Interlaced footage and resize question

Ok I am finishing a past project of creating DVDs from VHS.
Ok I have my clips captured they are DV-DVCPRO NTSC. I used audio filters to remove the audio hum from the VCR.
I want to remove the black border from the side and top of the video. Now my question is if i scale the video to fit wont that offset up the fields.
I am expecting to have 60i footage when I'm done.
Should I use Shake and separate the fields resize then re interlace them.

It's like a public access studio where they videotape live talk shows and that kind of thing. Below is a photo of it.  Analog basically means they're shooting and recording the footage in the studio in NTSC analog where the pictures are interlaced one line at a time.  They're also recording the output onto some kind of capture box (I have no idea what kind).  Afterward, they're exporting the footage to whatever file you need.  The exports they gave me were MOV but I noticed that my Premiere kept crashing every time I tried to edit and then export a finished edit.  So I took the MOV files and converted them to MP4, which now works fine in my copy of Premiere.  Below (the second to last link) is the converted MOV to MP4 file that dropped into Premiere for editying.
Download the BENS and SIMON exports below:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63110107/dmd-videos/SIMON%20Export.mp4
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63110107/dmd-videos/BENS%20Export.mp4
Below is the converted MOV to MP4 footage I mentioned above:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63110107/dmd-videos/1NYEIntro_x264.mp4
And here is one of those graphics just in case:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63110107/dmd-videos/06.png

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