CS4 Working with 720p Footage

Windows 7 Ultimate
CS4 Premiere and AE
6GB Ram
Nvdia 9800GT
A little help as usual
I finally figured out that my JVC GY HD100 records 720p fooatge (HD 24p, HD30p) I am more interested in recording HD video , no SD.
i am little confused here as far as which recording mode to use for my next project (5 mins song) which works the best with CS4
Scott at Creative Cow helped me a bit by explaining the different formats (Thank You Scott)
Scott being more of a Final Cut Pro suggested to ask my question here , as I always do
i have to have my final outputs in 2 different formats
1. YouTube, which I totally understand which Preset to choose from the Presets and etc...
2. HD but I have to convert my final video back to SD (our channel plays only SD)
I was watching Jeff Bellune's tutorials , regarding "how to change HD to SD using Premiere CS4
link :
http://www.bellunevideo.com/tutvideo.php?tutid=10
He talk about 4 common HD formats
1. 1080p24
2. 1080i60
3. 720p60
4. 1080p30
The question that I have is:
From your experiences , which format will work better with CS4 ?
And when I render , which file output would you suggest !
The other thing that Scott suggested was not to change the PB output to 1080i or anything else, he wants me to leave it at "Native"
So far my guess is :
4. 1080p30
Is that about right to you
God Bless !

Thanks Shooternz
Ok everything looks pretty much good , I guess by now I am pretty much ready to make some good changes to my videos in general.
The Satellite channel we broadcast is through Galaxy 25 KU, the technicians are not very educated as far as which exact video formats to use, but they say " as long as the video is in AVI for windows or Quicktime it should work" so basically SD format AVI and Quicktime videos.
Now the last question that I have is :
When a video is recorded Progressive then it needs to edited in Progressive Preset and when its ready for making the final Movie, it needs to be rendered Progressive as well ....Yes ? if Yes same procedures will apply to Interlaced ?
If same procedures apply to Interlaced then I had a Previous project, which was all AVCHD (1080i) footage
The reason I am asking that is because, when I finished adding effects and transitions to the Sequence , then I went and rendered my Sequence to make a movie, I chose H264 for Codec and I selected HD1080i 29.97 High Quality Preset for CS4 to render.
Now , the picture looks good but in plays in slow motion and dont have audio.
what could be the problem !!
Thanks again !

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