Just an update:
I am nearly finished with a suped up version of Addicted To Star Wars and will be posting it in the coming week or two. Here are the highlights of V.2.0:
Video bitrate: 15745 kbps VC1
1) The entire feature is mastered from all new High Definition sources. The original ATSW was sourced from the retail DVD's.
2) This edition has the prequels going top to bottom on the left column and the original trilogy starting top to bottom in the right column. This was in response to several people on the net stating this method would make more sense and after tinkering with it I tend to agree.
3) The "A New Hope" used in this version is my "Han Shoots First" edition with color correction and of course, the scene where Greedo shoots Han first has been restored to the original proper cut.
4) The original ATSW was mistakenly encoded at 29.97 fps instead of 23.976 fps causing the audio to drift out of sync. Also, this method caused some de-interlacing artifacts on some software players. Now, this editions fps is corrected and now in proper progressive film for smooth easy, interlace artifact free playback.
5) I moved away from encoding in MPEG2 in favor of the more efficient VC-1. I used a ridiculously high video bitrate that was not possible to do with the bloated MPEG2 encoding without creating large and unmanageable files. So even though this project is close to the same file size as the previous at 1080, (roughly 19GB) the quality is far more superior. This Mega-Edition is literally designed to be used as the highest quality reference material you can get to show off your high end systems. Assuming you have the processing power for it
I think the hardware requirements might be slightly higher than expected but I don't see any performance hit at all.6) Audio sync is fixed, as previously mentioned, due to the frame rate issue.
All in the MKV container so Media player classic or similar is recomended. Also, a stripped down 720p DVD9 with eight stereo soundtracks will be provided later on for the space starved.
The encoding of the 1080p version is complete and the visual quality is stunning and 3-D like. A MUST have for anyone with a high end display or projector as it is the ultimate show off reference material Star Wars fan or not. The EX encoded 5.1 soundtracks are in development now. No DVD edition is planned. However, anyone wanting a DVD can master one using this as the source for it.