It could be my playback solution is iffy, but if I playback interlaced content I sometimes see uneven edges while panning and such, same as if I watch on my computer without turning deinterlace on in the player.
Come to think of it, it's probably because my media jukebox outputs progressive constantly, so the TV has no way of knowing it needs to deinterlace, and the jukebox isn't doing it for some reason. I'll have a look at the settings. But I digress.
I can find no way in PD7 to change frame rate to anything but 25 and 30. And I have no interest in producing Blu-rays, I just want to output a file. Does it in fact output a 50i/60i file since that essentially translates to 25p/30p? Or is what's produced when selecting to create a BD not reproducible when creating a file?
I wish there was a tool that would actually tell me something about these files. Nothing I've found will tell me whether they're interlaced or progressive. Makes experimenting and checking the output rather difficult.
If there's no licensing issue it just seems like an arbitrary decision not to allow 1080p output. Unless the encoding engine does not support it, but that seems rather unlikely.
Since my camera is still a few weeks away, I'll play around with it some more. Perhaps using ffdshow to output x264 isn't such a hassle as I imagine it might be and that might do the trick. Or I'll end up accepting the limitation given sufficient time to not find any suitable alternatives. Either way, thank you for your time.