I wonder.
Another thing I realized:
My track is gone too. And if I have to re-make that, that will be the 2nd time I do so (the first was after an HD crash in May wiped it out).
I almost want to say it's not worth the effort just for an x264/DVD quality encode, and it probably isn't, but even just on principle I'll have to do it. There's no reason this should've happened in the first place (and all the more ridiculous considering this is at least the 3rd time this happened to an MEP-related video work of mine).
The other option is to simply rip the intro + first track from the available xvid, but I don't think that's fair for me to get away so easily.
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Good news! I managed to salvage all but 5 seconds of my own track. I've also pulled out about 1/3 of the intro. Problem part-solved.
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…