Hi all :)
I'm not sure yet when I'm going to release this on YouTube, but here's the supercut of overcoming the first big struggle, and to stay in the theme of the "the hobbit"-trilogy, I saved the battle with smaug (ep11) for the start of the next movie ;) . So IF you wish to rewatch the whole series in neatly-edited-together format without all the repeats, you can now do it ad-free again! I exported and uploaded it together with episode 11 last week, so apologies Clif Harness, that means your name is missing the credits.
Since I changed to longer episodes, and with still needing to complete the double-length ep11 earlier this week, my "staying-ahead-buffer" has been fully consumed. I contemplated cutting ep11 in 2 parts just to keep some breathing room, but for this episode it just doesn't feel right to do so. I probably will cut the projected >30-min ep12 in 2 parts, as it really HAS 2 distinct parts. I will try to finish and upload the first part early next week, and try to catch up from there.
I even unexpectedly had a few days off work this week, but between the finishing of the extra long ep11 on monday, I then spent 11 hours reviewing material while writing the script for the upcoming 3 episodes on tuesday. Then on wednesday I voice recorded ep12, which took about 3-4 hours, after which I spent/lost most of the day trying in my struggle for better thumbnails. Today I started video editing ep12, but except for this prologue it's nothing which is in a presentable form yet. Also still half a day of day job work, aaaaand it's gone, al the extra time I had... Time flies when you something something!
The little prologue turned out pretty cool though, I'm quite content with it! I'll post it in a seperate, publicly visible post (probably above this one).
Enjoy!
Michael