Well, I'm back, but unfortunately the hard drive on which my project files were stored failed on me a couple months ago, and I didn't have any backups.

BUT!

I do still have both DVD9's (the Region 2 Revisitations and Region 1 discs), and I still remember most of what I learned when I was going through this the last time.

The upshot of which is that I'm going to be converting the PAL disc to a ProRes 422 .mov tonight, and loading it up into Final Cut tomorrow. I'm going to try to fix as much of the interlacing problems as I can while it's still at 576i25, then convert it to 576p23.976 and fix any other problems I run across, then resize that down to 480p23.976.

Because I'm sure some of you have been looking forward to this, and my intentions with the DVD-9 authoring will require more time than the conversion of the video itself, I'm going to first release this as either an .mkv or .mp4 file, in order to get it out there ASAP. The DVD9 (and possibly a DVD5) will come later.

I'm hoping the video work won't take super crazy long, but I really can't promise anything - I do know what I'm getting into better this time than I did the first go-round, so I'm hoping it'll get done quickly, but this is still 90 minutes that I have to go through shot-by-shot, and in some cases (the goddamn ending in particular, with all the 1-frame flashes) frame-by-frame. So I won't speculate on how long it will actually take. I want to get this done quickly, but I want it to be done right at the same time, and believe me when I tell you that the video on these discs is a mess.

But I promise you this will get done. And I'm sorry this project's been dead in the water for so long. I intend to rectify that as quickly as possible.