Working w/ heaving Interlaced source

What title is this? If it's Gunbuster you can forget about it, it suffers from the GAiNAX twitch. GAiNAX is notorious for doing the most horrible Telecining ever in animated shows. If it's something else please let me know and I'll see what I can find out. Also - don't bother doing manual IVTC in TMPGEnc. 99% of the time DeComb will give you just as good results and without all the hassle of manual IVTC. If Decomb can't give you a good looking stream then it's because the show has blended frames i.e. uses an older form of telecining that's really really nasty and almost impossible to fix. I would just recommend encoding interlaced.

I would suggest trying the newest version of DeComb again as there's a new decimate mode that works very well for Animaton. And yea I'm familiar with Orguss but I have no idea about the quality of the telecine so I can't help you there. But try out the newest Decomb, and if you still have trouble ask Don for help by maybe just sending him an email - he can probably tell you if the clip is IVTC'able or not using any method.

Ah edit crossover! Can you check out my edits above too, last half of the message? :)

My advice, if you don't want to deal with the IVTC (which sounds like the best option at this point): Take DVD2AVI and have it output its .d2v file with plain, standard fields (not forced film, not swapped fields). Open up said D2V file in TMPGEnc. Set your field options on the MPEG2 to Interlaced. Encode. Or if you're using CCE, use MPEG2DEC to open the D2V file, feed the AVS script into CCE, and encode (just make sure the Progressive Frames option isn't checked in your Video settings). That should give you a clean interlaced->interlaced transcode.

Thanks ErMaC, Encoded the first episode and it looks alright on the computer. Haven't burnt it to a DVD yet, but I'm sure it will look fine! Guess the Dew is routing my brain, I don't remember being about to do that in the past (Interlaced->Interlaced)... perhaps the mixture of NTSC and FILM would have resulted in my failure at earlier attempts. Hoag