I'd love to put a progress bar in place, but really you will have to read the articles and news, and make up your own mind how close to finished we are.
It is relatively early days yet, just marking up the timeline with any video errors, parts to recapture, gltiches to check (are they on the laserdisc or on the film or a problem with the capture etc.) means literally scrolling through the movie a frame at a time. A two hour movie has over one hundred and seventy thousand frames.
The problem with this project is that we want to get it right from the ground up, so a lot of time it means having to backtrack. Also, we want to document the whole process and share it with you all, so we are effectively doing a 'making of' at the same time. We spent most of the last few weeks writing articles, creating the images and so forth for that side of things.
The size of the files also makes it a lot of fun. By the time you have a lossless 80GB movie, and then six or seven versions of it on your drive because you want to check various issues, you end up having to constantly move things around, and nothing happens quickly because of the size of the files.
We have discovered more than I ever wanted t know about the nitty gritty of the various versions of the films - I've gotta say I was shocked by the colour cast issues on the official DVD, I wasn't expecting it to be quite so 'Revenge of the Smurf'.
SO where are we at?
Well, if this was a feature project, I'd say that we were in pre-production right now.