if the PAL dvd was stored as 25fps progressive, then it only needs to be slowed down 4% to make it 24fps the same as my IVTC'd 24fps NTSC capture. the only difference then is vertical the size difference between my NTSC material and the PAL DVD material.
therefore, if I can jigger my NTSC source capture to the same vertical resolution as the PAL item without losing anything, then I can take advantage of the better PAL resolution.
as GRisan says it is 25fps progressive, it means I don't even have to do any deinterlacing all I have to do is shoot through virtualdub and make the frame rate 23.97fps instead of 25fps. cool.
@grisan,
could you mail me a few frames from the film please? mail it to lancer@dial.pipex.com so I can do some comparison stuff and see if I can jiggle my NTSC material to match at all? that would be great.