Hello everyone, I've been lurking here for quite a while before I joined in 2023. All my life I have noticed tiny details about my favorite films that I wish could have been edited differently, even by a few seconds, and after discovering the Phantom Edit, I was hooked by the idea.
When it came to selecting a movie to really compare it's different cuts to its abysmal theatrical cut, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was the one to try. Some of you might have seen me popping up here and there inquiring about obtaining it's various fan edits (some of which go all the way back to 2008!). Some of which seem to be lost to time. That said, as of the seemingly most recent edit by TheFoxMan, I have about 11 different versions on my HDD. Not counting the revisions put out by Donkey Konga. Over the course of this suicide mission which lead me to give up on my tally of rewatches that petered out around 70 times (I'm well above that by now
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), I of course began to imagine how I would create my own version. And after building a computer, paying someone to fix said new computer (essentially building a new one), and spending over a year mapping out most of the edit in multiple text documents, I am finally ripping my blurays in preparation to crank through this all consuming project of mine. I actually fear the day this ever gets completed because I wont really know what to do with myself. Although I have plenty of other fanedits in mind already.
I haven't edited any film/video since I dropped out of film school so all of this has been an immense reintroduction. I'm using Davinci Resolve to get this finished as well as the, lets say "ambitious", amount of VFX shots I hope to accomplish. Of which I have zero experience with. Dipping my toes into several AI upscaling programs as well. All very interesting.
Anyway, I'll be seeing ya'll out there on the boards and I'll be sure to annoy you with my progress when I have any.