Absolutely. Thanks to Troyig88's  generosity, there will only be a little delay, that's all! The HDTV may or may not help, since they have pretty much the same encoding. And mainly, they don't have You_Too's awesome colour correction. The difference  between v1.0 and v2.0 is that I'm using Premiere now and I was using PowerDirector before.

Troy is a good guy.

Yeah, I never thought I'd really give up, I just said there was no point in continuing until the problem was fixed and I was sure I could find a way to fix it.

Now, I need an advice as to what would be the best way to convert You_Too's h264 encode to this format (the same format I render from AE, which seems to work well with Premiere):

Video

ID                             : 0

Format                         : RGB

Codec ID                       : 0x00000000

Codec ID/Info                  : Basic Windows bitmap format. 1, 4 and 8 bpp versions are palettised. 16, 24 and 32bpp contain raw RGB samples

Duration                       : 4s 880ms

Bit rate                       : 418 Mbps

Width                          : 1 280 pixels

Height                         : 544 pixels

Display aspect ratio           : 2.35:1

Frame rate                     : 25.000 fps

Bit depth                      : 8 bits

Bits/(Pixel*Frame)             : 24.000

Yeah, that'll definitely be an improvement there and it is exactly the reason why I want to use the BD and to cut in and export from Premiere - the source wouldn't have made any difference in the compression artefacting if I was still using the shitty PowerDirector encoder.

And as to the resolution, sure, that is the list of properties of one of my despecialized shots exported from AE, and like I told you, all my sources were 1280x544 or 1280x546 (the HDTV source) and then I cropped them all to 1280x542 when exporting the film, just to be sure there weren't any differences in AR between shots and also to keep the cropping about the same as on the official DVDs.

No, I'll keep it at 542, it only says 544 in my above post, because like I said, those are the properties of a different clip :-)

Oh and BTW, here are the settings I used for the output from AP:

I hate settings on video editing programs. I copied some settings Adywan sent me once shot by shot and got completely different results.

You_Too said:

I wonder what the difference is if you'd tick "render at maximum depth"?

LOL. Actually, it renders at 16bit instead of 8bit (and makes it so insanely huge that my computer can't even play it).

Oh and did I mention that another thing it does apart from skipping frames, is that it also sometimes does a sort of back and forth jerk. It suddenly goes one frame back like in a sequence frame1, f2, f3, f4, f3, f4, f5...

Thanks to all of you.  Even tho its Harmy's project. It sure feels like a team effort.

That's the thing, J, it does it very randomly. Sometimes it doesn't happen for a few seconds and then it happens 3 times in one second and it is different with each encode. I'm pretty sure this is not a framerate problem.

And yes, whichever way you look at it, this is indeed a team effort.

So, any suggestions to this? The only software capable of converting to lossless AVI I have right now is Premiere and because that's the reason I have to do it, I need an advice on what else to use (maybe something avisynth based?)

Also, I'm keeping myself busy, making some changes to shots I wanted to use the Blus for. Here's the first:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q1JTAEMB

As you can see, in v1.0 you could clearly see where the patch to cover the added clouds was applied because of static grain.

What about MeGUI, would it be possible to use that?