Well, my plan is to mostly just clean the print shots and intercut them with the DC where necessary.
Hey, Harmy, glad you’re tackling this one! I guess you’ve already seen Movie Censorship’s detailed comparison between LD and DC, but just in case, here it is https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=541751
That comparison is wrong! It claims that the letterboxed laser disc is the original version, but it ain’t. The colour timing on that laser disc is completely wrong, for example, the opening credits were not originally white, they were green. The 2004 version’s colour timing is actually much closer to the original. Also, the gold Warner Bros logo wasn’t used originally. The 2004 version restored the correct Warner Bros logo. I have a copy of an earlier pan and scan VHS, which predates the letterboxed release. On the pan and scan VHS, the opening titles are green and the Warner Bros logo is the red one. Also, the colour timing is much warmer.