Main menu is Han at Cloud City. Options is R2 outside Yoda's hut. Chapters cycle between Vader, Wampa cave and Yoda.
Williams' isolated score is on the disc, thanks to Bo.
Synced up the entire film - AGAIN. And it's still way out of sync with the DVD. I can't figure it out for the life of me. Will try yet another alternate idea. It is perfectly in sync with the M2V I extracted from the burned DVD, even Quicktime thought so. Weird.
Some of the transitions from the official DVD to my version are looking really awkward. A lot of the cuts occur not on a hard cut, but on a wipe, so it has to be a perfect match to the frame and it isn't. There are obviously frames missing, the quality of the shots are different (softer, darker and more colorful and with a slightly different aspect ratio) and you get these awful jump cuts. I will attempt to fix these. The missing frames are the most irritating part, as according to FCP these frames simply aren't present in the ripped scenes I'm editing from. There's no way to get them back. So I'm futzing with DVD studio pro which CAN read those frames. And making up the difference in FCP.
It is pretty clear that some of the transitions are going to be a little jumpy no matter what I do. The sacrifices I make and the pain I go through to be able to use the 2004 transfer, I tell ya.
The nice thing is that these little jumps have nothing to do with being a special edition shot. So people will expect some jumpiness when the special edition shots are being removed, and yet it'll look fine. Yet in one or two utterly normal scene transitions - bump. Dammit.
I should be done by now. Sigh. Well, it's down to the wire anyway, very soon now.
(My, this entire thread has just turned into me bitching, hasn't it? ... Much more problems than usual on this edit, due to the odd hybrid principle behind it. Funny that the first edit was done in about a day and a half, but then I had to redo it about a million times due to these little technical hang ups ...)