I need unedited lightsaber fight footage

Im currently working on my lightsaber editing skills but I am lacking 2 things.

A camera, and friends willing to do the fights.

I was wondering if anyone had any clips they are using, have as extra or just dont need that I can use to practice on.
Or, even better yet, where I can get the unedited clips from the star wars movies. Some of the video tutorials Ive watched for making lightsabers have actual Star Wars movie clips that have unedited lightsabers in the battles, those would be great if you can link me to them.

Anyways, thanks for any help you can give.


,Michelle

 

If you're familiar with Ryan vs. Dorkman, and are interested in practicing on some of that footage, Ryan has some for download from his site here. With regards to the unedited footage from the Star Wars films themselves, much of the footage I've seen used around here has been ripped from the bonus features on the DVDs. If you have the DVDs, you could do this yourself -- for example, grab yourself a copy (they're free) of DVD Decrypter or DVD Shrink, and then a conversion program such as DVD2AVI, and you have some editable footage on your hands. Hope this helps!

And welcome to TF.N!

Take care,
Sojourn

 

Thanks for the link, sadly, due to alot of stuff money wise the last few years of my life, I do not have the DVDs. Do you know of anyone who could rip them for me?

 

yeah , id like them too , could anyone rip them?

EDIT: ryan just tested his new camera , it has high quality lightsaber swinging in it , look in the latest part of the lightsaber effects thread

 

Or you could get it here. (Right Click, Save As)

SB

 

Wow, thanks for that link. Ive done 6 seconds of the first video but Im just gonna quit that and move onto that new one.

Heres my 6 seconds I did, no sound effects, just the lightsaber.

How is it? http://www.t3rbo.com/video/view.php?video=adce69fb12ea231daeff46932ee91fac