Canon Vixia Sequence Settings after capture

FCP 5.1.4
Whew, just got a new Canon Vixia HV30. Have read many of the posts about capturing, think I have that down. My question is what should the sequence settings be? To be honest, when I look at the pop up menu, I am blown away by the choices, so many... Here is what I am doing:
1. For capturing: Final Cut Easy Setups. Use: HDV 1080i60 Firewire Basic This seems to work so far (have not captured much yet with the camera, what I have worked)
2. I was checking the sequence settings, went to the Load Sequence Present and set it at HDV-1080i60 (the 60 is the hertz?)
When I drag the video to the sequence, I get the red render bar at the top. Why would that be happening? Should it be happening?
It seems to me that I must have something set wrong, why would it want to render everything, even without any sort of change.
Thanks in advance.

HDV - 1080i60 FireWire Basic is the correct Easy Setup.
There is no need to actually set the sequence because when you drag the footage into the timeline, if the sequence settings are wrong you should get an error message saying "Do you want the sequence changing to match the footage". Click "yes" (or whatever the wording is).
You shouldn't be getting a red line unless the sequence is really wrong and you haven't let FCP correct it.

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