Best Compression for Projector-Displayed Movie

I have an NTSC anamorphic SD Quick Time movie, from a Pro Res 422 sequence. The primary camera was a DVX100B.
The DVD of the movie, using standard Compressor presets looks great.
The movie has a number of fast motion scenes and played on a Mac, it suffers terribly from interlaced artifacts in those scenes. So I've tried many different compressions - to DV, DVPRO50, H.264- all de-interlaced - but they all are unacceptable (noisy and lack of detail). I've tried both Compressor and MPEG Streamclip - getting slightly better results from the latter.
I must be missing something. Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Russ

Thank you for the reply.
The movie actually was shown last night and and I'm pleased to report it looked very good and was received extremely well. As it turned out, the settings that produced the best result was DVCPRO HD 720p60 with a few filters added. So what it really boiled down to was trial and error - a long series of short tests before finally finding something that worked.
Yes, it was made from a self-contained QT file - in this case, the transcoding was done in Compressor - rather than MPEG Streamclip.
It played from the MBP. I had been a little concerned that the card might not be up to displaying the HD format smoothly…but no problems there.
Thanks again.
Russ

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