Progress Report:
That's two 1 TB hard drives having died on me in the last three months.
I was able to recover pretty much everything including the DYRL lagarith avi files and DYRL audio files. Then I backed up and downloaded the rest of the files to put onto a nice, new Synology DS415+ NAS. I thought the expense for the Synology NAS was justitifed as a back up solution. But, even with the Synology hard drives paired into Raid 1 for mirroring, there is still a possibility of hard drive file corruption while being mirrored when one of the mirrored hard drives wear out. I might still need another back up for my back up. Amazon Glacier?
Yesterday, I affixed an Acelero II 120 VGA water cooler onto my Geforce gtx 580 classified 6 GB. I'm not sure how to get this modified video card installed with the supplied screws back into my editing computer. I'll work on installing that video card for my next week off. Currently, my editing computer has a MSI Radeon R2 290X installed and updated. Either video card is very good, but the older geforce card still gets a lot recommendations for video editing.
My computers are all updated and seem to be working okay for now.
Last week, I started a monthly subscription to the Adobe creative cloud, which will be really handy for After Effects and what not.
And now I'm transferring the 600+ GB of lagarith avi video files back onto my main computer for video editing using the Synology Cloudstation. I tried just using the regular Windows file transfer and my router network kept disconnecting, which meant the one day's worth of file transfer had to be re-started. Fortunately, the Synology Cloudstation has a resume feature for its file transfer function.
File transfers look like it will take at least two days to sync up all the files and then I'm back to work for another week. One more week before I actually start assembling the video clips together.
Anyways, the forum thread for up-scaling SD to HD looks to be very interesting and relevant to my project.
I have already used the Super Resolution when up-scaling the remastered DYRL DVD video to 1080p lagarith avi files. If Dr. Dre shares very specific details about his SD to HD avisynth script, then I might use that method instead. The Neat Video plug-in for Sony Vegas still needs to be tested out to smooth out the SD video aritifacts. Some colour correction will be needed to match up the video clips with the BD DYRL video.
Then there is the audio and subtitles to contend with.
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1st version will be an .MKV with multiple audio and subtitle choices
2nd version will be Japanese subtitle removal, more thorough colour correction, better matching of original theatrical footage to alter the BD video back and branching ending with an updated Flashback ending (Super Resolution + Neat Video + 30 fps to 24 fps film simulation? + colour correction + new credits).
3rd version BD, audio / video extras, box art, booklet assembly