Hi,

Hard question.

I import my DV footage onto the Mac in a Q container DV format. It shows the date and time stamps I require for cataloguing. Great.

I need to upload in a much friendlier, compressed format. I choose H.264. Quality looks good, in fact, terrific, except……

……there are horrible interlacing artifacts from the original DV source. Totally unusable.

OK. I need to deinterlace. But I also MUST keep the date and time stamps digitally. No manual entry (7,000 clips).

I look at QT and AIC to se if thre is a built-in deinterlace option. Nope.

I look at JES Deinterlacer. When deinterlacing, it creates a new file, scrubbing the metadata.

Not good. Anyone know how to deinterlace and keep either the DV metadata intact; or do the same while compressing to H.264? Or any other format?

Odd thing is, the PC dude can do this with at least programs I have seen. It's turning into a real problem.

Thanks.