Telecined program with interlaced titles processing?
 

I'm working on a show filmed around 1996 on 16mm film and transfered to to tape for editing and mastering. I'm capturing VHS tapes made from those masters. When I step thru the capture frame by frame I can see the 3 progressive frames followed by the 2 frames with fields created during telecining. However, when I step thru the frames of the opening sequence and closing credits I see no full frames, only interlaced frames, so I'm assuming these did not come from film.

I'm still learning how Virtualdub2 works and am thinking about the order of filters I need to apply after capture. Current goal is 24p final from the NTSC 29.97i capture.

So what's the strategy for inverse telecining, dropping duplicate frames, and deinterlacing? Do I need to do it in sections? I'd end up with sections with different frame rates, yes? What about parts where credits are superimposed over parts of the telecined footage? What about blending those all back together and keeping audio in synch. Am I over thinking this?

Erich