I'm working on a small video project where the footage came to me as files off of a Canon Vixia HF R10 camcorder, with the settings set to 1440x1080 HD anamorphic (1.333), at 60i. The file format is a .mts, an MPEG2 stream. I just needed to make several quick edits and then export the video with those cuts; no other processing or changing of anything. I don't want to de-interlace it or encode in a wildly different and/or lossy format, as it needs to match other video clips from that camera as faithfully as possible.
So I've made the cuts in Premiere Pro CS6...what format and what settings do I need to encode this thing to meet my requirements? I tried an h.264 at a high bitrate, using all the settings I mentioned above, but upon exporting, playback in Windows Media Player shows funky field artifacts from interlacing, almost like it used the wrong field order (but every analysis said it was Upper first), or it was trying to play it in 30p instead of properly flagging to play at 60i. How can I get it to play at liquid smooth 60i in WMP just like the original files?
(I hope I never have to deal with anything interlaced again...such an unnecessary relic left over from the past!)
Thanks in advance, everyone!