Trooperman, let me just say that your project sounds incredible. Your vision of the film is totally on the mark. Your aesthetic sense seems to mirror my own exactly, going for that old-school empire-era analog look, sound and feel. The trailer totally blew me away! Incredible! I made a rough cut myself two years ago, just to see how much CGi and bad lines one cold get away with removing, and the result was pretty primising, you could see the potential. I never got back on track with editing the music and Sound FX thugh, as I was having alot of import/export problems in premiere, which ate up too much of my time.
One thing I noticed in my cut of ep II though was how much screen time was lost by all the necessary cuts. May I therefore ask how this cut is shaping up length-wise? Best of luck with completing this most important work.