Wording on top of Star Wars encodes

Hey all, I was going through some of my Star Wars films that I had encoded with Handbrake from the Blu-Rays I have, and I noticed that there is white wording on top of the picture in all 6 movies. Here’s a screenshot from Episode 1:

Does anyone have any idea what this could be from?
Answer #1
It looks like a watermark. Are you saying you encoded from the originals, or did you download them. If you used original blu rays, i’d say handbrake is doing it. Does it happen if you encode something you know has no watermarks on it.
Answer #2
^my guess he’s downloaded them. handbrake doesn’t offer the feature to watermark encodes. whoever done it as done it with avisynth so it’s permanent, the only way to get rid of it now is to encode it again and use a blur filter with avisynth or virtualdub/virtualdubmod.
good luck.
Answer #3
I thought it may be like a demo version kind of thing, like if you use trial version of converters. I’d say your best bet would to crop it out rather than trying to blur it out. Or worse,download a non watermarked copy.
Answer #4
Is it the same text all through the films? Or is it changing?
Answer #5
My guess is, that it’s a subtitle track. McAllum was the producer on the Star Wars prequels. AFAIK he a frequent speaker in the commentary tracks, the subtitles probably indicate who’s currently speaking.
Unless the author of the software had some love interest in McAllum, I’d say it’s safe to say it’s not a watermark