I commented about uberinterlacing (interlacing interlaced footage) but I neglected at the time to mention (or remember for that matter) that I have to do a deinterlace BEFORE resizing down to 480 lines.
The only reasonable method in this case would be motion adaptive (since blending would make everything look like it has trails (worse than before)), but even still... it's ugly jerky movement with artifacts, and that's before the pulldown.
When I finish what else I'm working on I'll grab the rest of this dvd and get to work.
But the even-fields-only look to be the way to go. It's sort of a manual Bob deinterlacing and it doesn't look too bad.
I'll see about posting a clip later.