Deinterlacing NTSC DV capture with AVISynth Script

[Schrade]

I'm trying to use mvbob as my deinterlacer in a script and I just want to verify that I'm doing things right (since I can hardly see any output from the script... it outputs a few frames and then that's it).

It's an NTSC DV capture of a TV show over the S-Video cable coming out of my DSS box. I fed that S-Video right into my Camcorder and then when I was done I copied it over to the PC using WinDV. The DV Codec I use is Cedocida and it's set at its defaults.

So it went DSS Box -> S-Video out -> S-Video In -> Canon Optura Xi Camcorder -> Firewire -> PC

Is this a proper script for getting 29.970 fps deinterlaced video prepped for converting it to XviD or H.264?

AVISource("TVShow.avi",audio=false)

mvbob()
assumebff().selecteven()

crop(6,0,-10,0)
lanczos4resize(512,384)

mvbob's deinterlacing is fantastic but man is it slow. I'd love to use it even if it is slow but I can't quite tell if I've got my script right or not.

Can someone also point me to a speedier deinterlacing that does almost as good? Most of the guides and FAQs are fairly out of date. I'm seeing people talking about TDeint and LeakKernelDeInt.. should I be using one of those instead for speed?

[Kika]

Don't know why you are cropping this way, but it looks OK to me. Just remove the assumebff-command.

If you want really high quality, mvBob does a very good job, but it's slower than TDeint or KernelDeint. Maybe you should give SecureDeint a try.

[Schrade]

Don't know why you are cropping this way, but it looks OK to me. Just remove the assumebff-command.

OK thanks for the input. I'm cropping my 720x480 video down to 704x480 and then resizing it to 640x480 or 512x384 for viewing on computers. Should I be doing something else?

If you want really high quality, mvBob does a very good job, but it's slower than TDeint or KernelDeint. Maybe you should give SecureDeint a try.

Hmm that's one I haven't heard about before. Will definitely do some research. Of the three you just mentioned, which is better in terms of speed, quality?