So for those not already aware of this, this project redefines the term “slow burn”. Yeah, it’s still happening, yeah, exactly one demo disc has been sent out to our crack QA team–long, long, ago–and no, the “Japanese re-translation for the entire film” project is still very much stalled, and holding up the final product, because I have arbitrarily deemed it a necessary component.

But, in other news, the new 40th Anniversary Blu-ray now includes a lossless English (dual) mono track. Since I’d originally used a hand-synced Laserdisc track, I think using the lossless mono off the Blu-ray will result in better audio sync and overall quality, only using the Laserdisc audio for the scene that got changed.

I’ll probably take the opportunity to re-encode the video as well, using better settings that may not yield that much better quality, but will almost certainly result in smaller size. I am considering downscaling everything to 720p this time, because 1080p gives you hardly any, if any, extra detail on a film like this, and at the sort of size I’m thinking of (BD25), 720p will look better than 1080p at the same bitrate, or even a lower bitrate. Avisynth and x264 gurus feel free to post suggestions.

And then, after all that’s done, we’ll keep waiting 😉

Also, Silverwook, I find your new avatar to be distressing.