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Erikstormtrooper, you're exploiting my soft spot. You know I don't like to leave things unfinished....
OK, so what if I were to pull this back out again? What would make a "new version" worth it?
1. New, better color correction
2. Dubbing. Lama-Su is the only new dub I can keep from the rough cut. All else must go. EDIT: Forgot Nute Gunray. Will leave Nute as-is. It blends well into the movie.
3. Creative changes
f I can somehow get professional sounding ADR recordings (matching the rough cut dialogue) for:
1. Anakin
2. Jar-Jar Binks
3. Owen Lars
4. Mas Amedda (the blue alien)
Then I will do my part and, barring any unforeseen problems, I will put out another version of this.
In addition, if anybody is able to recut any scene from the movie with better color correction and an HD source, let me know and I will digitally "splice" it into my current DVD-9 file. The final result in this case would still be DVD, but when you use HD as a source and then re-encode (for color) the DVD will look sharper.
But these are two components that don't actually require any information from me (since my rough cut is on the internet for now). These are: New Video cut to match the rough cut (sourced off of the HD and recolored), and New Dubbing.
At a bare minimum, if I can get those 4 dubs sounding good enough, I will put them into the rough cut and then focus on the audio. I would really enjoy a new video track, but it's not actually necessary- and I wouldn't want anybody to waste time on that until we had dubs that could work.
I also need to see what all is what because my video PC crashed several months go. Not to worry because it is backed up on hard drive mostly, but I think I may have lost a folder of assorted audio files ("elements" in the "mix") which could cause various problems and be generally a pain to work through again. If I'm actually resurrecting the EDITABLE audio on this (a collection of hundreds of different files) I'd also need to re-specify the file paths on everything because everything is on the hard drive and nothing will be where the project files expect it to be....
It would be a logistic nightmare, that's all. All the project files are on old software and I haven't touched those actual files for 5 years.
But if I have those 4 professional sounding dubs, then I will do it.