working on things

want to do it faster...

yep. What am I up to today.... got some new tasks...

should take me two or three days if I work hard at it... got things going on now, kinda exciting...

Going to be doing some intensive surgery on Warriors of Virtue a movie I kinda saw on tv as a kid and thought it was sweet, later wanted to see it in its original widescreen format and never could find it. Apparently nobody's really just done much to get a widescreen version out on blu ray or even dvd. The film is a massive underrated overlooked gem of the 90s cinema age. It bombed, so for whatever reason they've treated it terribly and never bothered working on a proper release.... Is it a corny ass film? Yes, but I grew up in the 90s it was a smaltzy corny ass time. The film's not representing something untrue.

Sadly I can't just plop the english audio track onto the widescreen french version of the film I got. Different frame rates and slightly different editing forces the audio to go out of sync too much...

So I got to go through the whole film minutes and seconds at a time to sync the audio properly and make it decent. It will never be perfect. All I want is to be able to goddamn provide an alternative for those who like me are sick of watching the cropped version. The film was soooooooooo intended to be viewed in wide screen it's ridiculous how much it suffers from being cut in half...

As for wtf version of the film in widescreen I could get. Not a great one. I searched for hours for the french dvd rip only to discover it on a streaming website for french films or whatever... so it's literally just some decent quality web stream download I got... but it's not bad... not great but not offensively bad...Nice to finally get a good look at the film... but wow, can't make sense of it but the film was released in france under a different title, guess they didn't want to mention virtue or some shit.... but it's called Magic Warriors and they edited the damn title to be different so you won't get the original kangaroo titles, gone. And lord knows what else was cut or changed. So far there are little things I've noticed. Either Im wrong about it or the pan and scan version uses longer shots of scenes and actually totally different takes of scenes. One shot was on point and audio synced but it was two different takes for that one shot at the football game. It became clear the two dvds were edited slightly differently... Hope nothing major is changed as I drudge along here...

Watched my edit of street fighter the movie... another 90s insanity film... I have nostalgia for it, but I can't overlook how wrong they did the movie and how cheesy it is.... Ming Na is excellent, a lot of the other cast members are putting a lot of heart into their roles and ultimately they save what could have been an epic disaster. It's a big clunky insane mess the street fighter movie... I do want to update my fx for it and maybe do new things here and there with it so I do plan to do another go around with that movie and make a new fan edit of it..

Gonna really get going on chun li as well. Another big fail for street fighter. I've been planning ways to fix that film for years now. The deleted scenes actually can be reworked into it, but yeah gonna have to figure out where to begin working on that. But it should be made much easier since I'll have Kreuk to look at during the process...

That's it I think. Do I want to do new cuts of like, other stuff I did. Yeah. I've grown as an editor and fx artist so I'd do things better of course but nah not that interested in it...I like this stuff though. recently watched the remastered star trek and it does help to update the fx at times, was really grooving to an ep that reallly deserved an overhaul... not too keen on watching the more cheap ass episodes they made... I can only guess that those episodes that were made on the cheap were the ones responsible for the show getting canned. The eps where it's actually about star trekking, good god what a show.

Static will be taken care of it, I think once I get the money to buy a new drive. I'll be doing multiple test renders and can't hope to do that without more drive space to do it with....

as for right now. It's like yeah I want to get warriors done and we'll see where I go after that. I'll be posting it here and wherever I can once I finish and you can grab a widescreen english dub of this damn classic.