Help converting 720P to DVD

I have been trying to convert a college football game recorded from Comcast HD DVR. First i use VideoRedo to trim commercials, everything good so far. DGIndex reports: Transport Stream, 1280x720, 16x9, 59.940fps, NTSC, Progressive, Frame, Bottom. Following some posts on this subject, i use DGIndex to demux to D2V and AC3 3/2 384kbps audio. Then create AVISynth script as follows: LoadPlugin("C:\Documents and Settings\Fred\Desktop\DVD Tools\DGMPGDEC 150\DGDecode.dll") LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Decomb.dll") MPEG2Source("H:\Cal vs Mich 1\Cal vs Michigan State 1st half.d2v") SelectEven() Decimate(5) Crop(4,4,-4,-4) Lanczos4Resize(720,480) ConvertToYUY2() AudioDub(BlankClip()) I use CCE to encode, and DVDMaestro to build the DVD. Picture quality looks good, audio is in sync, but video seems to stutter just a little on playback as if the frame rate conversion is not correct. So i tried HDTV2DVD and the picture looks good with no stutter at all. So i know i am missing something or doing something incorrectly. Can anyone please give me some helpful advice.

You probably set the field order wrongly when you encoded.

Thanks for your reply. I thought of that since DGIndex reported Field order as bottom, so i ran the .m2v thru Restream and unticked "top field first", so now both the .ts file and the .m2v report the same ( neither shows top field first box checked ) in Restream. I still have a slight stutter on playback. Would this change in Restream have corrected the field order? Does my AVS script look OK?

You shouldn't be guessing and experimenting with the field order. You need to determine what field order your script is delivering and set it definitively in your encoder. There is a FAQ at my web site that describes how to do that. Please post a link to a sample of your source TS that produces the stutter so that we may duplicate your issue.

Need your source sample, as I asked for.

I have a 44mb, 25 second sample to upload, if thats enough, but i cant remember how or where to upload it to, never done this before ( sorry !). Can you let me know how, and thanks for trying to solve this for me.

Thanks jeffy. Here is the sample. vs Michigan State 1st half UP.ts

It's video 720P @ 59.97 fps, not film. So the Decimate(5) should be omitted. That is only for restoring a film rate.

Thanks neuron2, so now if i use the first script example above and leave out the Decimate(5), when i encode with CCE should i select 29.97 framerate? I was selecting 23.976 and performing pull down after the encode, but that would appear to be if it was film. Also, would i select progressive/zigzag or alternate. Your help and time is much appreciated!!