When I use QTGMC, via Hybrid, I go with Faster, as you've recommended in past. Most of the time, though, I'm going with
Virtualdub, after having found the CCD filter, master blend, and the option to use Neat Video when appropriate. I'm using yadif with frame double in there. It feels like what I'm seeing is some variability in horizontal timing between different lines in the field. The kind of thing that might have been baked into the signal in 1992 when someone dubbed it from one cheap VCR to another cheap VCR, and reproduced faithfully by today's TBCs which have sworn an oath to play what's on the tape, not what should have been on the tape back in 1992. Does QTGMC straighten out that kind of thing? If so, I'm inclined to say it'll be worth the extra steps. But I've really been digging getting all the processing done in vdub and feeding an enormous file to an encoder to chew on. Just me whining.