Handbrake Settings for VHS Conversion

[Forenzik]

Converting home VHS tapes to be played to the family room TV via digital streaming from my NAS (no DVD's anymore) and I'm tinkering around with handbrake settings and would appreciate any input on that (or anything else in my workflow really).

Background is as follows:
Capturing with the best VHS player I could possibly find without spending a fortune (i cant even find S-video recorders for under $600 where I am located)
through a Videonics MX-1 i happened to already have
through a Hauppage Live2 USB stick,
High powered PC
Captured AmarecTV using Lagarith (is coming in as 720x480)
Deinterlaced with Avisynth+ QTGMC faster profile in Virtualdub64 (cropped to 700x480 due to black edges)


In handbrake, i'd like to encode to h.264, and am looking at the following settings:
Constant Quality, RF 19
Framerate - Same as source
Encoder Options - Slow

Filters?? there are so many options here, I'm wondering what you might suggest. i tend to think that any noise reduction was already done in QTGMC?
Resolution and scaling: I'm still not sure i have it right. I think I should keep it at the 700x480, but am wondering if there's any benefit to upscaling at this stage.

[Bwaak]

Would not "same as source" encode at 30p? This would not be my choice.

[Forenzik]

No. After deinterlacing with the qtgmc script which bobs it, its like 59fps

[Bwaak]

No. After deinterlacing with the qtgmc script which bobs it, its like 59fps

Ah, I missed that. Since you already use Avisynth to deinterlace, why not use it to upscale and encode for the presentation, and ditch Handbrake?

[Forenzik]

I dont think I yet realized that I could encode from Avisynth. Is the quality difference worth the learning curve? Or if it gives better realtime feedback on what the settings do, that would be better than Handbrake.