Best practice for deinterlacing NTSC TV capture?

[fortension]

I've been trying the full variety of VDub deinterlace filters available, and I still haven't found anything that I would call acceptable. All the blend/area style filters end up ghosting a lot on movement, and the "smart" ones get jumpy on movement. Is this the real reason for using temporal smoothers?

After testing out a lot of the recommended filters at the defaults, it still doesn't seem right. Any suggestions on altering the settings? Or should I hunker down for a lot of trial and error? I've seen the good websites on the problems of interlaced video.

[medievil]

if it is jumpy on movement also use a swap fields filter . jumpiness is caused by the fields being reversed.

[fortension]

I mean that horizontal movement is jerky - sorta like I'm getting 15fps.

I thought field reversal was the solution to vertical bobbing, but tell me if I'm wrong.

I tried the standard field swap prior to the deinterlace, and it looked terrible, so that wasn't the fix.

[SCM]

Try to do a progressive scan, instead of deinterlacing only by virtual dub:

You can follow this link:

The best method to deinterlace movies

They explain vey well the various deinterlace methods, and the considered best way to deinterlace videos (progressive scan).

Note that one you will have to install the Avisynth dll, it basically is a frameserver that virtualdub could use.

hope that helps

[tuco1979]

I personally use avisynth's tomcomp deinterlacer because it gives me very good results. In general, I alot of avisynth filters are better and faster than vdub's.

[fortension]

I don't know for sure what it was, but once I put the deinterlacer in with the other filters, it looks fine. I was just comparing some different deinterlace filters individually, and the output was terrible. Once I put it in with some other filters - a little smoothing and resizing - it turned out just fine. I don't get it, but I'm happy with the results now.