I have to admit I am very confused on what exactly you are trying to do here, are you trying to make a lossless avi file first to make all your edits on? and I don't use Vegas for editing, so I was unaware that Vegas can encode, I know it can render, I use CCE SP2 for encoding, and CCE SP2 does the pulldown and sets my encode to 16:9, so I guess what I am asking is this, are you trying to make a lossless avi from your DVD of Kill Bill? if so that is so easy it is not even funny, but I need to know if that is what you are after first.