Good News!

The first hour of the widescreen Special Longer Version of the film is now completed (and the master files have been saved). That scene in Kirk's Office / Quarters that had been giving me some problems is now sound perfect. We also did some color correction where we had to join video footage from the Director's Cut and Theatrical cut together in the same scene. 98% of the space special effects shots are taken from the Directors Cut DVD print, except places where special effects shots had been re-made exclusively for the Director's Version. All the other effects shots are taken from a source of a widescreen HD-Broadcast of the Theatrical 79' version. All audio for this version is taken from the stereo laserdisc of the 1983 Special Longer Version. Keeping faithful to the original sound mix. I'll be working all night tonight on the second hour and report back in when that is done.

We hope to get out a Xvid version of this version sometime in the next few weeks. We may just save the isolated soundtrack and other audio extras for a full DVD release.

This project is going to be re-titled as a 30th Anniversary Set.