I just got it to boot up. I didn’t do a damn thing different from what I’ve been doing all morning.
Like I said, as soon as I get the chance I will export the audio and video, in case it does go down for good.
The machine is giving me no signs of life whatsoever, no fans, no hard drive noises, nothing.
It appears to draw power for about two seconds, which I only can tell because of a USB thing I have plugged in. I tried resetting the PRAM and the SMC. I took out the RAM to make sure it wasn’t either of the memory modules. It’s not the charger either, as that charger is able to charge my 2007 MacBook that’s been collecting dust and isn’t useful for anything.
The computer simply will not boot for anything, nor will it reach the POST. Again, it’s not even giving me any indication that it’s doing anything whatsoever.
I’m not sure if it has to do with the logic board, or anything else like that. I know that I can’t invest anything further in this machine at all, and I am simply unable to get any more hardware at this point in time. I’ll keep trying to get it to work, but I wonder if some sort of fundraising effort might allow me to get a low end, similar error machine to be able to replace it and finish the work. A quick survey of eBay suggests that scraping together $500 might allow to replace it with something pretty comparable that may work. Again, really hoping it doesn’t come to something like that. I just don’t know.
It’s been a tough morning.
My 2011 MacBook Pro will not power on. It hasn’t all morning. I’ve tried everything I can find to do online, but it looks like their’s a fair chance it’s just totally shot.
Everything relevant to this project is stored on external drives, so I’m not super concerned with losing it.
The potentially showstopping problem, though, is that everything is within FCP7, software that will not run on versions of MacOS more recent than 10.12 Sierra, initially released four years ago.
If my old machine will not power up, and I simply cannot afford to get a new computer at all right now, I will not be able to finish this or even export what I’ve already gotten together without a Macintosh computer that can run 10.12 Sierra. And even then I’m not 100% confident FCP7 will even install at this point.
If the computer does manage to boot back up, the first order of business will be to export the current state of the project as ProRes video and lossless audio stems.
Perfect.
What makes ROTS worse for me is that it’s “good” mainly for events that would have happened regardless of the movie they were delivered in. And it all pretty much falls flat even with that advantage.
Well put.
Would you send me Qui-Gon saying, “Bring balance to the Force”? That might be nice to include at any rate.
Is it too late to make a quick suggestion? I did this with one of my fanedits and it enhanced things. I think it’d be cool to have Rey’s voice echo or reverb whatever the term is as she does the I am iron-girl bit. Might actually work and be similar to palp’s voice change in RotS as all the sith speak through him. Like “And I… am [all the jedi]” My best comparison is to how Galadrial sounds when she’s turned crazy by the ring in Lotr. Guess it’s better to show you what I’m talking about tho…
If it’s already been suggested before then oops, sorry, but wanted to try just in case.
I don’t think so. I don’t want to introduce something iffy during a critical moment like that. Thanks for the idea, though.
That took a long-ass time, but the English subtitles are finally complete, and available on the Google Drive. I still just do not have storage space to host the full BD25 versions, sadly, though they are on myspleen.
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ROTS sucks.
Yeah, I mean, is Sidious Bane? Or did Palpatine somehow sidestep that?
Palpatine’s little gloat about how Plagueis “could save others from death… but not himself” doesn’t make sense if he went on to live in Palpatine.
This movie, man…
I kinda liked that deepfake to make the son look like Palpatine, though.
Just seems like too many chefs in the kitchen with making him into a clone after the movie comes out. At least, it’s hard for me to believe it was intended before that point.
The FAQ should be at the top level of the folder I send out links to. You should be able to select whatever files or folders you want to download and right click to be able to.
There are public torrents also, which I do seed, albeit from behind a VPN by necessity. You can search for those at 1337x dot to.
I know it’s not ideal. It was just what I had leftover from what I was doing.
The audio files are separate, and are in a separate folder. SD video files are included for sync reference.
That second shot makes me feel better about not getting ESB’s duel to look super great. lol
If he wasn’t force sensitive, then how is Rey? And at any rate, it can’t be something she inherited from Palptine then, right?
I don’t see any upside to making him a clone in the novelization. Lol
See the FAQ there; download the file to select an audio track. 😉
I like ROTJ a great deal and it has a lot of subjective importance to me, but it’s certainly the weakest of the original trilogy.
To me, it’s still miles above ROTS.
Wow, that is garbage!
There’s nothing within the film itself to at all hint toward Rey’s father being a clone rather than a regular son.
In the film itself?
There isn’t any indication whatsoever of that within the film itself. Kylo just says that he’s the son of the Emperor. He doesn’t even look like Palpatine. I don’t, in my head, consider him a failed clone because it seems really unnecessary.
It’s more fun to say ‘anger-y’ than angry.