First and foremost, congratulations and thank you very very much to Team Negative1 and everyone else involved in this preservation. It truely is a remarkable achievement. When I first heard of this project, I would never have expected that the final result/quality would be anywhere near what you’ve put out. Most amazing! Somehow, I wish your preservation would be the official Bluray instead of the mediocre shit that Lucas released.

I haven’t had a chance to watch to whole movie yet, but I’d still like to suggest two possible improvements for the upcoming V1.5 release.

Please lower the volume of the intro you added a bit, it’s considerably louder that the actual movie😉
In my opinion, a total size of about 25GB is sufficient for a 1080p encode at a very good quality (just compare it to encodes of other movies available on various file sharing sites), if the encoding settings were to be somewhat enhanced compared to your V1.0. As you’re aiming for a final file size, 2pass encoding fits the purpose much better than CRF. Additionally, some other settings might need adjustments. Overall, the settings suggested at the official x264 website (see link below) are quite a good starting point. The one thing I would change though is --tune grain instead of --tune film for obvious reasons. Any other possible, manual change of the encoding settings is just fine-tuning in my point of view. With these settings, the encoding quality will be quite a bit better and fine details as well as grain will be be preserved much better! BTW, I helped Harmy with his encodes of the Despecialized Edition😃