Highest Quality

Hi guys,
I have a Sony camera HDR-SR11 and I am shooting on 1920x1080i 60fps at 16Mbps (highest possible quality on that camera).
How can I keep the highest quality through the whole process of importing/editing/re-compressing?
I see my videos are already being imported at 1080p 30fps... Is this good? Can I import at 1080i 60fps? Is this better?
To re-compress, should I use the iMovie hidef export or export via QT? Which one is better? Should choose 16Mbps when exporting? Any benefit going higher?
Thanx

Your camera shoots MPEG-4 AVC/H.264. Open up one of those files in QT and see what the frame rate says (command-i)
iMovie will convert to what it wants/needs on import
I would shoot video in every format you camera shoots export that footage how you think you are going to be using then, use the one you want that looks best to you. Depending on what you are outputting to as you final destination each type format has an advantages.
Even though my camera will shoot 1080/60i, 1080/30p, 1080/24p, 720/60p, 720/30p, and 720/24p I shoot 720p30 because the files are smaller easier to work with, exports well to the web, and meets my needs. Also while you can certainly tell the difference between 1080 and 720 I had an old DV 480i camera that shot better footage than one of my cheap 720p cameras and certainly better than ANY 720p phone My point is size and rate is not everything. There are also people out there that will not shoot at ANY rate but 24. Why? Because they like that "film" look. Something iMovie now supports BTW.
Not sure what you are talking about on "Final Compression" in iMovie you can share out; small medium, large, 720 or 1080 unless you run a custom export.

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