How to deal with a hybrid film/interlaced source?

[batman0105]

Can someone please advise what is the best way to deal with a hybrid avi file that appears to be both film and interlaced? The source is a TV movie captured via a Sony DV camcorder over firewire. I have tried encoding at 29.97 interlaced, but it just doesn't look as good as I know it can, because when I do an IVTC, it looks great....with the exception of the occasional "jerk". If I leave it as 29.97 interlaced, low motion scenes look poor...kind of like a flickering or slow motion effect....I don't know another way to describe it but I suppose you might lump it under interlacing artifacts. I've seen many posts here that seem to suggest that leaving it 29.97 interlaced will provide the best output and maybe that might be true with a true interlaced source, but with a hybrid leaving it as is looks very poor to me. Granted it is a VHS source and I realize that "crap in = crap out", but I've seen how good it can look, and unfortunately straight interlaced or straight IVTC alone will not do, so how do I combine the best of both worlds?

[sterno]

The Decomb filter for avisynth can convert hybrid material to a progressive stream. Everything gets deinterlaced, and it can replace the duplicate frames in telecined material with a blend of the previous and next frames. I think GreedyHMA can do something similar, I haven't used it as much though.

[batman0105]

Thanks!

I remember seeing something about them but wasn't clear on what they did. I'll have to track down the documentation and give them a try. Thank you for the info!