Best Practices for Getting 25p from a DVD, 2-step process better?

My experience is that running interlaced using Dione DV or TV would result a bit more details and sharpness, then de-interlacing with external tool 1st then going with progressive.
you can read all about it here.

if you want to keep the original FPS of 25 , you can just manually put in 25 FPS based on the official documentation from Topaz.
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the interlaced progressive option is only to be used if you have a video that previously converted to progressive without de-interlacing it at the time.
so this option is to try and correct the errors of that file. not so much your use case, so it’s not relevant for your case.

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