I just quickly laid in the dvd and the blu-ray versions in my project to check on the differences. I still haven’t found exactly where Fode and Beed’s arm intersects the vest, but everything else has lined up exactly. The DVD lined up without much adjustment to the image (it has a bit wider image than the TB and ORF broadcasts, but about the same height and nearly identical colors). The crowd shot is half missing when Fode and Beed introduce Sebulba and the cutaway to Watto and Warwick Davis is missing. One shot of Fode and Beed is moved, but otherwise all the shots are in order. The shot of Qui-Gon is cust short instead of wiping to the Coruscant skyline (a shot that was completly replaced in favor of the air taxi sequence) and when it wipes back to the Queen’s apartments, the shot is two frames off until the scene change. The Blu-ray credits are different as well as all the other blu-rya changes like Yoda. I actually used my 720p watching copy of the HD broadcast of the DVD version and everything I checked lined up. It has burned in English subtitles, so those shots would have to be fixed.
I also confirmed that Adywan missed two frames at the start of reel 6 and that his time adjustment for the DTS tracks is off by a couple of frames over the course of the rest of the film. I used the TB audio track and a mixdown to Dolby Surround Stereo of the DTS tracks to align the audio. I also compared the mix to the Dolby Digital from the DVD. That mix has a pure LFE track rather than the calculated one that using the Cinema DTS requires. The complex edits through the pod race sequence make using that LFE problematic. I’m still trying to find the right level to export the tracks at and I’m going to assemble and align the AOTC and 97 SE Trilogy DTS before I’m going to call this final (in theory, all the tracks should use the same time adjustment settings so I want to make sure I’m using the right setting before I call it done). I listened to the reel changes in the DVD and Blu-ray audio and it doesn’t sound like an abrupt cut, nor does it sound like a long seguey, so I did a fade overlap of about half a frame and it sounds the same.
Now I’m off to play with AOTC - finding the reel changes to align the DTS tracks to.