I think that’d be confusing. If yellow lightning from Rey was struck down, I don’t think this would be a good idea for this particular project. I’d be interesting in seeing it as a concept, but not in the movie.
ANH - Adywan’s color corrected 2011 BR
ESB - 2011 BR with LUTs by DrDre and Sir Ridley
ROTJ - 2020 BR
Thanks! Well, I’ll hopefully have a chance at some point to work on something just to test it out. I don’t want to pay for a subscription to software, and DaVinci has a free option, so maybe I’ll try that one. I assume it’ll let me export good master files to toss over to Compressor.
While waiting for the new computer stuff to arrive, I’ve been just playing some with FCPX by recreating some audio work I already have done before. The 2011 machine appears to work fine once booted up, but hopefully you’re not in a hurry if it does get shut down.
Anyone know this?
In FCP7, if you use the blade to cut a clip, there will appear two red arrows to let you know that the clips are aligned despite the cut.
Does anything correspond to this in FCPX? When I make a cut, there doesn’t seem to be any visual distinction between any two clips I could just smash together.
I take it as a compliment, either way.
Copy to your Drive, then copy it within your Drive again. That’s enough to fool it. 😉
I’d have to agree. Maybe it’s just because those are the VHS tapes U came up with, but they feel more right to me than anything since.
Sounds interesting. Welcome, and congratulations on your first project!
That’s all right, you wouldn’t need to dissuade me too strongly from watching yet another SW YouTube critique.
Thanks for that tip, I’ll see what I end up doing for the future. I’m not sure I’d trust an xml export to capture everything about this project though!
No worries; I shouldn’t have a problem booting from the old drive and carrying on for the purposes of this project. I might play with the Hobbit sometime later on if I want to learn FCPX or DaVinci of what have you.
Currypuff, thanks for that feedback. What line are you referring to? I remind you that the vast majority of the real creative ideas and energy have come from others here and that I’ve just been the assembler and executor of most of it. And thank goodness!
Muffy, I’ll check that video out sometime.
lol
Holy crap, you guys. Eight of you chipped in and raised about $232.
I bid on and won a 2014 MBP with a busted screen for just under that amount! So I think I’ll just pick up an enclosure for my current internal drive so I can dual-boot the new machine and have access to FCP7 for anything I may need going forward.
No more donations; we got it! I’m touched by the generous outpouring from you all. Onward, then!
If anyone does wish to float me just a few dollars, feel free to PM me, as anything will help this succeed. To be clear, any money changing hands is intended for hardware with which to edit, not for the edit as such or anything else.
I’m not gonna grab it and head to Hawaii, just getting a ~$200-250 7-9 year old Mac to get back up and running.
JEDIT: Oh my goodness, thank you to the five of you who PM’d me already about this.
No, because the drive I was going to encode it onto doesn’t appear anywhere (not diskutil or anywhere) after an abrupt disconnect. No data was lost, since it was recently acquired. It appears to be broken. Not a big deal in itself, just means I don’t have anywhere to export the video as ProRes like that. (I’d encode final product streams directly from Compressor anyway.) I tried troubleshooting for a while but it seems dead. It’s my own fault!
I’m not about to delete my Time Machine backup right now in order to do it, but it should be no issue to restore from it. In the process of troubleshooting I had to reboot and it did it once, but the second time put it in its opossum state.
Aaaaaand it’s gone again.
Hmm, it seems the pattern is to unplug my computer and then try to boot up some hours later.
I don’t know. I bid on a 2013 MBP with a broken screen so we’ll see what happens. I’ll try to keep these to a minimum as they aren’t really SW related.
My computer did boot just now, so I’m going to export the current state of the video feed to ProRes just in case.
So that someone like poppasketti could take over, even in the worst case.
I’ve been scouring the eBay “broken or for parts” section to snag a decent MacBook Pro that doesn’t have a hard drive and/or working display.
If anyone would like to contribute, I won’t say no. I’m going to get the least expensive option I can find either way.
This thing will get done, one way or another. The current state of the audio streams is preserved in a master file output, and restoring my system to new hardware will let me pick up from there, even if I potentially no longer have access to FCP7. (It just might be balls to work with audio on any future changes to make.)
Right now the current state of the video steam lies within FCPX, so if the computer does manage to boot again, I’ll try to remove the applied LUTs and export the video.
But, another Mac should be able to let me restore from a Time Machine backup and resume from there without issue.
Thanks, and I’ve already had a PM come in offering to chip in.
To replace the machine without any upgrade in specs or a more recent model could possibly be snagged for about $200 with patience. If people want to donate that could certainly be done. Of course, as a personal thing I’d still eventually need to upgrade in due time, but it’d restore things to working order for now.
If I can find any 2011 Mac Mini, I can dig any crappy old keyboard and mouse out of the trash and I have a monitor. If it’s a 2011 Mini, I can even use my current RAM chips.
It was a while ago that I tired it in earnest for anything serious, but it seemed impossible to keep a separate video and audio file together because things keep jostling around.
I don’t know; if it’s all I have I’m sure I can manage. I will miss fine detail with 30 audio tracks and stuff like that.
If I’m patient with eBay I might be able to snag a 2011 Mac Mini for under $200. I could use my existing SSD and RAM even, if either are missing.
But I’ll wait first to see if it comes to that. Certainly wouldn’t be an upgrade, just a replacement with something equally long in the tooth.
Well, the same thing is happening with my computer this morning. That’s obviously not a good sign. I did export everything so any Mac would let me continue on from where I am at this point.
I’d feel like she had been possessed.
It seemed to me that Palpatine meant he was “all the Sith” fairly literally, as he made an explicit analogy to how he intended to essentially possess Rey.
Rey seemed to retort rhetorically, as she has the support and heritage of the Jedi of the past and will carry forward those ideals.
And yeah, this morning was an emotional ride! I stayed calm but I was really worried about the project. If it was just something I was doing in isolation I could’ve just said “fuck’s sake” and moved on. But there’s been a huge investment from all of you into it.
Lol, I don’t think so, guys.
Just open episode 7 with everything being and remaining fine.