Yesterday (friday the 17th, a unlucky day in Italy) my main computer decided to not work anymore... maybe is only the video card - I hope so...

As I had a day off, I planned to start a new restoration project, but, as most if not all of my avisynth scripts are there, and I'm to lazy to open the case (buried under a pile of laserdisc players...) to take off the HDs, I switched on his "big brother" (the PC I'm working on right now) and I took a look at some half-done projects...

I retrieved the 1997 SE featurettes captured from the UK, german and french PAL laserdiscs, so... let's work with them, I said myself!

At the end, I have now the three featurettes, related to episodes IV, V and VI, joined together as they were in the UK PAL lasedisc boxset, but I've added some missing frames taken from the french laserdisc (luckily, without subtitles and in english...); I included audio soundtracks in english and german (this is 99.5% accurate, as I've added around 4 seconds of the english audio to match the lenght); subtitles in french and italian - copied from the hard subs - must be added... any volunteer? (,**)

If someone is interested in this, post your comment here - I've thought to release it at 720p (960x720 4:3 inside a 1280x720 frame) 25fps AVCHD - along with the usual noise reduction, to match my SET project, but maybe someone could be interested in SD MPEG2 files, to make a PAL DVD - in this case, let me know about a free, open source MPEG2 encoder to use with virtualdub...