Final Cut, Fields, Interlacing

Imac 20p, Final Cut PRO HD 5.1, canon MVX460 PAL
Ok this is the problem: The footage is interlaced, I capture it with interlaced option in DV codec and in FC options field dominance lower. I edit the sequence with same setting, FC displays the preview perfectly deinterlaced.
I used to export through --->quick time movie and to DV PAL Field dominance NONE, PROGRESSIVE or XVID without field dominance. The output was perfectly progressive.
Yesterday I used for the first time (as a test) USE QT conversion... applied the deinterlace option under SIZE... the output was perfectly progressive
BUT:
Now when I export with normal QT movie option with same setting the output is still interlaced... Strange isn't it?
Any clues?
can someone tell me how to output through FC export (Export -->QT movie) in progressive without appling the deinterlace filter? (I need it cause most of my production is web and computer vision oriented)...
Thank you very very much!

can someone tell me how to output through FC export (Export -->QT movie) in progressive without appling the deinterlace filter?
Sorry, you recorded the footage at 60 fields/second and that's the way it's going to stay. The only way to faux-progressify it is to apply a filter that makes educated guesses as to what the footage would have looked like had you recorded it progressively.
If you are exporting full-quality QuickTime reference movies on which to perform conversions later, can you let your compression software do the "de-interlacing"?

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