I'm just doing test captures with the DC documentaries; as they are shot on video, the quality is quite good also using a "simple" LD-V4300D... don't know if using the HLD-X9 will improve a lot the video quality... but I'm sure a median/average of three copies (2 US + 1 JP) will improve it.
A tough work will be to synch temporally the parts with stop frames, like photo galleries - they must be split and synchronized separately... (xx/) at least, no IVTC will be needed!
About post processing: a bit of noise reduction will be necessary - just a bit; for the upscaling, a lot of extras found on BD are SD, so they must not need to be upscaled, but... the problem will be to mix NTSC and PAL contents!
Maybe I could encode the material to MPEG2, so I could release AVCHD/BD with mixed contents, and different PAL DVDs and NTSC DVDs, without encoding twice... AFAIK, mixed content (like PAL and NTSC) may reside in the same BD disc... someone could confirm this? It's true that the PAL interviews should be the same found on NTSC, but "From Star Wars to Jedi" without subtitles are available only in PAL, so...
What is holding me back to begin this project is just that I'd like to show it to my family and friends, and not all of them understand english... what I really need to give the "green light" to this project, are the transcriptions of all the extras' dialogs in english, then I'll do myself the translation to italian - help to translate them to french, german and spanish is welcome!
I searched a lot during the last week, but didn't find them; maybe someone with huge patience and a lot of spare time could do it... (^^3)???