Will you be keeping it at 1.78:1?
@towne32; I currently have a 720p version encoding as we speak with image stabilisation. I'll see how it looks when complete, and then probably wait until this version is released and work off that for an "unofficial" AVCHD file.
Just a note on that though, I did a test encode a few days ago (with faster settings and CRF not 2-pass), it came out at the right size (about 3.5GB) but there was clear macroblocking due to the level of grain in the print. Which makes it obvious why we see macroblocking in the previews that Team Neg 1 upload of the SW stuff - the bit-rate just isn't high enough to cope with the low compressibility of the source. So this time I degrained it, like I said though I'll probably wait until the -1 Team release their version and then work off that. I didn't do any scratch removal because the algorithm I used left behind smearing (akin to what's commonly referred to as DVNR). If the Negative 1 encode is free from DVNR I'll use it, if not I'll leave the scratches in.
The AVCHD is not intended to in any way to replace the current version though, it's just something I'm doing for the more public trackers so the film can be shared in acceptable quality.