I have a new and different deinterlacing question:
I shot my movie in 60i because of it's mockumentary nature. All my clips are set to "Always Deinterlace". I've been trying to find a setting that properly deinterlaces the final product. Last night, I was testing it out on certain blocks of the film, and Lower Field First, VBR 2-pass (with Deinterlacing checked) got rid of 99% of the interlacing. The lines were gone and the movements onscreen actually went faster and with more fluidity.
Only thing is: I can't reproduce the effect. So now I'm not sure if it's Lower Field or if it was a different setting entirely.
If you're using dv material, it's always lower field first. HD is upper. If you're using Vegas and select mpg2, then it would have come up as last setting you used but didn't save - unless you made changes after the one that worked. Ditto with FCP - last setting used. But if you made setting changes after the one that worked and didn't save with a new name, well then, you get to start over...
Lower Field doesn't do much, I've been trying all day. Even when I select the DEINTERLACE option. I'm beginning to think it wasn't even MPG2, but then how did I get it on dvd...
I am mostly using After effects to deinterlace..i dont use any filter...instead of that i do export with "no fields" (or might be "deinterlaced".. i dont recall right now..) and that makes a pretty good picture....it will still work fine on a normal CRT TV allthough one wouldnt think so when you export without fields..!