How to render interlaced footage to progressive???

[David W. Richardson]

I'm using Vegas Pro 8.0c on a Windows 7 platform.

I have a wedding project where 3 of the 4 cameras shot in interlaced (upper field first), and the 4th camera shot in progressive. I know I know -- sensible thing would be to get the footage shot progressive into interlaced format. But for reasons too lengthy to explain, I need to go the other way.

I've spent 2 days using batch rendering to render the progressive clips out using the Quicktime template, MPEG-4 (which I custom created, set to 'Progressive') -- but the resulting rendered footage still shows in Vegas as "Upper field first".

What am I doing wrong here? And how can I get this HD (1920x1080) interlaced footage rendered into a high quality format that is progressive?

Or am I asking the impossible?

 

[David Jimerson]

Why Quicktime? If you want MP4, Sony AVC or MainConcept AVC are your better ways to go.

First thing you need to do, though, is set the Deinterlace Method in the Project properties to "Interpolate Fields."

Then, it's a matter of rendering to progressive.

What are the frame rates of the footage, and which frame rate do you want to render to?