Harmy said:

Actually, I am currently writing a script for a Despecialized Edition documentary, of which the Sources doc will be only a small part.

Here are the chapters I have in mind so far:

- "Introducing the Despecialized Edition"
What is the DeEd and why it was made.

- "Introducing the Versions"
What are all the different versions and what are the main differences between them. The resolution comparison will be a part of this when talking about resolution of PDE vs. DeEd - Why 720p and not 1080p.

- "Introducing the Sources"
This you've of course already seen - only the intro with the Ronto will probably be cut and put in front of the "Introducing the Despecialized Edition" doc and some parts will be shortened and the info moved to preceding chapters (like e.g. the flaws of the GOUT DVD will be explained in the first one.)

- "Introducing the changes"
How the changes were discovered (about 005's galleries) and examples of how they were dealt with - the old lightsabre clip and more.

- "Introducing the colors"
A bit about how the color correction was done.

- "Introducing the Soundtracks" Again, I'd dearly love to include this one but I cannot with clear conscience attempt to do it myself - I could do the video side of it, but not the audio side and the script of the narration, so if anyone can help me with it, I'd be very grateful - even if hairy_hen is busy, I bet someone else who understands audio could look into the threads and comments made by h_h and Belbucus and write a little script for me and tell me what sound clips to use to best illustrate the points. If anyone volunteers to do this, I'll send them the scripts I already completed, so they can get an idea of how to approach it.

Then there will be this comparison gallery in higher quality and then the same thing in movement as a 20 minute long video.

And I don't plan to put any non-DeEd related stuff on there, except maybe some trailers, which I will try to recreate in HD.

First, this sounds awesome! On the "versions" section - will this touch on the changes across all the home releases, such as some of the major changes on all of them? I think it'd be cool to have a quick rundown of some of the more "famous" and arguably rather stupid additions/changes.

From a relatively untouched VHS / Laserdisc era, to 97SE, to DVD, to BD, that'd be cool to see a quick breakdown.
One thing that'd be great to show on that would be a picture of the 2006 DVDs - something like opening it up, showing the 2nd disc thrown in there, then played on a widescreen to illustrate how sad it is that it's the only official release of the originals, in original form. I mean, yes, I'm glad to own them, but it's sad that they're only really barely worth watching on a CRT, which you can't even really buy anywhere anymore.

Regarding audio, man, I don't know. Being that I'm kind of an audio geek myself, and understand pretty well what he's done, I still don't know if I want to speak too much about this since I'd rather he have his shake at speaking to the things he did directly - which, BTW, is AWESOME for the 2.5 release. Some serious time and attention paid to making it very well done. Normalizing separate soundtracks to be at similar levels is no small task either. That had to have taken some serious time to get anywhere close to where it is now.

If nobody else wants to tackle this in the coming days, or if he can't, for whatever reason, I'd help. I could show some Pro Tools and/or Audition screenshots of a few differences to illustrate the levels being changed etc. Sum up the major points from previous threads. Could summarize some of the differences in these versions, but honestly, I would rather all this come from him directly - credit being due where credit is due and all that. Hairy_Hen's familiarity with all the details would also far exceed what any of us could speak to. If it did come down to mentioning all the things he's done, it'd have to be made very clear that he spent a great deal of time, and attention to detail on all of it.