Things are going good. Had a major setback, but it was one that I brought on myself.
After upgrading my computer, and adding a new Hard drive so I could then install windows 7 64 bit and have access to After effects CS5. All my files were saved and I continued to edit the movie. The problem was that running with my old hard drive acting as a slave pretty much slowed down Sony Vegas to a stand still for some reason.
After balancing out the pros and cons, I decided to save my rips to an external hard drive. Reinstall a fresh copy of Windows 7. And restart the movie from scratch. Seeing as how I was planning to redo all the special effects anyways. So pretty much I restarted the edit.
The plus of all this is that now Vegas moves at an amazing faster pace. And I'm able to better sort out all my files, which means more editing, and less looking for files on a old hard drive.
At the pace that I was going before restarting the project, rendering a 1 min clip in Vegas would take up to 30 min due to the fact that Vegas would have to search for the files it needed on the slave hard drive. Now that 1 min clip renders in just over a min. So in the long run. Restarting from scratch will mean that this edit will be completed faster now. And Ill be able to stay focused on each scene.
Before wiping the project. I would be like "Ok I want to work on this shot tonight. So let me render a clip so that I can work on it in After Effects." By the time the clip would finish. I was no longer wanting to do the work.
Now I can render what I want to work on in 1-2 min, and right away get started on doing he effects shots. So for me, I'm excited.
Currently I have the movies cuts 90% complete. (Thats just the cuts, not special effects.) I still have a few things that may change cut wise depending on what special effects I can pull off. Special effects shots I started working on late last week, and there going along well. I learned alot the first time, and now I have better tools to do the job faster. As I do the effects shots I'll be sending preview clips to Angel for his blessings and for his good eye at picking out bad spots.
So in short, it'll get there. I just want to make sure it's the best damn Episode 3 edit ever.