How do you tell what Deinterlace setting to use?

[thebach]

I have some laser disks to capture for DVD, in TMPGEnc, how do I tell what is the best deinterlace filter to use? Also, should I use inverse telecine? thanks!

[C53248]

Inverse telecine is generally a great idea if you have a movie or animation. Getting the video back to its original progressive 24 fps makes the encoding more efficient and the video more stable. The only drawback is that the IVTC filter may occasionally not get it right in small places. Nevertheless I always use it, with the automatic, flicker-priority setting. If the video was telecined, IVTC is really the proper way to deinterlace it.

Deinterlacing with the "deinterlace" filter will distort the video by making the motion less smooth (taking either the even or odd field) or by blurring images together (merging the even and odd fields). I never do that.

If the video is a TV show, it's probably originally 30 fps and can't be IVTC'd. In that case, you're best off leaving it interlaced, if possible.

[Vejita-sama]

Aside - You don't have to, nor do you always want to de-interlace. MPEG2 (DVD and (x)SVCD) support interlaced source. If you LD has a true interlaced source/video on it, don't de-interlace.

[thebach]

your right dude, just did 2 pass and no inverse telecine or deinterlace and it looks awesome