questions about whether or not it'll be done soon (not pointing at anybody, I know there hasn't been activity on this thread for awhile).

Alright, I'll see about getting that missing audio list done. That's my task right now.

P.S. I bolded certain points to make clear the tasks that need to be done for me and everybody.

Hi PaulisDead,

I found the recordings you listed and after I type this I will PM you with the link to those files. Bear in mind though that each project file has a different library and it could be that you will need other files for other parts besides part 1. If that be the case let me know right away so I can send you the files. I'm sorry my project is such an organizational nightmare...

"I realized the conversion to HD was going to be tougher than I thought."

Yep. I definitely wouldn't try that until the end. When I first brought it up I wasn't actually talking about encoding it in HD, I was thinking that if we swap out the DVD source with the HD source where possible, it'll make a lot of those shots that I cropped for framing look a LOT better. But you would still do a final encode in DVD resolution...otherwise we would have to redo the opening crawl, redo the lightsabers, etc. I definitely wouldn't worry about it now....

"I am also seeing an issue with a project file or two not converting to Vegas 8."

Hmm. That's weird. Which ones?

"I know for a fact I won't be able to do any of the rotoscoping for Mace Windu's lightsaber that is still left."

I'll take care of that. Just use the original purple clips for now. We can splice the effects shots into the MPEG at the very end if we need to.

"Whoever made thecrawl might have to do it again in HD, or if they're not available anymore, we need somebody to take up the challenge."

Yeah, I don't know if he's around anymore. The standard-def crawl is perfect though, in terms of framing and the number of words on each line. I remember we debated how to format the crawl for several pages back in 2005...

"Was there anything that needed to get done from anyone except the editor?"

Yes, we need a couple lines from Sluggo and MTHaslett. I think I told you which lines in the "readme," if not let me know. Also, Octorox would like to help out (with Jar-Jar maybe) but one of us needs to send him sample dialogue.

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"I hope discussion can continue to relate to getting the project done and problem solving, and not questions about whether or not it'll be done soon."

Absolutely. It's my fault SOTDS isn't done yet, but PaulisDead coming along to finish it is a real blessing and we need to give him encouragement, support and help where needed to get this done. I'm just personally thrilled he's doing this, and that he's excited with what I've done already and excited to add onto it. But please do not nag him. It'll be done when it's done.

Which will be a lot sooner than if I had to finish it myself....

Thank you PaulisDead. I appreciate it so much. These are my high school years wrapped up in this movie:)

I'm renaming the thread now.

Best,