About the Info deinterlacing stuff -- it is in closed BT #248. Here is a summary:
Olaf quote paraphases:
The "Asset Info window" contains
three lines about interlacing (manual page 53). The default setting is
"automatically fix interlacing". I seem to remember that someone on the CV mailing list wrote that these settings didn't do anything. But if it doesn't work, it should be removed. Because
such a thing obviously only causes confusion.
IgorUbuntu quote:
"In each media file properties it is possible to define the "Asset's
interlacing". Asset's interlacing => "The type of interlacing the
asset has" (In asset-> you set the interlacing mode of the source
material.)... For each asset, if cinelerra can detect the interlacing
for the source, (currently only for quicktime-DV at the moment) it will
set the interlacing as appropriate, otherwise it will default to
"unknown"..."
GG did:
The lines in the Resource window, Media Info that read "Fix Interlacing"
and "Interlacing correction" have been deleted from the code base. The line
"Asset's interlacing" is retained as this field is used for creating
DVDs.