Need IVTC help

[ABurns]

I hate to be the guy with that question, but I have a source with a telecine pattern that I haven't seen before. The original source material is (supposedly) NTSC 24p animation, but I'm starting to wonder if this has been converted to 25p and then some sort of pulldown somewhere along the way.* The telecine pattern is 3 clean, 3 dirty. i.e., AA BB CC DE EF FG. At least that's what it looks like. But something is funky about it, because I even tried bobbing it to 60p with yadifmod2 but a few of the frames are out of sequence almost like the field order is wrong. I'm completely stumped.

I really don't want to have to do any frame blending here unless there's just no other way.

HUF sample here. (https://www.dropbox.com/s/x4muguwj722cv6x/sample2.avi?dl=0)

*This is Filmation material, all NTSC masters of which which were destroyed in the 90s when the library was owned by Hallmark. When Hallmark eventually sold it, all they had retained were PAL conversions. I've got a feeling that has something to do here. Story here (http://brothersherman.dudeletter.com/the-sad-story-of-filmation/).

[Sharc]

I didn't try much, but something like
QTGMC() #or a bobber of your choice
srestore(frate=25.0)

might help

[ABurns]

That does restore it to 25p pretty effectively, but I'm still getting the occasional frame out of sequence on panning scenes. There are a lot of duplicate frames because it's cheap animation, so it's hard to say exactly how often it's actually happening, but it's visible once in a 117 frame pan sequence.

[ChaosKing]

I have not tested it on this sample, but in some cases cdeblend works much better then srestore.

[ABurns]

I'm not very familiar with how cdeblend works, but I'm getting much worse stuttering with it using omode=1.

[SaurusX]

*This is Filmation material, all NTSC masters of which which were destroyed in the 90s when the library was owned by Hallmark. When Hallmark eventually sold it, all they had retained were PAL conversions. I've got a feeling that has something to do here. Story here (http://brothersherman.dudeletter.com/the-sad-story-of-filmation/).

I think that's been confirmed to be a myth.

[ABurns]

I think that's been confirmed to be a myth.

I haven't heard that, but I hope so. At any rate, I do think this is probably a double conversion for some reason.

I've gotten nowhere so far, so unless someone has any ideas I suppose I'll have to field blend it.

[manono]

I see no blending in that sample. And, because of the vibrating in it I can't tell the field order. But this seems to work okay:

TFM()
TDecimate(Cycle=6,CycleR=1)

Or did you try that already?

[ABurns]

That did the trick. Thanks a million!