Understand that I haven't actually cropped it yet. What I do is I use the unaltered shots for the rough cut, and then I make a list of the shots I need to crop for the final version. And what I'll be doing is taking just the widescreen, cropping it so as to preserve the exact dimensions, and then insert the anamorphic bars afterwards. I'll encode these shots separately as anamorphic before I splice them in with the rest.

I know that this is little stuff, but I'm going to try to raise the brightness on specific frames in shots when blasters are fired, to make it look more like the original SW. I think it'll look more realistic and not as "CG".