I've not seen any "ghosting" effect in VirtualDub, and yes, it should be done before everything else.

Ghosting is either present in your source, or caused if you use a temporal smoother for noise reduction. IVTC should not cause ghosting.

I recommend AVISynth and the Decomb filter.

Khamul, I'd regard the MSU filters as a double edged sword. they tempt you with how good they are (can personally vouch for their sharpen filter, it's bloody marvellous) and then they hit you over the head with how bloody slow they are.

I don't hink I've come across so many good(but unoptimised filters) eg

sharpen filter runs at 1-2fps on a PIII933, 1.7ghz athlon and a P4 2.8. ie it's not been optimised in the slightest to take into account processor speeds. which is disappointing.

I queried MSU on this, complimenting them on the quality of the filter etc but they haven't bothered to reply in three weeks.

the deinterlace article was an interesting read but bear in mind that the example given in the article is a worse case. TNG particularly is a bad source using as it does a mix of blended fields, interlaced, progressive and other sources.

I used smart deinterlace and blended fields from a number of different captured material and they've been fine with no ghosting at all, so while I can appreciate what the author is saying, bear in mind that his offered solution solves the problem for THAT clip. it won't necessarily hold true for other clips.

all I can suggest is you experiement and see for yourself, nothing can better personal experience in this field.

Yeah, the MSU sharpen filter is awesome, and I'll probably end up using it for my DVD's. But damn is it slow. Somebody needs to jump on those guys to release a p4 optimized version.

I use Cinema Tools or JES deinterlance both pretty good

"Media 100 has a 16x9 option."

I'm guessing this is for anamorphic DVD.

Here's some links to read...

http://www.dmnforums.com/cgi-bin/displaywwugpost.fcgi?forum=media100&post=000601005342.htm

http://www.dmnforums.com/forums/media100/001020041056.htm

http://www.dmnforums.com/cgi-bin/displaywwugpost.fcgi?forum=media100&post=020820161333.htm

Yeh I have used cleaner version 6.01 they call it intelecine it does a good job, check page 69 of the manual, the only problem with cleaner is that its so s-l-o-w to encode mpeg2 it takes three times as long as Compressor or Bit Vice and the quality is much worse IMHO.

"MeBeJedi, THANKS a ton!!"

Not a problem. Didn't want you to do a whole lot of unnecessary work for nothing.

"Has anyone tried MSU codec for lossless compression? This would allow me to easily store the raw footage on a 100 gig drive. That would be amazing!!"

I've not tried MSU, but Huffy works great, and every program I've used recognizes it flawlessly. I had no qualms trying it based on Laserman's tried and true experience, and it's not let me down. I guess I could try MSU to see what the relative file sizes are.

[EDIT] Saw this on the MSU website...

Hmmmm, I don't think I'm got to use this for my master files. Besides, Huffy is just behind it in both tests, so I'm content.