Premerie Elements 11 and  NEX 6 Video: Bad aliasing with imported footage

Hi,
with all my Sony NEX 6 AVCHD settings iam unsuccessfull to get good quality video in Premiere Elements 11. Only exception is 1080 50p, that is working with good quality but seams to be an overkill as it eats up SD space and is exhausting the MAC. Interlaced modes are yielding bad aliasing and the 25p mode is missing in the PAL AVCHD section.  The Nex can take full hd 1080 25p but in Adobe settings in the AVCHD section there is no 25p at full hd. That does exist in the DSLR section though, but also this gives aliasing (?).
Iam also puzzled about the setting that reads 1080 25i in APE11 (PAL) and 1080 50i in the Sony NEX. I just assume both are just the same (Sony does count every half frame and Adobe every full frame made of two halfs). 
Iam using an iMAC with AMD Radeon HD 6770M
Anybody is using films from Sony NEX6 in APE11 or has a way out?
Thnks
Hardi

Steve,
thanks for your reply. Iam preparing for a Safari trip next month. Iam undecided in whtat format to output the video, DVD or MPEG most likely and best quality for watching on the Mac. For now Iam just importing mini clips to see how it works and what the quality is. This is to decide in what format, resulution and frame rate I should take the safari video. Iam particular checking for "jumps" in fast movements, i.e. how smooth the video looks and those "steps" in straight lines that I call (perhaps falsly) aliasing. For this I check the Premiere preview of the imported clips. Perhaps its my bad English, so I try to give my workflow:
1) I do short films (20s) with my NEX6 in those 3 settings 1920x1080 PAL, 50p, 50i and 24p. I make sure there is lot of movement and sharp lines do show up. I do one clip at a time.
2) I take out the SD card (64GB 45Mbits/s) after each individual setting and put it into the iMacs SD slot. Also tried to hook up the NEX via USB cable but no difference noticed.
3) I open finder and go to the private folder of the SD card. In each try there is just one AVCHD clip in.
4) In Organizer I choose import from files and folders and click on that private folder. None of the formats will be imported, always a note shows up that its either wrong format or already existing file (I made sure this is not).
5) In Premiere I can import the privat folder via drag and drop directly from the SD in a new project. This way I let premiere decide what project settings to choose. All formats give a warning (codex not available or something, warning is different from the Organizer one) but it does the import anyway in each case. Imported film does look "aliased" with 50i and 25p footage. Project settings for the two read 1080 25i. The imported film does look good with 50p, correct project setting in this case: 1080 50p.
6) In Premiere I can also import via "add media, AVCHD camera".  Again I do this in new projects for each of the clips. Also here Premiere decides what setting the clip gets. Import does not produce warnings with either clip format. Nevertheless, imported film does look "aliased" with 50i and also 25p clip. Settings in both cases again are 1080 25i (thus Premiere thinks the 25p clips is a 25i). Also here the clip does look very good with 50p and the project setting is for 50p.
Hope this describes it somewhat better.
brgds
Hardi

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