sansuni said:

2. I am thinking a compromise, I will try to lower the quality of what I got just a little bit, and raise the quality of the deleted scenes a little bit and try to make them work together nicely. If it works and it is passable, I will do it that way, if not, I will think of something.

Perhaps you can just reduce the quality of the shots immediately preceding and following the deleted scene to make the shift a bit more gradual. Shouldn't need to have the quality suffer throughout the entire film.