Interlaced letterbox shrinking problems

[phatslug]

Um.... sorry for the lack of a topic title that makes any sense

EDIT: I changed the post to include a better explanation of what I'm asking. Read on...

I filmed video in 16:9, and used Vegas 4 to edit. When I capture video filmed in 16:9 from my camcorder, I have a 740x480 frame that looks like this:



Its not very apparent here, but the image is stretched vertically. My video camera uses the full 480 lines even though its widescreen. So when you shrink the picture vertically until the aspect ratio is correct, it will be the letterboxed size you assosciate with 16:9. Vegas does this, so it looks like this:



Notice the image was only shrunk vertically, the width remains the same. Now since I'm shrinking an interlaced image vertically, and not by 2x, the interlacing is going to cause a problem, right? It does, as in shots like this where I'm panning, you can clearly see the interlace lines, even on a TV.

I guess a solution would be to deinterlace the captured video, size it, then re-interlace once I finish editing, but in that case aren't I loosing alot of quality?

Whats the real solution here, Im sure they had something in mind when they build my camera? Anyone..?

[phatslug]

If I may bump myself as I edited my intial post....

[tonyp12]

If you have one of the good MiniDV camcorders that have "real"
widescreen that uses the full CCD and not just cut top and bottom
off to make it "fake" widescreen good for you.

Do you plan to burn the video to DVD as widescreen?

IF so, do NOT change anything.

The DVD player will handle the conversion to 4:3 if it is set up
to display soo.

If you have a 16:9 TV and the DVD player is set up to
display as such, the final result will look great.

If it turns out that you editing program thinks your source is 4:3
you could create a 4:3 DVD-image
and change the 16:9-flag later using ifoedit.


Becuase you do not want something I just found out:
Something-About-Mary widescreen version (from blockbuster)
is actually letterboxed on a 4:3 DVD.
A big NO NO in my mind.