Something just occurred to me, but I'm not sure that it's actually a good idea. It's so simple, and it's not documented in ErMaC's guide, so it's probably awful. Anyway, here's what I've got.
I wanted to get the best possible video quality (natch) from my Cowboy Bebop DVD rips, so I experimented with the Decomb filter. Just as ErMaC said, it makes things horribly slow when you try to edit. But what would happen if you did all the editing interlaced, and then swapped to progressive before you exported? By which I mean, as an example, the text of the .avs file for "Black Dog Serenade" while I'm editing looks like this:
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG2DEC.DLL")
MPEG2Source("C:\bebop\blackdog.d2v")
But when I'm ready to export the video, I change it to this:
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG2DEC.DLL")
MPEG2Source("C:\bebop\blackdog.d2v")
LoadPlugin("C:\AVSFilters\decomb.dll")
Telecide(post=false)
Decimate(5)
Preliminary tests seem to indicate that this works. Have I stumbled upon the best of both worlds, or is there something terrible that I haven't noticed?
Nathan Rosen
Studio Hooghly

