captainsolo said:

This is what I do. Try cutting them directly together with no black frames. Play it back to see if there are any audio or video jumps. Finally, check that single part against a VHS, DVD or any complete source of the movie if possible. You have to make sure there are no fades or missing frames. If not then you're good, if so then you have to take those missing pieces from the other source.

I'm finding that this post is worth it's weight. What I thought was a strange audio transition in a test capture is actually missing frames that I cut thinking I had some semblance of understanding.

On Side 2 of Empire where Luke leaves Yoda & Ben to go to Bespin there is like a 12 frame fade before we see Luke leaving the atmosphere of Dagobah. I noticed it because I turned on the "view audio" option in Virtualdub so I could time the trim and figured the audio wave form would help guide me through. Turns out I was misunderstanding what I was seeing and it made my test capture "skip a beat" so to speak.....thank you.

Of course, this now means I'm gonna have to scrap some of the work I've done.....good thing I did not delete the raw captured sides yet.....at least I got that part down....LMMFAO