Interlace problem or compression artifact?

Premiere 6.5
XP sp2
Quad-core 266
4 Gb RAM
7200 rpm SATA HDD for video projects
I am working on a volunteer project for a local museum wherein some old VHS tapes need to be digitized. The final video (probably MPEG-2) will be accessible from research computers at the museum. File size is not a big issue, but preserving as much quality (such as it is) from the 10+ year old VHS (not SVHS) tapes is essential.
So I feed the analog output from my tape deck to my Sony TVR310 camcorder for A/D conversion, then capture from there to my PC via firewire. I have tried capturing via the software that came with my Edius (a.k.a. Canopus) card, and also directly into Premiere. Same thing happens both times.
On the exported video (AVI, MPG1, MPG2) I see these wavy edges on the left and right sides of high-contrast areas. See the guy's hat in the attached image (if it ever gets outa the queu). Does this look like a compression artifact? Or is it an interlace problem? I do not see this effect when I watch the original video on my TV.
Note that Premiere reports the average data rate for the 720x480 @ 29.97 fps clip as 3600 kb/s. So when I export to MPEG I set the data rate at 5000 kb/s.
When I process and export the video in Premiere, I have "no fields" selected everywhere, and for the actual export I have selected the "de-interlace" option. Since this is for viewing on computers only, I figured that was the correct thing to do.
Edited: I should also mention that I do not see this effect in the monitor window when I scrub the clip on the timeline.
Dan Heim

The first time I tried with the capture settings reset to LFF, and then tried to export (as uncompressed AVI), specifying "no fields" in the "keyframe and rendering" dialog box, and selecting "deinterlace" in the "special processing" dialog box, I still got those artifacts.
THEN ... after searching the help file for "deinterlace" and reading all the linked pages, I tried right-clicking on the clip on the timeline, went to "video options" / "field options" and selected "always deinterlace." Had to re-render on the timeline. Then, after exporting same as before, the artifacts were finally gone.
So you were correct about it being an interlacing issue. Thanks for the insight! GSpot now reports the exported video as 29.97 frames and 0 fields.
Here's a puzzle though ... I tried the same thing with the original clip (the one captured as progressive instead of LFF) and it smoothed out as well. Perhaps Premiere is smart enough to recognize what it's getting for input, and ignores stupid commands? Whatever, this means I can use my original footage and not have to recapture 1.5 hours of video.
Dan Heim

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