Premiere Pro CS3, MPEG2 to DVD, which field first?

[trikcard]

I came into a project halfway through and I have a question. My source video I'm importing to edit in Pro is .m2p. After I've done all the editing, I'm ready to export it. The eventual destination is on a DVD. Is there any way to know what field order I should use? Or should I deinterlace? I usually just go to bottom field first on DV, but I don't know which to use when an MPEG2 is my source.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, would it be beneficial to export to .AVI or not. I'm just going to take it into Encore to make a DVD.

Thanks,

Joey

[edDV]

Use G-Spot to figure the source field order. The project setting should match but so long as the encode matches the source Premiere Pro usually gets the video right but graphics inserts may jump around.

What is the M2p source? Are you certain it is interlace and not progressive?

[trikcard]

Thanks so much for the reply.

I just used G-Spot and found out that it is BFF. Also it's interlaced, not progressive.

[edDV]

Then use BFF for project and encoder settings.