It was only a passing thought of seeing if the French & German sets can be merged to reduce grain, I'm getting excellent results by capturing the video 5x & merging anyway, thanks for letting me know about them not quite aligning.

The slight difference in saturation & missing frames I'm not too concerned about as they can be compensated for, but one thing I am curious about is wether the side breaks are at the same points, it would be nice if they weren't because the German set fades in/out at the beginning/end and I'd like to not have to remove the 6 or so faded brightness frames during the side changes by using the scenes from the French set.