New AVIsynth user - advice

[lschafroth]

I am very new to AVIsynth. I don't know any of the commands yet other then a test script I was given to use.

I have captured some 8mm analog home movies to Half D1 352x480 with IuVCR and PicVideo 19 setting.

I am currently testing TMPGEnc Plus, Mainconcept 1.4.2 and CCE 2.67 SP(trial). I am using the convolution3d file with AVIsynth. It crops 0,0,0,-8, then pads it to be centered.

The video source if pretty clean, little or now noise at all. Good color.

I want to put it on DVD using DVD-Lab.

I see so many people deinterlacing and such. What is the best filter for these videos and for the format I want to end up with? I have a few that are very dark and need to brighten them.

Should I capture at 720x480 then resize in AVIsynth to 352x480? I saw no difference in initial tests. I also heard the BT chipsets like 704 instead of 720. Or is that backwards?

I've read so much my head is spinning. I just need a good template or guide to achieve my goals for these video types only.

Thanks!!

LS

[toysoldier]

I am a newbie too,I just talk my experience:

1.I capture my NTSC video in 720X480 with IUVCR.I use Morgan mjpg codec;
2.I think neuron2 's deinterlacing filter "decomb511"(or decomb521) is very good filter,so I write my scipt like this:
loadplugin("...\decomb511.dll")
derectshowsource("....\test.avi")
FieldDeinterlace() #there are so many function(),but I dont understand,so I simply use this function.
3.then I open this *.avs in virtualdub and add vd filter:
First:use resize filter resize to 640X480,restore the correctly ratio.
Second:use nulltranform to crop video's black edge
4.use virtualdub's framesever make one *.vdr file, use Tmpgenc compress this *.vdr to vcd or dvd.

OK.