Canon AVCHD ProRes 422 (LT)  vs H.264

Howdy!
My friend and I have shot about 8 hours of footage on his Canon Vixia HF 30, and its all in AVCHD at about 12-17 MBS (I can't remember exactly which). I've already log and transferred it to our Macbook Pros using Apple ProRes LT. My question is this, for this project and future ones, ProRes 422 LT the best format to import the footage as, or should I use one of the others (Plain 422, H.264 Etc). We shot most all the footage at 30p, with some being 60i that I made into 60p for slow motion shots using compressor. Disk space is a concern, though if one option is slightly larger then another, but has much better quality, that would work.
Thanks!!
Paul

On my other question: http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2794416&tstart=0
I'm trying to work with my friend who's using FCE, but in trying to open XML in FCE that I exported from FCP he gets an error message, and I'm wondering if that has anything to do with the fact that all my footage is in ProRes, an FCE doesn't support that format.
So, if that is the case, could I Re-import all my footage as a codec that FCE can use into a separate folder, and re-connect the media to it. Then we could do all our work, and then when we're ready to export it, I could switch back to the ProRes 422 LT.
Thanks a bunch!

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