your overall intention for bail organa is the right decision. for me personally just not in this episode.
A general hard cut on all episodes? Mh, it depends but overall i think this could work. Just for the video of course, as a consequence the audio would’ve to come in faster or as near as to a hard audio fade in as possible.
but i’ve to look into the other episodes to get a feeling for this idea. an sample could be helpful.