Resizing interlaced video - slightly confused at the process

[PTRACER]

In a programme I recorded off of the TV, there's a scrolling banner that gradually moves up from the bottom of the screen and squashes the video to about 4/5ths of its original size. It's incredibly annoying and as I'm keeping the programme on DVD, I've decided to try and edit it out.

In Adobe Premiere, I have worked out how to dynamically resize the video so it maintains the correct aspect ratio, but I'm slightly confused as to what exactly I need to do as the video is obviously interlaced.

I've got hold of an AVISynth plugin for Premiere and I'm using AVISynth as a frameserver to feed a 59.94fps progressive copy of the video directly into my Premiere project.

Once I've edited it to how I want it in Premiere, is there a way of converting it back to interlaced again and burn it directly to DVD in Premiere without having to encode an uncompressed AVI file and then AVISynth that? Or should it be ok if I leave it at 59.94fps progressive?

[manono]

Hi,

I don't use Premiere, but you can't use a 59.94fps framerate in a DVD. At some point you'll have to reinterlace it for 29.97fps. If Premiere can't do the job, then I guess you'll have to resave it as a 59.94fps AVI and then reinterlace it using AviSynth and feed the script to your favorite encoder.

...without having to encode an uncompressed AVI file

Uncompressed is much larger than is lossless (Lagarith, HuffYUV, or some such). If you can't do the reinterlacing in Premiere (I wouldn't know), then I don't see what's wrong with saving it out as a Lagarith AVI, if Premiere allows that.

[jagabo]

Something like this will get you 29.97 fps interlaced:

Crop()
SeparateFields()
LanczosResize()
Weave()

or even better (but slower)

Crop()
Yadif(mode=1) #or other smart bob
LanczosResize()
SeparateFields()
SelectEvery(4, 0, 3)
Weave()