New camera questions

It's time for a new camera and it looks like it's not going to be a DV tape camera this time.  I'm considering the Canon VIXIA HF G30 so if anyone has any feedback on that particular camera that would be much appreciated.  On to the questions....
1) I generally produce the edited output on traditional DVDs - no need for Blu Ray, at least not yet.  Will PrE downres the video to SD?
2) Can I mix DV-AVI and AVCHD or MP4 in the same project so long as I am producing SD output?   Occasionally I need two or three cameras and I'm not ready to buy several of these.
3) Preferences on AVCHD vs MP4? 
Thanks everyone!
Bob

Scaling down - just be aware that your AVCHD shooting 1920x1080 is around 2.1 megapixels whereas DVD (assuming NTSC) is 720x480 which is 0.35 megapixels. So your output resolution will only be 1/6th that of your shot footage. Flipping that equation means that the downsizing process discards 5/6ths of the image resolution. Your output DVD will be of lower quality. There are so many posts on these forums complaining of poor quality when converting HD to SD - when this is an inevitability. I think what many do is connect their camera to the TV to watch their raw footage (naturally in glorious HD) and are then disappointed when they edit it and convert it to DVD. So long as you are prepared for this in advance you should be fine.
PRE can cope with mixed footage on the timeline, it's just not generally considered sensible. What most recommend is creating an HD project for your HD clips, output it to an SD DV-AVI Type 2 file and import that to an SD project containing your other SD clips. But you could also do some experimentation - put all your clips into an SD project and see what the output looks like or put all your clips into an HD project and see what an SD output from that project looks like.
PRE natively edits AVCHD so go with that.
Searching 'Canon Vixia' will give you a lot more discussion results that may be helpful.
Cheers,
Neale
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