You'll need tons of drive space for the resulting AVI, which will then need to be re-compressed back to M2V. If you can frameserve, you'll be able to cut out the drive space need. I, however, always have messy results from frameserving. You'll probably need, what 200GB free for the AVI alone? Can anybody confirm that?
We still don't know if this will be progressive, interlaced, telecined or what. I'm hoping the material is at least 23.976 fps progressive, because IVTC'ing a 2 hour film will be a total mess.