Francine,

One comment on Deinterlacing. Remember, you are basically throwing away one half of you horizontal resolution. Adobe NLE products do not do the best job of Deinterlacing, but the ones that do (a better job) can be quite involved to use and usually require Command Line scripts to do the job correctly.

I'll look on the Premiere Pro forums and see if I can find some links to Dan Issacs excellent articles on the best Deinterlacing programs and methods. I'll post a couple bact to this thread. He even furnishes scripts for making it all happen in the easiest fashion.

[Edit] OK, here's one to read through: <http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5b2fb/138>

Dan has several links in it, that you will also want to follow.

Hunt