Return of the Jedi - The Spence Final Cut (Released) — Page 17

Well I get home at 2pm Eastern Time, and I'll be posting links immediately, assuming everything uploaded correctly.

I think everything turned out well. I'm happy with it. I have to warn you all, not everything will be perfect. When doing an edit like this, where story changes are made. it's kind of impossible to get it all exactly the way you want it. I can only use footage that is available to me, and it can be limiting but also creatively inspiring. There aren't any big technical faults, but some of the transitions/cuts might feel a little off. It's just the way it is. I definitely did it as best as I could.

I also recommend checking out some of the bonus features. I tried to give some good insight into why I did the things I did. Most of it, especially the commentary and Abandoned Concepts documentary, is more about the ideas and the storytelling than technical stuff, as I think most of us either know how to do these edits or don't care. If you do care, I did put my fanediting tutorial on there that can get you started with Womble Mpeg Video Wizard. I'm planning a Vegas one later on as well. Tutorials will be uploaded to youtube as well.

I guess 2 my time for you guys would be like 7 or 8, right?

Yes there is. Fortunately, Womble has basic DVD software built into it. It's not great, but it'll get the job done. I like DVD Architect a lot, as I can actually figure that one out. These programs can be a bit tricky, as evidenced by my random audio problems last night. I attribute it to us doing something with them we aren't really meant to be doing, or the program isn't really designed for.

Almost time to go home. Let's pray that the upload went smoothly.

Um, it's still uploading. It looks like it's going to take a while. I didn't realize the uploads took such a long time. Hopefully later tonight it'll be done, but it might take till tomorrow morning.

It could be worse, mate, I'm uploading an edit right now - 7k/second. It's like 1998 again.

Anybody got a suggestion on something else I could do to speed up the process? It's uploading at 56k max, but I can quadruple that when I download. I'm using Megamanager.

Spence, I don't know for sure (obviously) but it just sounds like your ISP is throttling your upload speeds - for example, I normally get 1/4 of upload speed compared to download.

cutnshut, I'm uploading through the Rapidshare uploader, a notoriously poor system.

So that audio issue? Not solved. I'm still getting weird surround sound stuff.

Here's the issue: When I watch the video on anything, all the sound levels are off and it appears to be more or less a mono file, even though it's listed as 5.1.

However, when I watch it in VLC player, if I change "Audio device" from stereo to 5.1, the audio sounds perfect. I don't have a full surround sound set up, so I don't know what to do. I don't have a way of knowing if this will sound right in a 5.1 system. I'm going to render a stereo version of the sound as well, in case it stays screwy and people without surround set ups can still hear the movie.

I'm so exhausted by this.

So the file you were uploading was messed up? How soul destroying :-/

Unfortunately I'm a Mac person and even when I edited on a PC it wasn't with Vegas so I can't help. May be worth a PM to Ady maybe?

Can you export each audio track as a mono WAV (so, you'd end up with 6 mono WAV files), and then combine them into a 5.1 AC3 using another program?

And I second the "PM Adywan" suggestion.  He'll almost certainly be able to help.

Thanks!

I PM'd Adywan earlier, maybe he has an idea. I just don't get it. There's literally not one single piece of advice about this on the entire internet. At least that I've found.

I really want to get this released, but I can't stomach working on it anymore tonight. It's the end of my work week, I'm tired, I need a beer and a smoke. I really don't want to let this thing stress me out too much. I need to take the night off from this fanedit, I think. Tomorrow I'll hit it again hard.

I sent an example of the audio problems to Ady, we'll see if he comes up with any ideas.

Are we in some sort of time paradox, or did that PM just take a minute to get there? :)