Unfortunately, Smart Adaptive Deinterlace does not BOB the video to 60p by itself. The error in Vegas Help has been reported and was not corrected.

I don't usually bother with 60p, but that's a personal preference. Optical Flow resampling works pretty well. I usually upload Progressive 30p at 1:1 PAR to Youtube.

Upscaling is a separate discussion, but I've had good luck at 720p. [EDIT /] I see you've posted a link; I'll have a look at it. [/]

Your source is NTSC DV Widescreen. Here are the settings I use.

Going forward, a big factor in smooth motion is the use of a tripod and in-camera stabilization.

When working with older interlaced footage form VHS oder MiniDV, I deinterlace first with frame doubling (i.e. convert 25i (50 fields/sec) to 50p), and then edit the deinterlaced material. With a good deinterlacer, you get a nice sharp picture and the wonderful smooth motion of the source material.

My favourite deinterlacer is QTGMC which can be used via AviSynth. It's free, but requires some work to set up by hand. An easier (but not free) way to use it is also available via HappyOtterScripts (I don't have experience with it though).

Another good deinterlacer is built into "TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works", but that's another piece of commercial software. But in case you happen to already own that, in my opinion it produces results which are almost as good as QTGMC (that's all IMHO of course...).

In my testing of the Vegas built-in deinterlacing, it has unfortunately not produced good results for me.

Every bit of evidence I have is that Vegas' Smart Deinterlace is measurably better that any of the software deinterlacers you mention. Lacking some quantitative testing to the contrary, I'll stick by my impressions, thanks.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/some-tests-of-smart-adaptive-deinterlacer--132790/

As for frame doubling (BOB), it is useful with high quality motion originals, but not necessarily DV source, because it adds softness and measurable shadow noise to the output.

I tried with Topaz deinterlacer, it does the conversion to 60 fps you want but it is not so good, QTGMC is what you want as suggested by @juafromspace. StaxRip of which QTGMC is an option doesn't like your file, Maybe I need to reinstall, but this is the Topaz 60fields to 60fps conversion.

If anyone wants to do a 60fps from Vegas or QTGMC I"d like to see it. Reminder you must upload to YT or elsewhere, this forum will re-encoded to 30p

Attempt with HOS which is using QTGMC under the hood.

That looks better than Topaz on my screen

https://1drv.ms/v/s!Anyx6_WOWn2eg45NgCpyvuRSSDM-Rg?e=dwOajZ

Been here before. Topaz takes fully 5X longer than Vegas on my i5 8750 -- it gives a slight improvement over Vegas with detail in motion where Vegas has a slight edge with static detail and shadow cleanliness. I was not permitted to post my tests here, as they used less than thirty seconds of copyrighted material.

Here are some recent results that puts Vegas' Smart Deinterlace well ahead of the pack:

• Vegas Smart Adaptive Deinterlace (understandably slow with my Intel graphics)

• VideoRedo Smart Deinterlace (which I believe is software only)

• Handbrake Decomb, (one of the best in previous tests)

• And for the sake of completeness, the venerable EEDI2, which is equally slow, but not better than Vegas Smart Adaptive.

• Note: you have to set project properties to Progressive for Vegas' Smart Deinterlace to be active).

And for the sake of nostalgia, here are some older tests of software deinterlacers including QTGMC..

In project settings:

Adaptive De-interlace on

Progressive scan 60p

Optical flow resample mode

See if that helps when rendering to 60p.

If not, maybe setting the project to 30p, but then rendering in 60p, might engage the optical flow to smooth out the motion. I'm not sure if it will enable when going from 60i to 60p.

I don't see any option in the program that says optical flow resample, just Force resample ,smart resample, and disable resample. Is this only in Vegas 19 or 20? I'm on 18.