Video Cleanup with Avisynth. Professional help needed!!!

[Zaaacharias]

Hi guys. I'm a total avisynth noob and would really appreciate your help with following problem:

I recently bought a Japanese Jackie Chan DVD and the quality is... let's call it "not worthy to be pressed on a DVD".
Main problem is the heavy dot crawl and that it's 4:3 letter box.
I wanna do some cleanup and make a 24p NTSC 16:9 DVD to make this movie watchable.

Source:
DVD NTSC 29.976 4:3 Letter Box (image is cropped from 2.35 to 1.85).

Destination:
DVD NTSC 24p 16:9

TASKS:
- remove/reduce dot crawl (checkmate() seems to work best on this footage)
- inverse telecine
- crop black borders left and right
- scale image to 872px width (retaining AR)
- squeeze image to 720px width (not retaining AR)
- crop black borders top and bottom till image height is 486
- sharpen
- ??? anything else ???

Now I need your help to put this plan into action.
Could somebody be so kind and help me?
I uploaded two short sample clips:
http://rapidshare.com/files/344023018/RITB_dotcrawl01.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/344033378/RITB_dotcrawl02.zip

Thanx in advance! :thanks:

http://forum.doom9.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=10752&stc=1&d=1264794072
http://forum.doom9.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=10753&stc=1&d=1264794087

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