Anime IVTC Trouble

Did you make any attempt *at all* to figure out why it is happening? For example, have you considered the scenarios described in the Decomb help file in the section called "Notes on field matching"? I'll help you if you have ruled out blended fields and hybrid material. Otherwise, everything I have to say is in the help file, and has been described in this forum many times, and I'm getting a little tired of repeating it all the time. And why the heck are you doing IVTC if you believe it is "100% interlaced"?

when I say 100% interlaced, I mean 100% ntsc (read from dvd2avi). I'm sorry if interlaced is not the right term. This is not to say that every frame is interlaced. Is it not recoverable if thats true? I'm sorry if my knowledge is not as complete as it should be. :( And yes, I've read through the help, and have tried everything I can think of, but it always outputs combed frames (or ghosted).

I'll be more direct this time. :) Did you rule out blended fields? Yes or no? Did you rule out hybrid material? Yes or no? If my help file is unclear, please tell me so I can fix it. Thank you.

Uhm, I'm sorry. I may have wasted your time. it looks like it might be blended fields. That is, there is ghosting when I use SeperateFields. There is nothing that can be done to correct this? Your help file is not unclear, there is just so much there that its hard to absorb and understand everything.

Damn. Well, thank you so much for coming to my help :) I guess I'll just bite the bullet and deinterlace.

I hope you mean do postprocessing with Telecide! You do want Telecide because it will give the best match of the bad ones available, and thereby minimize the area of combing. Also, I'm still undecided whether that GTO material should be decimated. What do you think? Looks like Decimate(mode=2,threshold=1.0) might be good.

Yes, FieldDeinterlace(full=true) It actually doesn't look like there are many frames close to duplicates, so I should probably leave it 30 fps. But I might try it with decimate to see how choppy it plays.

You say yes and then contradict what I said! Sometimes I wonder whether I don't speak English right. :) You want Telecide because there *are* some progressive frames in there and even the blended fields will be given the best possible matches, even though they are not perfect. That will reduce the extent of combing. I used this: avisource("gto.avi") Telecide() Decimate(mode=2,threshold=1.0)

What? I thought FieldDeinterlace is the same as Telecide's post-processing, and that they were both deinterlacing. The doc mentions that for sources with blended fields almost every frame, the best might be FieldDeinterlace(full=true). I think I understand now.

Yup, that's it. I can't speak English. :)