toastedzen said:
I re-watch TFA restructured so often, that I am getting really excited for the finished product for this film. I left a spot for it in the box set I am making. Hal, your edits are simply the best.
That’s wonderful! If I had much of a physical media collection I’d have to put something like that together for myself as well. Very fulfilling to see something so concrete come out of all this stuff.
I was fortunate enough to be able to sit down and vet everything I’ve done so far. I am currently rendering out a “golden master” to be used for sync for Mala. I don’t think anything is different from the prior workprint that would affect sync, though I could be wrong. Better to render a fresh encode just in case. Poppasketti was kind enough to remove a few more white specks from deleted scene footage, and I made several small audio tweaks and other things like that. Only thing left is to apply DrDre’s LUT, which I still haven’t found a good solution for. Might be possible to render out my entire project to ProRes, and apply it using FCPX. That’ll be a headache for another time.
There will always be, just like with the prequels, cool new ideas introduced as time goes on. However, my goal here is just to make a somewhat conservative edit to get the film into a more palatable state, which to my mind required a more radical approach than with TFA. In that spirit, I hope not to do a V2 in the future. You never know, though. But, unlike with TFA:R V1, I’m actually happy with this one and feel I’ve accomplished (enough of) what I set out to do.
