While thinking of going down the road of asking Immersion FX for the edit without the lightsabers and all the back and forth that might entail, I started playing with it myself. It’s only 17 frames that needed to be changed, so I kept going and eventually think I got to something usable!
Praetorian Knife Removal (removal at 0:22)
https://vimeo.com/394568223
pw: fanedit