Cropping & resizing NTSC interlaced material in 6.5 & 7.0 rendering nasty lines/jerks

I have been battling to figure out why cropping doesn’t seem to work in Premiere for months. I first thought it was a problem with CinemaCraft but recently narrowed the problem down to Premiere because after doing countless clips with Craft, Pro coder and TMPG I get the same lousy results.

Here’s my project, I capture with a Canopus ADVC-100 then do my commercial editing and such with Premiere, I then export timeline and under “special processing” I pick better resize crop off 8 pixels off sides and crop off 6 pixels for top and bottom, I also choose “scale to” option. Next I change the reso from 720x480 to 352x480 and finally save the clip as a Microsoft uncompressed AVI. After doing the procedure I encode the same clip with 3 different encoders, Craft, Pro Coder and TMPEG author to DVD and get the same crappy results on all clips.

The final test DVD produces choppy horizontal lines, makes moving characters look very blurry and I see jumping line artifacts during most motion and scene changes.

I don’t understand if I am missing something and what hoops I need to jump through to get this to work properly, I am getting ready to pull my hair out and give up entirely on Premiere. If someone could kindly tell me what I am doing wrong I would greatly appreciate it, or even recommend a program that will handle interlaced video properly.

Thanks mucho