Fine Tuning FieldDeinterlace

It's an unfortunate artifact of the field differencing. It can be reduced somewhat by adding edge avoidance code as in Gunnar Thalin's Area-Based Deinterlacer. But it would reduce performance quite a bit. As time allows I will experiment with adding it to FieldDeinterlace. In the meantime, you might want to try TomsMoComp().

Ok, now I feel right foolish. :) I just gave TomsMoComp() a try. I tried 3 different settings and I'm done. TomsMoComp(1,15,0) looks brilliant. Tom, where do you get off writing filters like this? Amazing stuff, thank you.

Yes, TomsMoComp() is great stuff, which is why I recommended it. :) Keep things in perspective, though, you're going to run into cases where it hoses up, and only FieldDeinterlace() works right (i've posted clips demonstrating that in the past). You just can't use a hammer for everything! BTW, Tom usually says anything beyond (1,5,0) doesn't buy you much.

I must've picked up 15 from an old post. Thanks for pointing that out.