Ok, after weeks of trial and error I finally got the video to be 24fps progressive. The sound is slightly off from my original, so I'll have to adjust it by 5 seconds or so. The video takes 5-7 hours to encode (on slow-high quality) each time so I'd have to do each trial while I was at work or while I was asleep which is what took so long. Turns out I was trying to do too much at once. What ended up working was deinterlacing, resizing, and making it progressive 25fps at double the bitrate first run, then a second run at converting to 24fps with no frame adjust at the final bitrate. It was originally deinterlacing and reencoding each field of 50fps as a single frame at 24fps making it print each frame twice. I'd only get half a film. That happened three straight times.

As I'd said before, my other times of tranferring PAL to NTSC used the techniques that didn't alter sound. It was quite a bit more of a challenge doing it this way without getting the stutter. I'm now going to use DGpulldown to apply 3:2 pulldown flags to the video rather than converting to 29.97fps interlaced. Hopefully it won't intruduce any judder above and beyond your native NTSC.

I'll keep the thread updated to the final step. We're almost there.