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Post #1373212

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FrankB
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine - NTSC DVD Restoration & 1080p HD Enhancement (Emissary Released)
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Date created
5-Sep-2020, 2:19 PM

Forgive me, but…
I read this thread from nearly the beginning and all of the discussion on doom9 ( https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=181209 ). 95% of your and all the others efforts seem to have been spent with trying to IVTC the NTSC-sources.
With the NTSC-masters - as you of course know, just to specify again - the problems were:

a) film, pulldowned to 29,97 with changing patterns, as usual
b) a lot of scenes, mostly CGI, originally produced in 29,97i
c) worst of all a lot of scenes with overlays of the two above(!), whch had been mentioned only sporadically, but is an eminent problem, because of being absolutely irreversible.
No matter how you handle this kind of content, you will never achieve results free from stutter, at least not the c)-scenes - also not by using VFR.

But there are also PAL-DVDs of the series, and as I just read, you own them. And concerning IVTC they did a really good job with these! I am currently watching it, one to three episodes every evening, and stutter-isues are very, very rare, about one or two each three or four episodes! (And I am trained to recognise these.)
So the question for me all the time was: Why don’t you just use the PAL-DVDs, deinterlace properly (QTGMC) if necessary, slow down and scale up, which was the real goal of this lovely project?