Hi, all! Newbie, here, on a Mac. I am trying to upscale old-timey Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVDs. I struggle with Topaz Video AI processing these hybrid DVDs as it produces choppy/juddery video if I run the program with Telecine selected with deinterlacing (outputting the entire video at 24fps) but produces telecine distortions during the film sections if I set it to deinterlace alone (outputting it all at 29fps). Please advise…
You process it twice. Once for the video sections and once for the film sections. Then you use a video editor to cut the best parts of each together. It’s the only way this will ever turn out right.
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As GenekK wrote do twice, one the film sections look good, other for the “video” parts and overlay both into your video editor. On this way you can quick cut szene based the segments, an delete the upper or lower, schematically looks something like this
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Ah, that assumes I know how to edit things together 
I am just a newbie who’s making these encodes for my own enjoyment.
I am seeing if detelecining with Handbrake and then deinterlacing and upscaling to 1080p on TVAI will get it done.
Update: Detelecining on Handbrake before deinterlacing and upscaling to 1080P on TVAI produces choppy/juddery movement, alas.
I’ve decided just to accept the odd Telecine distortion and deinterlace/upscale untouched MKV rips of old-timey Mystery Science Theatre 3000 DVDs using @wolverinejns 's Proteus settings.
If the dvd source is hard telecined and has multiple edits that automatic reverse telecine algorithms don’t handle very well you may be better off without reducing frame rate to the original 23.976fps. In Virtualdub 2 add IVTC filter and choose Decomb only, TFF to keep 29.97fps. For correctly mastered (100% film) soft telecined dvd sources you only need TSmuxer and TSMuxerGUI to remove pulldown without reencoding mpeg2 stream. Some incorrectly mastered soft telecined dvds contain a few interlaced frames from edits so they are not 100% film and can’t be handled by TSMuxer (it would give you audio out of sync warning) so you would need Virtualdub, avisynth and DGindex to correctly remove pulldown without audio desync, with these sources you have to reencode mpeg2 video in virtualdub as lossless ffv1 or x264 because there is no other way around.
The OP has already stated that they’re a newbie who doesn’t even know how to do basic video editing. Any suggestion that goes beyond TVAI settings is most likely of no help at all.
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I’m on a Mac…
