Exported movie is not interlaced

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Hello,
I have just spent about 4 hours creating a movie with Windows Movie Maker,
and overall I am very impressed. But now when I come to save the movie the
resultant file is not interlaced any more. This occurs either exporting to
DV-AVI or to WMV. I want to create a DVD to watch on a TV so I need
interlaced output. Am I doing something wrong or it this a limitation of the
program?

My steps are easily reproduced
1) View imported DV-AVI file in a DirectShow application such as ZoomPlayer
using FFDShow codec. Interlaced frames are visible
2) Generate simple Movie with WMM (one scene) and export to DV-AVI.
3) View exported file with same application. Interlaced frames have been
blended.

Any suggestions welcome. Otherwise I am going to have to redo the entire
editing process in a different application.

Anthony
 
Hi and thanks for the response.
I don't think this is right. There must have been information lost by
blending the two fields together which is not possible to retrieve. I agree
that I may be able to get an interlaced file, but it cannot have the same
quality.
In fact I just tried using Nero and the generated MPEG2 file is not
interlaced.
A friend of mine has premiere and that exports the interlaced file correctly
(I have a interlaced WMV he did).

Anthony
 
Hi.
That's what I would have thought, but my experience is otherwise. If this is
normal behaviour it would make watching WMM files on a TV a bit jumpy.

Anthony
 
Well that's interesting. So it isn't WMM but something else on my machine.
Perhaps WMM is using some specific direct show filters which are
de-interlacing the input.

Anthony
 
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