ivtc without resizing

[jeffnoone]

Goal is to produce 720x480 NTSC DVD-R, downsizing using CCE if unable to fit stripped movie onto 1 DVD-R

Up to now I have used DVD2AVI, VFAPIConv and CCE 2.62
Have never used TMPEnc or AviSynth (which I have unsuccessfully tinkered with)

Have my first NTSC interlaced movie (Terminator 2 original version)

I have read quite a bit on the issue on IVTC and need some guidance

One option now is to use DVD2AVI, feed the DVD2AVI project to TMPEnc,and de-interlace in TMPEnc as per Doom's guide


However I get the impression from reading that there are better (and potentially) automatic IVTC filters which can be used with Avisynth e.g. Decomb

Most of the Avisynth stuff I have read seems to focus on its use to make SVCD or Divx

Can someone comment on below and point me in right direction:

1. Rip movie using ifoedit or smartripper

2. Use DVD2Avi to create terminator1.d2v - do i use force film on or off at this point?

3. ensure avisynth is installed

4. proceed to make an .avs file like:

LoadPlugin("MPEG2DEC.dll")
mpeg2source("movie.d2v")
deint=BlendFields

or

LoadPlugin("MPEG2DEC.dll")
LoadPlugin("decomb.dll")
mpeg2source("movie.d2v")
FieldDeinterlace()

4. Save .avs in same folder as ?

5.Then feed this .avs file to CCE - proceed with what should be a pure film 24fps


Several other questions:
A. What version(s) of CCE will accept .avs? - there seems to be some controversy on this

B. Any comments on exact sequence of commands in .avs file

C. I saw some posts that CCE needed an additional line in .avs to change audio to 44kHz; even if audio isn't being processed

D. Best quick way to check that Avisynt deinterlacing has done its job in this situation?

Help appreciated
Jeff

[Doom9]

a) CCE SP 2.50 and below (everything above will NOT work)

b)1) load the plugins, 2) load the mpeg2 source, 3) do any filtering
4) ResampleAudio(44100)

c) ResampleAudio(44100) is required or it will crash upon loading the avs (at least it does that on AMD processors). Audio encoding in cce also must be turned off

d)load the avs in virtualdub

[jeffnoone]

Thanks, Doom9

Just a final clarification between what you say in your points C and D

c) ResampleAudio(44100) is required or it will crash upon loading the avs (at least it does that on AMD processors). Audio encoding in cce also must be turned off

OK, so I load the .avs into an appropriate version of CCE, and this will give me the 720x480 video 24fps video (and I already have the needed AC3 track from DVD2AVI
Is this not the last step before using pulldown and DVDMaestro?

why then do I need to load into Virtualdub? - or it this only if I am going on to make a divx?

Also forced film is OFF in DVD2AVI?