100mb long gop or 200MB iframe for editing?

Hi
Hope to shoot various slomo, regular speed, timelapse of ballet/jazz dancers agaianst a white curtain on a black stage. Using my SONY EX1R and probably renting a NANO which will give me 100MB or more...
Question is, should I record it in in the NANO at 100MB or more long gop or 200MB-ish iframe, what's the difference and can FCP 7 and my MAC PRO 3.0, 7200rpm internal hard drives edit this kind of footage - probably shoot 1280x720 24p 60fps mostly.
THX

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