Easy Setup Suggestions

Hi everyone,
ok, once again a silly question, but apparently in the past I committed mistakes so...
I'm shooting HDV with an HDR FX1, will import as SD for sake of time and hard drive space. Final destination will be DVD and TV.
What easy setup should I use? In the past I used DV-NTSC but Tom once asked me why I had choosen that... especially when I had to use the filter "widescreen" to crop transitions and other effects. If I had choosen the right setup that wouldn't have been necessary.
My camera will output SD 720X480 footage letterboxed. What is the best setup for timline and output????
Is there any reading I could do about the different setups?
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Umberto
iBook-hopefully soon a ProBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

DV is always 720x480 (NTSC anyway) whether it's anamorphic or letterboxed for not. I am pretty sure that camera will output a DV anamorphic signal as well as a letterboxed signal. Read the manual to figure out how to do this. It sounds as if you're sending a letterboxed signal to FCE, not an anamorphic one. When you say it's stretched, which way is it stretched, up and down, or left and right? It should look correct in the capture window.

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*Uncompressed HD 8-bit (1920 x 1080p30)video streams
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Import all my HD 8-bit clips into sequence 1, and say yes to mach the format
and import all my SD 8-bit clips into sequence 2 and say yes.
In Sequence-> setting-> I verified the configuration as following:
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I just want to playback all my HD clips to make sure no dropped frame and
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