re:vision fx Fields Kit for de-interlacing

RGS Denoiser 2

RGS Cosmo for some close-up shots (people)

Clever grading and some other tricks.. really depended on the content.

16bpc 

Pro Res 422 (HQ) worked just fine for us

Tons of 3D motion graphics. Started with the Raytracer in CS6 but that did not work out well for what we had to do in the time we had to do it. So we used our stuff instead.

All assets then went to Premiere Pro for editing and then to AME

Tweaked AME  Broadcast Mpeg 2 High Quality preset to suit the target system