I've had the Sony FX1 since it first came out, and have just lived with always having to deinterlace its output for use on the web. However, lately I am less and less satisfied with the results, especially compared to how crisp the original 1080i footage is (and played back with a *capable* deinterlacer).

So, I guess my question is two-fold. First, is there any way to get actual progressive output from the FX1. I know there's that "cineframe 24" thing, however I had been under the impression that it was generally useless.

Second, is there a better way to deinterlace. Vegas' deinterlacing is sooo basic and unacceptable. Playing back the original M2Ts on my PC or through the PS3 on a 1080p display looks so much better - and that's done realtime!

For my latest project, instead of rendering direct to my final resolutions I'm rendering out to 1080i M2T and then batching my final resolutions in TMPGENC - I'm getting much sharper looking output at the same bitrate using its adaptive deinterlacer. Even steady scenes with no movement have finer detail, so I don't know if it's also doing a better job of resizing.

Has anyone heard whether Vegas will ever come with a better stock deinterlacing solution? Something motion adaptive would be nice.