Mixing Hi-8, VHS into DVCPRO HD 720p/24 Timeline?

I've got a DVCPRO HD 720p/24 timeline. I need to bring in material from other old school formats (Hi-8, VHS, mini-DV) to be added in. How should I go about this? I'm thinking copying all to DVCAM, then digitizing in. From there, do I need to Upconvert? Or can I just drop it all in the Timeline and work? How does one deal with the 29.97 / 23.97, interlace/progressive and 4:3 / 16:9 differences?
Any advice, or pointers to discussions, tutorials, links, etc would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure this is a really common headache-inducing question, but I can't seem to locate an answer.
Thanks!

First, in the CANVAS, turn on IMAGE+WIREFRAME in the box drop down menu. Then, Layer your footage. Put the main shot on V1. Now put it again on V2. Double click on the image on V1 and crop one side until it starts to cut into the video. Click on the clip on V2, go to the canvas and drag it until it is visible. Throw filters on it to set it apart. Gaussian blur to REALLY blur it out. Perhaps the 3-way color corrector and turn the saturation all the way down to get B&W, or just partway down. Anything to make it look interesting. Put the same clip on V3, double click on V1 again and crop the other side. Drag the filters from the clip on V2 to the clip on V3 (you might need to crop the clip on V2 to clear the area on that other side) by double clicking on V2 to get it into the viewer, then click on the filters tab and drag and drop.
Upconverted stuff look good? As good as it can. I worked on a History Channel show that was easily 50% DV, VHS and betaSP....while all of our A ROLL and Interviews were DVCPRO HD. The archival stuff was not. It looked decent. It will NEVER look like real HD...give up that ghost right now. You are taking a smaller image and blowing it up 200-300%. And if it is DV...it is already highly compressed. Compressor will do a better job of smoothing out the edges and ridding of the interlacing than FCP can. A terranex box will do even better, as will a Kona 3.
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First, in the CANVAS, turn on IMAGE+WIREFRAME in the box drop down menu. Then, Layer your footage. Put the main shot on V1. Now put it again on V2. Double click on the image on V1 and crop one side until it starts to cut into the video. Click on the clip on V2, go to the canvas and drag it until it is visible. Throw filters on it to set it apart. Gaussian blur to REALLY blur it out. Perhaps the 3-way color corrector and turn the saturation all the way down to get B&W, or just partway down. Anything to make it look interesting. Put the same clip on V3, double click on V1 again and crop the other side. Drag the filters from the clip on V2 to the clip on V3 (you might need to crop the clip on V2 to clear the area on that other side) by double clicking on V2 to get it into the viewer, then click on the filters tab and drag and drop.
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