It will be good to know that there will be something cool to watch on Youtube once everyone rips these scenes. Lucasfilm will be removing them like crazy but they won't be able to keep up with the volume by a long shot.

They also shouldn't pose too much trouble to restore by hand for fan edits. I mean, what is 10 minutes of dirt removal worth? Maybe a couple months of work? Most fan preservations have toiled for much more than that running GOUT through AVIsynth so this shouldn't be too much trouble.

I have to admit, I was surprised to see the shield generator shootout footage. I don't remember that being in the script or novel. I am curious how they are going to present some of this material--for example, the sandstorm scene they show at length, while looking a lot better than I had previously seen and was expecting, is actually a dialogue scene. But for sure they were running the cameras silent, with the scene to be dubbed. A lot of these other bits rely on storyboards and such to make them comprehensible. So, I wonder if they will be filling in the gaps with subtitles, explanations, scene-missing cards, and storyboards, or just running them raw.