Ok, so I just want to thank everyone for their support of this project and all the people that have given me technical advice and I hope that I'm not posting too often, but this is my first project, I'm very excited about it, and this also helps me keep a time-line of how this project is moving forward.
The awesome news is that I just finished editing the first "problem" episode. REALLY appreciate the suggestion to use SRestore script, HOWEVER it's NOT an all-in-one solution. I did actually have to "assemble" the video from the two encodes (with the different scripts I mentioned in a post earlier) into one video. First 5 minutes of footage had very little corrections needed (only 11 frames needed fixing) but as the episode moved on, there turned out to be more and more corrections needed. In total, I had to fix/replace/duplicate ~1000 frames (for the whole 22 minutes video containing ~32500 frames) and it was weird because there would be 800 frames fine and then every other frame in a 30 frame stretch would have to be replaced, then fine again for 500 frames and then 50 frame stretch to fix (almost all replaced) so it was an interesting learning experience. The time it took me to complete one of these "problem" episodes (including encoding) was about 16 hours, as opposed to the 6-8 hours it takes me to de-interlace and audio sync the other episodes. So it is more time consuming, but I am happy to say that the video is now 99% clean. The reason for the 99% and not 100%, is because there is still some occasional (very slight, as in just lines) ghosting on frames that were in motion, unique, and couldn't be duplicated from neighboring frame/field as they were the only one there. Overall, the result is very nice and now that I have this figured out, I am very confident that EVERYONE will enjoy this release once it's completed.
I do have a technical question about SRestore that I wasn't able to find an answer for online and was wondering if anyone here would know:
Someone mentioned that animation is at 12fps, so is this why SRestore tries to give me 12 frames (with each one being duplicated to give the 23.976fps) even when there actually is more "unique" frames there? Or is it just my results, because this is the reason I had to correct so many frames because it "ate" some of the unique ones.
Also, if anyone can suggest a solid video bitrate for the DVD set that I'll make out of this, that would help. Don't know if there is a "go-to" "default" bitrate there, as I've had different results with the same bitrate depending on source and encoding software, but I still thought I'd ask.
Thanx4letting my ramble,
Jerry