RahXephon and IVTC

[Shazzy]

Footage: RahXephon TV series (NTSC Region 1 DVDs)
Framerate: 29.97fps
Field order: Upper/top field first
Problem: Interlacing during action and movement.

Please note I am on a Mac. I can't just dump an AviSynth script and call it done.

I've been using Cinema Tools to try a clean reverse telecine on Rah. It is doing something...everytime I run it some of the interlacing is removed. The footage seems to be switching patterns about every 10 seconds, though. No matter what setting I use, I only get rid of roughly half the scanlines. In other words, setting #1 gets rid of a bunch, setting #2 gets rid of a bunch but not what setting #1 got rid of, and so on.

I've used Cinema Tools successfully with other anime and my own recorded footage, but RahXephon is giving me a headache.

Cinema Tools has 5 settings in 2 styles for each capture mode (Field 1 only, Field 2 only, F1-F2, F2-F1). It also has a "nonstandard" option for obscure footage, which doubles the amount of options to try. Just to be safe, I tried all 80 combinations. No luck.

I've also tried deinterlacing with MPEG Streamclip, DiVA, and JES Deinterlacer, but was not impressed with the video quality.

If anyone has IVTC/deinterlacing suggestions or has used this series with good video quality results, I could use the help! On Windows, Mac, whatever, I just need some new ideas...

In case it's helpful, the Cinema Tools reverse telecine dialog is as follows:

[Zarxrax]

Well you say you can use windows, so why cant you just dump it into avisynth and call it done? Save it to a quicktime and then there you go.

[Shazzy]

Err, no, I don't have a Windows machine. I meant that any suggestions would be helpful, even if they're not Mac-specific. Might give me an idea of something to try.

[Qyot27]

I don't have a Mac (and don't want to attempt this on my mom's old iBook; besides, it's like 10.1 or something) so I wouldn't know if this would work, but:

http://darwine.opendarwin.org/

It's supposed to do the same thing as WINE does on Linux systems (well, since it is a port of WINE). As far as WINE goes, VirtualDubMod and AviSynth 2.5 are able to run, but I've not done extensive testing to see if it can do much more than open files. You could always try darwine and see if it lets you run those programs adequately enough to accomplish this. You'd have to output to AVI and then use something to take that over to MOV (unless Final Cut or whatever editing software you're using supports AVI - I don't have enough experience to know that).

[Qyot27]

Sorry for the double-post, but as far as my experience with RahXephon goes, this is the script I used for it recently:

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MPEG2Source("G:\RahXephon\DVD\rah01_1.d2v", ipp=true, cpu=4)
TFM(order=-1,mode=5,PP=7,field=-1,slow=2).TIsophote()
Crop(6,0,-6,0).LanczosResize(720,480)
deen("w3d",2,8,8).ConvertToRGB24()

(TFM is the deinterlacer; to make it an IVTC, follow it up with TDecimate - both of which are part of the TIVTC package available at http://www.missouri.edu/~kes25c/)