Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
I guess what I was wondering was how the orange blur only appears under the speeder. Was that not the vasoline but really drawn in by hand. I'd love to see a reel of the different elements of the shot.
And "feeding it back for final CC and authoring." What does CC mean? And does that also mean... Star Wars is close to being finished?

CC is Colour Correction, we have been using parts of various film prints as our guide to reduce the guesswork when it comes to this.

ANH is nearing completion as much as getting the shots completed, we are at the stage of having to balance between eternal tweaking and just getting it done. It is hard to sign off on a shot when you know it could be better, but there comes a point where you need to - we can't work on it forever.
Even from there though it still needs to be CC'd and reviewed and then authored to DVD.
I don't really have an ETA or a feel for one at the moment, I'm without a computer until I can source a replacement, and the internet cafe doesn't really have the resources required

Once Zion gets into his digs and the discs I've posted to him get over to the US then we will have a better idea of how far we have to go.