Not to worry I most certainly am trimming the end / start of each side as much as possible! I agree to not edit out the side changes would look terrible!

The problem I am having is if you edit the video down to straight cuts from one side to the next, the audio also gets cut so that it ends / starts abruptly which doesn't sound very good. :(

So what I have done is trim off as much of the end/start of each side as I can without clipping the audio, the result is for ROTJ any way that the picture fades to black and then fades back to the next scene almost instantly, as I say the whole fade from one side to the next lasts for about a second.

ANH's side change occurs on a straight cut any way so that's not a problem.

ESB however will be a pain but I am thinking if I can create a gradient that matches the wipe on the LDs I should be able to use an Alpha transition to seem the two sides together. I will have to play around a bit and see what I can come up with.

I hope this better explains what I am doing, if I get a chance I will post a clip of going from one side to the next to show what I mean.