Well, I'm about 1/3 of the way through the film (fixing interlacing and DEFT issues) - just got to the first fade-to-black after the "Who?! Am?! I?!?!?!" scene.
My current FCP timeline. Should give you an idea of how much needs fixing in this movie. Every cut on the V1 track represents a shot or portion of a shot that I've had to apply some form of de-interlacing or IVTC to. Every shot on the V2 track represents a shot like the example in my previous post where I was able to find a good frame to replace it with. (note: the video file says "480i25" because that's what I named it when I rendered it from the DVD9 at a 25i framerate - when CinemaTools converts 25i to 24p, it doesn't change the filename, hence it still says "480i25" even though it's really 480p23.976, or 480p24.)
There aren't that many places where I wasn't able to fix a problem. Each such issue is the last frame of one shot and the beginning of the next, and when you're watching it in motion you don't notice it unless you're looking for it.
I'm hoping to have the video done today so I can render out a new ProRes video file and start working on the DVD tonight.
Now, as far as uploading this ... does anyone know of a good guide for how to upload a torrent? I've never done it (successfully) before.
(Interestingly, TheBox refuses to accept this as a torrent, saying it's not different enough from the 25fps PAL torrent they have. This will likely be upped to PirateBay and Demonoid when it's finished.)
--edit--
Just passed the halfway mark - I'm at 00:50:17:22 in the NTSC timeline, which equals 00:48:17:05 in the PAL timeline.
Strangely, every once in a while there's one frame in the middle of a shot that's a blend of the lower field of that frame and the upper field of the next frame. The rest of the shot is perfectly fine with no interlacing issues.
So there will be a few frames throughout that are half the quality of the surrounding frames, due to the fact that half the lines simply don't exist in the PAL master.
--edit again--
Noticed something funny - looks like the effects guys figured they didn't need to make the fake glass go all the way into the overscan portion of the frame (compare the pane the Doctor is standing behind [CG glass that the Doctor is about to walk through] to the one to its right [which had real glass in it]):
