inurenegade said:
i was also curious about what you guys use for IVTCing and how to fix the strange halos?

The most reliable method of IVTC is using:

doubleweave
pulldown(x,y)

as described here.

Automatic methods may not correctly detect the pattern in some cases - the initial starfield pan down being a good example, as there is very little for the detection algorithm to lock on to.

However, as Arnie correctly pointed out, if there are numerous cadence changes then it does become rather time consuming to go through manually and identify each change point.

Halos - if you can't eliminate them with the sharpness setting, you should try and look for an alternative driver for your card, or maybe the 2388x reference driver if you can find it.

Also, this thread at doom9 may help.