I haven't yet seen your edit but I'm hoping that works itself out in due time. Meanwhile, I'm considering my own hybrid edit of the Lynch and Smithee editions in hopes of taking advantage of the new anamorphic releases. I haven't attempted to manipulate video yet, but how did you fix the blue-within-blue eyes where necessary? Care to share any trade secrets? Any freeware or trialware programs that can do this? Is there any list of the scenes where this oversight happened to make access a bit quicker?
I'm also hoping to restore some of the deleted scenes that are in neither cut (I'll have to upsample them to anamorphic but I've gotten pretty good at that lately), use Irulan's (extended) intro and voiceovers, cut out some of the outright wrong fx shots, and who knows what from there. Right now it's only an idea in my head and nothing more. I'm still jonesing to see your cut. It sounds wayyyyyyy cool.