Deinterlacing with compressor

I've shot some footage with 2 different cameras and didn't realise that one was 25i and one was 25p. When I put them both in finalcut pro x it needs to render everytime I do an edit. I'm trying to deinterlace with compressor but just wanted to check the best settings to use. The original footage is from a Sony camcorder (HDR-CX6) 1440 x 1080, h.264, 10,235 bit rate, and 25i. In compressor I made this setting:
Name: i to p
Description: 25i to 25p
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: unknown
Audio Encoder
          16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
          Width: (100% of source)
          Height: (100% of source)
                    Selected: 1440 x 1080
          Pixel aspect ratio: HD (1440x1080)
          Crop: None
          Padding: None
          Frame rate: (100% of source)
                    Selected: 25
          Frame Controls On:
                    Retiming: (Fast) Nearest Frame
                    Resize Filter: Linear Filter
                    Deinterlace Filter: Better (Motion Adaptive)
                    Adaptive Details: On
                    Antialias: 0
                    Detail Level: 0
                    Field Output: Progressive
          Codec Type: H.264
          Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
          Pixel depth: 24
          Spatial quality: 100
          Min. Spatial quality: 25
          Key frame interval: 24
          Temporal quality: 50
          Min. temporal quality: 25
Is that ok or is there a better way? The encoding seems to be getting longer and longer (already at 3+ hours) When I had it on apple codec the file was going to swell to about 84gig and take over 80 hours!
Any help would be much appreciated.

Have you tried jes deinterlacer ?
It's a free app and many people swear by it. I've even read where some folks have converted to ProRes and deinterlaced with Jes and had great results.
You really should convert to ProRes before deinterlacing. I know the file size is shocking at first but you really want a good stable codec if you want a smooth editing experience. Especially considering that you're working with mixed media. Make them all the same codec and you'll have a much better experience.
Another cool free app is MpegStreamclip, which does a fantastic job at file conversions.
I use compressor sometimes but find it sort of convoluted for simple tasks.
Hope that helps.
g

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