Export H.264 & HDV for BluRay

I have a project that consists of H.264 720 30p footage from a Canon T1i and HDV 1080 60i from a Sony Camcorder.
The final output of the project will be on bluray, I am looking for suggestions on how to put this all together? There is less HDV footage. Should I render it all as ProRes and change the 1080 60i to 720 30p? What my best option for this? Thanks

Thats what I would do. Its easy to render down the 1080 footage to 720 and to reduce the frame rate. Of course you could always have both different types of footage, as some movies do this, but I personally think it looks really weird so I would avoid if possible.
Hope this helps,
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