I've completed version 3, and although it's nearly perfect, there's a few shots in there which I still wasn't quite happy with. It takes a lot of skill to combine laserdisc and DVD elements in the same shot, and go back and forth from one to the other with a dissolve in the same shot, and not have it be noticeable. A lot of times, it's worked surprisingly easily. Other times, you notice the change no matter what you do. I think the hardest shot was Han saying "Yes, I'll bet you have." The laserdisc version of that shot is a bit longer, so you're going from laserdisc to a DVD shot which has REALLY bizarre color correction and generally looks poor in a way that is hard to duplicate. Anyway, it's noticeable as it's a shot people don't expect to have any fixes on it. It took a lot of tries, and I still haven't seen if I got it right yet!
Anyway, for the technically minded, here's the list of fixes:
I seem to have forgotten to include my layer of extra Han face elements on "Yes, I'll bet you have" so the D3 cut of it looked a bit odd. I've fixed (hopefully) some color correction on three composite shots in Mos Eisley (which was making the fixes too obvious - removal of Dewbacks and Rontos and things), removed a bit of sharpening on a dissolve off of Garindan (that covers the loss of the Jabba scene), and removed a repeated frame on the "trooper dead end" shot (repeating a more static frame of Chewie instead, as the repeated frame was too obvious - I'd have just cut the frame, but the sound mix is already complete and I don't want it to go out of sync).
Yes, I know you have only the vaguest idea what I'm talking about. =)
This does mean I have to render half the movie AGAIN, for just a couple of really minor fixes. Sigh.
I might do some minor fixes on the commentary, but who knows.
Aaaaaanyway, it's essentially done, order it folks. I'll make the official announcement when D4 is pressed and ready.