I’ll have to consider the cold open idea further. What you essentially need is a strong opening scene, followed by a beat to breathe where you’d put your titles, then a decent enough follow up scene. And I don’t know that every episode has that.
Remember, every audio transition is potentially jarring, so you generally want to avoid interrupting the episode as much as possible - it can reveal the amateur nature of the edit.
We’d also need a very strong ten second piece of music (like Mando’s ba-dummm) for the title to “own”.
Right on both counts. I’m happy to enlist myself in IDing appropriate music. I’ve also some experience as an audio engineer/mixer (though as a hobby vs pro), so happy to try my hand at any audio transition issues you face (eg. compression, EQ, limiting, etc.) It occurs to me too that a new member just posted he’s a pro engineer and interested in supporting fan edits. Maybe he’d be a good resource whenever you cross this bridge?