For Ep00, I essentially agree with exactly what Burbin said. I think option 2 is visually the cleanest way possible to present it, but the abrupt music at the title card is a bit jarring. If that can be somewhat gently faded in, then I think you’re golden.
I’m suprised by this, because I thought people would prefer version 3, where we get the opening scene in the office first. The episode title ‘DARK FORCE RISING’ follows nicely from Palpatine backing Anakin’s strength, and nicely precedes opening again on the imperial march over clone troopers, I thought.
The problem with sticking with option 2 is that I don’t think I have the opportunity to amend the audio here - at least without finding some other more radical solution. I feel like the CLONE WARS logo needs to come in on a pretty meaty audio cue, which probably means sticking with what I have, but the audio which precedes it doesn’t mix nicely with the music of Yoda’s narration, which can’t really be changed as the voice track is the same as the music track.