Multiple formats in same sequence

I have officially switched from using a Mac to edit wedding videos over the past 8 years to a PC. And I'm switching from Final Cut to CS5. I film weddings with three cameras. One is a T2i (so h264 .mov files), and the other 2 film to mini DV tapes. In the past, I've converted all the footage to ProRes 422 in Compressor and edited in a ProRes sequence. As I understand, I'll now be able to edit the T2i footage natively, but I am unsure how I should go about capturing (or transcoding) the miniDV footage so that it will flow best with the T2i footage. Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to all the great features Premiere has to offer!

Are these DV cameras or HDV cameras? If DV, you're not going to have really great results creating HD output from SD source. If it's HDV, you don't want to use a DV sequence, but instead use a relevant HDV preset.
Ultimately, scaling standard definition to high-definition by any method is not optimal; the results are nowhere close to shooting in HD originally. In addition, it doesn't make much sense to scaled HD video down to SD for editing, only to scale it back up to HD for output. Clarify your source cameras for a better recommendation.
Premiere has a "scale to fit" option in the preferences; I don't recommend using this, as everything you drop into ANY timeline gets scaled, whether it's larger or smaller. You can scale to fit on an individual basis (right-click a clip), but the better way is to use the Scale parameter on a single clip, save that as a preset, and apply that to other instances of the T2i footage elsewhere in the sequence. Alternatively, you can copy the Motion effect (where Scale is located) and paste it to the other clips.

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