What AviSynth settings to use to best deinterlace this NTSC video?

[elektro]

It looks like a weird telecined video. The filters TFM and TDecimate still leave frames with combing. Any AviSynth expert to help me to properly deinterlace this video?

[Brad]

Someone really screwed up this video. It's a field-blended conversion from some other frame rate to 29.97. But there are dropped fields (replaced with duplicates) causing little stutters / jumps in motion. And "chroma lag", by which I mean that the luma and chroma are de-synchronized sometimes.

Not to mention that it's one of those music videos that fakes ultra-widescreen in 4:3 SD by just throwing huge black bars on top & bottom.

Field blend at shot change

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Static field where only the colors have moved, so the edges of the whites in middle of screen bleed with false green & magenta, there's a red ghost of the singer, etc.

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Maybe try a bob deinterlace + SRestore but you may have to try both 23.976 and 25 as the underlying frame rate.

[elektro]

Someone really screwed up this video. It's a field-blended conversion from some other frame rate to 29.97. But there are dropped fields (replaced with duplicates) causing little stutters / jumps in motion. And "chroma lag", by which I mean that the luma and chroma are de-synchronized sometimes.

Not to mention that it's one of those music videos that fakes ultra-widescreen in 4:3 SD by just throwing huge black bars on top & bottom.

Field blend at shot change

[Attachment 52586 - Click to enlarge]

Static field where only the colors have moved, so the edges of the whites in middle of screen bleed with false green & magenta, there's a red ghost of the singer, etc.

[Attachment 52585 - Click to enlarge]

Maybe try a bob deinterlace + SRestore but you may have to try both 23.976 and 25 as the underlying frame rate.

Thanks for reply. Previously, I tried QTGMC but it didn't work too well because of the messy frames. I will try your solution too. By the way, what would you say about TFM + TDecimate + Yadif (to remove the remaining slight combing)?

[davexnet]

Why don't you try it and post the result to the forum. I tried qtgmc/srestore, perhaps you can compare them

Qtgmc(preset="slow").Srestore(frate=25)