Deinterlacing on Adobe Premiere: Does it Work?

Field Option > always deinterlace is only usefull for slow motion, freeze frame or still.

I would drop the interlaced footage in an interlaced sequence and export to progressive.

Import your footage - don't change the interpretation settings of these clips. Leave them as interlaced.

Create a sequence in Premiere pro that is 'progressive' but otherwise matches the frame size and frames per seconds of your origiaal footage. Drop your originals into this sequence.

It will be de-interlaced in this sequence.

However you are effectively losing half your vertical resolution by deinterlacing.

There are hardware solutions that do a very good job of intelligently deinterlacing footage while maintaining (better) resolution. Forget it's name but there's a particular (very expensive) box that does this.

On the software side there's Revision Effects Fieldskit that does a good job. But it's not a set and forget plugin. It needs to be applied to individual shots and also needs 'user' input to modify settings to suit each scene. It is probably not a solution for you in this instance. BorisFX also have a deinterlacing plugin. Have not tried it.

You mentioned changing the interpretation settings of your clips. You can do this. i.e. change your 'interlaced' clips to 'progressive' and then drop these into a progressive sequence. You won't lose any resolution. The major downside of this is your interlaced fields will be 'blended' and this will be very noticeable on fast motion. Less so on slower motion and invisible on static stuff.

So basically choose your poison 🙂

Personally I'd go with interlaced clips dropped into a progressive sequence.

if you right click always deinterlace if its progressive, it will lose quality.(if it was interlaced, you lose quality here as it isn't passed through into an interlaced sequence)

in interpret footage section, if its set to interlaced when in fact, its progressive,
it will lose quality.(if it was interlaced and you set to progressive, you lose quality here as it isn't passed through

for DVD finaly,
put all your footage into an interlaced lower field timeline. then export ntsc lower field interlaced mpeg2 dvd compliant.

fyi, flicker removal doesn't deinterlace. it just blurs the fields together so they don't flicker as much in certain aliasing footage.