Herein described are at least a system and a method of more effectively detecting and correcting irregularities when performing an inverse telecine deinterlacing of pull-down video. These irregularities may be caused by editing of the video, which when left undetected, may result in displaying video of unacceptable quality. In a representative embodiment, the method determines a first pixel luminance of an absent pixel using a luminance generated from one or more first present pixels, determines a second pixel luminance of the absent pixel using a luminance generated from one or more second present pixels, and determines a first luminance approximation for the absent pixel. In a representative embodiment, the system comprises a memory, a software resident in the memory, and a processor used to execute the software, such that executing the software performs the inverse telecine deinterlacing to result in an improve displayed video image quality.