After 15 hours, Adywan's EMPIRE restoration got converted.....with a botched up aspect ratio. It all looked fine on the screen, and the pixel dimension settings were right with the PAR Anamorphic option. So, I'm gonna have to re-do it, but after another 15 hours, I got ANH converted properly. So, I know how long it takes, and exactly which settings to use.
I decided to not bother with the deinterlacing, and that's probably a major part of why it was taking as long as it was before. So, it's just 1700 kbp/s VRB with subtitles (for Greedo & Jabba), and 720x304 (w/o black bars).
-NJM