One thing that blew me away about the DVD's was how black things were compared to the LD's. I've tried this round to emulate that by darkening just the shadows. To my eye, it looks pretty good. But this may be why it looks too contrasted to you.
I don't think I can really provide frame numbers for you, as I'm not really capturing from the beginning of the film, and the Faces LD's are not CAV so I wouldn't be able to use the LD's frame numbers as a reference since CLV doesn't have any. Perhaps a description would help? For instance, the closeup of Leia (#13 there) is the third frame of that shot.
It's true that the stars suffer a lot from the large amount of filters I'm using. I'm hoping that with my new equipment I won't have to use half of them. I've already experimented a little with editing in new starfields, so that's probably what I would do in a worst-case scenario.
At any rate, I'd really like to see some of your screencaps.
