proxa media deinterlace settings

I guess proxy media generated within DR gets deinterlaced if the target codec is, however, does the deinterlace process respect the project deinterlace settings?

Actually it looks like clips do not get deinterlaced, and there is no way to force this.

The same seems to be the case when consolidating media with the media tool...

You have to define a timeline for interlaced footage, and then you need to set the de-interlacing in Clip Attributes. DR is de-interlacing into twice the number of progressive frames, to keep the temporal resolution. On export you can decide to re-interlace or keep it progressive.
Try it out and then generate the proxies. I don't know how DR is handling the these, since I never needed proxies for interlaced formats (only SD PAL here).

you need to set the de-interlacing in Clip Attributes

Thanks for the feedback, but it seems weird to me that I have to de-interlace the original media files to be able to de-interlace the proxies. Not really sure what happens if I uncheck "Enable interlace processing" in the project master settings.