I cleared some space on my HD and was going to start work, but ... nope.
The Japanese widescreen DVD - well, turns out it's not inverse telecined. It's still 60i, not 24p.
So I've been trying to get it inverse telecined properly, and nothing seems to work. Quicktime reads the file at a weird size or something, with blurry interlace lines - if I export it from quicktime, using Cinema Tools to inverse telecine it doesn't work.
MPEG2 Works has the same effect - full of blurry lines when I try to IVTC it.
Compressor - blurry mess.
Diva - not quite. Very close, but not quite. I'm assuming the correct size is 720 x 480, but Diva's version isn't ... quite ... right.
I've run out of programs here.
What WOULD work would be if I just captured the thing analog. I did some tests capturing it through my camcorder via firewire. That's fine, and I can IVTC that easily.
But the picture isn't nearly as good as the original DVD. It's much blurrier, and there are all the nasty DV color artifacts which I was trying to avoid - it ruins all the, say, red scenes.
....
Christ. The problem is that Cinema Tools can't inverse telecine an M2V file directly. I have to convert it to something first. And very few programs want to convert an M2V properly.
Hmm.
The AC3 audio exported from the "Princess" edit isn't converting to AIF easily either - I get error messages in all my programs. And the Princess video seems temperamental, playing strangely in both Quicktime and VLC. Hm.