The smearing is just some encoding bug, but it's not in my work files, of course ;-)

Although I've stayed true to the theatrical crawl, two things still bother me: The logo standing still for a few frames (what a stupid mistake), and the long pause after the crawl disappearing.

I'm thinking about fixing at least the latter problem, which would be rather easy, as the crawl speeds up a bit in the end... if I keep the speed constant throughout the shot (by taking out the speedup), the text would stay on screen a little longer, thus shortening the gap of pure starfield. Fixing the logo is of course just a few clicks as well, but I guess my project partners (especially TK-949) would kill me ;-)