Export issues with PE 2025 from AVI-DV source

[Blue Aggie Fan]

I'm looking for some guidance about the correct export settings in PE 2025. I have some older video footage (2000-2010) that was captured and imported from a Sony Digital8 camcorder. I want to split the footage into smaller, more consumable segments that I will share with my family through Plex. I originally chose the "Match Source - Adaptive High Bitrate" preset under Computer, with the H.264 format. Everything seemed to work great, but when my family went to play the video through Plex, they found that the footage was unwatchable due to interlacing artifacts. I wonder if there's a preset or other setting I could choose to a) remove the artifacts, and b) maintain essentially the same level of video quality, especially when viewed through Plex. File size isn't that important to me.

Here's the MediaInfo for the original footage:

General
Complete name                            : G:\Video\Video Camera\Sony Digital8 Footage\2010\May-June_2010.avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
Commercial name                          : DVCPRO
Format profile                           : OpenDML
Format settings                          : BitmapInfoHeader / WaveFormatEx
File size                                : 10.9 GiB
Duration                                 : 51 min 14 s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
Overall bit rate                         : 30.4 Mb/s
Frame rate                               : 29.970 FPS
Recorded date                            : 2010-05-13 19:38:48.000

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : DV
Commercial name                          : DVCPRO
Codec ID                                 : dvsd
Codec ID/Hint                            : Sony
Duration                                 : 51 min 14 s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 24.4 Mb/s
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Original frame rate                      : 29.970 (29970/1000) FPS
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:1:1
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 2.357
Time code of first frame                 : 00:00:01;07
Time code source                         : Subcode time code
Stream size                              : 10.3 GiB (94%)
Encoding settings                        : ae mode=full automatic / wb mode=automatic / white balance= / fcm=manual focus

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings                          : Little / Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 51 min 14 s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 563 MiB (5%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 33  ms (1.00 video frame)

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Peru Bob]

If you export to progressive, interlacing shouldn't be an issue.

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Format is H.264

Try this: it also will get rid of the pixel aspect ratio used in old dv footage.

[Blue Aggie Fan]

Both this and the previous suggestion (to change the Field Order to Progressive) resolved the issues I was seeing. It turns out that only some clients showed the artifacts, so the  "Match Source" would probably have worked in most cases. Either way, thanks for the help!

[Amit Kumar Gupta]

I didnt get artifacts on exporting a DV interlace footage to the above preset.

Please share a small clip with me where you are seeing this issue. Also share the exported file (or screenshot of the output)