The problem mentioned (the Tantive lights bleeding through the smoke) is something that can also be corrected. I'm positive that this transfer can be sort of reverse engineered to restore some subtlety to the image. The clipped blacks are my next challenge but, apart from a few noticeable shots, they usually account for something like 1% of a frame's total luma range. I'm looking at a flash frame now where the blue channel from 210-255 accounts for about 80-85% of the frame information while the green channel is only around 15-20%. It's just very fortunate that the green channel is intact (though slightly compressed) throughout the movie and that the blue channel highlights are often salvageable otherwise there would be no way to fix this thing. Anyway, I guess I should save some discussion for a dedicated thread. Sorry again Harmy.