Advice sought on creating DVD from progressive DV source

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All,

After the great help I got in solving my last quandry, I'm back for some more; no good deed goes unpunished!

At the weekend I had a go at creating some DVDs from some of my camcorder footage. I captured using winDV as a type 1 DV-AVI file and VS10+ handled it perfectly, split by DV timestamp, etc.

Now we come to the confusing bit: Given that I have a flat panel display with progressive-scan inputs (though I've not hooked them up yet) and since my camcorder supports progressive recording, I've recorded the footage as 576/25p rather than 576/50i. As a result, when it came to rendering, I chose "frame based", since the source was, well, frame based. However, when I played the DVD back on my TV (which is currently only hooked up by SCART - so interlaced), I got horrible motion artifacts. Looking on this forum, this seems usually to be caused by burning with the incorrect field order - but I'm not starting from interlaced source.

Anyway, I decided to try rendering to lower-field first and the results looked fine but I'm concerned that the flags will no longer be set to indicate that the DVD is progressive, so flag-reading progressive scan DVD players will treat it as interlaced - and produce all the associated artifacts on progressive screens - rather than correctly deinterlacing the video.

Can anyone offer any advice on the way to ensure that I have a progressive DVD that will play back properly on interlaced TVs? Having a brief look on the web suggests that the field dominance (i.e. upper or lower field first) is still valid when the progressive flags is set; what is this set to when you select frame-based rendering?

In short, help!

Cheers,

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