In an ideal situation I would need only to correct the A/V sync at the side changes of both the source materials (about 8 points).
That is of course not the case. Spending several hours working on this today, I have decided that it is beyond my current abilities (or the time I am willing to invest) in order to add a new audio track. The first 1/2 hr falls into place nicely, and then you start seeing sync shifts between scenes where there is no side change from either source.
So I am packing it in with that idea. Sorry guys I wanted it too. If anyone else wants to take this up, you can contact me and I'll help out as best I can.
What I can show you (and what will probably be my final material) is this:
Audio track: Ripped from Moth3r's disc, converted to wav, PAL -> NTSC (all BeSweet at this point), and pitch-shifted (Music2 profile in Sound Forge). I'm going to keep this as PCM audio since the black borders allow a Q of 35 with 1900kbps (no kidding).
Audio clip is here (Right-Click, save target as...)
I DID originally boost all colors 35%, then it was 25%, then it was only yellow and green, now it's 15% (some late movie laserblasts clip above this level). Scanning the whole disc this seemed the best way to go. I just didn't like the pale colored C3PO in the source.
Anyway some snaps for you all. You can see that the black borders on the sides seem beefy, but they are all but completely lost in overscan on a TV.
(Pictures are direct output from VirtualDub, pre-re-encoding.)
The test burn clip from all this was fairly pleasing on a 4:3 35" TV with a THX 5.1 select audio system.
Yes I know it's not perfect and I'll take input on this since I'll probably be running this through the mpg encoder in a few days.
It's not all I hoped for, but in my mind better than most NTSC transfers to date.