So encoding 2 hours of this crap takes only...69 more hours, and that's with motion estimate set to pretty low quality. But I think I've got things more or less lined up so I can start syncing audio to what video I have, await our screeners' comments, then just encode it again correctly. But that starts something like three days from now. It's excellent this is finally happening, cause Premiere takes about a week to render a preview frame with this HD material. So far, some shots look good, some shots don't, but I'm finally getting a good look at it outside of the editing window. Every special edition improvement is officially gone. Great thanks to adywan for doing all the tough matte replacements in the cell block corridor, he kicked their ass quite sufficiently. I hope to find the restored mono mix from the mono mix restoration project in a torrent soon. From what people have been saying so far it's quite the listen.

Obstacles of Doom:
-Opening shot (repainting that stuff) I'm playing with some methods outside of actually shelling out for After Effects, and it should work out soon.
-Original crawl (where are you Swehanzon?)

-Some matte fixes of my own are failing when encoded, like not lined up correctly...god damn lying preview window.
-And I don't know exactly how I'm going to pull off a 5.1 1977 mix, or a 5.1 mix at all without resorting to some sort of "heresy mix" just for the sake of a 5.1 mix as per standard DVDs for classic films. Neil's disc (or as he prefers, "the disc he received"

) is obviously a good base, but we'll see.

In somewhat related news: I've got HD The Empire Strikes Back already, and I'm downloading HD Return of the Jedi as we speak (hey seeders!), so at least I can complete the trilogy. Yes, everything is proceeding as I have foreseen...muahahhaaha!