A few newbie questions about video.

I just bought a canon hf10 and am new to the video arena. I've got a macbook 2.16ghz with 4gigs. Imovie 09 and FCE 4.0.1.
I want all my films to display a cinema like feel. Movie quality look if you will. I'll be doing small movies of vacations and intro videos for my church. Stuff like that.
What's the best settings for the hf10 to record with? I've been using cine mode at 24p. really don't know what all that means.
What is the best route for importing, ie.. settings for FCE?
Same Question for exporting.
And not to have to many questions in one topic this is the last. What's the best way to get a good fluid shot without all the shakiness that comes with a small hand held? I know imovie has a nice image stabilization feature that works well but it zooms way in on the video to stabilize it. Does FCE have this same function?

It's worth remembering that:
iMovie is a consumer product, designed to enable untrained enthusiasts to turn out nice-looking video easily and quickly. You can do some cool things really easily, but it can be hard work when you want to go against its automated functions.
FCE is Final Cut Pro without most of the add-on applications, and without a small number of features. It's designed for pros on a budget, students and advanced amateurs. You have a far greater degree of control than in iMovie, but you have to know the product well to be able to exercise that control.
A good analogy is between a fully automatic camera/camcorder (iMovie) and a fully manual one (FCE). In the first case, you can get good shots without having to spend time learning how to use the equipment. In the second, you must learn how to use it to get anything worthwhile from it.
FCE doesn't include any of the big consumer-oriented features of iMovie: stabilisation, themes and so on. in FCE, you have to get what you want manually.
Th best way to get stable images in your shots is to use a good tripod; failing that, some other kind of support. Even a not-so-good tripod will be better than nothing.
One final point - if you have some unstable shots, you could get them into iMovie, stabilise them, then export the project as XML for full editing in FCE.

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Hi,
capturing from your computer would give you square pixel aspect ratio....and you're using an aspect ratio for SD TV ( ntsc ), so it is stretching ....no longer a perfect "circle" in the paw print...
Your project setting should be made in custom / desktop ( dont use a preset )...and set it for 720x480 square pixels progressive ( no interleaving ), 29.97 fps... the codec choice for rendering when you set up the project could be dealt with later on if this solves your basic problem..
your export would then be the same as your project setting....720x480, progressive, square pixels, 29.97 or 30 fps ...should be good.
one note: h264 is already "compressed" quite a bit....its a "delivery" format...for viewing ...not really meant to be edited...know what I mean ? So you will lose some quality due to that stuff already being compressed...
but your pixel aspect ratio being "fixed" with the above should improve what you see quite a bit.
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$1-2k get a cheaper customized dell, or sony vaio
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Thanks Steven.
I've been worried about the 16' being a little too tight - so will go with the 20' (even bigger might be better, but that's the most I can really do).
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might it take (it has to ship from new england if
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