Deinterlacing for VHS capture

[joe355]

I have some PAL VHS captures(720x576) which i am outputting to an mpeg encoder at a resolution of 352x288.
At this resolution would there be a noticeable difference in quality between field discarding eg.

Avisource("xxx")
cropbottom(16)
separatefields
selectodd.horizontalreduceby2

and using a deinterlace filter? eg.

Avisource("xxx")
cropbottom(16)
--insert deinterlacer--
ReduceBy2

[State of Mind]

Why don't you try it and see for yourself.

[neuron2]

If you only need half height, just discard the fields. That will be the best "quality".