Info: The Star Wars Project Element Kit Thread.

Forgive me if this has been suggested before but it seems to me that there must be a lot of duplication of effort on the various projects that people are making.

It might be useful if all that hard work was shared around making it easier for further projects to be made.

All Star Wars fan edit, fan film and fan preservation projects are to some extent manipulating the work of others so it makes sense to me that if one person has spent many, many hours working on deconstructing, cleaning or assembling an element for their own project that they put it out there to be used by other editors to save time.

If enough pieces were assembled together they could form a growing library which editors could use and add to, increasing the number of projects and promoting collaboration.

Has it been done already?

Is it a daft or unworkable idea?

Or does the idea of an archive of elements have real merit?

I imagine it could work that way.

What would be needed would be some sort of hub where things like scenes with the music score removed or a special effects elements from a fan film could directed from and a board (like this one or even this one) where people could request specific items to be uploaded to it.

Say for example you really wanted a new AT-ST shot for a fan edit and saw just the thing in a fan film you could look it up on the index and if wasn't there already request it from the person who made it.

It would save a lot of time ripping, cleaning and seperating elements that may have already been done exeptionally well by someone else. There have been a lot of projects that have been abandoned and it would also be a great way of not letting all that hard work go to waste.

It just struck me as a idea that could be useful but I haven't the foggiest idea how to implement it.

Which is why I'm hoping for more replies from people like yourself Master Qui-Gon and many thanks for noticing and taking time to respond to my initial post.