Considering deinterlacing (adaptive - what software?)

[dinkob]

Lordsmurf I believe suggested this; to use adaptive deinterlace if output format is standard VCD.

Now here's my question, I looked arround many tools and websites (also visited 100fps.com), and I did find some great info on this topic and found that the best solution is;

smooth bob I think.

However, as much as I understood is that all that this suggest is that each field becomes a frame, hence the framerate becomes double.

So, this would be useless then if your ouput is VCD as one of the frames will probably end up being thrown out (am I correct?).

However, someone suggested that doom9 has a guide on using one of the Tmpgenc deinterlace filters which is also VERY GOOD (better than Smart Deinterlace), but I couldn't find it.

So if you just want to choose VCD, I presume that all of those avisynth filters would not work as they double the framerate??? what are you left with then do highest quality deinterlacing?

[SLK001]

It depends... If you are trying to deinterlace a video from a DV, I wouldn't - you can't create frames from the fields, since they are temporally offset from each other (unless you have a progressive capable camera).

If you are trying to deinterlace a telecined video, then DECOMB is a very capable (and adaptable) deinterlacer (it is an avisynth filter).

[lordsmurf]

If you insist on VCD, then play around in TMPGENC. The filters have realtime preview. One of the ADAPTIVE versions will look about as good as it's going to get. AVISYNTH and VIRTUALDUB have some too, but all things said, they look about the same in the end.

Better option is CVD or SVCD if you can only use CD formats. Those are interlaced MPEG2

[dinkob]

Yeah, I see. I was thinking about doing the smart deinterlacer or just leave it to blend the fields together.

About the SVCD: I would rather actually do VCD instead of SVCD. With me it's either low = VCD or super = DVD.

Yeah I could do experimentation with SVCD but somehow in my view it just doesn't pay off.

Also these guys : http://www.compression.ru/video (I think that's the url) have come up with another deinterlace method that looks very good.

However, download is not available As of yet or it will go commercial.

Their MSU noise reduction was good, but not quite the best. Sharpen filter was great but not my preffered choice (I usually use TMPGEnc for noise reduction and export to AVI - then I would have to do another export with MSU Sharpen before I can send it to CCE - instead I just use sharpen within TMPGEnc and export to avi for CCE Basic; wouldn't it be lovely if they could merge the two into one).