Direction for software

[JohnCrewdson]

I just bought a Canon Vixia HF S10 and am using Sony Vegas 9.0 with DVD Arch 4.5. I'm shooting in 1080i at various Tv & AV setting and am using custom white balance in a large home studio. I believe I now have enough light to light the entire space (moving during shooting). I seem to be seeing interlacing lines as I move around in the video. I'm burning to widescreen DVD and playing on a CRT television, although it looks a bit better on a small HDTV when I've tried. Best results have been using Sports mode (no cust wht bal) and Tv @ 100th sec.

I've sought considerable advice from other sources and am still not getting very good final quality. I am making sure interlacing is the same across the board and have tried several variations. I am considering getting Final Cut Express and using iDVD to create DVDs. The Canon Vixia & FCE are said to be compatible and I wondering if I should expect better results from this arrangement. My computer is not suited for Final Cut Pro but does have plenty of memory. Anyone have experience with this type of thing?

Thanks,
John

[aedipuss]

it encodes to mpeg-4. not a good format for interlaced video. i'd try shooting 30p at 24mbps and let the editor encode to mpeg-2 30i for dvd.

[JohnCrewdson]

Thanks Aedipuss I'll give that a shot.