AntcuFaalb said:

Automatic IVTC works excellently most of the time.

With that being said, it will likely prevent any chance at GOUT-sync.

I strongly believe that you should release any/all of your captures at their original 29.97fps and let others (or yourself) develop IVTC scripts for them at a later time.

I could release the raw captures but I don't feel that they would add anything to the community. These have all been captured on far superior equipment. I'm actually trying to avoid any GOUT syncing lol. I'm really just concerned with making a presentable digital copy. If anybody is interested in them though I can think about it when I'm all done.

AntcuFaalb said:

Also, you may want to crop and add borders before concatenating the sides.

Many LDs require different crop-values for each side.

Normally I'd agree but since there are burned in subtitles that I want to have processed along with the picture I opted to do it further down the chain just to make it simpler. At least it seemed simpler to me at the time. I want to process the burned in subtitles and then separate the top part containing the film and crop the borders around that accordingly and on the bottom part containing the subtitles I was going to set levels something like this (16,1,17,0,255) and try to make everything that isn't subtitle totally black and then everything that is subtitle totally white. Then I'd stack them together again and hopefully have crisp white subtitles with a true black (noiseless) background. That was my plan anyway.

I don't want to do any resizing or colorspace conversions if at all possible. (Maybe qtgmc does. I'm not sure. I guess I'll go check the filter chain in that function now lol.)

A good solution to remove any "jaggies" is:

source.EDDI2(pp=3).TurnLeft().EEDI2(pp=3).TurnRight().ResampleHQ(source.width, source.height)