Guys, it's done. It was done when I announced it.
And now it's on disc ... I'm burning off the first copy now. I'm actually all out of printable DVDs at the moment so I have to order some ... with all that money I don't have.
But yeah, the disc is done, and beautiful. As requested, I have added the "Allied Filmmakers" trailer to the disc .... I do worry about disc space as the 6gig disc has to be compressed to 4.4 for the single layer, but it'll be fine I'm sure.
I've also added a lot more images to the already-bursting image galleries ... some really amazing stuff.
Previously there were 7 image galleries ... 6 and a half really, with 100 images in each one.
Now there are 9 galleries, all full. I've added almost 300 new images.
Most of this is taken up by a lot of very rare storyboards from "scene 36" of the Nasruddin film, the scene where Nasruddin meets Chief Boozdil and the Brigands. It bears some similarities to the final film, but honestly not much. It's very different and you're going to enjoy having a look at it.
These storyboards clearly predate the 1972 Clapperboard documentary, where Dick shows some Nasruddin/Brigands storyboards which are much more similar to the final film. These have an earlier drawing style and might date from the late 60s. Probably by Dick or Corny Cole. The storyboards were scanned by Matt Jones of Uli Meyer Animation. They're labelled as "Tim's Boards," so maybe they belonged to Tim Watts - I'll have to ask Matt.
The "special features" and "witch" menus on the DVD have been redone to reflect the new material.
I reencoded the entire film for this release, and the soundtrack. Weirdly, even with the huge amount of backups I have for this disc (just to be sure), I couldn't find a copy of the first half of the film or the commentary that wasn't corrupted, so I had to reencode the whole thing from scratch - good thing I'd saved my master files for the commentary etc. This took longer than it should have.
In addition to all the revised and new material in the second half of the film (Zigzag meeting One Eye, witch scene, war machine, ending), there are also two replaced shots in the first part of the film ... King Nod peeking out of the maiden's tent and the last shot of the Thief escaping from Yumyum's bathing room.
I've encoded the film, again, in both single and dual layer versions.
I've checked the single layer version and it looks good, nothing wrong with it. I don't know if people here know how to spot the telltale signs of an overly shrunk DVD ... mainly this kind of odd flicker as the picture is softer than goes sharp for a frame and gets soft again then sharp and so on ... which is the shrinking process finding keyframes. Anyway, there's no noticeable flicker like that, so we're all good - single layer version it is.
Enjoy, guys!