If you want to perform CPR on this project, have a go at separating the dialog tracks from the prequels. If you can find a method with professional results, this project will have a pulse.

That's one of the most, "Nail on the head" statements I've seen in a long time. We really thought we had a handle on it this time. ID had absolutely fantastic music laid over parts of AOTC that really gave it a desperate, dark, foreboding feel. He had recut the discussion in Palps office at the beginning of aotc which led into the balcony scene of Anakin and Obi-Wan, to Padme's bedroom then tied it perfectly into the speeder chase sequence. We threw away every channel except for the dialogue track of course in all of these scenes. I laid in sound effects, ambience, room tone, etc, etc but nothing could be done about the music still in the center channel. We thought we could mask it somehow. We obviously were very wrong. This more than anything truly killed the project. When we realized we could not change AOTC enough to somewhat fit into ANH it became impossible to edit the two together.