I know he has a wife and kids, but I don't really know anything about his financial life, etc. I think all of us fan-editors do our work on our edits during our spare time (at least, that's how it is with me). Consider this: a full-time editor is supposed to finish editing a film in 1-3 months for a feature film, and then there's also 2-6 months for effects. By that account, ANH:R should have been done in 3-9 months, and CWN (Star Wars Renascent - The Clone Wars Narration) should have been done in 3 months (5 maximum due me needing to "un-edit" many scenes), but both ANH:R and CWN have taken (I think) 3 years! Going by all that, I would think that ady, like myself, and like many other editors, does his edits on the side of his work, social life and family life.

Now I am by no means a representative of all fan-editors, I'm just trying to give my understanding of the matter - and of course I could be completely wrong.

I had a question for ady:

So during my progress for CWN, I realised a lot of the preview shots were laggy. I have a 2.6 dual core processor and 5GB of RAM - my graphic card is an Intel G33/G31 Express Chipset. I feel that the RAM and CPU are sufficient, but that I need a new graphic card. What is your opinion on the matter?