Re: Saw tooth/mice teeth serrations on exporting from Media 100/844x--solution??

Thank you for your response, Floh.
You said, "You only need to tell the MPEG2 encoder for your DVD which field order the incoming footage has, and what to do to get from 720*486 NTSC to 720*480 (by cropping lines, not by scaling the image)."
I am assuming that Encore IS a MPEG2 encoder, correct? I have selected the "lower field order" option (for NTSC, according to Ben) in the Edit Project Transcode Presets option in Encore (and also tried "upper field order" as well as "none/progressive") and they all produce the same saw-tooth/interlaced artifact results on the DVD when played on a CRT monitor. When I play it back on a LCD monitor, the result is not as pronounced because the image is not as clear, but I can still see jagged lines.
I have brought in footage to Encore as both 720*486 NTSC and 720*480 NTSC, and I still get the same results. (I purposely posted the sample as 640*480 in the interest of space, since the freebie web server allowed only 20 MB, but the sawtooth edges are present in 720*486/480.) When I export from M844x, it gives me the option of choosing the size. It says the Current Size of my project is 19*13651, which doesn't make any sense to me (and Encore wants to convert it to its standards anyway--720*480, 720*486, or 704*480), so I have always changed it in M844x to export it as 720*486 NTSC 4:3 or 720*480 NTSC 4:3.

Does all of this make sense to you? Is this what you are referring to, and what I should be doing? Or am I missing something here?

You said, "If you want to go to the web with your clips, you definitely should deinterlace to get a progressive image, which can be viewed correctly on a computer screen." I do want to go to the web eventually, but my main goal right now is to create a presentation quality DVD that can be played on both CRTs and LCDs.

So now my question is--how do I achieve this? How do I deinterlace? The only definitive answers I have found about deinterlacing seem to involve 1-3 programs that cost hundreds of dollars each... is there an easier way? Shouldn't Encore be doing this automatically somehow?

I have tried checking the box in Encore's Edit Transcode preset menus that says "Deinterlace" (along with selecting the lower field order and using 720*480 footage), and still I have the interlace artifacts.

Thanks for all your help everyone--I feel like I'm getting closer to my answer! :)

Jennifer