Moth3r said:

I spent some time looking at this; the best "off the shelf" solution I could find is SRestore with a target framerate of 23.976, which restores some frames, but not all.

SRestore seems to break down during scenes that pan and zoom. When the camera is stationary though it has great results. I played around with some of the parameters all with the same result. Sample 2 has some very visible pan and zooms, but if you want another example with more let me know.

althor1138 said:
Have you tried the AnimeIVTC plugin for avisynth? I've had luck with it sometimes. After finding the right settings I always make sure killcomb is set to 1.

Yeah, I have played around with AnimeIVTC quite a bit. With no good results so far. It either multiplies the blending, or removes to much, leading to the same results with the pans and zooms.

I really do think this will just have to be a 25fps encode with just boring old de-interlacing.

What I may do is render the episode with SRestore, Telecide or something similar. And then just replace the scenes with panning/zoom with a regular de-interlace. The finished product would still have to be 25fps but it is probably the best we are going to get unfortunately.