Best presets in PE10 for MJPG and MPEG4AVC

Hello,
I'm looking for the best presets for the following sources:
1. MJPEG from Canon cameras, 640x480, square pix, 30fps
2. H264, MPEG-4 AVC (avc1), 1280x720, square pix, 30fps
I found a few presets but they don't match the above perfectly but I recall from previous PE versions that even when different resolution was selected (720x480) I could create output file with res 640x480 and square pixels.
Just to clarify - I'd like to create different projects for videos 1. and 2. If possible I'd like to have one project with mixed content of 1. and 2. and output format of 2. but this is not that important - if not achievable a separate 1. and 2. are still OK.
What will be the best output codec and format to use? I'd like to share the video on Win PC and looking for best quality/size parameter.
Thank you in advance for any comments/hints.

I was exploring the preset issue more and more and was looking for a way to modify the existing presets to match my sources.
I have found that presets are stored in: \Adobe PE 10\Adobe Premiere Elements 10\Settings\SequencePresets\
The preset files are saved in XML format. Analysing the files I have found the following section:
<VideoFieldType>0</VideoFieldType>
<AudioTimeDisplay>200</AudioTimeDisplay>
<VideoTimeDisplay>105</VideoTimeDisplay>
<AudioChannelType>1</AudioChannelType>
<AudioFrameRate>5292000</AudioFrameRate>
<VideoFrameSize>0,0,640,480</VideoFrameSize>
<VideoFrameRate>5080320000</VideoFrameRate>
Other parts of the file are not really relevant, most of them are comments and description.
The above example is for 640x480p50
I couldn't find relation between videoframrate value and fps so I went ahead and checked other profile files.
Found out the following:
PAL
DSLR
640x480
50
50
5 080 320 000
1280x720
24
23,976
10 594 584 000
1280x720
24
24
10 584 000 000
1280x720
50
50
5 080 320 000
1920x1080p
24
23,976
10 594 584 000
1920x1080p
25
25
10 160 640 000
This was still not meaningful but I noticed the higher fps the lower value we get.
On top of that 10 160 640 000 divided by 5 080 320 000 gives exactly 2 which is the same as 50fps divided by 25 fps (corresponding fps values)
I was wondering what will we have for 1 fps (or 1 sec) - so 50 x 5 080 320 000 = 254016000000
The same for 25 x 10 160 640 000 = 254 016 000 000
So what is that magic number?
I have found the following post http://forums.adobe.com/thread/445538
3.Todd_Kopriva,
Adobe Employee
09-Dec-2010 09:28 in reply to dcp28
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XMP stores time values in a unit called "ticks". The conversion factor is 254,016,000,000,000 per second. This value was chosen so that we could have integer representations of all times in all of the common frame rates.
Now having this knowledge I have made a copy of one of the presets and modified the video frame rate value to match my 30 fps.
I have divided the magic number by 30 and got the following: 8 467 200 000
I made a new project with this preset, it seems PrE recognised it correctly and now my project is set to 30fps.
I'm going to test and compare the results what if I do the same project with 60fps.
regards
serg

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