I saw on here that if your source is interlaced but not telecined, then when you convert to a vcd 2.0 that it is better to not ivtc and just leave the video interlaced. I believe my source to not be telecined because I don't get three progressive followed by two interlaced frames when I look at it in the IVTC filter window of TMPGEnc frame-by-frame.

Ok, I did that and I really love the result, except for the jagged lines, antialiasing, stair-step effect on anything that is a line, curve, or border to anything. My video is just as smooth as the DVD except for the jaggies, and I have no ghosting or anything on fast motion sequences. I want to learn the most effective settings for the programs I'm using to encode: DVD2AVI(d2v project file), VFAPI Converter(for reference avi), VirtualDub(480x480,subtitles,logo's,etc.), AviUtl(for resizing to vcd standard), and TMPGEnc for the final encode of my anime mpg's. I use them in that order.

I saw about Donald Graft's 'Smart Deinterlacer' and that seemed like a possibility, but I don't want to lose the smooth motion I have now. Also, won't deinterlacing double the amount of frames, and how would that affect sync'ing to audio? I'm using VobSub for my subtitles, so what setting--(ie: it lets you convert source subtitles to a specific frame rate like 24, 29.97-this is the DVD source rate, 23.976, etc.)--would I use for them if I'm making VCD 2.0 compliant mpg's? Should I use NTSCfilm or NTSC for my non-telecined anime? Could my anime be telecined and not follow the normal 3 progressive, 2 interlaced pattern? Are there other telecining patterns? One final question, what program/settings is the best for figuring out telecining if that is what I could indeed have? All help on any of this is appreciated...thanks