MAJOR UPDATE: I gave up trying to make the original audio sound good, grabbed some new software and spent 7 hours(!) last night learning as I went and doing some beautiful work putting that Definitive Collection audio track in.

I'm tired, but I am sooooo happy with it. Cuts in the audio are crossfaded in such a way as to remain unnoticed (hopefully).
I burned a test disc with provisional (1 pass CQ) video. It is stunning just like that.

Don't believe me? The first post of this thread has gotten overhauled to reflect what is what and includes a clip (at bottom) of the release candidate video.
That's a 7-pass vbr, now how do I make CCE go all the way to 11?
Let me know what you think, and be honest, this IS for posterity. To bright, to yellow, too much border, etc.
Final encoding will start in a couple days.

I'm currently d/l-ing Moth3r's ESB. Does anyone have the chapter cuts for this as well (French and DC)? That made life MUCH easier last night.