Well, I finished my full encode to Lagarith and then MPEG2 with HCenc and v6.0 of your script. I used the settings I posted in my previous post. It only took about 36 hours compared to 50+ for the v5.02 script. The Lagarith file size was about 17% smaller, which I think must be mostly due to the reduction in grain and noise.

Here are the shots from the final HCenc MPEG2 output (as opposed to my last shots which were stills from the intermediate lossless Lagarith file).

I think this is a keeper, although I haven't authored it yet. My earlier impressions from my test clips hold up.

Judge for yourself against the apt irrelevance screenshots. There is definitely a slight loss of detail and sharpness, but you gain a stable picture, less aliasing and a bit of contrast, not to mention a proper 16:9 anamorphic encode.

Scanning through, I found a couple shots which seem to have slightly more wobble/jitter than the v5.02 file, but that old one still has some jitter, so I'm not going to worry about it. The other improvements are worth the tradeoff.

For your reference, those couple shots are:

50:41 - Vader and Tarkin, slight wobble in the background

1:25:48 - Luke and Leia at the retracted bridge (before the swing), the matte painting seems to wobble slightly more in v6.0 than v5.02

I'm going to play with audio and maybe menus, then author this one. I'll let you know if I note anything else when I finally burn the disc and play it in a regular player. Then I may take a breather before moving on to Empire.

Thanks again for all your work on this script.