Help with Futurama Telecine

[protectron]

What would be the best way to inverse telecine Futurama (or The Simpsons) where some of the content is progressive and some of the content is telecined without a structured pattern?

I have tried traditional methods of TIVTC with and without TDecimate and end up with ghosting and chroma trails.

For example, in the first episode:
00:28 progressive scan sequence of chef shaking his arms
00:40 telecine every other frame of Fry talking
00:48 progressive scan sequence of Fry on his bike
1:03 telecine every other frame of Fry exiting elevator
2:00 progressive scan sequence of time lapse
3:07 progressive scan of intro sequence
7:15 progressive scan sequence of Fry walking around future
7:23 telecine every other frame of Fry entering tube
12:43 telecine every other frame of Fry talking

It never seems to be a 3:2 or similar pattern. Sometimes there will be one or two random telecine frames out of nowhere.

[Selur]

try QTGMC with Bob enabled and then sRestore to 23.976

[protectron]

Trying it now, the progress bar seems to get stuck for minutes at a time and then progresses again another 1% or so before getting stuck again

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It's been at 13.58% for 20 minutes now and VSPipe.exe is at 6% CPU utilization so I gave that up

[Selur]

Would need a sample of your source to suggest something else.

[protectron]

Tried it again this morning and it did the same thing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/148ubnt6...sp=sharing

[Selur]

2025.07.07 - 08:27:55_Windows 10 Version 22H2 (64bit)_2025.03.09.1 - level 9: x265 output: 4541 frames: 33.52 fps, 431.38 kb/s  

2025.07.07 - 08:27:55_Windows 10 Version 22H2 (64bit)_2025.03.09.1 - level 9: x265 output: 4542 frames: 33.39 fps, 431.30 kb/s  

2025.07.07 - 08:30:35_Windows 10 Version 22H2 (64bit)_2025.03.09.1 - level 9: on_stopJobPushButton_clicked
2025.07.07 - 08:30:35_Windows 10 Version 22H2 (64bit)_2025.03.09.1 - level 9:  -> calling STOP for:
  
2025.07.07 - 08:30:36_Windows 10 Version 22H2 (64bit)_2025.03.09.1 - level 9: on_abortAllPushButton_clicked
2025.07.07 - 08:30:36_Windows 10 Version 22H2 (64bit)_2025.03.09.1 - level 9: lowering parallel job count, paused job changed,...
2025.07.07 - 08:30:36_Windows 10 Version 22H2 (64bit)_2025.03.09.1 - level 9:  current number of allowed parallelJobs: 1
2025.07.07 - 08:30:36_Windows 10 Version 22H2 (64bit)_2025.03.09.1 - level 9:  number of paused jobs that get changed: 0
2025.07.07 - 08:30:36_Windows 10 Version 22H2 (64bit)_2025.03.09.1 - level 9:  -> no paused jobs, nothing to do

an encoding speed of roughly 33fps doesn't seem so low.
It will probably be faster if you use a faster QTGMC preset (I usually use 'fast')

[Selur]

Have you tried adjusting the TIVTC settings?
With the sample you provided:

clip2clip = clip
clip2clip = qtgmc.QTGMC(Input=clip2clip, Preset="fast", opencl=True, TFF=False, FPSDivisor=2)
# Deinterlacing using TIVTC
clip = core.tivtc.TFM(clip=clip, mmsco=False, blockx=8, blocky=8, MI=16, clip2=clip2clip)
clip = core.tivtc.TDecimate(clip=clip, mode=7, rate=23.9760, dupThresh=0.04, vidThresh=3.50, sceneThresh=15.00)# new fps: 23.9766

does seem to work fine for me, it should be faster than sRestore.

Cu Selur

[protectron]

an encoding speed of roughly 33fps doesn't seem so low.

QTGCM +sRestore is stable in the 40-50fps range until it hits 13%, then it stops. It still gets stuck changing the QTGMC preset to Fast.

I've tried TIVTC in mode 2 & 4 and TDecimate in mode 1 and 7 and Hybrid mode 0 and 1. 
The video at least completes with TIVTC, but I get ghosting artifacts.

[Selur]

Try adjusting the settings like I did,...

[protectron]

Still turns out the same and produces the sample image above