Molly said:

What about using a 1997 DTV rip?

(in before Slowpoke)

Is this the rip?

http://www.thx-trailer.com/2/Star-Wars/episode4.htm

I'm not sure. The Tantive sequences seem pretty accurate, and I like the shot of the Falcon's cockpit, but Mos Eisley has a bit of a purple cast over it (though that would be a quick fix), and a lot of the Death Star sequences seem to have the same color issues as the 2004 DVDs. Then again, I'm only looking at the thumbnails.

[update]

So, I think I almost got this thing together. I don't know what I did different, but my encoder went all the way through the first pass, and was even encoding video right up until a little after Greedo, when the video started flickering and went blank for the rest of the film. I'm not sure what this symptom denotes, possibly has to do with the interlacing in the original broadcast (fine time to remember that the HD broadcast was interlaced). Regardless, I watched the first 40 minutes or so convinced I can actually pull this off, most GOUT came and went surprisingly well, and most work left to be done seems to be tweaking and correcting the changes I've already made.

I know some are concerned about the use of a film grain lifted from another film, as well as concern of using Adywan's edit as a color source rather than the GOUT, but I'm taking the time to measure each decision and decide on the best direction. I must point out that I've been the one tempering this thing for almost a year, I've spent a lot of time trying to cheat my way to color corrected Star Wars nirvana using the GOUT with less than favorable results, and the results in accuracy and consistency with Star Wars Revisited is what I really feel is bringing this together (props, Ady).

Jesus, I'm actually quite pumped, I think I'll go out for some more RAM and an external hard-drive, perhaps the failure in encoding is coming from the frame-server within Premiere, and perhaps a huffyuv saved to a large separate partition before encoding and muxing is what is needed.

BTW, happy upcoming 31st birthday for Star Wars, and a happy 1st anniversary of my seemingly endless tenure with this damn thing.