Issues with interlaced H.264 playback inside of Premiere

I recently recorded a live event with the Blackmagic H.264 Pro Recorder and I'm having some issues with the video inside of Premiere Pro CC 2014. I recorded it in 1080i which was the output of the camera. The video files play fine in quicktime, VLC, etc. Once I pull them into premiere, or any adobe software, I have all kinds of issues. Once in a timeline, the audio plays fine(works as it should the whole time), and at first the video looks fine, but after about 15 seconds the video will skip to a random part of the file. After the initial playback anytime I play it after that the audio and video are no where close to being in sync with each other. When I scrub to go somewhere else in the timeline I get the same thing. When I've recorded progressive sources in the past with the Blackmagic H.264 Pro Recorder I  have never have this issue, just with interlaced. Doesn't matter what the resolution is. I created the timeline from the video source like I do with most of my videos so I don't think the problem lies within the sequence settings. I work with interlaced files in the ProRes format on a weekly basis and never have this issue. I can't say that I have ever worked with any interlaced h.264 files except the ones I've created with the Blackmagic H.264 Pro Recorder so I'm not sure is the problem is coming from premiere or the capture device.

A camera that doesn't record?  Strange.
You might try conversion.  I've used a couple of programs to convert my non-standard stuff to something PP could work with.  Both are safe to install on a production rig.
http://www.videohelp.com/software/XMedia-Recode
XviD4PSP 5.10.346 / 7.0.122 Beta

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