Media Encoder does NOT deinterlace properly

If you export a DV-based sequence (29.97 LFF) with graphics and text in it, the video does not deinterlace properly.
This applies to AT LEAST WMV v9 and FLV VP6.
With WMV, it deinterlaces with TFF order, resulting in a very blurry, but smooth image. This is NOT what CS3 did. It deinterlaced properly.
With FLV, it treats the video as progressive and creates stairstepped lines, even though the rendered previews in DV format look pristine and razor sharp.
The only solution for a web-based export that looks nice is to use F4V (the new flash video) and set the H.264 to process "Lower" field priority. My problem is our company systems for employees can't handle F4V yet. (If you set F4V to "Upper, it processes and looks like WMV, and setting to "Progressive" looks like the FLV above)
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Jeff, you've got a point. CS3 didn't do GREAT. I tended to use the old 2003 Microsoft WMV encoder as well. But, the Media Encoder in CS3 at least allowed me the turn on or off the "deinterlace" feature when I was converting from DV to WMV. The option to turn it on or off was on the left, not in the codec settings. It was next to the crop controls. If I turned it on, then when I wanted to turn a 720X480 DV AVI into a 640X480 WMV, the fields got blended, but at least I kept all the detail of eyes, letters, etc. and only the motion got blended. If I left the deinterlace turned off, then the fields stayed and you got a 640X480 WMV that looked like it had jagged edges because both fields got encoded "as is" with no loss or dopping."
The new one does give me the option of turning "interlacing" on or off, but off blurs everything vertically, even when I'm not resizing height. So eyes become blurs and sharp serif fonts become these blurred rounded things. The processing shouold follow the F4V/H.264 model where field order determines deinterlacing order.
I prefer not to use AviSynth or Virtualdub, except when absolutely necessary. I'm trying to have a workflow that other media employees (who only know Adobe) can follow without asking me every 5 minutes. there are 4 of us who do video, but I'm the only one who has a serious knowledge base. The others are cameramen or Flash developers who cross trained.

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