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Post #371105

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WXM
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
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Date created
27-Jul-2009, 8:21 PM

Mr. Ghostface,

I see your points and, I myself, am enjoying hearing them. :) But I guess I'll say in response to seeing things getting possibly (more?) heated that the point of this edit was to "correct" all of the little things that people deemed inconsistent, a mistake, etc. (plus to add a couple of flourishes that the editor himself really wanted to add). To rag on Ady's fixing little things is like ragging on the "grindhouse feel" Jaws edit at fanedit.org for looking too unclean. It's the point of that edit to look unclean, as it was the point of "Revisited" to gather and listen any little thing that anyone has noticed and take a stab at correcting them. (And this whole idea was general seeded in the minds of fans by George Lucas himself, was it not? So you can't even "blame" Ady for the general idea of such "fixing.")

Note that I'm not jumping down your throat; just tossing this out there that it's east to forget that fanedits are something where you need to consider the intent behind them (and the human resources behind them). Ady has done exactly what he set out to do, and put a huge amount of time doing it. And if an element didn't work out, it's not because of lack of really trying, and generally people who come here know and really respect that. As roundaboutly stated in the last couple of pages (and you probably know this), if you have a DVD of a movie, a computer with a DVD drive, and Womble installed, you can do a professionally clean looking fan edit. That's all the resources you need in this day and age to get a clean/nice edit! Ady (and me to a tiny degree to fill in one gap in Ady's huge arrays of talent) utilized much, much more, put in huge amounts of effort, and the community here really likes that, hence they want to stick up for him. As far as I know, Ady is not a pro. I hear bits and pieces that say that he absolutely has the skills to be a pro, but pros usually also have a support team behind them. As far as I know Ady has pretty much done everything (except the smidgens of custom CG) on these edits by himself. And people know that, respect that, and cut his edit slack if 100% perfection hasn't been achieved.

Again, personally, I like hearing much of what you have to say. :) I see it as different point of view, but in the interest of wanting to see things kept "nice" on all sides, I felt like saying all that. Hope that's okay to you and everyone else. :) What do you work on by the way? Can you tell us? That would be cool to hear a little about! :)


Ady, hey! I think I might be too busy to do more. :( I did build a new computer though, a (cheap!) Core i7, that I'm going to OC (if I don't get cold feet!). It should render in one-freaking-sixth the time of my dual core! :D I'll chat with ya soon for kicks via PM. :)