[MEncoder-users] Deinterlacing or iVTC and "best settings"

[Nico Sabbi]

Justin Randall wrote:

>
> Thanks for the response. So I'm now running hqdn3d after the
> deinterlacing filters but before the crop and resize. I've also
> switched to 2 pass at a fairly substantial bitrate. If the video is
> pure interlaced then I should be keeping all 29.97 fps? I've just seen
> so many encodes out there that are 23.97 fps so I just assumed that
> this is what you're supposed to do for NTSC no matter the format. I
> guess I was just wrong ;-) thank you for clearing that up. From the
> feedback I got I am now using these commands:
>
> # full deinterlacing (2-pass) copy audio ac3 performance ~1 FPS
> mencoder -oac copy -vf
> yadif=3:1,mcdeint=2:1:10,framestep=2,hqdn3d=3:2:3:3,crop=704:480:0:0,scale=640:480

you can safely crop before all other filters and save encoding time