Mr Ghostface said:
Oh, I wasn't offering suggestions for ANH:R, I was just pointing out that it's not all that special and some of the praise Adywan gets for it seems to be borne of an ignorance of how much simpler this is to do than a lot of people realise. And didn't he say that the new CG stuff isn't even his, that another guy did it. I'm not saying this to pull him down; it's more that I feel other editors don't get the same praise when their editing skills are just as good, and some of them are definitely more seamless than Adywan's.
Um, I'm pretty sure it took Adywan two years to make ANH: R. Most fanedits, even very good ones, take between a week and a month to do. Those are simple. All they do is edit the films. It takes a lot of knowledge and skill with editing to make a good fanedit, but it's not a long, time consuming process if you know what you want in the edit.
This, on the other hand, is. Two years is a long time, and if it's simple to this kind of all encompassing special edition type fanedit, why is Adywan the only one doing them? There's hundreds upon hundreds of Star Wars fanedits, it's by far themost popular series to edit, so why is there only one edit of this type, and only one more in the making?
I cringed, actually cringed when reading some of the changes for ANH: R. Why? Because they were things like "re-rotascoped all lasers". I couldn't imagine how tedious, time consuming and dull that must be to do, and for someone to do it just for a fanedit, that took dedication. It's an insult to all the work Adywan did to just dismiss ANH: R as "not all that special.
Also, ANH: R isn't perfect, everyone knows that. Adywan said he was a novice in a lot of the programs he used to create it, when he started it. Some FX could be made to look better, and there's probably still a couple of goofs he missed. But this was his first edit of this kind, and it seems, the first ever done. And it's sure as hell a hundred times better than anything we got from Lucas's own special editions. Look at what's being done for ESB: R, everything that was done for ANH: R is being done, and done better, but also all new models and sets to make the special effects no longer outdated or unconvincing. Now that's dedication, espcially considering he's getting nothing for it, no profit or anything. You're giving him far too little credit for all the work he's done, and is still doing.