Unless I can get a better source than the DVDs, can anyone direct me to the best tool to use for the deinterlace/detelecine process so that I can avoid the jaggies? I’m using a Mac, and the best results I’ve gotten so far have come from Handbrake, but no matter how I adjust the deinterlace/detelecine settings, I always seem to get artifacts in the same parts of the episode.
This isn’t a direct answer to your request, but the above reminded of this thread (link). Doing something similar for the first seasons of The Simpsons, Chewielewis found there was a mishmash in the episodes as aired that made it such that one couldn’t do a blanket pass to end up with full/nice de-interlacing. If you’ve already seen/well know of this thread then my apologies, but especially since Simpsons and Futurama might have taken some similar routes in productions of their first seasons (but maybe that’s an incorrect assumption!)…
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Simpsons-Embiggened-Edition-on-hiatus/id/55848/page/1