The R4 is a Brazilian R4 NTSC DVD. I am using that video and audio as my timing reference points for the HD footage I am using for the video assembly however there is an interesting development here...

You are probably right about the extra frames being at scene change, thus they are not really too important and I'm not worried about cutting 10 frames throughout an entire movie.

Thanx for the MultiAVCHD suggestion, Andrea. I do have the app, just have never used it yet. I guess now is as good of a time as any;)

While trying to align the footage in Vegas, I discovered something interesting though. Apparently, the color timing of the DVDs and the HDTV broadcast are struck from one master, while the Bluray has been SEVERELY altered.

The best way for me to illustrate my point is with screenshots, so here we go...

SHOT 1 (DVD/HDTV/Bluray):

SHOT 2 (DVD/HDTV/Bluray) :

SHOT 3 (DVD/HDTV/Bluray - notice in this shot how the HDTV is actually sharper than the Bluray which looks like the frame is blurred to the point where even the DVD has more detail and there are other shot like that in the movie as well) :

SHOT 4 (HDTV/Bluray - no more DVD shot as I've already illustrated that the DVD and HDTV are from the same master, just slightly different cropping) :

SHOT 5 (HDTV/Bluray) :

SHOT 6 (HDTV/Bluray) :

So as you guys can see, not only is it a different color-timing, but it also appears that the bluray has been substantially darkened. Interesting, also, is how they changed the font for the subtitles of the foreign parts.

Hmmm... what am I going to do with this now??? I'm open to suggestions, even though I have an idea of how I'm going to go about this, would love some input from others first...