I'm currently experimenting with Empire (because I think it's much easier than Star Wars) to test how it's gonna work out. I keep the number of frames exactly the same as the OUT. I'm doing all this with avisynth. First making al seperate avisynth files for different scenes or parts of scenes. After that the individual scenes can be color corrected, resized, etc.

So what you need on your hdd is the rips of the 2 dvds of the 9/12 release. When I'm ready with the avisynth script I could give a link so anyone can download these files as an example if you never used avisynth or as a raw version you can colorcorrect and modify yourself. All you need is the PAL 9/12 release (ripped to your hdd). (I'm from PAL country so even marioxb should be okay with that!)