OK. First, TServo, I had the same problem when I switched to a new laptop and I ended up getting an external monitor to be able to work on colors, because no matter what adjustments I did, I couldn't get the colors to look right on the laptop's monitor.

And now, the x-mas release is becoming increasingly unlikely, because I'm having some trouble with my computer and will probably need to reinstall Windows and there's no way I'd have time to do that before x-mas. No matter what I try, no matter what codec I use, I keep getting these rendering errors when rendering AVI:

They appear randomly in different frames on every render even when using the same settings.

On a different note, I've recently seen something that made me rethink the Obi-Wan scene (many of you will know what) and I decided to start from scratch on it. Here's the result:

http://uloz.to/xU1NYB4/ben-new-compar-mp4

You can see the encoding errors appear in the recently rendered v2.1 footage in this video as well.