Hello

I am restoring some video and I want to use Topaz and Film fix. Now the problem is, both these filters say they can only work if you deinterlace the video first. Now I know there is a lot of debate about this, but I want to use the expensive tools I bought. The video I am working with was once PAL FILM. It then got transfered to NTSC video 29.9. What would be the best method to deinterlace, I ask only because it's very confusing with all the different options. I'm thinking that because my video was once film that may play a part. I want to keep it NTSC, but make it so I can use these filters. I Also I tried deinterlacing using Vegas and Tmpge and when I go to use these filters it still says the footage is Interlaced! Now Topaz has it's own Deinterlace tool, and I tried using it, but when you select it, the preview screen goes black with green vertical lines and when it's done rendering, that's all you get, a black screen with sound? When i tried to select NTSC progressive outtput with Tmpge, it rendered and then I imported the footage into Adobe to work with Topaz, and guess what? It still says it's interlaced! These are the tools I have avalable

Vegas pro 8
Adobe After Effects CS3 with the Topaz filter
Tmpge 4
Virtual Dubb
Grass Valley pro-coder 3

I also have many filters, I have tried all these, and I can't seem to deinterlace this footage, or After Effects does not see it as deinterlaced. I tried using G Spot to check, but it is not checked either way