Thanks for the reply.
Here is a still from the original HD footage at 1440 by 1080.
Here is a still of the rescaled to 720 by 576.
Please view both at actual 100% size to see the difference.
I will try the gaussian blur as you suggest.
Also, I am shooting interlaced.
Interesting that you say that rendering at “BEST” may cause problems. I’d like if you could elaborate on that one! I thought that “BEST” uses Bicubic resizing?
Thanks for your help!