I recently used a trial of a Snell’s Alchemist to convert some 50p material to 60p via “motion compensation”. Needless to say, it looked wonderful and far superior to anything I’ve ever tried in all the NLE’s I’ve used.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2oU65eR1s0

Being that the software costs loads of money – $15,000 for a single license, I was wondering if there was a way to do this via AviSynth, VirtualDub, or even some much. much cheaper software? I understand I won’t get the same high quality result, but I would love to have something to convert the rest of my 50p assets to 60p for DVD output.