Thank you, guys, I appreciate your help.

I'm still kind of torn on the flashes. Colour correcting single frames like that is a bit complicated and time consuming. But I might try.

To the colours, I'm really not quite sure what exactly you mean, like I said, the vague comments like that aren't really helpful, I need concrete shot times to check it out. But I'm trying to go by the Technicolour pics and the 70mm scans rather than the GOUT, as it is really screwed up for SW, it needs a boost for the real colours to show through but not the same boost throughout.

The crushed black are sadly unsalvagable and the 04SE is the only available HD source and in all likelyhood the BluRays will be the same. But to me, the crushed blacks are only really distracting in a few dark scenes, like inside the sandcrawler.

As to the audio, there will be quite a few soundtracks but the 97SE won't be one of them, because it wouldn't sync because of the changes and I have no idea about sound editing and there are several excellent mixes (such as hairy_hen's 70mm 5.1 reconstruction or Belbucus' mono mix restoration) readily available to sync with this project.