Capturing mini-DVs 2 questions

I rented a DVX 100a to shoot some stuff and now need to capture the footage.
I of course don't want to rent the camera just to digitize the media and was hoping I could use my little Sony camcorder.
1- Will that affect the quality of the digitizing?
2- What are the best settings to import?
3- I come from Avid and wonder how does the whole 10:1, 15:1 compression works in FCP?
Thanks!

1. The use of different or lower end cameras will not affect quality. It is a simple digital transfer.
2. DV/NTSC. But, are you shooting regular DV? 24P? 24PA? Different settings for each format.
3. No such thing. There is OFFLINE RT, which is the low res settings. But really, DV takes up very little space (13.6GB/hour) that capturing it at full res would be the way to go. Avoid the offline/online workflow...that is FCPs weakness.
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