Awesome, thanks!!

I'm putting together a demo .mkv clip of the first 8 minutes, splicing the various pieces from the best two captures, border added, and resized to 1280. I tried it last night with xvid4psp as suggested earlier in the thread, and I agree it seems to be a very nice tool for the job.

I'll also keep trying out althor's scripts. The trouble with it, is that if the brighter clip blows out some of the whites, the script seems to also be blown out. The "scripted" version may ultimately become another take from which to utilize in certain scenes.