Just so y'all know where I've been, here's a quick update. I've been going through reel #1 making all of the patches it's been needing - little things here and there that crept in during capture. Also, I've found that the spatial and temporal smoothers work great in some scenes, but poorly in others. So I've made passes with and without, and am going through scene-by-scene selecting from them. It's quite slow - I can get through about 4 minutes of film in a one hour session - but it should make a noticeable difference in the end. So, progress is being made. Of course, without seeing how cruddy it was to begin with, it'll probably still look cruddy to most of you, but hey at least I will have tried.

By the way, as I was looking very closely at some of the frames of reel #2, I made an amazing new discovery... shortly after Luke and Han arrive at the death star, one of the storm troopers bumps his head...